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With a scarf dangling from your coat pocket and those gloves left behind at the coffee shop, there are simply more things to lose in winter. That’s not counting your misplaced keys at home or those exasperated moments looking for your phone when you say, “I just had it!”Try not to beat yourself up. Even Mark McDaniel, who has been studying human memory and learning for almost 50 years, left a hat under his chair recently at a restaurant. He doesn’t usually wear hats, so he forgot it.“I should know how to remember to remember, but at the moment, you…

Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don’t know what you’re doing – or even spit at you.Unimaginable, right? But that’s what nurses experience when patients or their families do the eye roll or hit, bite or spit at them. What’s more, a bedside nurse may repeatedly endure bad behavior from a patient or their loved ones for a shift of eight to 12 hours.Workplace violence is frequently underreported, in part because many nurses see it as being part of their job.Nurses experience violence and incivility due to a combination of factors,…

Artificial intelligence is shaking up video production.The startup MITO AI is rolling out a new platform to help filmmakers storyboard, organize, and generate AI assets in one place. It’s a project management tool for the era of generative AI filmmaking.The company exclusively told Business Insider that it had raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. It’s launching its product on Thursday after testing with about 200 beta partners.”Our tools are connected to video models, image models, audio models, and voice models, and then everything is brought together into our infinite canvas for collaboration and experimentation,”…

By Mubasher Bukhari, Francesco Guarascio and Rishika SadamLAHORE/HANOI/HYDERABAD, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Authorities in Pakistan have ordered enhanced screening of people entering the country for signs of infections of the deadly Nipah virus after India confirmed two cases, adding to the number of Asian countries stepping up controls.Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, ​Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam have also tightened screening at airports. But an Indian official said there were no plans to introduce screening at the country’s ‌airports and said there was no sign of any outbreak.The Nipah virus can cause fever and brain inflammation and has a high mortality rate.…

There’s growing awareness of rare, but potentially serious side effects from high doses of vitamin B6, a nutrient that’s become popular in a range of dietary supplements, electrolyte drinks and fortified foods.Vitamin B6, or pyridoxine, is a nutrient critical to many bodily functions, including nerve health, protein metabolism and blood sugar regulation. Because vitamin B6 is also vital to brain development, it’s important during pregnancy and infancy. It’s often promoted to help boost energy, as well as relieve stress.It naturally occurs in many foods and is added to a number of ready-to-eat products, namely cereals. Most multivitamins contain B6, according…

He coined “vibe coding.” Now, he sees a “phase shift” in software engineering.Andrej Karpathy is one of AI’s guiding figures. He was a founding member of OpenAI and later served as Tesla’s director of AI. He also coined the term “vibe coding,” the AI-assisted coding movement that has taken software engineering by storm and was named Collins Dictionary’s word of the year.In his “random notes from Claude Coding” — which are over 1,000 words long — Karpathy wrote about the changes to his own coding style. Posted on X on Monday, the notes have already elicited reactions from engineers at…

As much as nearly all of Meta’s products are part of my daily life  —  Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, even the Ray Ban smart glasses  —  I can’t say that any of them make me feel more alive. Except the one that Meta just killed.Supernatural, the Meta-owned VR fitness app, has been my constant cardio companion since 2022. For about 45 minutes each day, I slip on Meta’s Quest headset and smash through shiny targets flying at me with virtual baseball bats synced to the beat of Taylor Swift, Madonna, Imagine Dragons, Eminem, Coldplay, and many others in my living…

Google cofounder Sergey Brin is one of the many California-based billionaires pouring millions into donations ahead of the state’s proposed wealth tax.Brin, along with other tech executives, venture capitalists, and philanthropists, donated a combined $35 million to ballot measure committees in January, supporting affordable housing ballots in California, per a disclosure seen by Business Insider.The disclosure was filed by the coalition “Building a Better California.”Brin was the largest contributor in the filing, donating $20 million. Others donated large sums on various days in January, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and PayPal CEO Max Levchin, who donated $2 million and…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 — the highest mark in American history.It’s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates from all the nation’s top killers, including heart disease, cancer and drug overdoses.What’s more, preliminary statistics suggest a continued improvement in 2025.“It’s pretty much good news all the way around,” said Robert Anderson, of the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released the 2024 data on Thursday.Life expectancy, a fundamental measure of a population’s health, is…

You’ve seen what a cardiac arrest looks like on television – the patient limp and pale, the alert lifesaver pounding their chest, shouting, “Stay with me! Stay with me!”Although the depictions of bystanders administering CPR make for riveting television, they often fail to provide an accurate example of what to do when someone’s life is on the line, according to a recent paper in the journal “Circulation: Population Health and Outcomes.”Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. The paper examined 169 episodes from U.S. television shows, including “Homeland,” “Yellowstone,” and…