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How the Busiest People Find Joy - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
Sree VijaykumarResearch suggests that to have a satisfying life, you need to regularly feel three things: achievement (recognition or a sense of accomplishment), meaningfulness (a connection to something bigger than yourself), and joy (happiness or positive emotion) in the moment. How well are you doing on each of those fronts?

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The U.S. Can No Longer Stave Off Competition From China - Foreign Policy (No paywall)
The U.S. Can No Longer Stave Off Competition From China
Beijing dominates global trade. But it couldn't turn that into a geopolitical advantage - until Trump 2.0.


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Q&A: RFK Jr. brings an adviser on Native health into his 'inner circle.' Can he deliver? - STAT (No paywall)
Q&A: RFK Jr. brings an adviser on Native health into his 'inner circle.' Can he deliver?
Mark Cruz, of the Klamath, says more tribes should take over their health care from the Indian Health Service


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Donald Trump pushes for 15%-20% minimum tariff on all EU goods - FT (No paywall)
Donald Trump pushes for 15%-20% minimum tariff on all EU goods
US president also rejects reducing 25% sectoral duties on cars from the bloc, say diplomats


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The Return of the "Elderly" Pop Star
The Return of the
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Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be founders!
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be founders!
But if they do, follow these three pieces of advice.


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Astronomer CEO placed on leave after Coldplay 'kiss cam' video appeared to show him embracing HR chief - Business Insider (No paywall)
Astronomer CEO placed on leave after Coldplay 'kiss cam' video appeared to show him embracing HR chief
In the now-viral footage, it appeared that Byron had his arms wrapped around Cabot until they were spotlighted on the big screen. The pair quickly ducked out of view, prompting Coldplay front man Chris Martin to comment they were either "having an affair or they're just very shy."


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Trump sues Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones over Jeffrey Epstein article - WSJ (No paywall)
Trump sues Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones over Jeffrey Epstein article
President Trump on Friday filed a lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, alleging the newspaper defamed him in an article about a birthday letter sent to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.


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A brief history of three-parent babies - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
A brief history of three-parent babies
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people. The approach was used to prevent women with genetic mutations from passing mitochondrial diseases to their children. You can read all about the results, and the reception to them, here.






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Ukrainian hackers wipe databases at Russia's Gazprom in major cyberattack, intelligence source says
Ukrainian hackers wipe databases at Russia's Gazprom in major cyberattack, intelligence source says
The cyberattack allegedly destroyed large volumes of data and installed custom software designed to further damage the company's information systems.


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3 Ways to Mitigate Executive Turnover - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
3 Ways to Mitigate Executive Turnover
The past five years have proved a crucible moment for business leaders as volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) threatened not just organizational progress but outright viability.


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Ring reintroduces video sharing with police
Ring reintroduces video sharing with police
Ring has quietly reintroduced video sharing with police. It has partnered with the law enforcement technology company Axon to allow customers to share video with police, as spotted earlier by Business Insider.


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Scientists make 'magic state' breakthrough after 20 years - without it, quantum computers can never be...
Scientists make 'magic state' breakthrough after 20 years - without it, quantum computers can never be...
Scientists demonstrate a process called "magic state distillation" in logical qubits for the first time, meaning we can now build quantum computers that are both error-free and more powerful than supercomputers.


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'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb shares his life lessons and what keeps him up at night - Business Insider (No paywall)
'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb shares his life lessons and what keeps him up at night
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of "The Black Swan" and "Antifragile," has advice for navigating this period of economic instability, geopolitical upset, and technological upheaval: Stick to what you believe in, future-proof yourself against AI, exercise your mind and body, and have a holistic view of success.


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A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border - Bloomberg (No paywall)
A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border
The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world.


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How YouTube won the battle for TV Viewers - WSJ (No paywall)
How YouTube won the battle for TV Viewers
SAN BRUNO, Calif.: The headquarters of the world's No. 1 source of video entertainment has none of the trappings of a Hollywood studio. There are no posters of popular shows, no writers pitching ideas, no soundstages and no tourists.


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Amid Trump Scrutiny Over Epstein, Tulsi Gabbard Threatens Prosecution Of Obama Officials - Forbes (No paywall)
Amid Trump Scrutiny Over Epstein, Tulsi Gabbard Threatens Prosecution Of Obama Officials
While President Donald Trump scrambles to fend off scrutiny about his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein and the demand for the full release of the Epstein files, one of his top appointees, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, released a report Friday focused on an alleged treasonous conspiracy carried out by the Obama administration during the 2016 election.




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How AI Can Degrade Human Performance in High-Stakes Settings
How AI Can Degrade Human Performance in High-Stakes Settings
Dane A. Morey, Jul 15, 2025 - Across disciplines, bad AI predictions have a surprising tendency to make human experts perform worse.


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JPMorgan pushes into private company coverage as Wall Street eyes growing opportunity - Business Insider (No paywall)
JPMorgan pushes into private company coverage as Wall Street eyes growing opportunity
JPMorgan Chase is doing something it's never done before: publishing equity research on a private company.The bank is moving beyond traditional stock coverage and is starting with OpenAI - a move that reflects how dominant private companies have become in today's markets, and how Wall Street is trying to keep up.


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Trump's Trade War Is Upending China's Factory Floors - Bloomberg (No paywall)
Trump's Trade War Is Upending China's Factory Floors
As chaotic tariff negotiations disrupt global supply chains and make planning more difficult, manufacturers in China are racing to adapt.


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Microsoft Confirms the Closure of Its Underwater Data Center
Microsoft Confirms the Closure of Its Underwater Data Center
Project Natick was a successful proof-of-concept, but now it's time for Microsoft to move on to bigger and better things.


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A single shot of a flu drug could outperform vaccines-and protect for an entire season
A single shot of a flu drug could outperform vaccines-and protect for an entire season
One injection of a long-lasting drug showed up to 76% efficacy in a large trial


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The rise of early eating: restaurants adapt as diners shun late nights - FT (No paywall)
The rise of early eating: restaurants adapt as diners shun late nights
A change in habits has led to a battle of the discounts and a move towards surge pricing


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Europe gets tougher on Putin - WSJ (No paywall)
Europe gets tougher on Putin
European leaders on Friday at long last cranked up sanctions on Russia, sending Vladimir Putin a message that there will be more economic costs if he continues his drone and missile barrages on Ukraine. Now it's Washington's turn.


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Foundry competition heats up as Japan's Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
Foundry competition heats up as Japan's Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else


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New EU sanctions on Russia 'unprecedented'
New EU sanctions on Russia 'unprecedented'
The EU will impose a moving price cap on Russian oil, among other measures, in a bid to shrink Russia's economy. The bloc hopes the latest sanctions package will urge Russia toward a ceasefire with Ukraine.


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What Happened the Last Time a Fed Chief Was Bounced - Bloomberg (No paywall)
What Happened the Last Time a Fed Chief Was Bounced
The 1951 accord brought independence as we know it. And presidential bullying, too.


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New 'gene gun' design boosts efficiency of plant genetic modification
New 'gene gun' design boosts efficiency of plant genetic modification
Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.


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A child's biological sex may not always be a random 50-50 chance
A child's biological sex may not always be a random 50-50 chance
Some people's biology may set them up to birth babies of a certain sex, explaining why a family with multiple children may have all girls or all boys.


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This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator
TikTok researchers and users say there is yet another type of deception to look out for on the hit video app: Deepfake videos that copy the exact words of a real creator but in a different voice.


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Google's head of Android said it's time for the computer science major to get a 'rebrand' - Business Insider (No paywall)
Google's head of Android said it's time for the computer science major to get a 'rebrand'
As software engineering becomes more automated, more individuals are beginning to question the practicality of pursuing a computer science degree. AI is increasingly handling fundamental tasks like coding, making it harder for some computer science graduates to secure full-time positions and internships.


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Eggs and cholesterol: A new twist in an old debate
Eggs and cholesterol: A new twist in an old debate
A new study shows eggs don't raise bad cholesterol when eaten in a low-fat diet. The real problem for heart health is saturated fat.


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A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.


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Target to End Price-Matching Policy Amid Business Challenges
Target to End Price-Matching Policy Amid Business Challenges
Some customers have lamented the decision, which is reportedly due to take effect on July 28.


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Microsoft to stop using engineers in China for tech support of US military, Hegseth orders review
Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a U.S. senator and prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals.


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Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach that will stunt growth
"Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI," global affairs chief Joel Kaplan wrote in a post on LinkedIn Friday.


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Super-resolution microscopes showcase the inner lives of cells
Super-resolution microscopes showcase the inner lives of cells
Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own - and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease


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AI Gets Plugged Into Managing California's Electric Grid
What to Know:The California Independent System Operator is launching a pilot program using AI software to improve the efficiency of managing planned and unplanned transmission grid outages.The program could significantly enhance operational efficiency and contribute to a more modernized and resilient grid.


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'Cult of convenience': how Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification
'Cult of convenience': how Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification
Across Japan covered shopping arcades are in a losing battle against property developers, depopulation and consumer culture


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Microsoft's Plan to Go Green? Bury Human Waste Underground - Inc (No paywall)
Microsoft's Plan to Go Green? Bury Human Waste Underground
Microsoft is doubling down on carbon removal: It just struck a deal with Houston-based startup Vaulted Deep to purchase 4.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide removal over a 12-year period.


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Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life's essentials now a deadly peril
Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life's essentials now a deadly peril
Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them




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The U.S. debt outlook is so dire it now resembles the student loan crisis, former White House economic adviser says
The U.S. debt outlook is so dire it now resembles the student loan crisis, former White House economic adviser says
"I, like many other longtime doves, am joining the hawks, because our nation's budget math just got a lot more dangerous."


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Why the Latest Epstein Scandal Caught the Media by Surprise - Intelligencer (No paywall)
Why the Latest Epstein Scandal Caught the Media by Surprise
Last Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi's office announced that an exhaustive review of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had not turned up his supposed client list, that Epstein had killed himself in prison (as opposed to being murdered by a shadowy cabal of powerful pedophiles), and that the department would not be disclosing more details about him. This would not count as news for most readers and viewers of the mainstream press. But the blowback on the right has spiraled into one of the biggest crises in Donald Trump's second term so far, pitting die-hard conspiracy theorists against a president who vowed to release the Epstein Files catching a lot of journalists by surprise.


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The crimes Trump doesn't care about
The crimes Trump doesn't care about
When the topic is immigrants or Democratic cities, President Donald Trump loves to talk about crime. But when it comes to Wall Street bankers and C-suite executives, he tends to keep his mouth shut.


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How to avoid nuclear war in an era of AI and misinformation
How to avoid nuclear war in an era of AI and misinformation
Nature - Nuclear deterrence is no longer a two-player game, and emerging technologies further threaten the status quo. The result is a risky new nuclear age.




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Astronomers Discover Uncommon Way for Black Holes to Form
Astronomers Discover Uncommon Way for Black Holes to Form
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods. Launched on Christmas Day, 2021, it has since sent back a storm of dazzling images and a trove of good science. Now Webb has done it again. As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, have found evidence of a fast-growing black hole in an unexpected place and formed in an unexpected way.


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Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis
Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis
Tiny, newly formed tumors shed small fragments of DNA that are swept into the bloodstream. Future cancer screening tests could detect them early.


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Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer's Mind
Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer's Mind
We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.


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Clothing tech entrepreneur charged with $300 million fraud in U.S.
Authorities said Christine Hunsicker promoted CaaStle to investors as a more than $1.4 billion business despite knowing it was financially distressed and short of cash.


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Colorado man fights for his life after mosquito bite; family shares warning about West Nile virus
Colorado man fights for his life after mosquito bite; family shares warning about West Nile virus
A Coloradan named James Martinez has been in the ICU for a week with West Nile virus after being bitten by a mosquito. His family is speaking out about what happened in hopes of warning others.


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People With Body Dysmorphia Are Spiraling Out After Asking AI to Rate Their Looks - Rolling Stone (No paywall)
People With Body Dysmorphia Are Spiraling Out After Asking AI to Rate Their Looks
This is a low-attractiveness presentation, based on weak bone structure, muted features, and absence of form or presence, reads a ChatGPT message shared in screenshots on Reddit. You look like someone who has faded into the background of their own life.




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