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Ring’s Super Bowl ad on Sunday promoted “Search Party,” a feature that lets a user post a photo of a missing dog in the Ring app and triggers outdoor Ring cameras across the neighborhood to use AI to scan for a match. 404 Media argues the cheerful premise obscures what the Amazon-owned company has become: a massive, consumer-deployed surveillance network. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who left...
BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Mint developers say they are considering adopting a longer development cycle, arguing that the project’s current six month cadence plus LMDE releases leaves too little room for deeper work. In a recent update, the team reflected on its incremental philosophy, independence from upstream decisions like Snap, and heavy investment in Cinnamon and XApp. While the...
Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.
Obsession over a show about two closeted hockey players has brought new fandom to the sport just ahead of the Olympics. But men’s hockey’s lack of support for LGBTQ+ players and fans is notable.
Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.
The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. From a report: Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C...
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
Reading, writing and learning a language or two can lower your risk of dementia by almost 40%, according to a study that suggests millions of people could prevent or delay the condition.
Dementia is one of the world’s biggest health threats. The number of...
Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. economy experienced almost zero job growth in 2025, according to revised federal data. On a more encouraging note: hiring has picked up in 2026. Preliminary data had indicated that the U.S. economy added 584,000 jobs last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised that number after it received additional state data, and found that the labor...
People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when it’s ICE.
Gurhan Kiziloz decided to become his own venture capitalist after VCs rejected his funding requests for Lanistar, his fintech venture. The Turkish-British entrepreneur stated in an interview with Gulf News that no one wanted to give him money due to his history of approximately five bankruptcies. Kiziloz stated that when he sat in front of […]
Electric vehicles accounted for just 1% of new car sales across Africa in 2025, but a study published in Nature Energy by researchers at ETH Zurich finds that EVs paired with solar off-grid charging systems — solar panels, batteries and an inverter — could become cheaper to own than gas-powered equivalents across most of the continent by 2040. The analysis considered total cost of ownership...
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
Gurhan Kiziloz shifted from fintech to gaming due to what he described as excessive regulation and red tape in the financial technology sector. The Turkish-British entrepreneur stated in an interview with Gulf News that fintech is built to protect monopolies, with everything designed to slow down new entrants. Kiziloz previously founded Lanistar, a fintech venture […]
AMA to review safety of respiratory vaccines as health agencies end recommendations based on no new data
The largest medical organization in the US will help conduct a review on the safety and effectiveness of respiratory vaccines as federal health agencies and advisers end vaccine recommendations based on no new information.
“They are filling a void that the government created,” Ezekiel...
Canada, BC, Vancouver11.02.2026 – Payop, a global payment service provider supporting businesses across multiple industries and markets, has announced the appointment of Alina Yelenok as its new Chief People Officer (CPO). In this role, Yelenok will lead Payop’s people strategy, with a focus on developing talent, supporting organisational growth, and strengthening company culture as Payop […]
The financier recommended adding Margaret Thatcher to Tesla’s board even though she had been dead for five years.
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The UK’s Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the country’s largest court reporting archive [non-paywalled source], a database built by data analysis company Courtsdesk that more than 1,500 journalists across 39 media organizations have used since the lord chancellor approved the project in 2021. Courtsdesk’s research found that journalists received no advance notice of 1.6 million...
New crypto presales appear every week, but only a few show signs of lasting impact. Lessons from 2025 suggest that traders now value real-world use over hype, bringing projects like IPO Genie, Ruvi AI, and Nexchain into focus as notable picks in early 2026. IPO Genie, priced at $0.000119, opens access to private investment deals […]
New York, USA — As global financial markets grapple with the divergence of central bank policies and the increasing dominance of algorithmic liquidity in Q1 2026, the disparity between institutional risk management and retail execution has reached a critical inflection point. Addressing this systemic gap, Toltevia Finance Academy, a professional financial research and education institution, […]