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Slashdot- COVID Pandemic Aged Brains By an Average of 5.5 Months, Study Finds July 23, 2025An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, people's brains showed signs of aging, including shrinkage, according to the report published in Nature Communications. People who got infected with the virus also showed deficits […]
- The Escobar Phone Scam Saga Has Finally Come To an End July 23, 2025Olof Kyros Gustafsson, former CEO of Escobar, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges related to the company's phone scam operation. The Department of Justice says Gustafsson took orders for phones branded with Pablo Escobar's likeness but failed to deliver products, instead transferring customer money for personal use. When customers sought refunds, Gustafsson fraudulently […]
- Humans Can Be Tracked With Unique 'Fingerprint' Based On How Their Bodies Block Wi-Fi Signals July 23, 2025Researchers from La Sapienza University in Rome have developed "WhoFi," a system that uses the way a person's body distorts Wi-Fi signals to re-identify them across different locations -- even if they're not carrying a phone. By training a deep neural network on these subtle signal distortions, the researchers claim WhoFi is able to achieve […]
- Amazon Buys Bee AI Wearable That Listens To Everything You Say July 23, 2025Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that makes a $49.99 AI-powered wearable that passively listens to conversations and generates personalized summaries and suggestions. "You can also give the device permission to access your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events to help inform its AI-generated insights, as well as create a searchable history of […]
- Nvidia's CUDA Platform Now Support RISC-V July 22, 2025An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia announced that its CUDA software platform will be made compatible with the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) on the CPU side of things. The news was confirmed during a presentation during a RISC-V event. This is a major […]
- COVID Pandemic Aged Brains By an Average of 5.5 Months, Study Finds July 23, 2025
- Ars Technica
- 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: A-M’s ultimate GT goes topless July 22, 2025Only a handful of the V12 convertibles will come to the US each year.
- Toy company may regret coming for “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker, experts say July 22, 2025Possible legal paths to revive a shuttered video series on TikTok and Instagram.
- A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal. July 22, 2025EFF says the "mass surveillance scheme" violates constitutional protections.
- Apple Intelligence news summaries are back, with a big red disclaimer July 22, 2025Apple disabled news summaries earlier this year after they mangled headlines.
- Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe July 22, 2025Gordon Pennycook: "It might be one of the biggest false consensus effects that's been observed."
- 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: A-M’s ultimate GT goes topless July 22, 2025
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