On March 23rd, 2026 with 92 comments
Computershack shares a report from NBC News: Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of adult-content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer at the age of 43, the company...
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On January 2nd, 2026 with 69 comments
A Guardian investigation published Friday found that Google's AI Overviews -- the generative AI summaries that appear at the top of search results -- are...
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On December 31st, 2025 with 78 comments
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of tech startups are stocking offices with free nicotine pouches as founders and employees chase sharper...
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On August 30th, 2024 with 29 comments
A new AI model being developed by Google could make diagnosing tuberculosis and other respiratory ailments as easy as recording a voice note. From a report:...
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On July 17th, 2024 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: Now, after years of contentious relationships with academic researchers, Meta is opening a small pilot...
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On May 9th, 2024 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Tens of millions of Americans each day breathe in carcinogenic chemicals that are woven into the interiors...
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On October 28th, 2023 with 20 comments
Abner Li reports via 9to5Google: Google today detailed its research into audioplethysmography (APG) that adds heart rate sensing capabilities to active noise...
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On July 13th, 2023 with 51 comments
An Ohio plastic surgeon lost her medical license after the state medical board investigated her for livestreaming operations on TikTok and surgical...
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On June 7th, 2023 with 11 comments
Google's cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in health care, giving medical professionals at Mayo Clinic the...
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On December 6th, 2021 with 46 comments
In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published Monday, a group of academics called for Meta to be more transparent about its research into how Facebook,...
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On December 4th, 2021 with 207 comments
Criminals have been selling fake vaccine certificates online and may be able to fool an EU system designed to verify the certificates' validity, researchers...
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On October 19th, 2021 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from People: Doctors around the world are seeing a rise in cases of tic-like behaviors in teen girls, which they believe...
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On August 31st, 2021 with 582 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Jon Brodkin: Over 135 subreddits have gone dark this week in protest of Reddit's refusal to...
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On August 8th, 2021 with 155 comments
"Part of the reason that misinformation about vaccines is so intractable is that it can be very lucrative," argues a new article in Slate:
For years...
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On August 7th, 2021 with 277 comments
The New York Times reports on what's apparently a new Russia-aligned disinformation campaign to "undermine the effort to immunize people" — and more. ...
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On August 2nd, 2021 with 314 comments
The New York Times tells the story of 17-year-old Ellie Zeiler, a TikTok creator with over 10 million followers, who received an email in June from Village...
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On June 5th, 2021 with 94 comments
"It's kind of embarrassing to say, but the social media app TikTok figured out I had ADHD before I did," writes 23-year-old Australian journalist Matilda...
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On May 15th, 2021 with 297 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader jhylkema writes:
Just 12 people account for the lion's share of anti-vaccination propaganda posted to three of the leading social...
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