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Wellness
fromIndependent
8 hours ago

'I don't have any food rules any more. But I have a whole toolbox of what makes me feel good' - Clare McKenna on overcoming diet culture and finding true wellness

Holistic, manageable actions across mind, body and soul—rather than fad diets or extreme optimisation—are essential for attainable wellbeing.
#social-media
fromAP News
7 hours ago
Digital life

Social media addiction's surprising challenger? Anti-doomscrolling influencers

fromSFGATE
7 hours ago
Digital life

Social media addiction's surprising challenger? Anti-doomscrolling influencers

fromThe Drum
1 day ago
Social media marketing

Skeptical CMOs are wrong - social media marketing is a powerful tool

fromAP News
7 hours ago
Digital life

Social media addiction's surprising challenger? Anti-doomscrolling influencers

fromSFGATE
7 hours ago
Digital life

Social media addiction's surprising challenger? Anti-doomscrolling influencers

fromThe Drum
1 day ago
Social media marketing

Skeptical CMOs are wrong - social media marketing is a powerful tool

more#social-media
Wellness
fromBusiness Insider
2 hours ago

I founded a wellness startup after leaving McKinsey. Hustle culture is a liability, not an asset.

Wellhub provides flexible, location-independent corporate wellness access, founded after a McKinsey consultant experienced long hours and unused gym memberships, reshaping workplace well-being.
Wellness
fromThe Good Life France
4 hours ago

Guide to hot tubs and spas in France - The Good Life France

Wood-fired hot tubs in France offer low-cost, low-maintenance wellbeing benefits and require local expertise for delivery, installation, and regulatory considerations.
OMG science
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

This teenager who wrote a research paper on how AI could impact teen jobs

AI is replacing common teenage jobs like retail and food service through kiosks and self-checkout, reducing summer and entry-level employment opportunities for teens.
OMG science
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Wolf's dinner preserved in Siberia for 14,400 years sheds light on woolly rhino

A woolly rhinoceros genome was recovered from partially digested tissue inside a 14,400-year-old mummified wolf cub, providing genetic data from near the species' extinction.
fromNature
1 week ago

Electrochemical defluorinative Matteson-type homologation - Nature

The Matteson homologation, first developed in 1980, elongates carbon chains by insertion into a C−B bond. 1 This versatile reaction traditionally requires three steps: carbanion formation, nucleophilic addition to organoboron, and a thermo- or Lewis acid-promoted boronate rearrangement. These processes often demand exacting conditions, including cryogenic temperatures and handling of air- and moisture-sensitive reagents. 2,3 Here, we report a Matteson-type homologation which integrates these three transformations into a one-pot electrochemical process.
Privacy professionals
fromLocal News Matters
13 hours ago

Opting out: How Californians can use state's new tool to block hundreds of data brokers - Local News Matters

California launched DROP, a platform that lets residents send deletion and opt-out requests to all registered data brokers at once, starting January 1, 2026.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 hour ago

How Nvidia is using emulation to turn AI FLOPS into FP64

Nvidia achieves higher FP64 throughput through software emulation on Rubin GPUs, trading hardware FP64 for emulated matrix performance up to 200 TFLOPS.
UX design
fromMedium
5 days ago

How can you ensure paying customers don't worsen the new user experience?

Balance B2B design between new-user usability and paying customers' customized requirements by prioritizing tangible outcomes and negotiating business incentives.
UX design
fromMedium
5 days ago

Designers as agent orchestrators: what I learnt shipping with AI in 2025

Designers' empathy, communication, and systems-thinking make them ideal orchestrators of AI-assisted development, enabling rapid prototyping and shipping without deep coding.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Letters: Authorities must end sharing of license plate data

Residents demand enforcement of SB 34 and SB 54, protection of license-plate privacy, relief for overcrowded animal shelters, and safe vehicle-housing solutions for the homeless.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Letters: Authorities must end sharing of license plate data

Sharing license plate reader data threatens privacy and should be investigated, cameras misused disabled, while community action and creative housing solutions are urged for animals and people experiencing homelessness.
UX design
fromMedium
2 days ago

AI Tools Designers Should Stick With in 2026

Successful designers in 2026 will combine design skills with engineering knowledge, using AI-enabled tools to build, ship, and implement interactive production-ready interfaces.
#tiktok
more#tiktok
EU data protection
fromBusiness Matters
2 days ago

Compliance Is the New Creative: Why Your Channel Partners Are Your Biggest Liability (and How to Fix It)

Channel partners’ compliance failures can directly harm brand reputation and expose companies to significant fines; channel marketing must enforce GDPR and EU AI Act compliance.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
4 hours ago

AGI? GPUs? Learn the definitions of the most common AI terms to enter our vocabulary

AI is increasingly embedded in everyday life across services and devices, requiring familiarity with key terms, people, and companies to understand its impacts.
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 hours ago

Adobe has recreated the ad agency office of the 90s (complete with floppy disks and Rolodex)

Adobe recreated 1990s ad and home experiences to show how Experience Cloud simplifies outdated advertising and marketing processes.
Books
fromwww.newyorker.com
2 hours ago

Joseph O'Neill Reads Light Secrets

A recorded reading presents "Light Secrets" from the January 26, 2026 issue; listening options and a Books & Fiction newsletter sign-up are provided, with several novels noted.
Marketing tech
fromAtlanta Daily World
1 day ago

Eventnoire Announces 2026 Curator Summit for Event Creators in Atlanta

Eventnoire hosts the Curator Summit on January 24, 2026, in Atlanta to equip curators, creators, and producers with practical tools for building profitable, scalable events.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 hour ago

Was Infinite Jest Right About Everything?

Infinite Jest is highly readable and prescient about short-form digital entertainment, while Hyperion's ambitious adaptation has faced prolonged delays despite high hopes.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
2 hours ago

Joseph O'Neill on Why a Story Should Be Like a Poem

People conceal shameful deeds and also quietly perform unrecognized good acts; withholding specifics preserves mystery and influences how others perceive moral character.
Information security
fromFast Company
6 hours ago

This common security measure is draining your workforce

Password fatigue reduces productivity and increases security risk as complex passwords remain primary authentication in modern, distributed work environments.
Marketing tech
fromBusiness Insider
3 hours ago

Get ready for an adtech IPO rebound

Prominent mobile adtech firms with consistent growth and performance-advertising exposure are poised to go public, potentially ending a multi-year adtech IPO drought.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 hours ago

Samsung Electronics boss says it's betting on AI that blends into the background over spectacle

Samsung prioritizes practical, unobtrusive AI embedded in consumer devices to deliver everyday value rather than standalone, spectacle-driven AI products.
Information security
fromFortune
3 hours ago

I oversee a lab where engineers try to destroy my life's work. It's the only way to prepare for quantum threats | Fortune

Security requires actively testing systems through intentional attacks to understand failures and build genuine trust in hardware and infrastructure.
Major League Baseball
fromLos Angeles Times
1 hour ago

Shaikin: Make starting pitchers great again? MLB isn't. This independent league will try

Independent baseball leagues serve as testing grounds for innovations that could revive durable, deep-inning starting pitchers amid MLB's emphasis on velocity and bullpen usage.
Food & drink
fromTasting Table
2 hours ago

Why Durant's Remains One Of Arizona's Most Famous Old-School Steakhouses - Tasting Table

Durant's Steakhouse in Phoenix preserves mid-century steakhouse ambiance, serving classic steaks and cocktails since 1950 amid vintage decor and celebrity lore.
Food & drink
fromTasting Table
12 hours ago

6 Seafood Restaurant Chains Serving The Best Crab Cakes, According To Reviews - Tasting Table

High-quality crab cakes prioritize abundant real crab meat, minimal fillers, balanced seasoning, light crispness, and fresh, complementary accompaniments.
Food & drink
fromThe New Yorker
2 hours ago

Helen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers

Relish's sweetness complements some burgers but can compete with ketchup; topping choices should match patty size, the eater's associations, and the eating context.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
2 hours ago

"Light Secrets," by Joseph O'Neill

Hidden rumors and secrets complicate a lunch between friends, revealing humor, vulnerability, and a belief that everyone has concealed darkness and hidden goodness.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
16 hours ago

Flat Earth theory, talking raccoons and ghosts on strike: The fascinating world of the weird

Dan Schreiber documents global fringe beliefs and bizarre claims, revealing human eccentricity, committed conviction, and the odd humor and strangeness of these ideas.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 hours ago

Dublin Bay's oyster graveyard rises from dead in effort to restore rich ecosystem

Dun Laoghaire project reintroduces 18,000 European flat oysters to rebuild Dublin Bay reefs, enhancing biodiversity, water quality, shoreline stability and seagrass carbon storage.
Media industry
fromcleveland
1 day ago

Why Cleveland's newsroom is not facing Pittsburgh's fate: Letter from the Editor

Cleveland newsroom is financially self-sustaining, generating more revenue than expenses and growing audience and revenue to preserve local journalism.
Europe news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,423

Russian forces continued offensive operations, seizing settlements, striking energy and military targets, causing civilian casualties, widespread power outages, and prompting emergency repairs and humanitarian concerns.
Privacy technologies
fromMashable
14 hours ago

Block ads on your devices for life for under $40

AdGuard Family Plan blocks ads and trackers, stops malware and phishing, adds parental controls, and protects up to nine devices for a lifetime price of $39.99.
Writing
fromFortune
20 hours ago

Gen Zers and millennials go analog with letter writing, typewriter clubs and calligraphy to take a break from screen time | Fortune

People are reconnecting through retro tactile communication methods like letter writing, calligraphy and typewriting to slow down, reduce digital use, and build meaningful relationships.
Wine
fromwww.theguardian.com
19 hours ago

Far from upcharged grape juice': the 13 most exciting nonalcoholic wines in the US

High-quality nonalcoholic wines can match the complexity and balance of alcoholic wines when made from ripe grapes and careful alcohol-removal processes.
Media industry
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 day ago

CBS News embraces "transphobic dog whistle" under Bari Weiss' guidance - LGBTQ Nation

CBS News will use the term biological sex at birth without quotation marks to describe sex assigned at birth in its reporting.
Environment
fromTruthout
16 hours ago

Communities Say Congress Broke Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mine Lands

A House bill would withdraw $500 million from 2021 abandoned mine cleanup funds, jeopardizing reclamation and water treatment projects in Appalachian states.
Media industry
fromFuturism
22 hours ago

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You're Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Major AI chatbots frequently produce incorrect, incomplete, or fabricated news outputs and provide unreliable or nonfunctional source links when asked for local daily news.
Social media marketing
fromDailydot
1 week ago

"100 likes is the new 1000": Creators say Instagram likes have fallen off a cliff. Here's why

Instagram 'like' counts dropped dramatically in 2025 due to shifting user behavior and algorithm changes, with viewers often watching stories but not liking feed posts.
Environment
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Gongloff: The next Dust Bowl is becoming more likely

Greenhouse-gas warming is creating a permanently hotter, drier U.S., raising heat-wave severity, reducing humidity and rainfall, and risking Dust Bowl–like drought feedbacks.
English Premier League
fromESPN.com
1 day ago

VAR review: Should Man United's Dalot have been sent off vs. Man City?

VAR upheld a yellow for Dalot because contact was deemed glancing, with referee communication and match timing influencing the VAR review.
Social media marketing
fromBenzinga
1 day ago

Elon Musk's X Is Offering $1 Million For The Best Article - And It's A Big Bet On Long-Form Content - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)

X will award $1 million to the top long-form post in the next payout period to incentivize high-quality original creator content.
Europe news
fromRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
1 day ago

Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko Avoids Detention On Bribery Charges

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko must pay $760,000 bail amid bribery charges, faces travel and communication restrictions while denying wrongdoing and preparing an appeal.
Remote teams
fromThe Business of Fashion
2 days ago

Fashion Is Done With Remote Work

Return-to-office mandates are spreading across fashion and retail as companies cite collaboration, culture and productivity concerns, with some using policies to nudge departures.
Privacy technologies
fromThe Hacker News
2 days ago

Your Digital Footprint Can Lead Right to Your Front Door

Publicly available personal data on data brokers and directories creates real physical and financial safety risks, requiring active deletion or protection.
Privacy technologies
fromComputerworld
2 days ago

Google flexes another AI advantage

Google's Gemini Personal Intelligence selectively accesses Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search data to provide more personalized, context-aware AI assistance for users.
#remote-work
fromMedium
2 days ago
Remote teams

Why remote work stopped working for me

Exclusive remote work reduces interruptions and comfort but erodes relationships, spontaneous collaboration, and creative energy, making hybrid work a better balance.
fromForbes
3 days ago
Remote teams

Top 29 Companies Hiring Remote Jobs In 2026, From FlexJobs Data

Employee bargaining power over remote work plunged in 2026, even as remote hiring rose in targeted fields such as IT, project management, sales, client services, and healthcare.
more#remote-work
Wine
fromTasting Table
1 day ago

A Once-Dominant Bay Area Winery Is Shutting Down After Years Of Rapid Growth - Tasting Table

Subject to Change Wine Company, once a leading natural-wine producer, is ceasing production after declining sales, lost distribution, mounting debt, and a failed new product launch.
London food
fromTime Out London
5 hours ago

London is officially the world's best food destination this year

London named the world’s best city for food in 2026 by TripAdvisor, praised for neighbourhood spots and diverse international cuisine.
Golden State Warriors
fromThe Mercury News
10 hours ago

Warriors instant analysis: With Butler out, Golden State sets 3-point records against Hornets

Warriors overcame Jimmy Butler's late scratch as Draymond Green, Brandin Podziemski and hot 3-point shooting powered a 136-116 win over the Hornets.
Germany news
fromwww.dw.com
7 hours ago

Germany's AfD receives millions in public funding

The AfD will receive about €500 million in state funds during 2025–2029 and benefits heavily from public party financing and parliamentary allowances.
Marketing
fromThe Drum
3 hours ago

Winners announced at The Drum Awards for Digital Experience 2024

Sips and Bites won Grand Prix for 'Doritos Silent', an AI-augmented snack cancelling crunch sounds; FCB New York got President's Award for Spotify.
SF music
fromSFGATE
1 hour ago

What it's like at San Francisco's weirdest music festival

An immersive festival showcased intricately designed spatial audio compositions using a 24-channel setup to create unsettling, novel sounds and unpredictable spatial movement.
FC Barcelona
fromSoccer News
7 hours ago

January 18th: Sunday's La Liga Double - 4/1 Special, Betting Tips & Predictions - Soccer News

Atletico Madrid enter with dominant Metropolitano form and recent cup success, while Alaves struggle near relegation and Barcelona aim to extend their La Liga lead.
National Hockey League
fromMaple Leafs Hotstove
9 hours ago

Craig Berube on the Leafs collecting five of eight points from a tough road trip: "We were seven seconds away from getting six... Extremely good trip for the group"

The team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win 4-3 in overtime, showing strong net-front play, goaltending, and penalty killing.
New York Islanders
fromEyes On Isles
10 hours ago

NY Islander stumble in Calgary; fall 4-2 to Flames in Saturday matinee

The New York Islanders lost 4-2 to the Calgary Flames after conceding two quick second-period goals that put the game out of reach.
Dallas Cowboys
fromBlogging The Boys
9 hours ago

Former Cowboys pass rusher DeMarcus Lawrence headed to NFC Championship Game with Seahawks

DeMarcus Lawrence will play in an NFC Championship Game in his first season after leaving the Dallas Cowboys.
#dallas-cowboys
more#dallas-cowboys
FC Barcelona
fromBarca Blaugranes
3 hours ago

Barcelona offer Raphinha update as Brazilian ruled out of La Liga clash with Real Sociedad

Raphinha will miss Barcelona's La Liga match against Real Sociedad due to a right-thigh knock, potentially allowing Marcus Rashford to start.
London food
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 hours ago

Corenucopia by Clare Smyth, London SW1: Posh, calories-be-damned cooking and a dad rock soundtrack' restaurant review

Clare Smyth's Corenucopia serves elevated comfort food in posh surroundings with a rock soundtrack, framed specialty menus, and moderately priced dishes.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
13 hours ago

HumanCentred AI for SRE: MultiAgent Incident Response without Losing Control

Multi-agent AI systems should orchestrate and assist on-call engineers, automating investigation steps while keeping humans responsible for judgment.
National Hockey League
fromPuck Prose
1 hour ago

Paul Bissonnette handed multi-year extension to continue NHL broadcasting with TNT

Paul Bissonnette signed a multi-year TNT extension to continue as a pregame/intermission panelist and in-game commentator while remaining active with the Spittin' Chiclets podcast.
Silicon Valley
fromBusiness Insider
4 hours ago

Locked in and celibate: For young tech founders, dating is a bug, not a feature

Young Silicon Valley founders prioritize intense work and scaling ventures over dating, resulting in reduced romantic life and social activity.
Gadgets
fromGSMArena.com
4 hours ago

Deals: Redmi Note 15 series and Poco F8 Pro on discount, OnePlus 15R goes on sale

Several Xiaomi, Poco, Motorola, and OnePlus phones are discounted or newly available on Amazon UK, offering varied displays, chipsets, cameras, batteries, and charging speeds.
London politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 hour ago

UK could become Trump's poodle if it fails to invest in defence, Badenoch warns

The Independent seeks reader donations to fund free, on-the-ground journalism while reporting UK political tensions and Kemi Badenoch's calls to rebuild national defences.
Mindfulness
fromBustle
8 hours ago

Here's Your Horoscope For Sunday, January 18

New moon in Capricorn plus a Mercury–Mars conjunction supports pragmatic action, building long-term plans, and attending to finances with proven methods.
Left-wing politics
fromwww.standard.co.uk
5 hours ago

Robin Hood' activists who targeted Crown Jewels plan London Waitrose raids

Take Back Power plans to steal food from upmarket shops and redistribute it to communities to protest wealth inequality and occupy luxury stores.
Mindfulness
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 hours ago

Horoscopes Jan. 18, 2026: Kevin Costner, thoughts followed by actions will pay off

Thoughts followed by actions will pay off; use energy and motivation to set plans in motion, refuse outside influences, and live life your way.
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