2 Daily ‘Vices’ That Might Actually Be Good For You, By A Psychologist

The ‘vices’ of caffeinated coffee and tea were linked to lower dementia risk in a study that tracked 131,821 adults for decades, but decaf wasn’t. Here’s what that means.

Decision Debt: AI Is Creating A New Kind Of Backlog

Without embedding a connective layer, every AI capability adds to the pile of decisions rather than reducing the effort required to act on them.​

Genetically Engineered Yeast Could Build the First Martian Outposts
Genetically Engineered Yeast Could Build the First Martian Outposts

If we are ever to have a permanent presence on Mars, we will have to learn to build there. Shipping the material from Earth to build something as simple as a pressurized habitat is prohibitively expensive, so we will have to make sure of the materials …

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Meta launches Meta One subscriptions worldwide, from $2.99 to $499 a month
Meta launches Meta One subscriptions worldwide, from $2.99 to $499 a month

“To be clear, the core experience in our apps stays free,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote on Threads on Tuesday, as Meta launched its Meta One subscriptions worldwide. Meta One is a new subscription service across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and M…

Why The Hook Matters More Than The Human In AI UGC Video

Before debating human versus synthetic talent, ask a simpler question: Did the opening earn attention?​

The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators
The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed,…

I’ve spent a week with Apple Watch Ultra 4 – and it’s shaping up to be a serious endurance watch
I’ve spent a week with Apple Watch Ultra 4 – and it’s shaping up to be a serious endurance watch

I’ve spent several days with the Apple Watch Ultra 4, and while it looks familiar, the bigger battery, new health-sensing system, HRV, and faster charging are already standing out.

Open source semi: Windrose puts its electric truck online, for free
Open source semi: Windrose puts its electric truck online, for free

This week, Windrose founder and CEO Wen Han made heavy truck history by putting the CAD models for all 1,023 parts from the X9D01 base model of his Windrose E700 Class 8 electric truck online. For free.

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I’ve worn the Apple Watch Series 12 for a week — the biggest changes are underneath
I’ve worn the Apple Watch Series 12 for a week — the biggest changes are underneath

The Apple Watch Series 12 isn’t a radical redesign, but new health-tracking capabilities, faster processing, and AI features make this more than a spec bump.

Alation CEO Warns That Smarter AI Agents Can Still Get Your Business Wrong

Alation CEO Satyen Sangani bets AIOS can make enterprise AI agents more reliable through independent data governance as Snowflake and Databricks expand competing tools.