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800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China

Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience?

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Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating

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The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous system has risen dramatically over the past three decades, with 43% of the world’s population – 3.4 billion people – affected in 2021

One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.

This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation

Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study

Scientists express concern over health impacts, with another study finding particles in arteries

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Like cigarettes, junk food should come with a warning: ‘Can kill’

"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state

The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work:

Humanistic mindset: an empathetic, person-centric approach that focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity.

Mechanistic mindset: an efficient, task-focused approach that focuses on utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons.

“The mindset adopted by employees has implications on whether they interact with others in a civil or uncivil manner,”

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EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI

Cybertruck deliveries with price starting at $60,990

This repository contains source code for Elite on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained

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Noaa data from the 50 most populous cities in the US shows the heatwave season is 49 days longer now compared with the 1960s

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