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Explained: Why OpenAI is retreating from ‘erotic’ ChatGPT?

OpenAI has abandoned its plans to develop an “erotic” mode for ChatGPT according to a report by Financial Times. This is the third such product retreat by the AI company in recent days. Last week, ...

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Mind-Body Practices Like Qigong, Yoga May Help Treat Hypertension

Foreign trainees learn Baduanjin, a traditional breathing and stretching exercise, in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 7, 2025. Image credit: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images A re...

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Inside the High-Stakes Corporate Fight Over Feeding Preterm Babies

In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. ...

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She Owed Her Insurer a Nickel, So It Canceled Her Coverage

Last summer, Lorena Alvarado Hill received a series of unexpected medical bills. A teacher’s aide in Melbourne, Florida, Hill is a single mom who works shifts at J...

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Is it wrong to send your kid to private school?

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multi...

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The next social media ban? Austria looks to block kids under 14 from social media

Less than 4 months ago, Australia banned social media for kids under 16, sparking a wave of similar proposals from governments around the world. The latest effort to ban social media for children n...

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Don’t Get Sucked Into the War on Lice

The human head louse has a ghostly quality. It tends to glimmer in and out of view, leaving only subtle signs and omens of its presence. Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff? Was ...

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Marc Andreessen’s Mistake

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In this worn, domesticated world of ours, there are few truly pristine wildernesses, remote regions where no...

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How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companiesWhen Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sought to defen...

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How to Know Yourself

In this worn, domesticated world of ours, there are few truly pristine wildernesses, remote regions where no man has gone before, places unseen by human eyes and unexamined by human exploration. An...

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Food Safety in America Just Hit a New Low

Raw Farm does not sell your typical cheddar. A one-pound block of the aged, GMO-free cheese retails for $16. (Naturally, it’s for sale at Erewhon, the high-end grocery chain.) Some people are willi...

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Kim Kardashian's New Energy Drink Promises No Jitters. Does It Live Up to the Hype?

Kim Kardashian has released a new energy drink with paraxanthine instead of caffeine. Image credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images Kim Kardashian has launched a new energy drink called ...

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Are you addicted to technology? Six questions experts use to help spot red flags

In a landmark ruling against Meta and YouTube this week, a Los Angeles jury determined that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. They awarded a combined $6 million in damages to a young woman who ...

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Redesigning Platforms in Wake of Social Media Trial

In a landmark case, a jury found this week that Meta and YouTube negligently designed their platforms and harmed the plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman referred to as Kaley G.M. The jury agreed with th...

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Social Media Addiction Trial Should Lead to Platform Redesigns

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Eating the Same Meals Every Day Could Help You Lose More Weight

A new study suggests that eating repeat “go-to” meals could aid weight loss. Image Credit: helpSKC/Stocksy A recent study has found that eating the same meals each day could lead to greate...

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How the Trump Administration Uses Migrant Kids To Find and Detain Family Members

The Trump administration is using migrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement to lure parents and relatives into immigration detention, whet...

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Meta and Google are found liable for harm to child’s mental health in landmark ruling

A US jury has ruled that deliberately addictive features of apps owned by Meta and Google harmed a young user’s mental health.The ruling, by the California Superior Court of Los Angeles, found that...

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32 People Share Satisfying Cases Of Instant Karma

The thing with bullies is that they think they can get away with anything. And often, for a while, they do. But there's a beautiful and poetic unwritten rule in life that states, "As you sow, so sh...

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Give and Take: Federal Rural Health Funding Could Trigger Service Cuts

BIG SANDY, Mont. — The emergency department at Big Sandy Medical Center is one room with a single curtain between two beds. It’s one of the many parts of the 25-bed rural ...

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Trump Team Claims Successes Against ACA Fraud While Pushing for More Controls

Complaints about enrollment fraud in Affordable Care Act health insurance coverage have bedeviled the federal marketplace for years. Now, the Trump administration is claim...

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