Time your wake to a dream. Muse opened a beta for Dream Recall, which aims to catch you mid-dream so you can actually remember what just happened. They frame it simply: “Recall is a timing problem, not a talent.” ~ […]
One weird dark matter blip. The LUX-ZEPLIN detector extended its search to higher recoil energies and found a single event it could not explain away as background. “How do you even make sense of one event?” muses Tom Shutt. ~ […]
Aging brains blend memories. The punchline here is that older adults may not just “forget,” they confuse categories. In the study, stronger overlap between learning and recall brain patterns in older adults predicted “confusing items across entirely different categories, like […]
Maybe stop chasing protein. A review of 350+ papers argues many sedentary people are overdoing it: “because most people are relatively sedentary, many people are likely consuming more protein than they actually need, which probably has negative health consequences.” The […]
Amazon’s “invented auction participant.”. The FTC and 22 states allege Amazon secretly jacked up ad auction prices for years, while telling advertisers it ran “second price” auctions where winners pay “one cent more than the next highest bidder.” The complaint […]
Groupon has a re-founder. While we all stopped paying attention to Groupon, a Czech entrepreneur took it over and rebuilt it with a European team. The CFO describes this turnaround as “we’re buying a house in AAA location, but it’s […]
Smell training for your brain. “The loss of the sense of smell is often one of the first warning signs of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease even up to a decade before there are other diagnosable […]
Cyber insurance prices keep falling. NYU Stern researcher Nate Witkin points out: “Insurance rates for cyber risk declined by about 4% globally in Q2 of this year, and that’s actually the 12th consecutive quarter in which they’ve declined.” He frames […]
Math drama on X. Mehdi is furious about the “we solved Navier-Stokes” framing, calling it “pure scientific vulgarity” and saying “the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by […]
Two tweets, one lost bird. In 2023, Musk tweeted X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” A judge later cited those posts as evidence that X “discontinued the bona fide use of the Tweet […]