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A study of adolescent girls in Australia found that 62% experienced cyberbullying related to their appearance. Girls teased or insulted about their body shape, weight, or physical features are more likely to resort to extreme dieting or consider cosmetic surgery.…
For some PC buyers, doing a clean install of Windows right out of the box is part of the setup ritual. But for Arm-based PCs, including the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips in them, it hasn’t…
Some electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are set to get less affordable from next year, it seems. As expected, the incoming Trump administration has set its sights on killing off the IRS clean vehicle tax credit, according to a report…
Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not sit— move. Even a few moments of exercise can have…
A recent study published in the journal Personal Relationships explored how personality traits associated with manipulation—known as the “Dark Triad”—are reflected in the dating practices of men in the “Red Pill” community. Women previously involved with Red Pill men described…
Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun.
A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country’s first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren’t sure how the youth was exposed.
A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical “multiverse” could have higher chances of containing extraterrestrial life than our universe.
In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need, which introduced the Transformer AI architecture that underpins almost all of today’s high-profile generative AI models. The Transformer has made a key…
A recent study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin examined how married couples in both the United States and Japan influence each other’s well-being over time. The researchers found that spouses’ levels of well-being are positively associated with one another,…
