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S1The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race   Rose Gardner did everything right. Straight As at school and college, a first-class degree from a top university, a master’s. She got a job in publishing and rose through the ranks of some of the industry’s most prestigious companies before getting a job with a media organisation. Eventually, she bought her own flat in London.It wasn’t that there was anything particularly bad about the job, it was more that as time went on, she says she didn’t feel driven by the consumerism that the companies she worked for depended on. She’d lost her sense of materialism and didn’t get much from going to bars, clubs or parties. On top of that, she had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which made working in an open-plan office with a strict 9-5 policy incredibly hard. Gardner, 42, works best in isolation, early in the morning and in the evening, and she didn’t feel her workplace was prepared to accommodate that. Pushing through her afternoon “crashes” for years had become exhausting. So, five years ago, she had what she called her “Jerry Maguire moment”. She quit. She sold her flat and moved back to her parents’ house in Wiltshire, where she now works part-time in hospitality and handcrafts jewellery and ceramics from a shed in the garden. She has little income, but also very few outgoings.
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Editor's Note: .I remember walking into my flat, and this might make me sound so ungrateful, but I felt scared,. she says. .I knew I was going to have to keep working at this job that I hated to pay the mortgage..
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S2Etiquette as a Luxury Brand-Building Tool  On 19 January 2024, André Terrail, owner and CEO of the legendary restaurant La Tour d’Argent in Paris, was a happy man. The sale of part of the tableware and elements of the historic décor of his establishment raised over €720,000 in just a few hours. What motivated people to obtain parts of a restaurant? Buyers aimed to acquire a piece of the magic the brand built over time through etiquette. Let’s take a step back. A few centuries ago, every European court had its own rules, whether Tudor etiquette in England or that of Louis XIV in France, to cite just two examples. These rules precisely governed social relationships, rituals and dress codes. Beyond the royal houses, they influenced, through a rapid trickle-down effect, the daily life of European high society.
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S3Why New York Restaurants Are Going Members-Only - The New Yorker (No paywall)  On a recent Tuesday evening at 4 Charles Prime Rib, in the West Village, shortly after my party of four had settled in for dinner, a man who bore the gentle air of owning the place arrived at a neighboring table. As our server delivered our cocktails, she gestured at him and said, with a wink, “This is Gary. He’s a regular. I’m so sorry you have to sit next to him. Let me know if you want me to put up a curtain to block him out.” Everyone laughed. “Gary’s full of wisdom,” the maître d’ added as he passed by. Gary—round but trim, with a shaved, shiny pate and a distinct Long Island accent—smirked and said, “Yeah, like, drink a Martini if you’re driving, and tequila if you’re not.”Gary is more than a regular at 4 Charles; he’s one of only a few people who can get a table there at all. The restaurant is ostensibly open to the public, but if you’re not Gary—or Taylor Swift, whom Gary told me he’d been seated next to a few nights prior—you’re probably not getting in. According to more than one thread on Reddit, your chances of booking a reservation even the instant a batch of them is released on Resy, at 9 A.M. each day, are slim to none. By the restaurant’s calculations, you’d be competing with anywhere from nine hundred to fifteen hundred other hopefuls. Moreover, nearly half the tables in the very small dining room are already reserved, for “standing guests,” like Gary.
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Editor's Note: Chodorow is wary of club-ifying his own businesses, despite the clear financial incentives. .The premise is so uninteresting to me.to go hang out with the same three hundred rich people for the next ten years?. he told me, at Rao.s. It was a funny thing to say, given where we were, but part of that restaurant.s appeal is a lack of conspicuous status markers. S4Editor's Note: As one senior executive at a global auto company told me, if the Chinese sell an EV that is just as good as a western car, but cheaper, that is one thing. But if they sell a better car that also undercuts the west, it.s impossible to catch up. S5The new science of death: âÂÂThereâÂÂs something happening in the brain that makes no senseâ  Patient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of years earlier, she had been diagnosed with a disorder that caused an irregular heartbeat, and during her two previous pregnancies she had suffered seizures and faintings. Four weeks into her third pregnancy, she collapsed on the floor of her home. Her mother, who was with her, called 911. By the time an ambulance arrived, Patient One had been unconscious for more than 10 minutes. Paramedics found that her heart had stopped.After being driven to a hospital where she couldn't be treated, Patient One was taken to the emergency department at the University of Michigan. There, medical staff had to shock her chest three times with a defibrillator before they could restart her heart. She was placed on an external ventilator and pacemaker, and transferred to the neurointensive care unit, where doctors monitored her brain activity. She was unresponsive to external stimuli, and had a massive swelling in her brain. After she lay in a deep coma for three days, her family decided it was best to take her off life support. It was at that point - after her oxygen was turned off and nurses pulled the breathing tube from her throat - that Patient One became one of the most intriguing scientific subjects in recent history.
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S6Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development - The Economist (No paywall)  The most striking evidence that artificial intelligence can provide profound scientific breakthroughs came with the unveiling of a program called AlphaFold by Google DeepMind. In 2016 researchers at the company had scored a big success with AlphaGo, an AI system which, having essentially taught itself the rules of Go, went on to beat the most highly rated human players of the game, sometimes by using tactics no one had ever foreseen. This emboldened the company to build a system that would work out a far more complex set of rules: those through which the sequence of amino acids which defines a particular protein leads to the shape that sequence folds into when that protein is actually made. AlphaFold found those rules and applied them with astonishing success.The achievement was both remarkable and useful. Remarkable because a lot of clever humans had been trying hard to create computer models of the processes which fold chains of amino acids into proteins for decades. AlphaFold bested their best efforts almost as thoroughly as the system that inspired it trounces human Go players. Useful because the shape of a protein is of immense practical importance: it determines what the protein does and what other molecules can do to it. All the basic processes of life depend on what specific proteins do. Finding molecules that do desirable things to proteins (sometimes blocking their action, sometimes encouraging it) is the aim of the vast majority of the world’s drug development programmes.
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Editor's Note: The world has seen a number of ground breaking new drugs and treatments in the past decade: the drugs targeting glp-1 that are transforming the treatment of diabetes and obesity; the car-t therapies enlisting the immune system against cancer; the first clinical applications of genome editing. But the long haul of drug development, from discerning the biological processes that matter to identifying druggable targets to developing candidate molecules to putting them through preclinical tests and then clinical trials, remains generally slow and frustrating work. Approximately 86% of all drug candidates developed between 2000 and 2015 failed to meet their primary endpoints in clinical trials. Some argue that drug development has picked off most of biology.s low-hanging fruit, leaving diseases which are intractable and drug targets that are .undruggable.. The next few years will demonstrate conclusively if AI is able to materially shift that picture. S7The looming threat from Antarctica - The Economist (No paywall)  The Arctic and Antarctic are, fittingly, polar opposites. The first is an ocean surrounded by continents, the second a continent surrounded by an ocean. In the one, communities of indigenous people and settlers; in the other, only transients, there for a season or two. Nuclear-armed powers have faced off across the Arctic since the cold war; the same conflict saw a governance regime of peaceful scientific collaboration created for Antarctica that is more utopian in its conception than any other agreement in the annals of diplomacy. The north has the majesty of polar bears, the south the pathos of penguins. The two are united in facing profound upheaval because of global warming. But compared with the changes affecting the Arctic, those threatening the Antarctic are greatly underappreciated. In part that lack of attention is because of Antarctica’s remoteness; the biggest base there, America’s McMurdo, is almost 4,000km from the nearest city (Christchurch, in New Zealand). Visits are for the most part made only by scientists, adventurers and support staff. In part, too, there is seeming stasis. Change in Antarctica is not like that in Alaska, where melting permafrost buckles roads and topples buildings; or in Siberia, where the smoke from burning tundra paints the skies and sears the lungs. Indeed, for a long time scientists tended to see Antarctica as relatively stable, at least over the short to medium term. Yes, its ice sheets contain enough water to raise the seas by 60 metres—but any collapse would take centuries.
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S8What was it like when oxygen killed almost all life on Earth?  We commonly think of life on Earth as an unbroken chain of biological success, beginning shortly after our planet’s formation and continuing, unchallenged, for all the time since. Part of that story is true: it really was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, and it truly was just a few hundred million years later, at most, that life first arose on our world. Despite an enormous number of challenges that life has faced over all the time since — from resource scarcity to ice ages to asteroid strikes and a variety of mass extinction events — it has managed to persist without ever going extinct: not even once. Instead, life has thrived and evolved, enabling it to find a way to exist in practically every environmental niche that Earth possesses.But one event came closer than any other to bringing an end to life on Earth: a catastrophe known as either the Great Oxidation Event or the Great Oxygenation Event. Oxygen, one of the hallmark characteristics of our living Earth, was a tremendous destructive force when it first arrived in any sort of meaningful abundance some ~2 billion years after Earth first took shape. The slow alteration of our atmosphere by the gradual addition of oxygen proved to be fatal to the most common types of organism that were present on Earth at the time. For several hundred million years, the Earth entered a horrific ice age which froze the entire surface: known today as a Snowball Earth scenario. This disaster almost ended life on Earth entirely. Here’s the story of our planet’s near-death, culminating in life’s ultimate survival story.
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S9The immediate benefits of mindful meditation ![]() Multitasking is our new normal, and our ability to focus is being challenged like never before. We’re constantly checking our emails, scrolling social media, consulting our endless to-do lists, and even watching YouTube videos, and, according to renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman, it’s slowing us down in more ways than one. According to Goleman, a remedy for our fast-paced lives can be found in a simple, ten-minute exercise. He explains how a daily mindfulness practice can significantly enhance attention span, reduce the negative effects of multitasking, and help individuals remain concentrated and productive. Goleman’s insights reveal how mindfulness meditation offers immediate stress reduction and a calmer mind, showcasing its potential benefits for people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and enhancing focus in children facing challenging environments. Drawing from cognitive science and recent research, Goleman provides actionable advice for incorporating mindfulness into daily routines, aiming to improve mental clarity, emotional balance, and overall wellness.
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S10How the Universe forges stars from cosmic clouds  Like humans, the birth of stars is a messy affair. Beginning with vast interstellar clouds that collapse under their own titanic gravity, the story of how stars like the Sun are born involves great paroxysms of light and sound (yes, there is sound in space). But when the dust clears, (literally), what remains is a nuclear-powered stellar furnace that will burn brightly for billions of years surrounded by a family of planets using that same energy to do everything from powering climates to creating life. This star-formation story is one that astronomers have only recently assembled via hard-won observations made by the world’s most powerful telescopes. It’s a narrative that not only explains the star-strewn night sky but also puts Earth and its inhabitants into their proper cosmic context.To understand the story of star formation, we need to set the cosmic stage. In the current cosmological epoch, much of the “normal matter” in the Universe (excluding the “dark” stuff) resides in galaxies like the Milky Way (though there’s still a lot of stuff residing in the vast regions between galaxies, too). Galaxies like ours comprise both stars and interstellar gas (also called the interstellar medium, or ISM). The Milky Way, for example, holds more than 100 billion stars and about 10 billion times the Sun’s worth of interstellar material. It’s the interstellar stuff that matters for making new stars and the ISM can take various forms.
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S11S12Does Your Business Really Need a Marketing Stunt on April Fools' Day?  On this day 20 years ago, Google announced it would be launching a new platform called Gmail, and offering one gigabyte of free storage--500 times more than the amount offered by its competitor, Hotmail, at the time. "What really helps is having some sort of yearly cultural calendar and then choosing the moments that are most relevant to you," Walia says. "Like if you're a climate technology brand and working on space tech, it's not really your place to activate on April Fools' Day. It's not really your place to activate on a food-centric holiday unless there's a climate connection. But there is an opportunity to cover big lunar eclipses or space-focused holidays."
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S13Big Tech Convergence: Microsoft and OpenAI Plan to Build Stargate, an AI Supercomputer  Microsoft and OpenAI are working on plans for a data center project that could cost as much as $100 billion and include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called "Stargate" set to launch in 2028, The Information reported on Friday.The Information reported that Microsoft would likely finance the project, which is expected to be 100 times more costly than some of the biggest existing data centers, citing people involved in private conversations about the proposal.Â
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S14Court Rules FTC Can Reopen Meta Probe  Meta Platforms cannot delay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from reopening a probe into alleged privacy failures by its Facebook unit while the company pursues a lawsuit challenging the agency's authority, a U.S. court ruled Friday.The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in its order found that Meta had not shown its challenge was likely to be successful. The court said Meta has "not met its heavy burden of showing entitlement to an injunction pending appeal."
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S15Adobe Hired Shaq to Explain How AI Marketing Works. Here Are the Highlights  At its annual summit in Las Vegas last week, Adobe had the basketball legend introduce several in-development tools, all aimed at helping marketing teams harness the power of generative AI. Using the basketball star as an audience surrogate, Adobe analytics and data science evangelist Eric Mattisof walked Shaq through a sneak preview of in-the-works generative AI-powered solutions to common marketing and branding problems, such as crafting a campaign playbook, keeping content on-brand, and producing infographics.The first sneak preview was for Project Perfect Plays, a tool that enables marketers to quickly create a plan for an ad campaign with just a brief text description. To demonstrate, the tool generated a Christmas-themed promotional campaign for a fast-food restaurant across emails and social media.Â
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S16DeepMind Co-founder warns of AI 'Hype' and 'Grifting'  Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google's AI research lab DeepMind, says the answer is yes. Hassabis told the Financial Times the science and research around the technology is "phenomenal," but the investor frenzy is bringing the type of attention and potential scams that plagued the cryptocurrency space.Substantial investment into generative AI startups "brings with it a whole attendant bunch of hype and maybe some grifting and some other things that you see in other hyped-up areas," he told FT. "In a way, AI's not hyped enough but in some senses it's too hyped." Investors have raced to get in on what they perceive to be an AI goldrush, particularly on the back of the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022. Venture capital investment in generative AI surged about 270 percent to $29.1 billion in 2023, according to Pitchbook.
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S17Zoom  Zoom just launched Zoom Workplace--an AI-powered open collaboration platform--last week. The new platform aims to streamline workflows and provide AI-powered insights, courtesy of its generative AI tool, Zoom AI Companion.Some of those insights include real-time translations. First launched in September 2023, the AI Companion automatically detects when a supported language is being spoken in a meeting, and then generates a meeting summary in that language. It was updated in February to support nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese). Zoom said it will be able to support more languages soon. Â
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S18Using AI To Set Prices Can Be a Form of Price Fixing, FTC and DOJ Say  Companies may be tempted to use artificial intelligence to speed up decision-making and decide how much to charge for goods or services. But a recent action by the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission illustrates the dangers of relying on algorithms to make key decisions."When a small group of algorithm providers can influence a major segment of a market, competitors are better able to use the algorithm provider to facilitate collusion," the agencies said in a release Thursday. "This risk is even greater as markets have become more concentrated across a wide range of industries."
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S19SBA News: Emergency Funding Tied to the Key Bridge Collapse is Available; New Women Business Centers Open  The SBA announced on Saturday that small businesses located in the Mid-Atlantic region are eligible to apply for loans from its Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, which extends low-interest loans to help founders get their business back on track if they suffer from a disaster.The relief arrives as Maryland officials got the greenlight on its $60 million emergency funding request to help with rebuilding efforts after the cargo ship Dali careened into a bridge pier, collapsing the span and killing six construction workers.
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S20Shopify Just Launched Its First Beauty and Wellness Sales Event. Why Brands Are Getting Excited  Digital commerce platform Shopify is kicking off April with a new event on its Shop app. Shop Beauty & Wellness Week is a seven-day sales event during which customers can purchase products from more than 20 participating brands with 20 percent cashback.Shop is Shopify's integrated mobile app that allows customers to purchase directly from brands on the centralized platform. Companies can customize their storefronts and engage in additional features like Shop Campaigns to connect with consumers.Â
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S21TikTok Shop is Raising Referral Fees  Starting April 1, referral fees for products sold in the TikTok Shop will increase from 2 percent to 6 percent--before ultimately climbing to 8 percent on July 1, the platform shared in a blog post. There are a few exceptions: For products sold in the electronics and collectibles categories, fees officially increased to and will stay at 6 percent, and fees for pre-owned items increased to and will stay at 5 percent.TikTok Shop officially launched in September after an April 2023 beta launch. According to a TikTok spokesperson, the platform, at that time, boasted 200,000 sellers and more than 100,000 registered creators who share products through TikTok Shop Affiliate.
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S22How AI Features Can Change Team Dynamics  Recently, companies are seeing new features that add AI-powered feedback to familiar tools. On Zoom there’s an “AI companion,” helping you catch up when you arrive late to a meeting, and on Teams, “Copilot” will help you summarize key discussion points. These applications can be integrated into work so seamlessly users begin to use them almost without realizing. While they offer productivity and feedback benefits, there are also downsides to these tools joining our conversations. If people outsource their listening wholesale to the technology, skipping the work of thinking through for themselves the key messages, then meetings may be efficient, but understanding and commitment to act might well be lacking. Leaders need to consider the impact on power and status, what we count as knowledge, and be sure to take the time to learn about how these features work before using them.
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S23Leading a Company That Can Thrive in a Chaotic World  Worldwide, the past few years have been marked by multiple, intersecting crises — and things aren’t likely to get less complicated anytime soon. The authors met with a group of CEOs to discuss how they lead amid this ongoing chaos. To thrive in this chaotic new world, organizations need leaders with inner strength, character, and a moral compass. By continually adapting and learning, they’ll enable their organizations to navigate these ever-turbulent waters.
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S24A Growth Strategy that Creates and Protects Value  For organizations to truly innovate and grow, leaders in every role and at every organizational level must be attuned to how they are creating new value while simultaneously protecting existing value. Just as a soccer coach must simultaneously pursue both scoring and defending, leaders must constantly focus their attention on opportunities to create value — through innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation — and to protect value — by preserving and defending key aspects of their responsibilities. Because both approaches are essential to success, organizational leaders must proactively and continually encourage their teams to adopt both a creating value and protecting value mindset when tackling their day-to-day responsibilities. But how can leaders do this? More specifically: Where and how do leaders deploy these two approaches, and how do these approaches change over time? In this article, the authors offer four steps leaders can take to ensure that they’re on the right path for growth.
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S25EV companies are hungry for Argentina's lithium. Little is left for Argentines  Standing in her garden on a rainy February afternoon, Andrea Ruscitti listed the names of the few lifelong residents of Isla Paulino who are still around. “Coca, Marta, Miguel, Rosana … ,” Ruscitti told Rest of World, her voice trailing off.Isla Paulino lies only 200 meters from the coast in the province of Buenos Aires, but life there is starkly different from what it is on the mainland: the island is off the power grid, which means its 50 or so residents rely on gas generators to keep food fresh during summers, homes warm during winters, and cell phones charged year-round. Only a few can afford solar panels.
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S26S27How a Houthi-Bombed Ghost Ship Likely Cut Off Internet for Millions ![]() The ballistic missile hit the Rubymar on the evening of February 18. For months, the cargo ship had been shuttling around the Arabian Sea, uneventfully calling at local ports. But now, taking on water in the bottleneck of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, its two dozen crew issued an urgent call for help and prepared to abandon ship.Over the next two weeksâwhile the crew were ashoreâthe "ghost ship" took on a life of its own. Carried by currents and pushed along by the wind, the 171-meter-long, 27-meter-wide Rubymar drifted approximately 30 nautical miles north, where it finally sankâbecoming the most high-profile wreckage during a months-long barrage of missiles and drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. The attacks have upended global shipping.
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S28TikTok Shop's Era of Super Subsidies Is Ending ![]() Starting today, the fees TikTok charges sellers increase from 2 percent to 6 percent of the price of each order. They will creep up to 8 percent in July. The changes may mark a crucial moment for people who shop on TikTok and for the platform itself, potentially forcing up prices and testing shopperâÂÂs loyalty to the social appâÂÂs ecommerce play.TikTok Shop launched in the US in September with strikingly low prices compared to other online stores, thanks to its subsidies to sellers and shoppers. Influencers and entrepreneurs embraced the opportunity: TikTok saw a surge of sellers that outpaced growth in vendors at competitors like Shopify and Amazon, according to a March report from Similarweb, which tracks web traffic. But from the beginning TikTok Shop has hosted deals that appear too good to be true, such as deeply discountedâÂÂand possibly counterfeitâÂÂsnail mucin skin care products and Stanley tumblers, as well as jewelry, socks, and other odds and ends for less than $1.
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S29A Haunted Discord Server Is the Last Good Place Online ![]() In a charming game called This Discord Has Ghosts in It, up to 15 participants at a time gather in a Discord server that has been reimagined as a haunted house. (Of course.) Inside lies a maze of (chat) rooms where each player takes the role of either an eponymous spirit or a paranormal investigator. Each character has a secret motivation, chosen at the start of the game: For investigators, their secret is the reason they are in the house; for ghosts, it's what pins their shade to the mortal realm. Your MO is not to win but to "give away the game," as the very purple game manual states. That means figuring out a way to communicate your secret to the other team.The problem is, you're not allowed to just say it. Ghosts can interact with the game only via text-based chat. They can type descriptions of their hauntings, share images and GIFs, link to songs and videos, and add new rooms to the house. Meanwhile, investigators are confined to Discord's voice call function. Like investigators on TV, they narrate the haunts they see and the rooms they enter to the other investigators wandering other corners of the house, all while trying to stay in character.
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S30How an iPhone Powered by Google's Gemini AI Might Work ![]() Apple and Google are reportedly in cahoots to integrate features from Google's Gemini generative AI service into iOS. Bloomberg broke the news, which was later corroborated by The New York Times. If the deal pans out, it will be a huge collaboration between two tech giants who have long duked it out in the hardware and software space.It also raises lots of questions about how Gemini would function on AppleâÂÂs devicesâÂÂand which company would remain in control. Neither Apple nor Google have publicly addressed the news, and neither company responded to requests for comment before this article was published.
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S31HP Spectre x360 14 Review: The Best Windows 2-in-1 Laptop ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDOnce an edgy alternative to stuffier laptops like the Lenovo ThinkPad line, the HP Spectre x360 series has settled into a much more corporate groove of late. Back in the late 2010s, Spectres looked like props from Tron, with sharp edges, cut corners, and gold trim on some models, for Pete's sake.
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S32Garmin Forerunner 165 Review: Better Sensors, Same Great Training ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDEven the most advanced fitness trackers can't catch everything. While testing the Garmin Forerunner 165 Music, I got a severe case of food poisoning and spent two days in bed. There's nothing more irritating than your cheery fitness tracker notifying you that you've gotten tons of sleep and your Body Battery is at 100 as you're struggling not to throw up water. It's almost as irritating as your children shouting to ask if you're still trapped in the bathroom.
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S33Q Acoustics M40 Review: A Superb Sounding Mini All-In-One Tower ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDBRITISH AUDIO BRAND Q Acoustics has a fine history of producing great-sounding speakers with impressive value. WIRED heaped praise on the bookshelf-sized powered M20 HD, and with the new M40, the company has double-downed on the versatility of the all-in-one audio system with a unique mini-floorstanding design. And while the stumpy stereo form factor has caused some head-scratching, there's also no denying their foot-tapping and head-banging qualities.
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S34Best Grills (2024): Charcoal, Gas, Pellet, Hybrid, and Grilling Accessories ![]() If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDSnow is Melting, birds are migrating, and pitmasters are dusting off their smokersâjust kidding, pitmasters never let dust get on a smoker. But grilling season is on the horizon. It's time to think about getting out the grill, and maybe even replacing it. It's a little overwhelming though. Which is the right grill for you?
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S35The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled ![]() If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome's "Incognito mode" is a good way to protect your privacy online, now's a good time to stop.Google has agreed to delete "billions of data records" the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed in 2020, caps off years of disclosures about Google's practices that shed light on how much data the tech giant siphons from its usersâeven when they're in private-browsing mode.
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S36Are You a Micromanager?  New managers who are still building confidence and exploring the best way to lead can unintentionally develop controlling behaviors, hoping to live up to the expectations of their roles. Unfortunately, these behaviors usually have opposite effect by negatively impacting employee morale and performance. To avoid micromanagement behaviors, check in with yourself by asking these three questions:
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S37Inside the Race to Protect Artists from Artificial Intelligence  AI-generated art is creating new ethical issues—and competition—for digital artists. Nightshade and Glaze are two tools helping creators fight back.Lauren Leffer: Generative artificial intelligence tools can now instantly produce images from text prompts. It’s neat tech, but could mean trouble for professional artists.
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S38Here's Where You Can Watch the Total Solar Eclipse  Will you be outside the path of totality during the 2024 total solar eclipse? What if clouds block your view? Find out how to watch the event online with this collection of livestreamsThis article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024.
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S39Landfills Leak More Planet-Baking Methane Than We Thought  U.S. landfills emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency, often in concentrated plumesTrash is flattened and spread out across a hilllside before being covered with dirt at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano on Thursday, March 10, 2022.
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S40Men Succumb to Anesthesia More Easily than Women  Findings in animals and humans emphasize the perils of not including female participants in research on the effects of anesthesiaIn 1846 William G. Morton, a young Boston-based dentist, showed that inhaling ether in a proper dose can make a person insensible to pain without affecting their vital physiologic functions. This first successful public demonstration of modern anesthesia revolutionized the field of medicine.
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S41Chatbots Struggle to Answer Medical Questions in Widely Spoken Languages  Two popular chatbots showed some difficulty in providing medical information when asked in Spanish, Hindi or MandarinPlugging medical symptoms into Google is so common that clinicians have nicknamed the search engine “Doctor Google.” But a newcomer is quickly taking its place: “Doctor Chatbot.” People with medical questions are drawn to generative artificial intelligence because chatbots can answer conversationally worded questions with simplified summaries of complex technical information. Users who direct medical questions to, say, OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini may also trust the AI tool’s chatty responses more than a list of search results.
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S42Life After Prison: Why Returning Citizens Become Entrepreneurs  Research from Wharton’s Damon J. Phillips finds that people who have been incarcerated, especially Black men, seek entrepreneurship as an alternative to low wages and a lack of opportunity in traditional employment.People who have been incarcerated are more likely to turn to entrepreneurship after prison to overcome discrimination in the labor market, especially formerly incarcerated Black men who face the highest barriers to employment.
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S44Russia has a plan to "restore" its dominant position in the global launch market  It has been a terrible decade for the Russian launch industry, which once led the world. The country's long-running workhorse, the Proton rocket, ran into reliability issues and will soon be retired. Russia's next-generation rocket, Angara, is fully expendable and still flying dummy payloads on test flights a decade after its debut. And the ever-reliable Soyuz vehicle lost access to lucrative Western markets after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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S45Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor rocks the fashion in new Doctor Who trailer  Heads up, Whovians! We've got a newly regenerated Fifteenth Doctor in Ncuti Gatwa and a new season of the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who on the way. Judging by the latest trailer, we're in for another wild ride of time-traveling hijinks, punctuated by an irresistibly charismatic Gatwa sporting some very colorful outfits with confident aplomb.
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S46Google Podcasts shuts down tomorrow, April 2  RIP Google Podcasts. Google's self-branded podcasting service shuts down tomorrow, April 2, and existing users have until July to export any subscriptions that are still on the service. Google originally announced the shutdown in September and has been plastering shutdown notices all over the Google Podcasts site and app for a few days now.
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S47S48S49S50Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week  Discord had long been strongly opposed to ads, but starting this week, it's giving video game makers the ability to advertise to its users. The introduction of so-called Sponsored Quests marks a notable change from the startup's previous business model, but, at least for now, it seems much less intrusive than the ads shoved into other social media platforms, especially since Discord users can choose not to engage with them.
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