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Plants, toads, and mushrooms "can all produce psychedelic substances," writes ScienceAlert.
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[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant ( Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously. As interest grows in psychedelics as potential treatments for illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the newly developed system could offer
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Данная статья является продолжением статьи https://habr.com/ru/articles/871380/ про сенсор HT2000, который измеряет CO₂, температуру и влажность. В рамках той статьи обсуждался более доступный вариант измерительного прибора. Конкретно этот вариант измерителя будет построен на датчиках типа AHT2X или SHT2X (в интернете полно информации об этих датчиках). Задача прибора-измерителя - измерять показания температуры и влажности и передавать их на сервер для хранения данных по домашнему Wi-Fi. Читать далее Read more ›
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If you've worked with concrete before, you have probably heard of the 90-minute rule. Here's what it is, where it came from and why it should be followed. Read more ›
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Financial anxiety doesn't disappear when the bank account grows. For people who grew up worrying about money, the body keeps reacting to old threats long after the math has changed. Eight small habits that give it away. Read more ›
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Microsoft has revamped the Windows Insider Program, simplifying channels and giving users more control, aiming to improve testing, feedback, and overall Windows update experiences. Read more ›
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There’s a person in almost every room who seems to take up more space than everyone else. Not because they’re loud. Not because they’re aggressive. Just because they’re… present. They say what they think. They don’t soften every sentence with “I mean, I could be wrong” or “sorry if that’s a weird thing to say.” ... Read more Read more ›
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The reflexive "whatever you want" isn't easygoing — it's the sound of a faculty that hasn't been online in decades. Why some people genuinely cannot locate their own preferences, and what it takes to rebuild the signal. Read more ›
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There is no doubt that Fitbit still has enormous brand recognition. Whether or not the company’s current offerings are your best option is certainly debatable, but the make carries a lot of weight. Well, who better to potentially start killing it off than Google? The company certainly has a dark track record of mishandling brands and products. The situation might not be too bad at the moment, though. We are... Read more ›
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Unauthorized access to Anthropic’s Mythos AI highlights growing concerns around safeguarding powerful systems, exposing vulnerabilities not in the model itself but in its surrounding access ecosystem. Read more ›
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A new AI tool deliberately adds typos to emails, reflecting a shift where imperfect writing is seen as more human and trustworthy in the age of AI-generated communication. Read more ›
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A Manhattan luxury car theft case involving a McLaren and other high-end vehicles is bringing attention to the city's ongoing organized theft problem again. Read more ›
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Walmart is a go-to retailer for many individuals looking for access to inexpensive hand tools that don't sacrifice quality or functionality. Read more ›
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Tesla is offering one year of free Supercharging with Model 3 Premium and Performance variants, reducing ownership costs while strengthening its charging ecosystem advantage. Read more ›
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The improved second-generation versions of Apple's ubiquitous trackers expand their range and add other features. Here's how they've changed and how they work. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Read more ›
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X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has officially launched the XChat app, a standalone messaging application designed specifically for iPhone and iPad for the recently announced XChat feature. Released on April 24, 2026, the app aims to provide a dedicated, high-performance environment for private conversations, separating the platform’s direct messaging functionality from the primary social feed. One of the most notable aspects of XChat is its alignment... Read more ›
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There have been several trucks and SUVs that have used the same engine as the iconic Corvette. Here are some you might not have known about. Read more ›
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America's National Science Board (NSB) "was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation," writes the Washington Post, "in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector. It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports basic science research in laboratories across the United States." (NSF... Read more ›
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Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51. And there's been other changes, reports Entrepreneur: In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headlines after writing a memo calling the company "AI-first." In the memo, von Ahn announced that the language-learning... Read more ›
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Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about." Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of... Read more ›
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The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life." D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of " Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," making him a pillar of the growing backlash against the corporate harvesting of human... Read more ›
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Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one." (Though those prices appear to be estimates...) Disney's announcement calls it "a new certification for premium large format (PLF) theaters," helping ticket-buyers find "a huge screen with the sharpest, clearest color and... Read more ›
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kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes: HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. "Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement. But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited... Read more ›
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"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant." The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices.... Read more ›
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"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..." The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the... Read more ›
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NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence." Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using... Read more ›
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In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter. "One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in... Read more ›
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Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising answer. "Currently, I spend... Read more ›
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