Silicon Canals

News from Silicon Canals


Fresh news
Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals 1 place · today 16:00 EDT

A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled researchers was this: a third had turned to a bot, not a person, for a serious conversation

I am not a psychologist, a therapist, or a researcher of any kind. This is one curious adult reading a survey and thinking out loud. The numbers below come from a single nationally representative study and a few experts reflecting on it, which is to say they describe patterns across groups of people, not rules ... Read more Read more

0 fresh

🔮
17.06.2026 ♉︎ Dear Taurus, today will bring you interesting opportunities and, at the same time, some challenges... Read more ›
Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 14:00 EDT

Researchers investigating how people recover after work identified four off-hours experiences that were linked to lower strain — detachment, relaxation, mastery and control

You finish work, you close the laptop, and you tell yourself the evening is yours. Then it’s one in the morning and you are still scrolling, still half-thinking about the thing you didn’t finish, and the day somehow ended without ever really being your own. Sound familiar? It sure does to me. After a long, ... Read more Read more

0 fresh

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals 3 place · today 12:00 EDT

A single standout trait — good looks, an impressive job title, the voice of authority — tends to bleed into how we judge everything else about someone. This ‘halo effect’, first measured by Thorndike in 1920, still shapes hiring decisions, courtrooms and first impressions

Most of us think we judge people piece by piece. Her work is one thing, her warmth another, his honesty a third, and we weigh each separately like a careful juror. It is a flattering picture of how the mind works, but mostly wrong. Research suggests that one strong impression tends to spill over and ... Read more Read more

0 fresh

A newsletter a day!

You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.

or register

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · today 09:29 EDT

The Mariana snailfish lives nearly 8,000 metres below the Pacific surface at pressures that would crush a submarine, and survives because its bones are partly unossified and its cells are packed with a molecule called TMAO that keeps proteins from collapsing

At nearly 8,000 metres below the Pacific surface, the Mariana snailfish survives pressures that would crush a submarine — thanks to a partly unossified skeleton, TMAO-saturated cells, and a liver rebuilt for famine. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · today 09:29 EDT

The people in their 60s who seem to have drifted from close friendships weren’t cold or indifferent — they were often the emotional anchor in every room they were ever in, and anchors, by design, don’t get carried

An observation about friendship and later life: smaller circles in your sixties often reflect deliberate choice, not coldness. A look at what the research on ageing and friendship supports, what the 'anchor' reading adds, and why a flattering story still needs handling with care. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · today 09:10 EDT

The UK just became the second country to ban under-16s from social media, and the part nobody is debating is whether the age-verification tech actually works

The United Kingdom will become the second country in the world to legally bar children under 16 from using mainstream social media platforms, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a sweeping ban covering Snapchat… Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · today 09:00 EDT

The popular claim that it takes 21 days to build a habit traces back to a plastic surgeon’s offhand observation, not to any real data. When researchers at University College London actually measured it, new habits took an average of about 66 days

You have probably heard the figure. Three weeks. Twenty-one days. Then the new behaviour is supposed to lock into place. I have read it in productivity posts, and quietly half-believed it myself for years. I read widely in this stuff and I test things on myself before I write about them, and the 21-day number ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Cabinet @ Silicon Canals · today 07:50 EDT

Tech layoffs are running 44% ahead of last year while the same companies post record profits and mint new billionaires — and the structural setup is stranger than 2008 because there’s no crash to blame

Tech companies are firing workers at the fastest pace in two years, blaming artificial intelligence — and simultaneously posting record profits while a small cohort of AI insiders accumulates generational wealth. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · today 07:37 EDT

Nobody prepares you for the loneliness that comes not from being abandoned but from slowly outgrowing the conversations the people around you are still willing to have

The loneliest stretch of adult life is rarely the one where someone leaves — it is the one where everyone stays exactly where they are while you keep moving. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · today 07:00 EDT

AI just beat the average human on a creativity test involving 100,000 people, and the researchers say the real question is whether the gap between average and exceptional will hold

The headline writes itself and, predictably, wrote itself badly in most places it appeared. A study published in Scientific Reports in January 2026 compared the performance of several large language models, including GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, against more than 100,000 human participants on a standard test of divergent thinking. Some AI models scored above the ... Read more Read more

0

Other news
older that 24 hours
Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 17:00 EDT

We tend to picture learning as something for the young, but a study of 416 Canadians over sixty found that those who kept taking courses reported greater well-being — the staying with it, not the subject, seemed to matter most

I caught myself thinking something the other day that I’m not proud of. A friend mentioned that an older relative of his had just signed up for a class, and my first reaction, the one I had the sense not to say out loud, was a quiet “what’s the point at that age?” It’s an ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 14:00 EDT

One question Gallup uses to gauge if people are engaged at work sounds too personal to belong – but it turns out to be one of the strongest predictors of retention and well-being, a quiet reminder that even jobs ultimately run on human friendship

The first time I read it, I thought it was a typo. Sitting in a list of perfectly sensible workplace statements, the kind about clear expectations and having the right tools to do your job, was a line that read more like something a child might ask: do you have a best friend at work? ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 12:00 EDT

Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: “Each of us lives only in the present, this brief moment; the rest is either a life that is past or is an uncertain future.”

The mind does not like the present. Left to its own devices, it drifts. It runs back over a conversation from last week and replays the part you wish you’d handled better, or it leans forward into next month and starts rehearsing things that haven’t happened and may never happen. The one place it seems ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 10:00 EDT

We imagine that hitting the big goal — the promotion, the house — will bring lasting joy, but feel strangely flat once we arrive. Psychology has a name for this: the arrival fallacy

I am not a psychologist, and what follows is reading and reflection on a handful of studies, not advice about your life. The research here describes tendencies in groups of people, not laws that apply to everyone the same way, so take it as a lens rather than a verdict on how you in particular ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 09:33 EDT

Fujitsu engineers could remotely alter subpostmaster accounts without their knowledge — and the Post Office told courts for years that they couldn’t

For fifteen years, the Post Office told courts that Horizon's branch accounts could only be altered by the subpostmaster at the counter. Fujitsu engineers in Bracknell could rewrite them remotely — and the denial of that capability is the load-bearing beam under more than 700 wrongful prosecutions. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 08:34 EDT

A single bolt of lightning that crossed Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres end to end, once the longest single flash ever recorded and roughly the distance from New York City to Columbus

On 29 April 2020, a single lightning bolt crossed Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi end to end — 768 kilometres of continuous discharge in under seven seconds, the longest flash ever recorded. Here is what scientists now know about how such megaflashes start. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 07:45 EDT

In December 2024, Google announced that its Willow quantum computing chip had completed a calculation in roughly five minutes that would have required the world’s fastest classical supercomputer approximately 10 septillion years — longer than the current age of the universe by a factor of approximately a quadrillion — in what Google’s quantum AI team called a demonstration that the chip had entered a ‘beyond-classical’ regime

The headline number is the kind of figure that is hard to absorb without somehow flattening it back into ordinary language. Ten septillion years is 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. The ratio between those two numbers is approximately one quadrillion. If the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 07:15 EDT

When YouTube launched in 2005, the very first video ever uploaded was a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, saying nothing particularly meaningful about elephants having long trunks — and the video remains live on the platform today with more than 350 million views, as one of the most-watched home videos in human history

The first video ever uploaded to YouTube is not an event, not a viral phenomenon, not a curated piece of content, and not particularly interesting on its own terms. It is a 19-second clip of a 25-year-old man standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, observing that elephants have long ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 07:00 EDT

How old you feel may matter more for your future than how old you actually are: in long-running studies, people whose ‘subjective age’ runs younger than their birth certificate tend to stay healthier, keep sharper memories and even live longer

Here is a finding that stuck with me. Across three big American studies tracking more than 17,000 people, those who felt roughly eight, eleven and thirteen years older than their actual age had 18%, 29% and 25% higher mortality risk respectively. The figure tracked not their chronological age, but how old they felt. The age ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 06:40 EDT

Cambodia stripped Chen Zhi of citizenship in January 2026 and handed the ‘Neak Oknha’ royal advisor to Beijing — not Brooklyn

On a Phnom Penh morning in January 2026, a man who had held three passports, a Cambodian royal title, and a personal fortune large enough to make him one of the country's most visible businessmen woke up as none of those things. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 06:16 EDT

The United States keeps roughly 374 million laying hens, and over 60% of the world’s eggs come from cage systems where thousands of birds share the same air, water, and wire floor

The American laying flock now stands at roughly 374 million birds, most of them housed on about 67 square inches of wire each. A look inside the cage system that still produces over 60% of the world's eggs — and the heat, lawsuits, and broken pledges now reshaping it. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 03:43 EDT

On September 9, 1947, Grace Hopper’s team at Harvard pulled a dead moth out of the Mark II computer’s relay, taped it into the logbook with the note ‘first actual case of bug being found,’ and preserved the page that gave software its oldest metaphor

On September 9, 1947, engineers at Harvard's Computation Laboratory pulled a moth from Relay 70 of the Mark II computer and taped it into the logbook. The word 'bug' was already 70 years old — and that's exactly why the joke worked. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 03:29 EDT

The US Justice Department seized 127,271 bitcoin worth $15B — the largest forfeiture in American history traces back to a 2020 mining hack nobody reported

On October 14, 2025, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment and a civil forfeiture complaint that, taken together, represent what the Department of Justice has described as the largest asset seizure in its history: 127,271 bitcoin, valued at roughly $15 billion at the time of filing. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Canal Letter @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 03:10 EDT

Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay, and Microsoft from an Amsterdam canal house where the engineering team still eats lunch at a single long table, and the company went public worth €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel

Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay and Microsoft from a 17th-century Amsterdam canal house where engineers still share one long lunch table — and went public at €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/16/2026 01:43 EDT

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team that decides how it votes on 9,000 annual shareholder resolutions is smaller than the staff of a single Oslo restaurant

Norges Bank Investment Management runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, holds roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and processes 9,000 shareholder meetings a year with a corporate governance team you could fit around three dinner tables. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/15/2026 23:45 EDT

People who were told to speak up more, be more outgoing, and come out of their shell often spent so much energy performing extroversion that they never found out what they were actually good at

Some children get a note sent home. Too quiet. Doesn’t participate. Needs to come out of their shell. The same line tends to follow them into adult life, where it turns into feedback about speaking up more in meetings, being more visible, putting yourself out there. The standard reading of that advice is that it ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/15/2026 23:00 EDT

People who stay genuinely close to their parents well into adulthood often trace it back not to big occasions or careful conversations, but to a single quiet certainty: that arriving imperfect was never going to cost them anything

People who stay genuinely close to their parents well into adulthood often trace it back not to big occasions or careful conversations, but to a single quiet certainty: that arriving imperfect was never going to cost them anything Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/15/2026 22:58 EDT

Psychology suggests the hardest part of changing your life isn’t always failure. Sometimes it’s letting go of the identity everyone expects you to keep

There is a version of changing your life that the self-improvement shelf rarely describes. Not the part where you fail, relapse, or run out of willpower. The part where you start to succeed, and the people around you keep quietly handing you back the person you used to be. The usual story about change is ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/15/2026 20:17 EDT

Most people don’t realise the moment a long marriage actually deepens isn’t a milestone or a holiday, it’s the ordinary Tuesday when one of you finally stops performing the version the other one fell for

Long marriages don't deepen at anniversaries or milestones. They deepen on the ordinary Tuesday when one partner finally drops the curated version they were performing — and the other one chooses to stay anyway. Here's the psychology of why the unmasking moment matters more than any occasion. Read more

0

Most popular sources

  • You see 944 news out of 944.
  • Sources 61 out of 61.
Ubergizmo 0%
Irish Tech News 0%
ScienceDaily 0%
UK Tech News 0%
ReadWrite 0%
View sources »

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

17.06.2026 20:25
Last update: 20:20 EDT.
News rating updated: 03:20.

What is Times42?

Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.


Times42 © 2026