It seems that nobody—and no body part—is safe from microplastics. In a recent study, researchers found traces of plastic in the testicles of both dogs and humans. The potential health impacts of this discovery are not yet clear, but the team suggest…
Lees meerThe millennial-skewed telehealth platform Hims & Hers announced Monday that is now offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Read more...
Lees meerWhile the names of the three actors joining The Sandman’s second season may not be immediately recognizable, the characters they’ll be bringing to the Netflix show will definitely intrigue fans: the final three members of the Endless, the cosmic fam…
Lees meerNeuralink, the Elon Musk-funded neuroscience startup, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implant its next patient with its experimental brain chip. This next operation will seek to fix certain issues that occurred fo…
Lees meerNew research could point to a hidden risk of fluoride in early development. The study found a link between higher fluoride exposure in pregnant women and a greater risk of their children later being diagnosed with neurobehavioral problems by age 3. …
Lees meerThis is a free country, or so I’m told. While that doesn’t mean you’re entitled to lifesaving healthcare without going bankrupt, it does mean that if you own a hot dog bar in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can host an unofficial meet-and-greet with world fa…
Lees meerOpenAI is reportedly taking away ChatGPT-4o’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice that it says is not meant to be an imitation of the actress.Read more...
Lees meerAccording to the latest reports, Apple is preparing to unleash an AI avalanche on iPhones at its upcoming WWDC 2024. This will include some cloud-based as well as on-device AI models, but it will be through the lens of easily the most well-known and…
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Lees meerAlthough most view tic-tac-toe as a kid’s game, puzzle designers see it as a canvas. I think the game’s simplicity almost taunts people—is a 3x3 grid with only two possible symbols really going to stump you? Yet members of the puzzle community conti…
Lees meerThe age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics—or rather, it will be in another month. Come July, the mutants are off the island and back on Earth fighting the old fight of being hated and feared. Over the last few weeks, Marvel’s gradually pulled ba…
Lees meerThe new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some big moves early into its run. This week’s episode, “Boom,” puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unabl…
Lees meerUnionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams—including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise—successfully unionized, a trend that’s now cont…
Lees meerGoogle’s annual developers conference has come and gone, but I still have no idea what was announced. I mean, I do. I know that Gemini was a big part of the show—the week’s primary onus—and that the plan is to infuse it into every part of Google’s p…
Lees meerThe dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 …
Lees meerReuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations …
Lees meerAsk anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can’t really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it’s because they…
Lees meerIt’s Cannes season, and along with advanced screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for domestic or international distribution. One of the films on the market during the festival is The Monkey, which found a US distri…
Lees meerSince its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it’ll still li…
Lees meerThe latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple’s tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them, the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable…
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