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What Matters More for Longevity: Genes or Lifestyle?

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on what your goal is.

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Editor's Note: And whatever you do, don't take health advice from a
centenarian. For them, lifestyle probably didn't matter much, Dr.
Barzilai said. For the rest of us, it really does.

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New Glenn to make another launch attempt early Thursday
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Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25
years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging
interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is the trusted
source in a sea of information. After all, you don’t need to know
everything, only what’s important.

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Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security
Council about their loyalty
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Incoming senior Trump administration officials have
begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House
National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024
election, their political contributions and whether they have made
social media posts that could















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Why You Probably Aren't Washing Your Towels Often Enough
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The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of
microbes along the way. But how long should you wait before throwing
them into the laundry?

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The King of Ozempic Is Scared As Hell
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Now that Novo Nordisk is the world's weight-loss juggernaut, will it
have to betray its first patients--type 1 diabetics?














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Walmart's Response to the Controversy Over That Knock-Off Hermes Bag
Is a Stroke of Genius
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A few weeks ago, Walmart started selling what quickly became the
most-talked-about designer fashion item. Aside from the fact that's a
thing you don't ever expect to hear, there also happens to be a really
interesting lesson, especially in the way Walmart responded.

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Caroline Darian daughter of Gisele Pelicot speaks How can you rebuild
when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades
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Four years ago, Caroline Darian thought she had a normal life. She was
in her early 40s, she had a home in the Paris area, a job as a
communications manager, a husband who worked for a TV breakfast show
and a six-year-old son.














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Should Fluoride Be in Our Water?
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The science isn't so straightforward.

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This Is ChatGPT's Most Underrated Feature, and I Should Have Started
Using It Sooner
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Summary Custom GPTs have no learning curve and work like normal
prompts. Custom GPTs provide more accurate and customized results than
the normal version. Custom GPTs can help create gym plans and roadmaps
for long-term goals, along with numerous other things.














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History Can Help Us Understand Organ Transplant Personality Changes,
Says Expert
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From vegetarians craving meat to changes in sexual preference, some
organ transplant patients report changes to their personality
reflecting those of the organ donor. In medical history, though, both
are already familiar themes. Physician J.

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China officials internally discuss option of TikTok sale to Musk - WSJ
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Beijing officials preparing options for after Donald Trumps
inauguration have examined possible openness to a deal with the owner
of X.














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Israel, Hamas move closer on Gaza cease-fire deal - WSJ (No paywall)
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Cease-fire talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and the
Israeli government have made progress in recent days, raising hopes a
deal could be reached to release some of the hostages still held in
the Gaza Strip and pause fighting that has dragged on for 15 months.

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Canada knows Trump would win a trade fight. It is preparing to
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The leader of Canadas energy-rich province of Alberta, Danielle Smith,
met with President-elect Donald Trump and his team at Mar-a-Lago,
Fla., this past weekend to try to convince them that a trade war would
be bad for both countries. She came home resigned to a fight.














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Balance of power shifts back toward bosses - WSJ (No paywall)
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With the labor market less tight, workers face return-to-office
mandates, smaller bonuses, and no more pet sick days.

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China reins in its once-freewheeling finance sector with purges and
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For decades, China sought to learn from Western finance. Now its
purging many of the internationally experienced financiers who helped
steer the countrys economic rise, while ushering in a new generation
of loyal functionaries willing to carry out Communist Party edicts and
disavow capitalist excess.














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Germany puzzles at Elon Musks embrace of its AfD populists - WSJ (No
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BERLINDuring Elon Musks freewheeling conversation with the leader of a
far-right German party last week, spanning Hitler, multiplanetary
civilizations and the existence of god, the billionaire tech
entrepreneur insisted that the Alternative for Germany was moderate.

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Zuckerberg debuts real Mark in push to woo Trump - WSJ (No paywall)
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Thats the latest message the shape-shifting chief executive sought to
relay to the masses as he pushes a frenzied effort to recast himself
as a friend of the president-elect at a moment of peril and
opportunity for Meta Platforms.













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Israel defies expectations with surge in tech funding despite war -
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The 28% increase buoyed the country as it battled on several fronts
but investment remains down from 2021.

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The Insidious Effects of Hurrying - Harvard Business Review (No
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In todays fast-paced world, the pressure to do more, achieve more, and
be more in less time has become a pervasive part of modern life and
its wearing employees out. The authors of one study on professional
service firms found that the majority of respondents described their
jobs as highly demanding, exhausting, and chaotic, and also took it
for granted that working long hours was necessary for their
professional success. Their conclusions echo the results of another
recent global workforce survey based on more than 56,000 employees,
where 45% said their workload had significantly increased over the
past 12 months and more than half felt there was too much change at
their workplace happening too quickly.

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How will calamity change Los Angeles? - The Economist (No paywall)
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MY HUSBAND saw a glow on the hill, explains Laurie Bilotta. Shes
standing in her backyard in Pasadena pointing at Eaton Canyon, a
popular hiking spot. Her eyes are trained on the spot where the Eaton
Fire broke out on January 7th. In the few seconds it took for Bob, her
husband, to yell fire!, the flames had grown to her height. Then the
whole mountain just exploded. There were just flames everywhere. The
couple grabbed their two Siamese cats and drove south towards safety.
By some miracle their house survived.

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Pressure mounts on US oil services group SLB to exit Russia operations
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Lawmakers call on company to withdraw in aftermath of new US Treasury
restrictions on work in countrys energy sector

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Inflation Could Derail Trump 2.0 Before It Starts - Bloomberg (No
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The battle of expectations continues. Republicans believe inflation
will fall to 0.1%, while Democrats foresee 4%

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Microsoft creates new AI engineering group led by former Meta
executive
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Microsoft is creating a new engineering group that's focused on
artificial intelligence.

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Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware
payments
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Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making
ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers. In a
crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national
infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal
gangs hold IT systems hostage.

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Tokyo drift what happens when a city stops being the future
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The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds
familiar, it's not because I'm being coy or hedging my bets; it is the
only information to be found in most English-language coverage of
Japan's capital in the aftermath of the pandemic. I can't stop reading
these accounts.

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Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX
rockets airline says
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Qantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to
South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from
Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth.

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China considers selling TikTok U.S. operations to Musk, Bloomberg
reports
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The Chinese government is considering a plan that would have Elon Musk
acquire TikTok's U.S. operations to keep the app from being
effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The contingency
plan is one of several options China is exploring as the U.S.

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The Many, Many Questions Raised by the Ending of The Brutalist
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This article contains spoilers for The Brutalist. Normally I love to
see movies alone, especially those I'm planning to write about at some
point.

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Study shows how households can cut energy costs
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Many people around the globe are living in energy poverty, meaning
they spend at least 8 percent of their annual household income on
energy.

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Did AMD Just Say "Checkmate" to Nvidia?
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When it comes to semiconductor stocks, odds are that companies such as
Nvidia (NVDA -3.00%) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD -4.76%) are the
first that come to mind.

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Why Does Greenland Interest Trump? Climate Change Is Only Part of the
Story
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President-elect Donald Trump has been talking covetously about
Greenland, the world's largest island, among other locations.

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Starbucks says people using its coffee shops must buy something
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Niccol also sparked controversy by agreeing a deal to commute from his
home in Newport Beach, California, to its headquarters in Seattle on a
private jet, with significant associated carbon emissions, instead of
relocating. Starbucks has said it wants to halve its carbon emissions
by 2030, compared with 2019.

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The SP 500's postelection rally has been erased
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In the American Association of Individual Investors' latest
investor-sentiment survey, more than 37% of investors said they were
bearish on stocks over the next six months, the most pessimistic
reading in six weeks.

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World's Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior
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One of the most consumed drugs in the US - and the most commonly taken
analgesic worldwide - may do a lot more than simply take the edge off
your headache.

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Feeling at home New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors politics
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America's political divide is likely to get even wider thanks to a new
real-estate platform that lets potential buyers see the political
affiliations of their future neighbors, as well as other social data
and local demographics.

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TikTok refugees find an alternativein China - WSJ (No paywall)
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After Supreme Court justices Friday seemed inclined to let stand a law
that would shut down TikTok in the U.S., the Chinese social-media
platform Xiaohongshu, translated in English as Little Red Book, has
received a flood of American TikTok users. They are looking for a
sanctuary or a way to protest the potentially imminent TikTok bannever
mind that they dont speak Chinese.

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Most Americans Say U.S. Lost Progress Under BidenExcept In These 3
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A new Gallup poll shows most Americans think the U.S. fell behind on
key issues like education, race relations, energy, infrastructure and
immigration during President Joe Bidens four years in office, and a
majority of those surveyed felt the country was stagnant in two areas
and made progress in only one: LGBTQ issues.

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Los Angeles Firefighters Risk Cancer from Urban Smoke - Scientific
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CLIMATEWIRE | Firefighter Matt Alba was having flashbacks. Watching
video footage of Los Angeles getting torched by wind-fed flames
unlocked memories of his fight against the Camp Fire six years ago.

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Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in
Election Case
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The report amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of a president-elect,
capping a momentous legal saga that saw the man now poised to regain
the powers of the nation’s highest office charged with crimes that
struck at the heart of American democracy. And although Mr. Smith
resigned as special counsel late last week, his recounting of the case
also served as a reminder of the vast array of evidence and detailed
accounting of Mr. Trump’s actions that he had marshaled.

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Firefighting Planes Are Dumping Ocean Water on the Los Angeles
Fires--Why Using Saltwater Is Typically a Last Resort
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Firefighters battling the deadly wildfires that raced through the Los
Angeles area in January 2025 have been hampered by a limited supply of
freshwater.

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China's 1 Trillion Trade Surplus What to Know as Trump Takes Office
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Running a very large trade deficit in manufactured goods, as the
United States has been doing for decades, has eliminated well-paid
jobs and weakened the country’s base for military production. But
the big trade deficit also has meant that American consumers have
enjoyed low prices. Many consumers may be hesitant to give that up by
paying higher prices for imported cars, smartphones and other products
if Mr. Trump imposes broad tariffs.

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How Did the Los Angeles Fires Get So Out of Control?
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The fires in and around Los Angeles have already claimed dozens of
lives, destroyed thousands of homes, and led to evacuation orders for
hundreds of thousands of people. The economic damage is projected to
be as much as a hundred and fifty billion dollars. Daniel Swain is a
climate scientist at U.C.

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'Free Our Feeds' campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky's tech
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As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media
space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has
launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and
influence of billionaires.

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The first AI chip startup to go public in 2025 will be Blaize
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The rise of NVIDIA has spurred renewed investor interest in AI chip
startups. One of them, Blaize, founded by former Intel engineers, is
set to go public on NASDAQ in a SPAC deal on Tuesday, it announced on
Monday.

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New York Could Be the Next State to Limit Students' Cellphone Use
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Los Angeles Unified became the largest school district in the United
States to ban cellphones last year. Virginia, Ohio and Minnesota are
among the states that have moved to crack down on the devices in
schools.

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The man behind Israel's charm offensive
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A veteran figure in Israeli politics, Sa'ar's new role of foreign
minister will see him battling on the "diplomatic front," he told
Newsweek in Jerusalem, trying to build a new defense for Israel in the
court of public opinion while wooing new governments to Israel's side.

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Health Care AI Requires a Lot of Expensive Humans to Run
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Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist's
job. They don't always remember to do it, however.

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MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor calls bonds 'toxic' tells companies to
turn to bitcoin
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MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) co-founder Michael Saylor has called
traditional bonds "toxic" and said companies should turn to investing
in bitcoin (BTC-USD), even as the company continues its BTC buying
spree.

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How can we reimagine workplace productivity with GenAI
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separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further
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Biofilms unwashed hands FDA found violations at McDonald's ex-onion
supplier
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years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging
interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is the trusted
source in a sea of information. After all, you don’t need to know
everything, only what’s important.

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The best air purifier for 2025
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The best way to improve the air quality in your house is by letting in
fresh air; when you can't open a window, these air purifiers we tested
are the next best thing.

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