A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in what is…
Category: 3. Tech
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A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room
A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects…
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4K stabilized footage, 10km transmission range, and 93 minutes of flight for $309: the DJI Mini 4K is on sale
The DJI Mini 4K Fly More Combo is down to $309 at Amazon, a $140 saving off its $449 list price. For that you’re getting a sub-249-gram drone with a 4K 3-axis gimbal camera, 10km video transmission range, and three batteries in the box…
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Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing
The number of med-spas, weight loss clinics, and concierge practices where patients pay a membership fee for direct, often same-day access to physicians, has exploded in recent years. But while patients pay for these services out-of-pocket,…
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Roundtables: The Next Era of Space Exploration
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Whether it’s the race to find life on Mars, the campaign to outsmart killer asteroids, or the quest to make the moon a permanent home to astronauts, scientists’ efforts in space can tell us more about…
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Astronomers Spot Twin Planets Growing in Early Star System
What can young planets in a far away star system teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team…
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Ukraine’s military brings exoskeletons to the front line
After over four years of war, Ukraine’s military says it’s testing an
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Russia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says
On Wednesday, Russian police arrested the alleged administrator of the cybercrime forum LeakBase, according to the state-owned news agency TASS.
LeakBase was, as the U.S. Department of Justice put it, “one of the world’s largest online…
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Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure…
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Why this battery company is pivoting to AI
The company also shifted its chemistry focus, and in 2022 it announced a battery with a silicon anode rather than a lithium metal one. That shift could help make the battery easier to manufacture.
Since then, growth in the EV market has slowed,…
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