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People who keep every voicemail from a parent long after that parent has died aren't holding on unhealthily, they've discovered that a voice is the last part of someone t…

Faces can be reassembled in the mind. Voices cannot. The research on sensory memory explains why the bereaved cling to old ...
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Research suggests our most enduring regrets concern the selves we never became, not simply the mistakes we made

There is a particular kind of regret that does not attach itself to one bad decision. It gathers around a person who was ...
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We picture loneliness as an old person's burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most ...

The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed ...
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Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a rumoured public listing — and the answer sits inside a screenless device shaped by the more ...

Apple has allegedly filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI that could complicate the artificial intelligence company's path to a public listing.
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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jum…

The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as ...
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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships l…

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and ...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got ...
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In 1926, the U.S. government killed Yellowstone's last wolf pack — and spent the next 69 years watching the park quietly fall apart

In 1926, federal predator-control policy eliminated the last wolf pack from Yellowstone. What followed — eroding riverbanks, vanishing willows, a single beaver colony left in the entire park — took ...
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Most of what you do all day runs on habit, not choice — but a new study found the habits are usually working for you, not against you

Researchers tracked 105 people six times a day for a week. About two-thirds of what they did was triggered by habit, and ...
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Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60 million to build a “sovereign” European cyber defense — and two of its backers are …

A cybersecurity firm built by former employees of the Dutch intelligence services raised €60 million to sell “sovereign” ...
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Two men are each called the inventor of email: one chose the @ sign between two computers in 1971, the other wrote a program he named EMAIL as a 14-year-old in …

In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson wheeled his chair between two PDP-10 mainframes at BBN in Cambridge and sent the first message ...
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The hardest part of a long marriage isn't always the arguments or the boredom — sometimes it's the strange grief of watching the person you married slowly become …

Long marriages ask something almost no one warns you about: the quiet grief of watching your partner slowly become someone ...