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May 20 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

Is Fasting Actually Good for You?

The diet that promised timing beats calories is colliding with trials that say it's mostly just eating less.

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May 20 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

Are Seed Oils Actually Bad for You?

RFK Jr. wants tallow back; cardiologists say seed oils protect your heart. A third camp says both miss the point.

May 18 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

LinkedIn vs. AI Slop

LinkedIn will deprioritize AI-generated posts. The same company offers a "Rewrite with AI" button.

May 18 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Eric Schmidt Got Booed

Arizona graduates booed the speech and the speaker. The two reasons weren't the same.

May 18 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Musk Lost in Two Hours

A federal jury unanimously threw out every claim.

May 18 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

Betting on Hantavirus

$10.6M traded on a hantavirus pandemic market. Polymarket is hyping unrelated cases to keep the volume coming.

May 18 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Apple Rents Its AI From Google

The Siri reboot Apple promised in 2024 finally ships in beta. The brains are leased from Google.

May 15 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Japan's Adorable Robot Charms

Japan is treating robots as elder care, cultural inheritance, and fashion all at once.

Apr 29 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

The Pentagon Played Ukraine. It Lost.

Special operators flew cheap commercial drones at simulated US airbases at Eglin last fall. Defense One reported the results this week.

Apr 29 · 5 min read ·Tech & Society

Fake People, Real Money

AI influencers flooded Coachella, fooled MAGA voters, and have actors demanding a 'Tilly Tax.'

Apr 29 · 5 min read ·Tech & Society

We Have 48 Blood Types Now

Two recent blood-group discoveries -- Gwada-negative in Guadeloupe, CRIB in Karnataka.

Apr 27 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Altman Is Sorry

OpenAI took a measure of responsibility for the Tumbler shooter

Apr 20 · 5 min read ·Tech & Society

Uber's Contractor Shield Just Cracked

A jury pierced Uber's "drivers are contractors" defense. 3,391 more cases are waiting behind the first one.

Apr 20 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Cook Out, Ternus In

Cook 10x'd Apple's market cap. He also oversaw the Vision Pro flop and the AI humiliation.

Apr 19 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Amazon's $35 Downgrade

The new Fire TV Stick is faster, slimmer, and runs an OS that does less.

Apr 16 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Are Gas-Powered EVs A Good Idea?

Scout says 80% of its truck reservations are for the gas-generator model -- environmentalists call it a dead end.

Apr 16 · 4 min read ·Tech & Society

Allbirds Is An AI Company Now

Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million, rebranded as an AI company, and watched its stock jump 600% in a day.

Apr 15 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

Lululemon's PFAS Problem

Texas AG Ken Paxton is investigating whether Lululemon lied about forever chemicals in its yoga pants

Apr 13 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

ChatGPT Divorce Court

ChatGPT told her stalker ex he was "a level 10 in sanity" -- now she's asking a judge to cut him off

Apr 13 · 3 min read ·Tech & Society

Attacks on Altman's Home

A Molotov cocktail, then gunshots -- two attacks on Sam Altman's home in three days