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Slack Is Using Your Private Conversations to Train Its AI
Slack users across the web—on Mastodon, on Threads, and on Hackernews—have responded with alarm to an obscure privacy page that outlines the ways in which their Slack conversations, including DMs, are used to train what the Salesforce-owned company calls...
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Keto diet may accelerate organ ageing
A ketogenic diet causes damaged cells to accumulate in the organs of mice. Their build-up suggests the keto diet...
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How to Talk About Sex (Even if You Really Don’t Want To)
As a reporter who covers sex and intimacy, I spend a lot of time listening to experts extol the virtues of open, honest communication. To have good sex — and to keep having good sex over time — couples...
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Bill to ban most public mask wearing, including for health reasons, advances in North Carolina
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza...
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How to Do a Barbell Squat When You Don’t Have a Squat Rack
We may earn a commission from links on this page.To lift weights at home, first you need the weights. That’s simple enough—if you’re into barbell lifts, just buy a barbell set. But your next problem is figuring out how...
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The beauty of biology
When Hanjun Lee arrived at MIT, he was set on becoming a Course 5 chemistry student. Based...
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ADHD: Medication shortages have 'profound effect' on patients
While Dr McConkey works with children, he said he is also aware of the impact of the shortages on adults."I've heard of some adults asking their bosses to make reasonable adaptations because of the fact they aren't having access...
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U.S. Suspends Funding for Group at Center of Covid Origins Fight
The Biden administration, under acute pressure from House lawmakers, moved on Wednesday to ban funding for a prominent virus-hunting nonprofit group whose work with Chinese scientists had put it at the heart of theories that Covid leaked from a...
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Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived without damage
A new technique has allowed scientists to freeze human brain tissue so that it regains normal function after thawing,...
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Zelensky recalls deportation of Crimea Tartars, compares to present
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorated the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviets and...