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The $79 gadget that prevents electrical fires by doing nothing

The Ting device passively monitors household electrical signals for arcing that can cause fires, requiring a week to establish a baseline and often producing no alerts when wiring is safe.

Wellness

fromBusiness Insider

16 hours ago

I could never wake up early - then a simple habit helped me become a morning person

Waking early and exercising before work improved energy, reduced anxiety, and boosted daily mood for a habitual snoozer.

Wellness

fromPsychology Today

5 hours ago

How to Become a Bon Vivant

Pleasure and savoring are essential, evidence-based contributors to psychological well-being, creativity, resilience, and deeper social connection.

Wellness

fromPsychology Today

The Quiet Weight

Courage often appears in ordinary, persistent actions—continuing daily responsibilities and choices despite fear, illness, uncertainty, or potential failure.

Digital life

fromThe Week

6 optimal digital nomad destinations: Pack your laptop, your visa and a sense of adventure

Digital nomad visas let remote workers live abroad longer, with Costa Rica offering outdoor lifestyle, affordable housing, robust health care, and a one-year visa option.

Digital life

fromForbes

Author Mark Batterson Explains How Authenticity On Social Media Leads To Success

Consistent, authentic social media posting focused on adding value leads to eventual breakthroughs and meaningful influence, rather than chasing likes or immediate virality.

fromwww.nature.com

5 days ago

Author Correction: Brahma safeguards canalization of cardiac mesoderm differentiation

Following publication of this article, we were alerted via PubPeer to an inadvertent image duplication in Extended Fig. 7b in our paper. Upon carefully examining all the figures, we have discovered another duplication error in Extended Fig. 3g. The errors occurred during figure preparation by using placeholder images originating from similar areas of a well. The errors do not compromise the results or the conclusions of our work.

OMG science

fromABC7 Los Angeles

fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025

People increasingly form parasocial connections with celebrities, influencers, and AI, driving mainstream use of the term "parasocial" in 2025.

OMG science

NASA in urgent briefing as 3I/Atlas heads closer to Earth and appears to have 'thrusters' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Interstellar object 3I/Atlas shows comet-like glow and asymmetric gas plumes with possible propulsion-like effects, prompting urgent agency review and public safety debate.

Tech industry

fromenglish.elpais.com

21 hours ago

Tech's AI debt surge cools market fever

Major tech firms must issue trillions of dollars in debt to build AI and data-center infrastructure, heightening credit risk and straining capital markets.

Tech industry

fromTechCrunch

8 hours ago

Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business | TechCrunch

Meta seeks federal approval to trade electricity to accelerate new power plant construction and manage risk by reselling power on wholesale markets.

EU data protection

fromDigiday

The EU's Digital Omnibus offers relief for ad tech, but hands more power to Big Tech and AI agents

EU proposes Digital Omnibus to simplify digital rules, reduce administrative burdens, clarify data definitions, and ease compliance for businesses and AI development.

UX design

fromCSS-Tricks

Sketch: A guided tour of Copenhagen | CSS-Tricks

Sketch's Copenhagen update overhauls the UI to align with macOS Tahoe's Liquid Glass aesthetic while using custom fixed sidebars instead of floating glass elements.

UX design

fromSmashing Magazine

fromElectronic Frontier Foundation

Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects - Smashing Magazine

Consolidating and standardizing CSS @keyframes reduces duplication, speeds development, and creates a predictable, maintainable animation system.

Privacy professionals

Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento

A dragnet surveillance of SMUD smart meter data violated California privacy law and unlawfully treated 650,000 customers as suspects.

EU data protection

fromwww.aljazeera.com

3 days ago

EU moves to ease AI, privacy rules amid pressure from Big Tech, Trump

EU delays stricter high-risk AI rules until 2027 and eases data, cookie and documentation requirements to boost innovation and competitiveness.

UX design

fromFast Company

3 days ago

What if fintech worked for the people who don't download fintech?

A community bank embedded automatic small life-protection into eligible accounts, driving $3.45M protection delivered, deposit growth, higher balances, and increased maximum coverage uptake.

National Football League

fromESPN.com

'This is not a beauty contest': Venables leads best quips of college football Week 13

Coaches delivered memorable postgame quips in Week 13 college football, showcasing practicality, praise for players, and delight in securing wins.

National Football League

fromMusket Fire

Patriots' QB Drake Maye keeps smashing records as MVP odds continue to rise

Drake Maye is delivering a historic, dominant second season that has produced an unprecedented 11-game statistical stretch and elevated the Patriots into true contenders.

Artificial intelligence

fromABC7 San Francisco

DMV greenlights Waymo driverless taxis to expand services across Bay Area and beyond

Waymo received DMV approval to expand fully driverless robotaxi operations across the Bay Area and eastward to Sacramento.

Food & drink

fromTasting Table

How Rick Steves Stretches His Budget When Dining Across Europe - Tasting Table

Share courses and picnic with local market purchases to eat affordably in Europe; avoid tourist zones, choose local-filled spots, and prioritize local specialties.

Food & drink

fromTasting Table

fromSan Diego Union-Tribune

10 Peated Scotch Whiskies Every Fan Should Try - Tasting Table

Peated Scotch whiskies deliver intense smoke and maritime complexity, with classics like Lagavulin 16 offering elegant, powerful, peat-driven flavor.

#hybrid-work

Remote teams

Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they're happier too

Hybrid and remote work have become permanent features of the labor market as employers refine flexible arrangements to boost productivity, morale, recruitment, and retention.

fromInc

fromSan Diego Union-Tribune

Remote teams

How to Keep Work From Home Fridays From Getting Too Casual

Remote and hybrid workers work up to 90 fewer minutes on Fridays but add hours midweek—Wednesdays increased from 7h54m to 8h24m—reflecting redistributed time.

Remote teams

Companies have found employees can be just as productive when working remotely. And they're happier too

fromInc

fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Remote teams

How to Keep Work From Home Fridays From Getting Too Casual

China-Linked APT31 Launches Stealthy Cyberattacks on Russian IT Using Cloud Services

China-linked APT31 conducted prolonged cyber espionage against Russia's IT sector in 2024–2025 using legitimate cloud services and concealed exfiltration techniques.

Information security

fromThe Hacker News

17 hours ago

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Critical Oracle Identity Manager Zero-Day Vulnerability

CVE-2025-61757 enables pre-authenticated remote code execution in Oracle Identity Manager via an authentication bypass, actively exploited and added to CISA's KEV.

Information security

fromThe Hacker News

17 hours ago

Matrix Push C2 Uses Browser Notifications for Fileless, Cross-Platform Phishing Attacks

Attackers use browser push notifications via Matrix Push C2 to deliver phishing links cross-platform and fileless, offered as a malware-as-a-service platform.

Privacy technologies

fromTheregister

14 hours ago

Brave AI assistant Leo adds Trusted Execution Environments

Brave is offering Trusted Execution Environments for cloud AI models in Leo to provide verifiable confidentiality and integrity for user data.

Europe news

2 hours ago

Lukashenko Releases 31 Ukrainians Imprisoned In Belarus In US-Brokered Deal

Aleksandr Lukashenko pardoned and released 31 Ukrainian civilians held in Belarus under an agreement attributed to US President Donald Trump.

Social media marketing

fromThe Drum

6 hours ago

Benchmark study reveals social has moved centre stage in the marketing mix

Social media has become a strategic part of marketing but many brands cannot demonstrate ROI and lack invested skills and paid-budget allocation.

Food & drink

fromEpicurious

13 hours ago

Crispy Baked Wings With Berbere Honey Glaze and Fried Garlic

Honey-glazed East African berbere wings deliver an umami-forward, craveable, handheld signature dish showcasing regional African flavors.

Media industry

fromwww.independent.co.uk

16 hours ago

Daily Mail owner strikes 500 million deal to buy The Telegraph

The Independent seeks donations to fund on-the-ground journalism and remains free of paywalls while reporting on political issues and media ownership changes.

Social media marketing

fromLindsey Gamble

YouTube Brings Back Direct Messaging: What to Expect - Lindsey Gamble

YouTube is reintroducing native direct messaging, testing an invite-based feature in Ireland and Poland to allow users to send videos and chat.

Media industry

17 hours ago

The BBC is under threat like never before. This is how to save it | Pat Younge

Concentrated media power, disinformation technologies, and political legal threats endanger democratic information integrity and the BBC's independence.

Media industry

12 hours ago

Less politics, more makeup: the unraveling of Teen Vogue under Trump 2.0

Teen Vogue shifted from teen entertainment to influential progressive political coverage but was later folded into Vogue amid layoffs and union controversy.

Wine

fromTravel + Leisure

5 hours ago

This Is the Oldest Official Wine-growing Region in the U.S.-and No, It's Not Napa Valley

Augusta, Missouri is the nation's oldest official American Viticultural Area (established 1980) with a winemaking tradition dating to the 1830s and 19th-century German immigrants.

Marketing tech

fromAl Bawaba

6 hours ago

US Urges judge to break up Google's dominance in its ads empire | Al Bawaba

The U.S. government seeks to break up Google's online advertising business, alleging a decade of illegal control over ad platforms, marketplaces, and pricing.

Books

16 hours ago

I knew I was doing something I shouldn't': Karl Ove Knausgard on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

Karl Ove Knausgard's new novel, The School of Night, explores artistic ambition, moral cost, and a supernatural return of the dead set in 1985 London.

Books

19 hours ago

Tim Dowling: my wife has always wanted to kick me out of book club. Now's her chance

A man repeatedly inserts himself into his wife's women-only book club, becomes its regular attendee and WhatsApp member, then misses a meeting and fears being overlooked.

Europe news

EU imposes sanctions on Russian prison officials responsible for death of Ukrainian journalist

The European Union imposed sanctions on Russian prison officials held responsible for the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.

Marketing tech

fromMarTech

The overlooked infrastructure problem holding personalization back | MarTech

Personalization is now a baseline expectation, and scaling it requires verified data, automation, and real-time operations to fix revenue operations infrastructure.

Marketing tech

fromExchangewire

The Stack: The AI Advertising Era

Media and ad tech industries are rapidly automating ad buying, creative production, and commerce while AI and programmatic innovations reshape budgets, auctions, and legal risks.

Privacy technologies

Google's AI is now snooping on your emails without your permission - here's how to opt out

Google is using users' private Gmail, Chat, Meet, and Drive content to train Gemini and other AI features without explicit user consent.

Social media marketing

fromAol

Internet users top 6 billion, with 2 in 3 people on social media and 1 billion using AI

5.66 billion social media user identities equal 68.7% of the global population, so social media users now outnumber non-users two to one.

Wine

fromTasting Table

10 Award-Winning White Wines To Impress Your Guests In 2025 - Tasting Table

Award-winning, crowd-pleasing white wines provide versatile food pairings and reliable quality for impressing guests at 2025 dinner parties.

Wine

fromElite Traveler

The New Super Tuscan Isn't a Wine, It's Oil

New-season Tuscan olive oils display vibrant, diverse personalities shaped by terroir, vintage, and olive variety, with high-quality organic 2025 examples showing spicy, perfumed notes.

Writing

fromBig Think

R.F. Kuang writes through doubt to find her strongest stories

Rebecca F. Kuang achieved early, sustained bestselling success by integrating academic research into fiction while maintaining disciplined, adaptable creative routines.

Remote teams

fromBored Panda

25 Best Posts About The Everyday Realities Of Zoom Meetings

Quarantine shifted work to home, driving Zoom adoption and exposing private, awkward moments that are often turned into memes and jokes.

Writing

After 10 years talking to knights, squires and wizards, I understand why ren fairs are booming

Medieval re-enactment and live-action roleplay provide physical camaraderie, identity exploration, and emotional escape, helping participants build community and cope with loneliness.

Writing

fromPoynter

What the iconic writers of New Journalism can teach us in the AI era - Poynter

Narrative-driven New Journalism's human voice, observational nuance, and immersive reporting remain crucial counterpoints to AI-generated storytelling.

#chelsea

fromSoccer News

fromwww.caughtoffside.com

English Premier League

Burnley vs Chelsea Bet Builder Tips - 5/1 Premier League Special, Analysis & Predictions - Soccer News

English Premier League

Chelsea want to sign 'one of the best' Premier League star in January as insider reveals surprise Romeo Lavia update

fromSoccer News

fromwww.caughtoffside.com

English Premier League

Burnley vs Chelsea Bet Builder Tips - 5/1 Premier League Special, Analysis & Predictions - Soccer News

fromBavarian Football Works

English Premier League

Chelsea want to sign 'one of the best' Premier League star in January as insider reveals surprise Romeo Lavia update

more#chelsea

English Premier League

1 week ago

Pundit says it's too early to say Liverpool's Florian Wirtz is biggest Premier League transfer flop

Florian Wirtz's early Liverpool struggles should not be labeled the biggest transfer flop after 11 Premier League games; a full season is needed to judge adaptation.

New York Rangers

fromBlue Seat Blogs

58 minutes ago

NY Rangers Game 23 Open Thread: Rangers at Utah - Blue Seat Blogs

Rangers' injuries and lineup changes have created a mismatched, weak roster, erasing recent momentum and resulting in three consecutive losses.

National Hockey League

fromMaple Leafs Hotstove

2 hours ago

Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens - Game #22 Projected Lines, Preview & TV Info

Toronto and Montreal are high-scoring yet defensively vulnerable, seeking to reverse an underwhelming November by correcting neutral-zone turnovers and strengthening their forecheck.

FC Barcelona

fromBarca Blaugranes

'We've changed a few things' - Joan Garcia celebrates clean sheet on Barca return

The team secured a home victory, seeks future clean sheets, acknowledges Athletic's strong pressing, and values confident individual contributions amid full stadium support.

Dallas Cowboys

fromBlogging The Boys

Cowboys vs. Eagles: Matchups to watch in Week 12

Cowboys defensive upgrades and exploiting weakened Eagles matchups, notably at right tackle and containing Jalen Hurts, could determine the Week 12 outcome.

National Hockey League

fromRMNB

Live updates: Washington Capitals vs Tampa Bay Lightning at Capital One Arena on Hockey Fights Cancer night

Washington Capitals showed renewed form with an 8-4 win, strong defense, improved goaltending, and Alex Ovechkin's hat trick.

Marketing

fromThe Drum

MrBeast lawsuit may spark ad fallout and force Amazon to reconsider partnership practices

Lawsuit alleging mistreatment on MrBeast's Beast Games may prompt advertisers to reassess influencer partnerships and advertising strategies.

Marketing

fromThe Drum

Struggling for content ideas? How to keep your content marketing stream flowing

Ambitious agency owners can consistently publish impactful short, opinionated pieces by reacting to existing coverage, venting quickly, and editing after a brief pause.

Relationships

fromBuzzFeed

42 minutes ago

Couples Are Revealing The Non-Sexual Acts That They Consider Cheating

Emotional infidelity—intimate non-sexual acts like secretive hugging, dating-like outings, or private intimate conversations—can feel like betrayal and damage committed relationships.

#smart-lighting

fromKotaku

22 minutes ago

Gadgets

Amazon Is Going Nuts on Govee Uplighter Lamp, Now Selling for Pocket Change at Black Friday - Kotaku

27 minutes ago

Gadgets

My favorite smart bulbs add ambience to any home, and they're under $20 for Black Friday

fromKotaku

22 minutes ago

Gadgets

Amazon Is Going Nuts on Govee Uplighter Lamp, Now Selling for Pocket Change at Black Friday - Kotaku

27 minutes ago

Gadgets

My favorite smart bulbs add ambience to any home, and they're under $20 for Black Friday

Will Technicolor's demise be the start of a brave new world for creative production?

Technicolor's collapse, driven by pandemic, strikes, and rapid cloud-driven automation, devastated major VFX and advertising studios and exposed outdated infrastructure.

Gadgets