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With placenta-on-a-chip, researchers hope to gauge how drugs and
toxins impact pregnancy
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The placenta is a vital organ that plays an important role in the
development of a growing fetus. Not only does it form a barrier
protecting a fetus from maternal infections and diseases, it also
delivers nutrients to and removes waste products from the fetus —
even as it constantly changes throughout the duration of pregnancy.
For both practical and ethical reasons, it is virtually impossible to
study the function of a placenta during pregnancy.Pregnant people are
often excluded from clinical trials to avoid putting the developing
fetus at risk and exposing drug companies to legal liability, noted
Eke. As a result, physicians rely on studies that don’t have a
control group, like pregnancy registries or retrospective cohort
studies, to get data. But such databases “are prone to confounding,
to misclassifications and to bias,” Eke said. Researchers have also
turned to animal testing, pharmacokinetic studies — which simulate
the physiological effect of drugs in pregnancy using historical data
and models — and sometimes even placental tissue that’s expelled
after birth, to study the effects of drugs and other substances. But
the results don’t always reliably mirror results from trials with
pregnant people.

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Ukraine has a navy that needs no sailors
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WHEN RUSSIA invaded in February 2022 Ukraine barely had a navy. The
defenders scuttled their one frigate to prevent Russia from seizing
it. Two years later Ukraine is struggling to hold back a Russian
offensive on land—but it is winning the war in the Black Sea and has
broken the Russian blockade of its grain ships. Its victories have
often depended on rapid technological innovation: every other navy
relies on crewed ships to fight, but Ukraine has built a fleet of
drone boats, or uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs). How are they shaping
the war at sea?

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Supreme Court Ethics Bill Blocked In Senate Amid Samuel Alito
Controversies
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The Senate failed to advance a bill Wednesday designed to introduce
ethics reform for the Supreme Court, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
shooting down the effort as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito faces
ethics controversies and rejects calls to recuse himself from cases
related to former President Donald Trump.It was a widely anticipated
outcome following Republican pushback and votes against the bill when
it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in an 11-10 vote last year,
while Justice Clarence Thomas was embroiled in his own ethics
controversies reportedly linked to accepting undisclosed financial
favors.

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Philippine Billionaire Ang Taps Son To Help Run San Miguel's $20
Billion Infra Projects
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"I will continue to guide San Miguel but will let Paul start to help
operate the company," the older Ang said via text message, without
giving further details. The set up is similar to the training he
underwent under his mentor, the late former San Miguel chairman and
CEO Eduardo Cojuangco Jr, he added.Ang's 44-year old son, a director
of San Miguel since 2021, has a long pipeline of projects ahead of
him: building a new airport while upgrading the ageing main
international gateway in the Philippine capital. He will also manage a
joint venture with billionaire Sabin Aboitiz and tycoon Manuel
Pangilinan to build a liquified natural gas facility in Batangas,
south of Manila, while overseeing the ongoing construction of a
22-kilometer mass rail transit that will connect several Metro Manila
muncipalities to the neighboring province of Bulacan where San Miguel
is building a new airport.

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Once in the thick of a debt crisis, Greece is now repaying its
multi-billion-dollar loans ahead of time
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The early repayment corresponds to three years of installments and
represents the third time that Greece has moved
to accelerate reimbursement of a loan package received in its first
bailout program in 2010. The latest move will be the first time the
country is making that much of a dent in the Greek Loan Facility. The
move, which covers loan amortizations from 2026 to 2028, is a
confident signal to financial markets about the country’s ongoing
economic recovery. Even though the government lowered its growth
target for 2024 to 2.5% from a previous estimate of 2.9%, the country
is performing well above the average growth forecasts in the European
Union. 

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Here's how Meta's virtual-reality workout compares to real-life
exercise
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I am standing on a grassy mountaintop, listening to birds chirping,
getting lost in the stunning landscape. Suddenly, pop music swells and
round black and white objects the size of soccer balls begin to fly
toward me at an accelerated clip, exploding into confetti each time I
punch one away. No, I’m not dreaming—just working out in my
living room while wearing a VR headset, playing the Supernatural
fitness game, immersed in a 360-degree wonderland. When it’s over,
I’m panting, elated, and totally sweaty, just like when I finish
taking a class at the gym—and the next day my lats are on fire. 

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S6

Illegal short selling trades in South Korea could now get you life in
prison
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“If short selling is resumed without a monitoring system in place,
there is the risk that massive illegal activities may be repeated,”
said Kim Soyoung, vice chair at the Financial Services Commission.
“It will be allowed from March 31 after the platform is ready,” he
said, adding that it’s difficult to say whether the rule change will
be applied to all stocks. In an earlier Thursday statement, the
government said it will increase financial penalties and jail terms up
to life imprisonment for illicit activities. Same terms on repayment
and margin requirements will be applied for retail and institutional
investors to create a level playing field, it said.    

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Elon Musk claims he is heading for victory in Tesla $56bn pay vote
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Chief says resolutions on his remuneration and electric-car maker’s
Texas move are passing by ‘wide margins’

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Segantii bet against Canada Goose after call with Morgan Stanley
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US prosecutor examined the conversation during its investigation of
the Wall St bank

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Younger Workers Are Lonelier. Managers Can Help
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In the U.S. and Canada, nearly a quarter of workers younger than 35
years old say they experience loneliness "a lot of the day,"
according to Gallup's new State of the Global Workplace report,
including responses from 128,278 workers across the globe in 2023.
That's compared with 15 percent of workers 35 years old and older, and
20 percent of workers globally. To start, great managers can make
the organization's mission and purpose clearer to team members,
Harter says: "They're having a weekly conversation with each employee
and doing a lot of listening in terms of what's working, what isn't.
Are there any barriers that are getting in the way? And clarifying
priorities and goals."  

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My Employee Is Patronizing When I Correct His Work
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My employee, who is fresh out of college, is often not very thorough
or good at his job. He'll submit work that clearly lacked any
attention to detail. And 90% of the time, there are errors that I end
up pointing out. I am fair, factual, and give context to why the error
is important to avoid. I never reprimand, just state the facts and
move on.He always responds with an excuse like "oh, I thought you said
it was this" (even though I clearly wrote the answer out in the email
to him) and then he follows up with a "good job" or "cool, great
catch." It's always in a tone that feels condescending and
patronizing. I've been in my industry for years. I don't really need
to hear compliments on how great I was at catching that 1 + 1 isn't =
40. To me, it's 100% not the same as saying "oh, thanks for catching
that!" It's like instead of appreciating that I was there to help him
fix something, he pats me on the back for doing my job?

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Research: How Remote Work Impacts Women at Different Stages of Their
Careers
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While much has been said about the potential benefits of remote work
for women, recent research examines how working from home affects the
professional development of female software engineers at a Fortune 500
company, revealing that its impact varies by career stage. Junior
women engineers benefit significantly from in-person mentorship,
receiving 40% more feedback when sitting near colleagues, while senior
women face reduced productivity due to increased mentoring duties.
Male engineers also benefit from proximity, but less so. The authors
suggest that recognizing and rewarding mentorship efforts could
mitigate these disparities, ensuring junior women receive adequate
support remotely and senior women are properly compensated for their
mentoring contributions.

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When Your Team Offloads Their Stress onto You
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Being a leader in today’s evolving workplace is more emotionally
demanding than ever — and especially so if you’re quietly
sustaining the emotional well-being of your team or others. In this
article, the author outlines five strategies to help you perform this
vital organizational role without burning yourself out: 1) Seek to
understand — not to feel. 2) Install boundaries. 3) Savor your
positive impact. 4) Show yourself equal care. 5) Tie your
contributions to performance.

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The West Coast's Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One
Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
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Bryan Hance was sitting in his basement one Sunday afternoon in June
2020 when he got an email about a secondhand bike for sale. A BMC
Roadmachine 02 from a Swiss company, the bike was painted the color of
a traffic cone, with goblin-green racing stripes. It was gorgeous. The
bicycle boasted some of the fanciest components anyone could buy, like
sleek Zipp wheels and electronic shifting. It was the kind of ride
that made other cyclists envy it and its owner as they blew past on a
straightaway. Hance guessed that a bike like that probably cost
$8,000. Yet it was being offered for a fraction of that amount.Hance
is the cofounder of Bike Index, a site where people can register their
bicycles (for free) and record when one has been stolen. This allows
cyclists, and law enforcement, to keep their eyes peeled for a swiped
bike. Since it was started in 2013, Bike Index has helped recover more
than 14,000 stolen bikes, from Sacramento to Saskatchewan and as far
away as Australia. Hance's passion is bicycles, or to be more precise,
the sense of community and general goodwill that a life in the saddle
fosters. Every message that offers tips on a missing bike is cc'ed to
him.

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Let's Talk About Trump's Gibberish
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For too long, Trump has gotten away with pretending that his emotional
issues are just part of some offbeat New York charm or an expression
of his enthusiasm for public performance. But Trump is obviously
unfit—and something is profoundly wrong with a political environment
in which he can now say almost anything, no matter how weird, and his
comments will get a couple of days of coverage and then a shrug, as if
to say: Another day, another Trump rant about sharks.Yes, sharks. In
Las Vegas on Sunday, Trump went off-script—I have to assume that no
competent speechwriter would have drafted this—and riffed on the
important question of how to electrocute a shark while one attacks. He
had been talking, he claims, to someone about electric boats: “I
say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and
you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery,
and the battery’s now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s
approximately 10 yards over there?’”

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A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
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The edge of Greenland’s ice sheet looked like a big lick of sludgy
white frosting spilling over a rise of billion-year-old brown rock.
Inside the Twin Otter’s cabin, there were five of us: two pilots, a
scientist, an engineer, and me. Farther north, we would have needed
another seat for a rifle-armed guard. Here, we were told to just look
around for polar-bear tracks on our descent. We had taken off from
Greenland’s west coast and soon passed over the ice sheet’s lip.
Viewed from directly above, the first 10 miles of ice looked wrinkled,
like elephant skin. Its folds and creases appeared to be lit blue from
within.We landed 80 miles into the interior with a swervy skid. Our
engineer, a burly Frenchman named Nicolas Bayou, jerked the door open,
and an unearthly cold ripped through the cabin. The ice was smoother
here. The May sunlight radiated off it like a pure-white aurora. We
knew that there were no large crevasses near the landing site. This
was a NASA mission. We had orbital reconnaissance. Still, our safety
officer had warned us that we could “pop down” into a hidden crack
in the ice if we ventured too far from the plane. Bayou appointed
himself our Neil Armstrong. He unfolded the ladder, stepped gingerly
down its rungs, and set foot on the surface.

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What's Actually In Your Tattoo Ink? No One Really Knows
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Chemists are hard at work figuring out how to make tattoos last—and
ensure they’re safe.

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Lack of Bird Flu Tests Could Hide Pandemic Warning Signs
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The FDA has authorized just one type of avian flu test, and it is only
available to livestock workers

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Has Elon Musk Finally Lost Tesla Shareholders?
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The Tesla CEO is facing the prospect of a $56 billion rebuke not from
the government or a judge, but from his fellow shareholders.

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Brokers Are Ready to Fight for Their Fees
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An army of Douglas Elliman and Corcoran agents turned out to oppose
Chi Ossé’s broker-fee reforms: “We don’t just open doors.”

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Biden and Trump are fighting to claim credit for $35 insulin. It was
actually a pharma giant's idea
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Eli Lilly, an $800 billion pharma giant and one of three insulin
manufacturers in the United States, first proposed an experiment
allowing Medicare insurance plans to offer $35 monthly insulin in
2019, CEO David Ricks and former Medicare agency chief Seema Verma
said in interviews with STAT.The $35 monthly cap has proliferated
broadly to nearly every corner of the American health care system. The
cap eventually became law in Medicare, as one of Biden’s signature
legislative achievements, adding more protections for the more than
three million seniors who use insulin. The $35 figure also has been
reflected in multiple state laws, and is the basis for proposals in
Congress to extend the cost protections to people with insurance
through their jobs. Some pharmaceutical companies, including Lilly and
Sanofi, have adopted similar limits in their copay assistance
programs. The origin story of the amount patients are expected to pay
for insulin has not been previously reported.

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Israel and Lebanon Won't End Up at War
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On the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, only a few villages
remain intact, and vast neighborhoods in the towns that remain
standing, like Marwaheen, are entirely destroyed. When night falls and
darkness envelops the area, the only distant light visible is from
nearly 30 kilometers away—the glowing Bahai Gardens in Haifa,
Israel’s largest northern city, home to around 280,000 people.On the
Lebanese side of the border with Israel, only a few villages remain
intact, and vast neighborhoods in the towns that remain standing, like
Marwaheen, are entirely destroyed. When night falls and darkness
envelops the area, the only distant light visible is from nearly 30
kilometers away—the glowing Bahai Gardens in Haifa, Israel’s
largest northern city, home to around 280,000 people.

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When did bioluminescence evolve? A new study offers a clue.
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From fireflies to glow worms, algae to squid, a dazzling array of
organisms can perform an act of magic: they can generate their own
light through a process known as bioluminescence. And it isn’t just
an aesthetic wonder. It has evolved independently at least 100 times
in nature and has dozens of diverse uses, from luring prey to freaking
out predators to winking at a potential mate. But when did life first
develop the ability to glow in the dark? For decades, scientists
believed the oldest example of animal bioluminescence could be found
in a diminutive marine crustacean known as an ostracod, one that
lived 267 million years ago and could light itself up. But a new
study, published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
winds the clock on bioluminescence way, way back.

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How the rainbow flag became a symbol of the LGBTQIA+ community
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In preparation for the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day
Parade on June 25, 1978, California’s first openly gay elected
official, Harvey Milk, commissioned Gilbert Baker—an openly gay
veteran, drag queen, activist, and artist—to create a symbol
representing the LGBTQIA+ community.The original configuration
included pink to signify sex; red, life; orange, healing; yellow,
sunlight; green, nature; turquoise, magic; blue, harmony; and purple,
spirit. After the assassination of Harvey Milk in November 1978,
demand for the flag increased, leading to the removal of the pink and
turquoise stripes due to manufacturing constraints. The six remaining
rainbow colors then became the enduring symbol of gay pride.

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Dolphins Who Practice Courtship When Young Reproduce More as Adults
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For young male bottlenose dolphins, play is often practice. When that
play concerns courtship, practice makes perfect. Juvenile males who
spend more time play-acting courtship rituals father more offspring
years later as adults, according to a study in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.The new study is the culmination of 28
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The Future of Organ-Chip Technology Is Bright
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Biologist and bioengineer Donald E. Ingber doesn’t have time to
sleep. As the founding director of The Wyss Institute for Biologically
Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, finding time outside of
work hasn’t gotten easier with age. At 67, his morning still starts
at 5 a.m., running through a pile of emails that seems to grow larger
by the day.By lunch, he’s already revised the budget for a crucial
government grant and met with postdoctoral fellows regarding work on
various research projects. Ingber also deals with unexpected issues,
like immigration and political turbulence, that he never dreamed would
fall under his purview. Recently, when a scientist he hired from
Germany came with his wife and child and was turned away at Logan
Airport for having an Iranian passport, Ingber spent the morning
wrangling with the Harvard visa office, trying to get him back into
the country.

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Ozempic and Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcoholism
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People taking semaglutide, also called Ozempic and Wegovy, either for
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What is the Median Pay of Magnificent Seven Companies?
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In May alone, these tech giants added $1.4 trillion in market
capitalization to the S&P 500—surpassing the combined gains of 296
other stocks during the same period. Notably, Nvidia contributed to
more than half of this rise. As tech stocks boom, many are offering
robust salaries with substantial stock option plans.At Nvidia,
employees received a median pay of $266,939, fueled by its soaring
share price. Last year, over $300 million in value was delivered to
its staff under its employee stock purchase plan. Along with a
competitive pay package, the company offers an unlimited vacation
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Ranked: Top 20 Countries by Plastic Waste per Capita
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It’s also interesting to note how most of the countries in this top
20 ranking are wealthier, more developed nations. These nations have
higher levels of consumption, with greater access to packaged goods,
take-out services, and disposable products, all of which rely on
single-use plastics.Severe storms have been the most common,
accounting for half of all billion-dollar disasters since 1980. In
terms of costs, tropical cyclones have caused the lion’s
share—more than 50% of the total. Hurricane Katrina, which made
landfall in 2005, remains the most expensive single event with $199
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Startup Street: Are employees deserting startups, yet again?
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The average median tenure of employees working in start-ups is a mere
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The surprisingly not so doomed effort to force US drivers to stop
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The need for speed is killing people.

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The Windows on Arm chip race heats up with a challenger to Qualcomm
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MediaTek is reportedly taking on Snapdragon.

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The centuries-old baba recipe made with 96 egg yolks
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The baba is often served at Easter in Poland, with the most
extraordinary version – the muslin baba – made from a rich dough
of flour, yeast, butter and quite a lot of egg yolks.Depending on
where it's baked, the baba or babka takes on many different forms. In
the US, it's a braided brioche-like bread that often has chocolate,
nuts or other ingredients mixed in. Europeans might be more familiar
with baba au rhum, a desert popular in France and Italy that is soaked
in liqueur and served in individual portions.

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Organizations Face Challenges in Timely Compliance With the EU AI Act
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For the third year in a row, MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston
Consulting Group have assembled an international panel of AI experts
that includes academics and practitioners to help us gain insights
into how responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) is being
implemented in organizations worldwide. Last year, we published a
report titled “Building Robust RAI Programs as Third-Party AI Tools
Proliferate.” This year, we continue to examine organizational
capacity to address AI-related risks in a landscape that includes the
first comprehensive AI law on the books — the European Union’s AI
Act.In our previous post, we asked our experts about organizational
risk management. This month, we asked them to react to the following
provocation: Organizations will be ready to meet the requirements of
the EU AI Act as they phase in over the next 12 months. Our experts
are divided: While nearly half (47%) disagree or strongly disagree
with the statement, a third (33%) neither agree nor disagree, and only
a fifth (20%) agree or strongly agree. Below, we share insights from
our panelists and draw on our own observations and experience working
on RAI initiatives to offer recommendations on how organizations might
approach compliance with the AI Act’s requirements as they’re
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23 Years Ago, This Best-Selling Nintendo Handheld Walked So the Switch
Could Run
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Moving from a vertical design to a horizontal form factor broke with
tradition, but it proved to be exactly what Nintendo’s handhelds
needed.The Game Boy was a hit from the start when it was released in
1989. But it wasn’t until the Game Boy Advance arrived in 2001 that
Nintendo revealed what was truly possible with a handheld game
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Capcom's Sleeper Hit of 2024 Will Make You Feel Like a God
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Last year, Capcom released Exoprimal, a dinosaur-infested shooter that
dug its hooks into me hard, and against all odds, ended up becoming my
most-played game of the entire year. It was one of my biggest
surprises of the year, but what’s even more shocking is it feels
like Capcom might be poised to do it again. After playing
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, it’s suddenly become one of my
most anticipated games of the year: a fascinating fusion of tower
defense game with a twist — wholly unlike anything you’ve ever
seen from Capcom. It’s a sleeper hit in the making. After playing
Kunitsu-Gami for over an hour, I couldn’t stop thinking about it for
the next two days. It’s a bizarre, surreal, and engrossing
experience, and I can’t overstate just how different it feels from
anything else out there. The story doesn’t have any dialogue
whatsoever, completely conveyed through context, body language, and
animation. Its gameplay loop is a unique fusion of tower defense and
hack-and-slash action, requiring both strategy and finesse. Then
there’s its bold watercolor visual style, tying all of the game’s
interface elements into its classical Japanese art. These elements all
coalesce into a game that feels bold, ambitious, and unique in ways we
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'Assassins' Creed Shadows' Finally Delivers the One Thing the Series
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In 2017, Assassin’s Creed went through a radical shift with the
release of Origins, transforming the tried-and-true formula into a new
RPG-heavy approach. Since then, that formula has been rinsed and
repeated with Odyssey and Valhalla, but it finally feels like the
series is ready to break new ground again. Assassin’s Creed Shadows
takes players to Feudal Japan, a setting fans have been desperate to
visit for over a decade. But more than that, Shadows' dual-protagonist
approach already looks like a brilliant change that can breathe new
life into a series that desperately needs it.At Summer Game Fest,
Inverse had the chance to see a guided demo of Shadows, with nearly an
hour of gameplay highlighting the two protagonists: the towering
samurai Yasuke and the lithe shinobi Naoe. The demo was just a small
snippet of the game, but the incredible variety between these two
characters, mixed with a gorgeous and fascinating setting, give me
hope that Shadows is trying something different. Coming off Valhalla,
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on the open world and suffering from bloat because of it, but Shadows
feels like a step in the right direction — a great idea that,
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'The Acolyte' Just Introduced a Shockingly Oppressive Star Wars Rule
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In the classic Star Wars trilogy, the Force was viewed as an
“ancient religion” by Admiral Motti and as a “hokey religion”
by Han Solo. Meaning that, after the fall of the Republic, everyone
from fascist bureaucrats to good-hearted smugglers had less than
serious opinions about the Force. But over a century before that, the
Force functioned much differently in day-to-day life. Instead of
existing as a “mystical energy field” that random farmboys had
never even heard of, in the days of the High Republic, the Force was
not only widely known and understood, it was also legislated. As Star
Wars: The Acolyte continues to unspool new threads about the nature of
the galaxy before The Phantom Menace, one very specific detail in
Episode 3, “Destiny,” creates a new precedent that changes our
view of the Jedi forever. Not only are Jedi figuring out who is and
isn’t a known Force-user, like some kinds of space cops. They’re
also empowered to separate kids from their families without any mind
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The Most Affordable EV in the U.S. Got a New Model -- and It Has One
Big Caveat
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Nissan revealed the 2025 model year of its all-electric Leaf,
continuing the legacy of one of the first battery-powered EVs dating
back to 2010. First, the good news is that Nissan is keeping the
Leaf’s starting price at a reasonable $28,140. However, the bad news
outweighs the good since the Leaf no longer qualifies for federal EV
tax credits.This is a major setback for the aging Leaf, since even the
2024 model year qualified for up to $3,750 back thanks to tax credits.
Now at its current sticker price, other automakers have a golden
opportunity to unseat the Leaf as the most affordable EV in the U.S.
We’re already seeing the first signs of this happening since GM is
confident that the returning Chevrolet Bolt will be the “most
affordable vehicle on the market by 2025” and Ford is working on
several affordable models based on a new EV platform. On top of that,
we wouldn’t be surprised if Ford and GM’s upcoming entry-level EVs
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Ultra-Processed Plant-Based Foods Might Increase the Risk For Many
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There’s no question that eating fruits and vegetables are good for
our overall health. Study after study has shown that a plant-based
diet can benefit every organ system in our bodies. However, a recent
study found that not all plant-based diets are created equally, nor
are they equally healthy. In fact, ultra-processed plant-sourced foods
(think: french fries) can increase the risk of cardiovascular
disease.The study, which was published in The Lancet Regional
Health-Europe, used a sample of about 118,000 UK adults between the
ages of 40 and 69. The study was a collaboration between researchers
in both the United Kingdom, France, and Brazil. The researchers
classified food groups as either plant-sourced or animal-sourced, as
well as ultra processed and non ultra processed. The data collection
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The Wildest Sci-Fi Show of the Century Is Getting a Disappointing
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Fourteen years ago, the world first met Finn the human and Jake the
magic, stretchy dog when Adventure Time debuted on Cartoon Network
with a 10-minute story in which zombified candy creatures threaten to
upend a royal slumber party. (This was the first of two episodes that
premiered that day. The second is titled “Trouble in Lumpy Space,”
firmly establishing both the show’s sci-fi leanings and its
irreverent tone from day one.)While there was never any doubt that
Adventure Time was a show for kids, there was an undercurrent of
creativity and humor that made the show popular with adults — or at
least stoned college students — from the very beginning. Over the
years, the series evolved and expanded to tell complex and emotional
stories, culminating in an epic finale that aired in 2018, only to be
followed by two excellent spinoffs that pushed the show’s mature
themes even further. In other words, Adventure Time grew up with its
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The Bloodiest Superhero Show Is Just Getting Started
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The future of The Boys has been uncertain for years, but now we
finally have some clarity. Showrunner Eric Kripke refused to speculate
on how many seasons he expected the smash-hit Amazon series to run
for, but after reviews for the upcoming Season 4 started rolling out,
he revealed that the already-planned Season 5 will also be the final
season. But while the main story of Hughie, Butcher, and Homelander
will come to a close, the greater universe will continue. Kripke has
also revealed that The Boys’ existing spinoff will keep trucking,
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'Astro Bot' Is the Mario Competitor That PlayStation Desperately Needs
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Back in the days of the PS2, PlayStation had a slew of great
platforming titles, from Ratchet & Clank to Sly Cooper. But those
glory days have faded as the company shifted its focus to narrative
adventures and multiplayer epics. Nintendo rushed to full that void,
pretty much dominating the genre ever since. Enter: Astro Bot.Astro
Bot feels like the game PlayStation needs right now. It’s an
adorable and ambitious platformer that’s simply a delight to play in
every regard and a reminder that PlayStation’s games can still be
simple fun. More than that, after an hour hands-on I get the feeling
that this might be the rare gem that can give even Mario a run for his
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'Assassin's Creed Shadows' Is Scaling Back Its Ambitions In One Genius
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All early signs point to Assassin’s Creed Shadows being an
exceptional entry in the long-running series. It’s a back-to-basics
approach to gameplay blending the social stealth elements of older
games with the combat-forward encounters that defined more recent
titles. It is set in feudal Japan, a setting players have been
clamoring for since 2008. And its two protagonists offer a unique lens
through which the player will experience the setting players have
experienced in other recent games.This week, the game’s associate
director revealed that Shadows is making another bold decision that
should go over well with wayward fans: a smaller world map. Ubisoft
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The Sequel to 2022's Best Sci-Fi Game Is More Stressful In the Best
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It’s been a great week for sci-fi fans with impeccable taste. First,
we got our first look at Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector’s
gameplay along with an early 2025 release window at the weekend’s PC
Gaming Show. Now previews for the game have emerged, showing that the
sequel to what I consider the best RPG of 2022 (sorry not sorry) could
actually stand a chance at surpassing its predecessor. The only
downside: that 2025 release date is looking a little too far away
given how exciting Citizen Sleeper 2 is shaping up to be.If you were a
fan of the original Citizen Sleeper, you probably noticed things look
a bit different in its sequel’s new gameplay trailer. Not too
different, but enough to make this second voyage clearly more than a
rehash. The game’s main mechanic — rolling dice to determine your
chance of succeeding at everything from hacking computers to making
small talk — remains intact, but with lots of new additions.
There’s a lot of talk of contracts, a screen for selecting crew
members, and mysterious indicators on the UI marked “supplies,”
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5 AI Features in Google Maps That Will Blow Your Mind
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When it comes to Google and AI, Gemini has been in the spotlight all
the time. But Google Maps has been the beneficiary of several new AI
features for directions and discovery that could make your experience
of navigating easier, smarter, and maybe even fun. Better yet, you
don’t need to be a Google Maps power user to take advantage.Until
now, Google had been rolling out the integration of these new AI
features slowly and locally, but now there are a lot of AI features
that are available for just about everyone to use. If you haven’t
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captured The Eerie Aftermath of A Solar
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The Sun soaked Mars with high radiation last month, which gave way to
exciting camera footage. And, perhaps less thrillingly, it also
spotlighted one major obstacle for astronauts.The imagery looks like
snow fell on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the eerie scene.
There were so many charged particles that reached the Martian barren,
jagged surface that the sky view filled with streaks and specks, and
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New Research Reveals What Ancient Humans Ate During the Bronze and
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The Mediterranean diet might conjure images of whole grains, fish, a
side of cucumber and tomato salad, and a glass of red wine. While the
diet, known for its link to longevity and health, has skyrocketed in
popularity in recent years, this eating pattern is far from new. In
fact, a recent study reveals that this way of eating has persisted for
millennia. Published today in the journal PLoS ONE, a paper looked at
the agricultural and diet patterns of people living in what’s now
Syria during the Middle Bronze Age, which occurred from 2000 to 1600
BCE. It turns out humans have been eating a Mediterranean diet since
at least the Bronze Age.The research looks at plant, animal, and human
remains from an archaeological site in modern-day Syria known as Tell
Tweini on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Tell Tweini is located
near the modern town Jableh, and was once part of an ancient harbor
city called Gibala, the southernmost town of the Ugarit Kingdom in the
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15 Years Later, One of the Most Overlooked RPG Series Returns This
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At the beginning of this year, the 2024 release calendar was looking
pretty thin, with almost no release dates announced past this spring.
But after Summer Game Fest, the summer and fall slates are starting to
fill out a bit more. The latest announcement comes from Square Enix,
sharing the word that Visions of Mana will arrive in just a few
months’ time.Square Enix shared its anticipated launch date trailer
for Visions of Mana, showcasing nearly four minutes of gameplay and
cutscenes along with the reveal of its August 29 release date. To
coincide with the announcement, Square Enix also dropped a new blog
post going into even more depth than the trailer on Visions of
Mana’s story, characters, and combat.

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Monster Hunter Devs Say Not to Worry About Monster Designs, 'Plenty
More' Are Coming
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Since the release of the smash hit Monster Hunter World, the franchise
has become a phenomenon on the same level as Resident Evil. A niche
series now turned mainstream, Monster Hunter Wilds is the next game
after the massively ambitious World, and it’s already looking like
it could be the crown jewel in Capcom’s incredible resurgence.
Perhaps most impressively, however, the developers behind Wilds are
keeping a level head, not intimidated by the extra pressure of
following-up on Capcom’s best-selling game ever.“The main pressure
we feel on this, or any Monster Hunter title, is more about can we
achieve what it is we're setting out to do with the game design. It
doesn't necessarily change because of the performance of a
predecessor,” producer Ryozo Tsujimoto tells Inverse, “In my mind,
we just have a bigger audience to give this game to because they all
came on board with Monster Hunter World and they're waiting for the
next game. I don’t necessarily think of it as pressure to perform,
as much as it’s my job to bring those players the next game
they’re anticipating.”

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