For decades, research has linked coffee consumption to longer life and lower risk of chronic disease—but exactly how those benefits occur has remained unclear. Now, new research from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) suggests that compounds in coffee may work, in part, by activating a receptor in the body known as NR4A1—a protein increasingly recognized for its role in aging, stress response and disease.

Why we believe alerts, not dashboards, are the real core of infrastructure monitoring and how to build a system you actually trust.

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Studying brain scan data from individuals — not group averages — reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, a Stanford Medicine study found.

A hotel in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, known for offering one of Japan’s earliest sunrise views, has remained closed months after its sudden suspension of operations in late 2025, as an investigation reveals the operator behind the property acquired dozens of facilities nationwide, with at least 24 now shut or out of business, raising questions about a business model allegedly tied to visa acquisition for Chinese investors.

Preview, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Round 4, Laguna Seca

Renewables funds attract biggest flows for five years, as focus shifts from climate change to geopolitical crisis

The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.

IBM’s most expansive model release to date covers new language, vision, speech, embedding, and guardian models — tailored for enterprise workloads.

A study analyzing 1,154 children and adolescents breaks new ground in how to think about the growing diagnosis.

A Sunnyvale man says the Waymo that took him to the airport neglected to open the trunk for him to retrieve his luggage before driving off. The company wants him to pay for shipping, or take two complimentary Waymo rides to the depot in SF to retrieve it.

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AI is quietly entering the bedroom — and taking notes. A look at connected pleasure devices, biometric data, and the privacy questions nobody is asking.

Why I moved from WordPress to a static, markdown-first blog, trading platform convenience for ownership, searchability, and archive control

A TUI application for managing systemd services. Contribute to matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.

They may have seemed cute when they debuted, but delivery robots are clogging sidewalks, creeping through intersections and generally creating many more problems than they solve.

RV32IM emulator that runs DOOM. Contribute to lalitshankarch/rvcore development by creating an account on GitHub.

“If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?” That’s the question that esteemed scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins asks in a new column at UnHerd , after becoming convinced that his AI chatbot (Anthropic’s “Claude”) is having genuine conversations with him. Dawkins is hardly alone in this view – many users of AI chatbots come to this conclusion, after having what appear to be long, intelligent back-and-forths with their […]

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Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial.

One of the linguistic shocks faced by North Korean defectors upon their arrival in South Korea involves the relationship between the words nakji and ojingeo. In South Korea, these words mean “octopus” and “squid” respectively, but in North Korea, the meanings are reversed. One defector recalls inviting South Korean coworkers to have soju with ojingeo. […]

Hollywood gets a little firmer in its stance on generative AI by keeping it away from two of the biggest Oscars categories.

HTTP caching never quite made sense, until AI tools made it legible enough to actually implement. And the reason it finally mattered: the audience had quietly changed.