Adults spend an estimated 34 - 44 years of their lifetime staring at screens according to recent studies, with daily usage averaging 9 - 17 hours across devices like TVs, laptops, and phones.
Young Americans are embracing traditionally elderly hobbies like cross-stitching and scrapbooking as they seek screen-free activities, with sales of related supplies nearly doubling in the past year.
Meta has been offering certain OpenAI employees $100 million signing bonuses to jump ship, according to Sam Altman, CEO of the ChatGPT maker.
Consumer Reports published its latest rankings of car companies, with Subaru earning the top spot as the highest-rated brand while Jeep ranked as the lowest-rated.
The number of PhD graduates worldwide vastly exceeds the number of academic jobs available.
Engineers developed a smart pill that can monitor glucose, temperature, serotonin levels, and more after ingestion; an approach that may provide a cheap method for real-time monitoring of gut health.
The patterned sweater vest worn by Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, originally purchased for $28 from a department store, sold at auction for $279,400.
To the chagrin of bartenders, many 20-somethings prefer to close out and pay after every single drink, no matter how many they might order during an outing.
One in four Americans said in a survey that they need to make at least $150,000 to “live comfortably,” and 80% said they don’t feel completely financially secure.
Recruiters are being overwhelmed by thousands of artificial intelligence-generated job applications. Applications submitted via LinkedIn jumped 45% this year, with the site now clocking 11,000 applications per minute.
Clicking unsubscribe links in emails can confirm to scammers that your email is active and potentially lead you to malicious websites, so it’s safer to use your email provider’s built-in unsubscribe buttons or simply mark suspicious emails as spam instead.
China hosted a world-first soccer match between teams of fully autonomous humanoid robots. The child-sized robots were powered by artificial intelligence and equipped with visual sensors.
A new simulation suggests that the Milky Way has only a 50% chance of eventually colliding with the Andromeda Galaxy in roughly 10 billion years. Whew!
OpenAI is trying to embed its chatbot in every facet of college life.
Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever on 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana. It will power an A.I. system intended to match the human brain.
Researchers from Tufts University have developed smart floss that monitors your stress levels as well as keeping your teeth and gums clean.
India’s deadly air pollution is ironically acting as a shield against climate change, meaning the country faces the grim choice of either choking on smog or frying from heat.
In a study by the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, the scent women found most arousing was Good & Plenty candy mixed with cucumber.
This year, a record 55 women are leading Fortune 500 companies—a milestone that remains strikingly low given that women comprise half the population and now surpass men in educational attainment.
Eggplants are berries.
A new study found that if all international food trade were to shut down, only one country—Guyana—could feed itself independently, being entirely self-sufficient in all seven key food groups examined.
Amazon is training humanoid robots to deliver packages.
A rise in “fine water,” which proponents claim is analogous to fine wine, has led to awards ceremonies, water sommeliers, and blind taste tests. Winners of the ninth annual Fine Waters awards in the US included “melted snow that had been filtered through Peruvian volcanic rock” and dew gathered from a Tasmanian pine forest.
Extremely lifelike baby dolls called “reborn dolls” have set off a political debate in Brazil with some questioning their collectors’ mental health while others emphasize their legitimate therapeutic uses.
A secret meeting of thirty of the world’s top mathematicians saw artificial intelligence chatbots outperform them on solving mathematical problems.
An artificial intelligence-powered brain-computer interface allowed a paralyzed man to hold real-time conversations and even sing using a synthetic voice.
According to a recent study into the molecular changes associated with aging, humans experience two drastic lurches forward, one at the average age of 44, and the other at the average age of 60.
China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to rebuild inventories of fighter jets, missiles and other hardware.
Older Americans are increasing their use of marijuana to a point where some geriatricians are warning about weed’s attendant health risks.
Deloitte US offers its employees a $1,000 well-being subsidy to spend on things like gym memberships. The policy was updated in June to add several new items to the approved list, including Lego sets.
These baby names have been ruled illegal by courts in the U.S., according to USBirthCertificates.com: King, Queen, Jesus Christ, III, Santa Claus, Majesty, Adolf Hitler, Messiah, @, and 1069.
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