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Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners
The audio sounds like it’s being played underwater. Still, it’s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can’t speak.
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Restaurant Workers With Narcan Are on the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
As fentanyl overdoses in public spaces spike, the lifesaving drug Narcan is being stocked by more and more bars and restaurants.
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Carolyn Hax: Relative looks for polite exit from messenger role with ill nephew
How does this letter writer step down as thoughts-and-prayers messenger between loved ones and an ailing nephew?
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Carolyn Hax: After dad’s death, their progressive-activist mom marries a bigot
A letter writer feels the loss of both parents after widowed progressive mom stands by her racist, homophobic new husband.
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Carolyn Hax: Parent feels ‘personally rejected’ that son won’t have friends over
A parent feels hurt their 17-year-old son doesn’t want to invite his friends over to the cluttered family home.
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X Reverses Slowed Access to News Outlets, but Rival Sites Still Affected
Elon Musk’s social media service “throttled” access to sites such as Substack and Facebook, according to an analysis, but began reversing the slow access to news sites.
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Prosecutors Detail Evidence Against Sam Bankman-Fried
In a filing, prosecutors laid out the evidence they plan to use to convict the founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, who faces trial in October.
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Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Wisconsin News Site Out of Business
When a north-central Wisconsin news site reported that a businessman had uttered a homophobic slur, he sued, claiming defamation. The legal bills are piling up.
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A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job
Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and robots, which can reduce the timelines and waste that have made construction increasingly costly.
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Country Garden: Why Its Financial Crisis Poses a Risk to China
Country Garden was China’s biggest real estate developer. Now it is staring down default, facing billions of dollars in losses and $200 billion in unpaid bills.