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Can Using a Dumber Phone Cure 'Brain Rot'?
Brain rot — the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on a phone — afflicts "plenty of people," writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URL here.] He's suffering from it too — "These days, it's tough to even finish a book."
But is the a...
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As Stocks (and Cryptocurrencies) Drop After Tariffs, France Considers Retaliating Against US Big Tech
"U.S. stock market futures plunged on Sunday evening," reports Yahoo Finance, "after the new U.S. tariff policy began collecting duties over the weekend..."
The EU will vote on $28 billion in retaliatory tariffs Wednesday, Reuters reports. (And those tariffs will be approved unless "a qualified maj...
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Could We Reach Mars Faster With Nuclear Fusion-Powered Rockets?
Nuclear fusion — which releases four times the energy of fission — could theoretically happen sooner in space than on earth, reports CNN.
"And it could help spacecraft achieve speeds of up to 500,000 miles (805,000 kilometers) per hour — more than the fastest object ever built......
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In 'Milestone' for Open Source, Meta Releases New Benchmark-Beating Llama 4 Models
It's "a milestone for Meta AI and for open source," Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. "For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source."
Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on Instagram and Facebook &mda...
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'Tron' Sequel Trailer Released by Disney
This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica:
It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action with what were th...
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