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August 22, 2025

AI May Soon Detect Laryngeal Cancer Just by Listening to Your Voice

(Discover) – Everyone’s voice is unique. Because of our individual nuances in anatomy, it’s as distinguishable as a fingerprint. While those differences help us tell one another apart, our voices might also hold clues to detecting laryngeal cancer (cancer of … Read More

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August 22, 2025

GPT‑5 Pro is brilliant, but it’s still nowhere near real AGI, says one of the professors who coined the term

(Techradar) – GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn’t confuse brilliant algorithmic models … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The trauma of illness can last long after the body has healed

(STAT News) – I’ve seen it as a psychologist — and experienced it as a patient Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

(Nature) – Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation. A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body … Read More

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August 22, 2025

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

(The Guardian) – Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. (Read More)

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August 22, 2025

Famine Is Now Gripping Parts of Gaza, Says Global Body

(Wall Street Journal) – Official designation by leading food-security experts adds to pressure on Israel International food-security experts said a famine has taken hold around Gaza City, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

(Wired) – Built with Gemini, Google’s AI health coach will be everything but a doctor. Fitbit’s smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there’s another big one coming in October, timed to the launch … Read More

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August 22, 2025

I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours

(MIT Technology Review) – My relatives didn’t get a vote when I added my genetic profile to a crime-fighting database. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They … Read More

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August 22, 2025

Scientists Just Caught Human Embryo Implantation on Camera

(Wired) – Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility. A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The Delusion Machine

(The Hedgehog Review) – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM. Freshly severed from employment (again), my idle hands and idle mind got up to tricks. Rearranging closets. Shredding. Buying plants that look cool but die. Extreme … Read More

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August 22, 2025

Meta’s AI Companion Policy is Outrageous

(After Babel) – Last week, Reuters published an investigation that cited internal Meta documents and sources that should anger anyone who cares about children’s safety online. The documents explain that the social media giant’s AI policies explicitly permit chatbots to … Read More

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August 22, 2025

A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available

The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:

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August 21, 2025

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

(MIT Technology Review) – Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours … Read More

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August 21, 2025

A look at arguments around Colorado’s medical assistance in dying law

(NPR) – As more states adopt laws allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives, some groups representing disabled people are suing to stop them. In June, New York became the 11th state to pass legislation allowing terminally ill … Read More

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August 21, 2025

They Needed a Surrogate, So They Asked a Sibling to Do It

(Wall Street Journal) – Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. Turning to friends and family can lower the cost—for those willing to navigate legal minefields and tricky family dynamics. Having a surrogate give birth to your baby … Read More

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