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What you need to know about brain-training games

Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65—more than 4%—have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in.

And whether it’s due to fear of cognitive decline or noticing lapses in cognition when we are stressed, many of us have had moments when we thought we could use an extra cognitive boost.

The good news is research has shown that people can ma

Trump’s new DOGE task force is tailor-made to benefit Elon Musk’s businesses

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as cochairs of a new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. This appointment allows Musk the opportunity to simultaneously do two things that are very important to him: publicly complain about government policies that cost him money, and tweet deeply unfunny jokes about the fact that the acronym is also the name

Dude Perfect went from YouTube to raising $100M. Here’s how its new CEO wants to grow the brand

Over the past 15 years, sports and entertainment company Dude Perfect—which started as a YouTube channel where five best friends posted videos of trick shots in different sports—has grown into a media juggernaut with attendant cruises, toy lines, and TV deals. Its content has expanded to include highly produced biweekly videos where they break world records or attempt challenges—sometimes, with the help of famous guests.

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If AGI arrives during Trump’s next term, ‘none of the other stuff matters’

More than 33,000 people—including a hall of fame of AI experts—signed a March 2023 open letter calling on the tech industry to pause development of AI models more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4 for six months rather than continue the rush toward Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. “Powerful AI systems should

Lawsuit alleging Elon Musk rigged dogecoin is dropped

A lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of rigging dogecoin is ending.

Investors in the cryptocurrency who said the world’s richest person and his electric car company Tesla committed fraud and insider trading are withdrawing their appeal from an Aug. 29 dismissal of their case.

‘They’re the most pissed off people on the planet’: The internet is falling in love with the drama on the Crumbl cookie subreddit

Allow me to introduce you to my new favorite place on the internet: the Crumbl cookie subreddit. 

The fan-run subreddit r/CrumblCookies, which boasts 77,000 members, recently went viral after a user on X posted about how much everyone on there seems to actually hate Crumbl cookies. “They’re the most pissed off people on the planet,” the X user adds.

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Australia is planning to block TikTok and Instagram for kids under 16

How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult.

The Australian government’s plan to ban children from

AI is already taking jobs, research shows. Routine tasks are the first to go

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are already impacting the job market. A new study shows a 21% reduction in demand for freelance jobs that are automation-prone and don’t require consistent human attention.

Researchers from Harvard Business School, the German Institute for Economic Research, and Imperial College London Business School studied 1,388,711 job posts on a major (but undisclosed) global free

‘Hawk Tuah’ girl launches an AI-powered dating app called Pookie Tools

Not many viral stars are able to translate their five minutes of fame into something tangible. But Haliey Welch, better known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” has done just that.

Welch became a trending figure after sharing some unconventional bedroom advice during a man-on-the-street interview. The clip made the rounds on social media, and Welch quickly capitalized on the newfo

People are panic buying Plan B after Trump’s win—and Amazon sellers are raising the pills’ price

In the hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, a number of people took to social media to hammer home a simple directive: Buy Plan B now, before it’s too late.

People are concerned that the new administration will


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