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Detective Sergeant Chris Johnson always kept his health in mind. He knew he had a family history of high blood pressure, so he made sure to stay active and eat well. His job with the Bartlett, Illinois, police force kept him on his feet. When he wasn’t at his desk or spending time with his wife and two children, he was in the gym or playing basketball.One Sunday last March was a rare, slow day. He had spent it relaxing with his family and watching some TV before heading to bed early. Shortly after lying down, he began to feel…
It’s 2026, and I say it’s time to bring call just calling people. No calendar appointment, no text first. Just pick up the phone and call.We must do this to save the very fabric of our society. It’s time for us to take back what was promised to us. It’s time to reach and out touch someone. It’s time to raw dial.Right now, the beautiful art of the phone call is under attack. It’s being threatened with extinction. Those ancient skills that made us great — prank calling, having a clever outgoing answering machine message, knowing how to answer an…
Colorectal cancer was once viewed as being mostly diagnosed among middle-age and older adults, but that’s changing.Research shows more adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, with incidence increasing over the last three decades.Deaths are on the rise too, with a recent study finding colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men — and second in women, under age 50.Lifetime alcohol use linked to higher risk of colorectal cancer, new study finds”It’s definitely incredibly concerning that these rates continue to rise and that we really don’t know why this is…
Becoming parents has changed more than just the work schedules for Silicon Valley’s elite, according to the “father of the iPod.”Tony Fadell, the former Apple executive who invented the popular music player, said that founders he’s worked with think differently about privacy issues after going through the life-changing experience of having kids.”I remember a marked way difference in the way I thought about the world before I had kids and after I had kids,” Fadell told Eric Newcomer during a recent interview on the journalist’s podcast.Fadell said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin…
People use music to set moods, create a desired atmosphere and evoke memories of family and friends. The right song at the right time can have similar effects for some dogs.Pet owners, trainers and animal shelter workers sometimes use music as a training tool, a distraction from triggers and to create a relaxing environment for dogs kept in kennels or left alone at home. But researchers say music is context-dependent, meaning the effects vary based on dogs’ temperament, the setting, the type of tune and the volume at which it’s played.Social media videos of dogs howling to music, relaxing to…
From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s no reception desk, no gleaming logo in fluorescent lights. Inside, the space is a giant concrete box made slightly less austere by a haphazard sprawl of long blonde-wood tables. Some are clearly meant for lunch, dotted with Girl Scout cookie boxes, jars of Vegemite (someone here is Australian), and small wire baskets stuffed with one too many condiments. The rest of…
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name. The latest name change wasn’t prompted by Anthropic, which declined to comment. But this time, Clawdbot’s original creator Peter Steinberger made sure to avoid copyright issues from the start. “I got someone to help with researching trademarks for OpenClaw and also asked OpenAI for permission just to be sure,” the Austrian developer told TechCrunch via email. “The lobster has molted into…
CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t come to Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday promising a breakthrough AI model that would silence the skeptics.Instead, he offered something more careful: a bet on momentum.”I expect our first models will be good,” Zuckerberg said in his opening remarks, “but more importantly, we’ll show the rapid trajectory that we’re on, and then I expect us to steadily push the frontier over the course of the year as we continue to release new models.”In June, Meta launched a new AI initiative, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), headed by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. When Wall Street sought…
Fifty-two children have died of the flu so far this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, seemingly putting pediatric deaths on track to outpace last season’s record-breaking high.Ninety percent of those children had not received the annual flu shot, the CDC said.“We’re absolutely bracing ourselves,” said Michele Slafkosky, executive director of the nonprofit Families Fighting Flu. “We’re concerned that we’re not even at the peak of flu season yet.”Overall flu activity picked up again last week, according to the CDC report, following several weeks of decline. The agency estimates that there’s been at least 20 million…
In November 2012, Jeffrey Epstein emailed Elon Musk about sending a helicopter to whisk the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to his private island in the Caribbean.”how many people will you be for the heli to island,” Epstein asked Musk in an email exchange, which was made public Friday by the Justice Department.Musk said he’d need just two seats — for himself and his then-partner, Tallulah Riley.”What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Musk asked.The emails, released Friday, were part of a cache of 3 million files the Justice Department released from its yearslong investigation into the convicted…