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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

Editor's Pick

Cambridge researchers develop urine test for early detection of lung
cancer | University of Cambridge

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scientists have developed a urine test for early detection of lung
cancer. The test, the first of its kind, detects "zombie" cells that
could indicate the first signs of the disease.

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Editor's Note: Lung cancer has a poor prognosis for many patients
because often there are no noticeable symptoms until it has spread
through the lungs or into other parts of the body. The new urine test
will allow doctors to spot the disease before it develops.

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What It's Like to Live in the World's Most Innovative Countries
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The BBC speaks to residents and travellers in some of the top-ranked
countries on the 2024 Global Innovation Index to find out how
cutting-edge technology benefits day-to-day life.

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South Korea's governing party head supports suspending Yoon's powers,
making impeachment more likely
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's governing party chief
expressed support Friday for suspending the constitutional powers of
President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing martial law this week, in a
bombshell reversal that makes Yoon's impeachment more likely.















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Tucker Carlson Interviews Sergey Lavrov
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Tucker interviews Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia. December, 2024.

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How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better
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Mainland China uses the pinyin system to write Mandarin words and
names with English letters.Pinyin isn't used in Cantonese or other
Chinese dialects, and it's not as widely used in Taiwan. China
officially adopted pinyin in 1958, and earlier emigrants also spelled
their names differently.














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Internet Takes Lack of Sympathy Further, Thirsts Over Suspect in
Health Insurance CEO Shooting
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On Wednesday, social media greeted the shocking news about the
evidently targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in
Midtown Manhattan with morbid mockery, blasting the U.S. insurance
industry for profiting off the denial of life-saving medical
treatments.

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Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following
Murder of United Healthcare CEO
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Following the murder of its CEO on Wednesday morning, United
Healthcare removed a page from its website listing the rest of its
executive leadership, and several other health insurance companies
have done the same, hiding the names and photos of their executives
from easy public access.














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Amazon Makes Big, Bold Push Into AI -- Leaves Experts Amazed
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ByContributor Tor Constantino is an ex-reporter, turned AI consultant
& tech writer.

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Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith?
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Though I am an atheist, I have built my life and career around
religion.














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The Death of Intel: When Boards Fail
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If you haven't heard the news, Pat Gelsinger is "retiring." The
reality is this was not a retirement but a firing of Pat.

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How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S.
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While many U.S. malls face anchor store closures and empty parking
lots, some are finding new life by becoming housing. Real estate
developers are building housing inside of or next to shopping malls as
department stores like Macy's, JCPenney and Sears shrink or cease to
exist. At least 192 U.S. m














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Teaching Elderly People to Use Android - Lessons Learned
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This is my story about an adventure into online teaching, video course
making, and choosing a hard-to-reach audience, who desperately needs
help.

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Sundar Pichai says Google Search will 'change profoundly' in 2025
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company's search engine will "change
profoundly" in 2025. "I think we are going to be able to tackle more
complex questions than ever before," Pichai said during the NYT's
DealBook Summit on Wednesday.














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Life Is One Long Intelligence Test
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This is part of a series, of people, who have contributed
significantly to their field. Whilst they are known within the field,
rarely are they known outside the field or widely, yet should be. See
below for others. I keep a note on my desk; "memory is all we have".

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Emmanuel Macron to Name New French PM Within Days
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French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls to stand down amid
a political crisis that has seen his prime minister ousted in a
no-confidence vote. In an address following Michel Barnier's
resignation, Macron said that his mandate was one of five years that
he would see through to the end.














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Bernie Sanders Says RFK Jr.?s Comments On Food Industry ?Exactly
Correct? But Health Views ?Extremely Dangerous? - Forbes (No paywall)
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Va., backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments on
the food industry, in an interview with CBS News on Thursday, but
stopped short of committing to approve his nomination as Health and
Human Services Secretary, citing concern about his views on other key
health issues.

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Why housing shortages cause homelessness
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Diona's mom gave her one week's notice. There were too many kids and
too little space. If 17-year-old Diona didn't find someone to stay
with, she would be forced to check herself and her 3-month-old son
into a homeless shelter.













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Microbiome interventions for children raise the ethical stakes
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When she had her daughter in 2008, microbiologist Deanna Gibson rarely
saw probiotics in the baby formula on supermarket shelves. "Then when
I had my son in 2012, it was pretty much in every formula," recalls
Gibson, who is at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna,
Canada.

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Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. Now it's asking why
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Under heavy grey skies and a thin coating of snow, hulking grey and
green Cold War relics recall Ukraine's Soviet past.

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Congo government says it's 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease
that killed dozens
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Congo's health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over
a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of
people, nearly half of which were children.

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Suspect in Killing of Insurance C.E.O. Is Said to Have Used Fake New
Jersey ID
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The authorities released two images that they said showed the face of
the man they believe fatally shot the chief executive of one of the
largest health insurers in the country.

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The Future of B2B Marketing: 11 Predictions for 2025, From New
Playbooks to Strategic Brands and AI Agents
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In 2006, we founded Marketo and I helped create the traditional B2B
marketing playbook--the one built on MQLs, marketing automation, and
measuring everything. For years, it worked brilliantly. Marketing
finally had a seat at the revenue table, with clear metrics and
predictable processes.

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Why did clothing become boring?
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One of the reasons I'm a historian is that I find the strangeness of
the past to be underrated. You can find something deeply,
fascinatingly weird about virtually any aspect of any human culture
prior to around the year 1880, provided you take the time to dig into
it.

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Is the Dunning-Kruger effect real?
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This is an abridged, less technical version of our longer report,
found here. You've probably heard that people who are bad at something
tend to overestimate how skilled they are. They don't even know enough
to know how bad they are.

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Designing a Shared Use, Incubator, or Commissary Kitchen
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The shared kitchen industry continues to grow. Pandemic disruptions, a
surge in delivery platforms, and the daunting hurdles of escalating
construction costs and labor shortages have resulted in a dramatically
altered landscape.

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The 10 Best Yoga Poses To Do Every Day, According To The Pros
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No hour-long flow needed.

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Your Internet Shouldn't Be My Internet
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I deleted my Instagram a few weeks ago. It felt like the most
difficult platform to give up in my quest to redefine my relationship
to the internet and reduce the time I spent doomscrolling.

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The Year of the Underconsumer
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Frugality got a glossy rebrand in 2024.

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As Greenland's Ice Sheet Melts, an Island Town Rises
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Geologists are working with local communities to determine how
residents can adapt as the area's sea level, in effect, goes down

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Trump picks Musk ally David Sacks as crypto and AI tsar
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Ex-PayPal executive and VC investor hosted Silicon Valley fundraiser
for president-elect

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Your Stress Could Be Stressing Out Your Dog
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New research suggests that a person's stress levels could directly
impact their dog. The study, conducted by researchers at Queen's
University, Belfast (QUB), found a potential correlation between a
dog's stress levels and its owner's stress levels.

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PulseNet identifies and stops foodborne illness outbreaks. Health care
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The recently ended Boar?s Head listeria outbreak, which has caused 57
infections and nine deaths, is just one of the many foodborne illness
incidents that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detects
each year using its PulseNet system. Many people might not realize the
extensive effort behind PulseNet, which systematically collects data
on foodborne illnesses from patients across the U.S., performs genomic
fingerprinting, and traces outbreaks back to their sources. This
network of surveillance has been alerting the public to foodborne
outbreaks and recalls for years.

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The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
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After spending the last few years embedded in AI-assisted development,
I've noticed a fascinating pattern. While engineers report being
dramatically more productive with AI, the actual software we use daily
doesn't seem like it's getting noticeably better. What's going on
here?

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Academic trolled for PhD 'unfazed by the vitriol'
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An academic who received death and rape threats after posting a
picture of herself on X with her completed PhD has said she feels
"quite unfazed by the vitriol".

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The Immigrants Most Vulnerable to Trump's Mass Deportation Plans
Entered the Country Legally - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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One afternoon, in November, 2022, Emily was on her way to church, in
Maracaibo, Venezuela, when she received a video call from her husband.
It had been two years since they'd seen each other in person. He was a
policeman who had fled the country after refusing to arrest
pro-democracy demonstrators. Emily and their two children, who were
seven years old and eleven months old, had stayed behind. Travelling
north was expensive, and the journey would have taken the family
through the dangerous jungle of the Dari

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How to Build a General-Purpose LLM Agent
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Why build a general-purpose agent? Because it's an excellent tool to
prototype your use cases and lays the groundwork for designing your
own custom agentic architecture. Before we dive in, let's quickly
introduce LLM agents. Feel free to skip ahead.

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What to know about the civil war in Syria - WSJ (No paywall)
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Islamist rebels launched a large-scale attack on Syrian government
forces, causing the largest shift in the balance of power since 2020
in Syria, where more than a decade of war has taken place. Battling
Iran- and Russian-backed regime forces, the rebels in a lightning
offensive captured Aleppo, which was Syrias largest city before the
war, and then advanced south to the strategic and symbolically
important city of Hama. Heres what to know.

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Taylor Swifts Eras Tour changed everything - WSJ (No paywall)
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The pop-music sensation accounts for nearly 2% of the U.S. music
marketmore than any other artist. Even in todays splintered media
landscape, where top acts can go unnoticed by swaths of the public,
shes a cultural phenomenon on par with Michael Jackson in the 1980s
and the Beatles in the 1960s.

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Robinhoods hot new tech bet: The desktop computer - WSJ (No paywall)
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In its early days, a decade ago at this point, the online brokerage
began making headway into the crowded business of stock and options
trading partly by making it easy to do so via mobile devices. That
helped it become a pathway into investing for many younger people,
though it also drove some of the criticism of its service as a
gamification" of the industry.

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Beijing has picked off Taiwans remaining allies. Taiwan is fighting
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PALAUFor Taiwan, an island democracy isolated and intimidated by its
far larger rival regime in Beijing, a key to its fight for security
and recognition lies in a handful of even smaller island democracies
in the Pacific.

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How Trump is rethinking economic power - WSJ (No paywall)
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In September, Donald Trump made an impassioned defense of the dollars
status as the worlds reserve currency: If we lost the dollar as the
world currency, I think that would be the equivalent of losing a war."

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The six hours of chaos that dragged South Korea into martial law and
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SEOULAt around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, Wi Sung-lac, a prominent
member of South Koreas opposition Democratic Party, stared in shock at
his television as the countrys president read a brief statement
declaring martial law.

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A reverse aging gurus trail of failed businesses - WSJ (No paywall)
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Harvard geneticist David Sinclairs seductive notion that aging is a
treatable disease has helped companies he founded to raise more than
$1 billion. The investors have almost nothing to show for it.

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Syrian rebel offensive bolsters Turkeys geopolitical influence - WSJ
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A rapid advance by Syrian rebels in recent days is giving the NATO
member Turkey more power to limit Russian and Iranian influence in the
region, but also risks triggering new instability on Ankaras doorstep.

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Inside the sprawling military zone Israel uses to control Gaza From
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TEL AVIVOne of the first things Israel did when it invaded Gaza in
October last year was carve a dirt road across the middle of the
strip. It was then wide enough for two armored vehicles. Today, it is
a sprawling 18-square-mile zone.

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Building the Future: Sundar Pichai on A.I., Regulation and What's Next
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Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin to
discuss innovation, antitrust, A.I. and his vision for the future of
the company, in a live interview from the 2024 New York Times DealBook
Summit.

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Can Russia still save Assad in Syria?
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Just when it seemed he had consolidated his position as Syrian
president after the Arab Spring uprising and Islamic State land grabs,
Bashar al-Assad's future hangs in the balance after a stunning advance
by anti-regime forces, who seized control of key cities.

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How to reduce inflammation from your body?
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For those who are not aware of what inflammation can do to your body,
have a look at the image above. Just a glimpse of it can give you
shivers throughout your body. Can you see any part of your body left
out? NO!

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Blockbuster Blogs: How Breakthrough Ideas Are Born
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Books certainly spread breakthrough ideas, but it's rarely where
they're born. Each of the examples I just mentioned started from
somewhere else: blockbuster blogs. Let's start close to home. You
probably know Jimmy Daly, now the CEO and founder of Superpath,
formerly VP of Growth here are Animalz.

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Designing a Responsible AI Program? Start with this Checklist -
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As companies devote resources to implementing AI, many realize that
they need a strategy to manage the technologys well-documented
ethical, regulatory, and legal risks. A responsible AI program (or RAI
program for short) not only builds guardrails for particular AI
solutions and the teams that manage them, but it also defines the
enterprise-wide policy, governance structures, roles and
responsibilities, processes, and more that enable wide-scale
deployment of AI.

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Italy's iGenius unveils Nvidia DGX AI supercomputer with Grace
Blackwell chips
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Italian AI startup iGenius unveiled Colosseum, one of the world's
largest Nvidia DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers with Nvidia Grace
Blackwell Superchips.

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