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When humans interact with dogs, the feel-good hormone oxytocin increases in the person and the dog. Sally Anscombe/Getty Images What's four-legged, furry, and often serves up a quick little mood boost? That's right, a dog. It turns out even short, friendly interactions with canines can be good for our health.

James Cameron walks in Purmamarca, Argentina, earlier this month.He's compared the OceanGate submersible tragedy to that of the Titanic itself.Javier Corbalan/AP A "catastrophic pressure implosion" killed all five passengers aboard the Titan submersible, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday, somberly solving a mystery that had captivated the public all week.

A group of industry leaders is planning to warn on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they are building may one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars.Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war, reads a one-sentence statement expected to be released by the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit organization.

Apple has long used end-to-end encryption for some of the information on your iPhone, like passwords or health data, but the company neglected to offer a way to better protect other crucial data, including iCloud backups, until recently.This came after years of a hard fought battle pushing Apple to encrypt backups and drop its plans for client-side scanning.