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A new study raises alarms about plastics and heart disease

The news made for an alarming headline: Research showed that common chemicals in plastics were associated with 350,000 heart disease deaths worldwide in 2018. The statistic came from a study published last week in the journal eBioMedicine. The...

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Can Metformin slow the aging process?

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EU accuses TikTok of violating digital rules over ads

The EU accused TikTok on Thursday of breaking digital rules after concluding that the Chinese-owned social media platform is not transparent enough about advertisements.The European Commission "found...

Will a Federal Judge Break Up Google? On Monday, April 21, 2025, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s online search monopoly. The outcome could alter Google and Silicon Valley. (Edmon de Haro/The New York

Will a judge break up Google?

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The US wants to break up Google and Meta. That could be hard

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AI will double electricity consumption in data centres by 2030: IEA

Building smarter-than-human AI systems has become the explicit goal of some of Silicon Valleys biggest companies. (Shira Inbar/The New York Times)

AI will soon be smarter than humans