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Framework gave its 12-inch laptop some hardware upgrades

Now preloaded with Linux.

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Aug 19 • 6:14 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
HP's Googlebook leak highlights support for 'Continue On,' Google's version of Handoff

HP's leaked Googlebook is the first laptop spotted with Continue On, Google's feature inspired by Apple's Handoff.

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Aug 19 • 3:57 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Googlebooks are finally getting their big reveal on September 15

Google is reportedly hosting its official Googlebook launch event in New York City on September 15, where it'll show hardware from launch partners.

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Aug 18 • 11:57 PM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Marlins Collapse in Sixth Inning in Loss to Phillies

The Miami Marlins bullpen allowed a four-run rally in the sixth in loss to Philadelphia Phillies.

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Aug 18 • 10:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
From heated rivalry to frenemies: Inside the cutthroat business of ruling tech in Asia

Doomscrolling on an iPhone, firing endless questions at ChatGPT, or streaming a 4K film on Netflix on your laptop – behind these modern life conveniences lies a high-stakes contest between two Asian technology powers.

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Aug 18 • 7:52 PM EDT • Business • cnn.com
Framework's Cheapest Laptop Just Got A Major Spec Bump

The Framework Laptop 12 now ships with Intel's Core Series 3 chips and other hardware upgrades.

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Aug 18 • 6:33 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Providence to end Medicare Advantage plans after deal with national insurer fails

Roughly 55,000 Oregonians will need to find new Medicare coverage next year after Providence's proposed sale collapsed.

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Aug 18 • 6:01 PM EDT • Health • oregonlive.com
Jamal Musiala health issues, explained: Why Bayern Munich star's 'absence seizures' cause him to faint

Musiala has collapsed during play in two different matches as Bayern Munich prepare for the upcoming season, sparking serious concerns about his future on the pitch.

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Aug 18 • 5:25 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
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Jamal Musiala: Bayern Munich forward shares health update after collapsing during a match again

Bayern Munichs Jamal Musiala collapses during a game again; the Germany international collapses on the pitch for the second time in four days; Musiala reveals he is suffering from “treatable absence seizures”; the 23-year-old says there is no long-term health risk

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Aug 18 • 4:39 PM EDT • Health • skysports.com
Jamal Musiala gives health update after two on-pitch collapses in four days

Musiala fell to the floor after coming on as a substitute on Tuesday, while he also collapsed on the pitch on Saturday

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Aug 18 • 3:58 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
A cosmic rule just broke—could this discovery rewrite how we count stars? - Futura-Sciences

Mechanics of the initial mass function Stars form when giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust collapse under their own gravity. To calculate the total mass of distant galaxies, scientists use the Initial Mass Function (IMF). Developed in part by astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter, this mathematical tool describes the initial distribution...

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Aug 18 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Planned Parenthood endorses Matt Dunlap in Maine 2nd CD race

The Cook Political Report lists the race as “likely Republican,” although House Speaker Mike Johnson visited Maine on Monday as part of a tour to promote Republican candidates across the country.

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Aug 18 • 1:14 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Baton Rouge man wanted in connection with theft at LaPlace business

Henderson fled the area in a 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Louisiana temporary license plate of 22549153.

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Aug 17 • 4:44 PM EDT • Business • wdsu.com
Roof of Pekin business collapses after heavy rain

By Morgan Kjornes TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. (25 News) -Heavy rain is believed to have caused a roof collapse at a ...

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Aug 17 • 6:54 AM EDT • Business • wmbdradio.com
Best Buy Customer Support Removed A 32GB DDR5 RAM Stick From Gaming Laptop After Charging Full Amount For The 64GB Configuration; Says Upgraded RAM Incompatible

Best Buy customer support reportedly removed a 32GB DDR5 RAM stick from a customer's gaming laptop after charging for a full 64GB setup, claiming incompatibility

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Aug 17 • 5:11 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Acer intros new MacBook Neo rival with 120Hz display and Thunderbolt 4 ports

There's a new configuration available for the Acer Go Air, and this new MacBook Neo rival is powered by an Intel Wildcat Lake processor, the Core 5 320. It also sports a 120Hz display and Thunderbolt 4 ports. The launch price is CNY 5,499, about $815.

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Aug 17 • 2:35 AM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Maternal genes enable trophoblastic tumor relapse after immunotherapy

Cell-to-cell transfer of maternal genetic material may provide trophoblastic tumor cells with new functions.

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Aug 17 • 1:02 AM EDT • Science • advancedsciencenews.com
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Not Asus, Not MSI: Consumer Reports Says This Laptop Brand Is The Most Reliable

Consumer Reports found that Apple's line of MacBooks are the most reliable of all laptops based on estimated problem rates derived from over 75,000 surveys.

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Aug 15 • 6:47 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Roof of Pekin business collapses after heavy rain

An alarm company reported about 6 a.m. Saturday that the roof collapsed at Advance Auto Parts at 3335 Court Street.

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Aug 15 • 6:05 PM EDT • Business • 25newsnow.com
Amazon has a 2-in-1 laptop and tablet for $97 that comes with a 7-piece accessories bundle

It even has built-in Gemini AI features.

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Aug 15 • 4:03 PM EDT • Technology • thestreet.com
I switched from Windows to Mac after 25 years, and it’s the trackpad that converted me.

I’ve been using Windows laptops for almost 25 years. In that time, I never once seriously thought of buying a MacBook. In fact, I can honestly say I had never used one at all until I bought my MacBook Air M5 six months ago. Never borrowed one for a weekend, spent an afternoon at an […]

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Aug 15 • 12:53 PM EDT • Technology • digitaltrends.com
Amazon is selling a 2-in-1 laptop and tablet for just $75

"Excellent tablet for everyday use."

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Aug 15 • 12:15 AM EDT • Technology • thestreet.com
Selena Gomez Is Sued for Defrauding Investors in Mental Health Site

The actor, singer and beauty mogul founded Wondermind, a mental health platform, with her mother. Investors put in more than $1 million in the venture, which “quietly collapsed,” the suit said.

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Aug 14 • 3:04 PM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping

Next year it’ll probably be worse!

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Aug 14 • 2:32 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
No Mora progress for Roma, so Galatasaray contact FC Porto

Roma’s talks for Rodrigo Mora seem to have collapsed over conditions making the option to buy an obligation, letting Galatasaray in. ‘There’s a lot of noise, nothing more than that,’ said Fran...

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Aug 14 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Aug 14 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Business and labor groups both backed Golden in 2024. Now they’re split over LePage v. Dunlap

With U.S. Rep. Jared Golden on his way out of Congress, the business and labor groups that united behind him are once again at odds in the 2nd District. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed Republican Paul LePage in the race Thursday. In contrast, Democrat Matt Dunlap has the backing of several major unions. It’s […]

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Aug 13 • 5:29 PM EDT • Business • mainemorningstar.com
Selena Gomez Accused of Fraud by Mental-Health Startup Investors

Pop star Selena Gomez is being accused of fraud by investors who claim she failed to deliver on promises to leverage her global celebrity and social-media following to promote her mental-health startup, which collapsed last year.

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Aug 13 • 1:38 PM EDT • Health • bloomberg.com
Selena Gomez Accused of Fraud by Mental-Health Startup Investors

Pop star Selena Gomez is being accused of fraud by investors who claim she failed to deliver on promises to leverage her global celebrity and social-media following to promote her mental-health startup, which collapsed last year.

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Aug 13 • 1:38 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Gov. Hochul puts $7M toward legal services for immigrant minors

The funding is meant to fill a hole left by the federal government that allowed a multimillion-dollar contract to lapse.

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Aug 12 • 7:21 PM EDT • Politics • ny1.com
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Gushes About Elder Scrolls VI, Does Not Seem To Notice Giant Rat On Bethesda Office Lawn

Please clap (instead of talking about layoffs)

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Aug 11 • 5:36 PM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site
Opinion: Illinois can’t wait until families are in crisis to invest in them

A state that waits for families to collapse will keep paying a premium for preventable crises.

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Aug 11 • 12:35 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
The Odds: The Nobel Collapse
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Aug 11 • 10:01 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Turf debacle in New England prompts FieldTurf victory lap
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Aug 11 • 9:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientific advancement has never been more prolific—so why has trust in science plummeted?

From genome editing to quantum computing, scientific progress is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, yet public faith in science is collapsing. Our species has mapped the human genome, created powerful ...

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Aug 10 • 7:40 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Taylor Swift’s music quietly removed from social media posts from Trump campaign, White House accounts

In recent days, Taylor Swift’s music quietly disappeared from TikTok posts from the White House and “Team Trump” campaign accounts — without public condemnation, clapback or commenting from the singer.

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Aug 10 • 6:32 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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5 Laptops More Powerful Than The Xbox Series X

Some of the laptops that outperform an Xbox Series X include the MSI Thin 15, Acer Nitro V 16, Lenovo LOQ 15, Maingear Super 16, and Maingear Ultima 18.

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Aug 10 • 6:17 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Health Alert: Vibrio vulnificus kills 7 people, Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products
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Aug 10 • 5:30 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Attorney General Todd Blanche clapped into DOJ by staff
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Aug 10 • 4:47 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Nearly 20 products issued health alert: ‘Should be thrown away’

These products contain the jalapeños at the center of the current salmonella outbreak.

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Aug 10 • 1:06 PM EDT • Health • al.com
Roundup: AI construction jobs / Jalapeño recall / US battery production

BlackRock partnership: BlackRock and its AI Infrastructure Partnership are partnering with North America’s Building Trades Unions to connect upcoming data center and energy projects with skilled construction workers. The agreement aims to address labor shortages while promoting fair wages, job protections and training, amid concerns about AI’s impact on employment and communities affected by large […]

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Aug 10 • 10:42 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Trump, 80, Spotted Repeating Strange Gesture as Health Questions Mount

Footage of the president slapping his leg as he walks has set off a fresh round of speculation.

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Aug 10 • 8:23 AM EDT • Health • thedailybeast.com
Noah Hiles: Late season collapses are what the Pirates do best

I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to write this column. While I’ve had my doubts about this Pirates team from the very beginning, there was...

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Aug 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • post-gazette.com
Taylor Farms issues recall for over 12 items over Salmonella risk

Taylor Farms is pulling prepared food items containing jalapeños because of concerns of Salmonella, a bacteria that can cause painful food poisoning.

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Aug 9 • 11:35 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
PGA Tour lures another NFL exec to lead media strategy

Brian Rolapp is continuing to bring some of his old NFL colleagues on board at the PGA Tour. Rolapp, the former head of the NFL’s media businesses who took the job of PGA Tour CEO last summer, has made another key hire from the NFL’s executive ranks. According to a report by Josh Carpenter and…

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Aug 9 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Minnesota woman sues Chipotle after burrito bowl allegedly caused Salmonella infection, sepsis

A Minnesota woman is suing Chipotle after allegedly contracting Salmonella from a burrito bowl, as health officials investigate a multistate outbreak tied to recalled jalapeños.

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Aug 9 • 4:32 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Slap You With Science! Weekend Edition 8-9-2026
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Aug 9 • 3:23 PM EDT • Science • cbsnews.com
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‘Highlander’ star Christopher Lambert leaves Pittsburgh fan convention early after health scare

Lambert reportedly suffered a sudden medical emergency and collapsed while signing autographs before being taken from the convention hall via ambulance.

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Aug 9 • 2:37 PM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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Public health alert issued related to potential salmonella contamination recall

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert, specifically targeting meat and poultry products that contain FDA-regulated jalapeños that could be

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Aug 9 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • wfmj.com
Public health alert for various meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

Products distributed across a number of states, including one product in Florida, could be contaminated with salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 9:07 AM EDT • Health • wgcu.org
Video Health alert for meat and poultry potentially linked to a salmonella outbreak

Federal officials have issued new public health warnings on meat products with recently recalled jalapenos, potentially linked to salmonella in more than two dozen states.

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Aug 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • abcnews.com
New 140W Touchscreen Travel Adapter For Smart Tech On The Move

The Epicka Pulse Duo Smart Travel Charger can repace a pile of power bricks. One charger and power adapter to replace all those separate ones for your laptop and phone.

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Aug 9 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • kcra.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • wisn.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • wxii12.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • kcci.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • wlwt.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • wesh.com
Public health alert issued for meat and poultry products containing recalled jalapeños

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing Food and Drug Administration-regulated jalapeños that may be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Aug 9 • 12:09 AM EDT • Health • wcvb.com
Yemen’s collapsing healthcare forces the sick to seek alternative medicines
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Aug 8 • 6:58 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com
Afghanistan’s Rashid takes six wickets in ODI thrashing of Ireland

Rashid Khan forces collapse as Afghanistan beat Ireland by 92 runs in second game of five-match ODI series.

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Aug 8 • 4:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Jays Survive Near Collapse, Beat Phillies 5-4

That was stressful, especially after yesterday’s nightmare ending. It was close all game, with the Jays just edging out to what seemed like a comfortable lead in the late innings before nearly throwing it all away again in the ninth. In the end they hung on by a fingernail. The deadline additions played a huge […]

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Aug 8 • 12:11 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Jalapeños linked to a U.S. salmonella outbreak are tracked to a Mexican farm and a distributor

Jalapeño peppers linked to a multistate salmonella outbreak have been traced back to a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, federal officials say.

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Aug 7 • 11:17 AM EDT • Health • pbs.org
One of these Googlebook leaks is not like the other

New images of two upcoming Googlebook models have surfaced — but some of them don't look quite right to us.

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Aug 7 • 11:13 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Rights group warns Israel's policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse.

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Aug 7 • 9:47 AM EDT • Health • pbs.org
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Aug 7 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Portland warehouse fire sparks health concerns after asbestos discovery

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Days after Portland watched the 116-year-old eight-story warehouse ravaged by fire, concerns grow as dangerous chemicals from the building are being tracked in the air…

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Aug 6 • 10:07 PM EDT • Health • koin.com
Rights group warns Israel’s policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse.

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Aug 6 • 5:41 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
Rights group warns Israel's policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse.

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Aug 6 • 5:39 AM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
CME venture with FanDuel falters as prediction startups race ahead

CME Group Inc. and FanDuel are scaling back a joint effort to take on prediction market startups after failing to gain traction.

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Aug 5 • 5:11 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Official Baldur’s Gate 3 Stream Gets Shut Down By YouTube For Sexy Times

Three years later, Larian is still getting a slap on the wrist for its RPG’s sex scenes

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Aug 5 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Apple’s selling refurbished MacBook Neos with a $100 discount

Save a bit of cash on a new laptop for the school year.

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Aug 5 • 12:59 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Huawei confirms MateBook Pro pricing, Kirin X90 Plus and Harmony OS laptop starts at $1,480

Huawei’s 970-gram MateBook Pro returns with the Kirin X90 Plus and higher prices. The base model costs around $1,480, while the top option exceeds $2,000.

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Aug 5 • 11:32 AM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com
Chipotle pulls jalapeños from some restaurants as health officials investigate salmonella outbreak

Chipotle Mexican Grill says it has removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could potentially be tied to a salmonella outbreak public health officials are investigating

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Aug 5 • 9:21 AM EDT • Health • latimes.com
Huawei launches MateBook Fold (2026) with 18-inch foldable OLED display and Kirin X90 Plus chip

Huawei has officially unveiled the second-generation MateBook Fold Ultimate Design. The premium foldable laptop features an 18-inch dual-layer OLED display, the new Kirin X90 Plus processor, HarmonyOS 6.1, and support for a new AI-powered M-Pencil stylus.

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Aug 5 • 5:34 AM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Formula 1 vs IndyCar

Formula 1 is faster than IndyCar on almost every kind of circuit that exists. On every road course and street circuit, F1 laps seconds quicker,…

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Aug 4 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chipotle pulls jalapeños from some restaurants as health officials investigate salmonella outbreak

Chipotle Mexican Grill said Tuesday that it had removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could potentially be tied to a salmonella outbreak public health officia…

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Aug 4 • 6:13 PM EDT • Health • wkbn.com
The Beauty Of Settled Science

Commenters convinced me I made a subtle mis-step in my framing of Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine. My framing emphasized that social priming studies had failed to replicate, but that many other subfields of psychology hadn’t. This naturally led commenters to point to failed replications in other subfields. Although none of these were as bad as social priming, few or none were entirely problem-free. Instead of emphasizing the difference between social priming and other subfields, I should have emphasized the difference between settled science and novel research. Here are some of my favorite psychology findings: The brain is sculpted by reinforcement learning, and a key driver of this learning is a prediction-error-based algorithm located in the nucleus accumbens and implemented through dopamine. Psychedelic drugs exert their effects through 5-HT2A receptors, pointing to a role for these receptors in some sort of construct like the balance between priors and new evidence. Certain cognitive functions are localized to certain brain areas (for example, impulse control to the frontal lobes; linguistic structure to Broca’s area, linguistic meaning to Wernicke’s area. But injure one of these areas, or render a certain function useless (eg a blind person having no more use for their visual cortex), and these mappings can gradually shift - suggesting that neurons are general-purpose compute whose specialization is a contingent fact about convenience and efficiency rather than a necessity. Most personality traits and general capabilities are about 50% genetic and 50% random, with little role for family environment or childhood history, with a few notable exceptions like partisan preference. Recent research complicates this story, but the further you go from this basic picture, the gnarlier the chains of indirect causation you require. Neurons fire together in “brain waves”, whose exact frequency corresponds with the character of consciousness; These divide neurons into natural subpopulations and linked graphs. The gamma rhythm corresponds surprisingly well to items in conscious awareness. GABA receptors seem to be involved in something like relaxation. By hitting different GABA receptors in different ways, you can modulate the exact type of relaxation you produce. Hitting GABA-A directly is too powerful and can cause dangerous levels of sedation, but allosteric modulation of GABA is an incredibly fruitful strategy that underlies drugs from benzos to barbituates to alcohol. If you know your GABA-A subunits, you can target specific subtypes of relaxation; for example, Ambien hits GABA-A1 and induces sleep. Memory divides somewhat fuzzily into bins of immediate-sensory, short-term, and long-term, with separate retrieval and storage functions, and separate systems for declarative vs. procedural learning. These can be harmed selectively, usually by hippocampal injury, so that some patients can remember their life stories but not form new long-term memories, or learn new skills like bike-riding but not new facts. The exact substrate of memory is unclear but seems to involve new synaptic connections between neurons in at least some way. The ability of modern psychology and psychiatry to treat mental illness is real but limited. SSRIs work for half or slightly fewer than half of patients; antipsychotics work with extreme side effects; benzodiazpines work but produce addiction and tolerance in many (not all) people. Most supplements are stuck in Poor Quality Study Replication Crisis Hell, but melatonin and l-theanine stand out as especially promising. Psychotherapy works with moderate effect size, but (with a few exceptions) seems to be more about the relationship with the provider than the details of the therapy itself. Mental hospitalization can sometimes defuse immediate crises but work less well than mental hospitals would like, with some studies showing overall negative effects. Schizophrenia is mostly genetic, but risk also increases with prenatal infection (especially rubella) and obstetric complications; there is suggestive evidence for roles of social stress and drug use (with psychedelics and marijuana making things worse, and nicotine if anything making things better). Bipolar and schizophrenia are so closely linked on a pathophysiological level that it seems like they might be the same disease; on the clinical level, they do seem to follow two separate courses/prognoses but can sometimes surprise clinicians by eg someone who seemed condemned to permanent schizophrenia unexpectedly recovering. The brain’s native reinforcement learning algorithms cash out in the phenomena of classical and operant conditioning; different reinforcement schedules reinforce at different levels, which can be exploited by bad actors to make especially compelling products (eg slot machines). None of these are immune to doubt. A few are speculative; one or two are genuinely unorthodox. But they’re all a step above one p = 0.049 paper that might not replicate. If they get overturned, they’ll be overturned by the same sort of genuine scientific shift that replaced Ptolemy with Copernicus or Lamarck with Darwin, not some sort of sordid discovery about someone entering random numbers into a spreadsheet. In 2008, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote about The Beauty Of Settled Science: If you only care about scientific issues that are controversial, you will end up with a head stuffed full of garbage. The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science is worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like “General Relativity still governing planetary orbits” or “Phlogiston theory remains false”? So, by the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline. “Newsworthy” science is often based on the thinnest of evidence and wrong half the time—if it were not on the uttermost fringes of the scientific frontier, it would not be breaking news. Scientific controversies are problems so difficult that even people who’ve spent years mastering the field can still fool themselves. That’s what makes for the heated arguments that attract all the media attention. Worse, if you aren’t in the field and part of the game, controversies aren’t even fun. Don’t be embarrassed to read elementary science textbooks, either. If you want to pretend to be sophisticated, go find a play to sneer at. If you just want to have fun, remember that simplicity is at the core of scientific beauty [...] A steady diet of science news is bad for you: You are what you eat, and if you eat only science reporting on fluid situations, without a solid textbook now and then, your brain will turn to liquid. Psychology isn’t centrally the new paper in Annals Of Recently-Breaking News saying that an n=5 study showing that large portion sizes increase support for terrorism. Psychology is centrally ideas like brain waves, GABA receptors, reinforcement learning, twin studies, and connectionism. People who think differently are worrying too much about BREAKING NEWS!!!, and should stop. The key distinction isn’t “recent research in social psychology” vs. “recent research in cognitive/bio/behavioral psychology”, as my essay last week unfortunately implied. It’s recent research in general vs. the deposit of settled science, battle-tested hypotheses, and carefully-earmarked speculation. And part of the reason social priming in particular was such a disaster was that it defied that heuristic, building itself up over hundreds of studies until it approached or even entered the pantheon of settled science - before collapsing (5-HTTLPR was also sort of like this). This isn’t a claim that settled science is always right - Freud was “settled science” for a long time - just that there’s an intuitive distinction between the level of credence you should have in the existence of power posing vs. the existence of Broca’s Area. (I compounded this error by calling the last post “Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine”, which suggested I was talking about the new research rather than the settled science. I actually meant to distinguish between research-psychology-the-field vs. clinical-psychology-aka-therapy, but this framing unintentionally pushed against the point I wanted to make) Some commenters on the previous article understood this point, but challenged its weight. It’s very cool, they said, to know how many neurons are in which brain lobe, but the main way that Psychology affected their lives was through bad clickbait studies used to buttress dumb policies; some p = 0.049 study says that exposure to microaggressions makes minorities’ brains shrivel into raisins, and now their company has to implement punitive DEI or be sued for hazardous work conditions. I won’t dispute this as an accurate description of how the sausage gets made, but it’s worth examining the trains of thought that connect this observation to a campaign against psychology in general: The dumb woke psychology was wrong and bad, and I don’t have good heuristics for distinguishing dumb woke psychology from other psychology, so I’m going to assume it’s all wrong and bad. The dumb woke psychology was wrong and bad; it seems useful to punish/discredit psychology as a whole to assist my campaign against it, so for propaganda purposes I will try to discredit psychology as a whole. To people in the first camp, my response is: come on, your heuristics aren’t that bad. “Microaggressions makes minorities’ brains shrivel up like raisins” is in the woke category; “the hippocampal theta rhythm seems to be associated with both memory and pathfinding, suggesting an unexpected yet surprisingly compelling relationship between the two” is in the not-woke category, don’t play dumb here. To people in the second camp, my response is: deliberately exaggerated propaganda campaigns are bad and this is a confession, not an excuse. Inability to view science through anything but a political lens was what got us into this problem; doubling down on it is a temporary solution but a recipe for permanent disaster. If you pronounce entire fields of science to be acceptable collateral damage in your campaign against bad political actors, you will alienate not just scientists but patients, clinicians, and general lovers of truth. Instead, you can say the thing you mean - that woke partisans shouldn’t try to occupy and exploit the otherwise-noble science of psychology for their own political gain - and wage the same campaign with a halo rather than a comic-book-villain goatee. From the font of oracular wisdom that is Weird Sun Twitter: [ Vessel Of Spirit@VesselOfSpirit i love you all conditionally but i love the good part of you unconditionally. even if it becomes a very small part 2:11 AM · Jan 22, 2015 1 Reply · 5 Reposts · 29 Likes ](https://x.com/VesselOfSpirit/status/558084551772471298) This is how I feel about psychology1, too, but with a touch more optimism. The good part of psychology is enormous, a hoard of endless treasures. You just have to look past the headlines! 1 To play devil’s advocate - should one always be so magnamious? Astrology? Phrenology? These seem different in that their entire orientation was flawed from the start; they didn’t simply fail to find the correct constellation-personality connections, the whole project of searching for connections between constellations and personality was doomed from the start. More difficult might be asking the same question about education research, which is notoriously bad. I don’t know enough about education research to know if there’s some settled science of correct and enlightening results lurking in the background beyond the day-to-day froth of poorly-conducted and politically-motivated studies. I think if it’s 90% bad, 10% good, it’s correct to call it bad as a compact way of communicating a useful truth; I think psychology is better than that, but admit it’s a tough judgment call.

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