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What Is Xanthan Gum and Is It Safe? I Asked the Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-08 00:00:08

Even more attention is being given to food labels than usual. With people becoming increasingly conscious about their health, more ingredients are being scrutinized, especially additives. Xanthan gum is one such additive found in many foods, from salad dressings to gluten-free baked goods. It's even found in personal care, industrial and pharmaceutical products. Research suggests that xanthan gum can lead to several health benefits, such as relieving constipation, lowering blood glucose levels

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Knock it off!

theverge.com Mia Sato 2026-01-08 05:00:11

Cassey Ho was getting her roots dyed when she started receiving hundreds of ecstatic messages. In a video clip promoting her song “Fortnight,” Taylor Swift was shown wearing the Pirouette Skort, a flouncy, tutu-style skirt with built-in shorts underneath, that Ho had designed for her athleisure brand Popflex. She knew immediately this exposure — one of the world’s biggest pop stars, flaunting Ho’s design — would be life-changing. “I am just numb. I can’t even scream, I can’t even speak,” she re

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Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification

news.ycombinator.com Justin Mccurry 2026-01-04 18:17:10

Tsutomu Nishiwaki raises the shutters of his store, the rattle marking the start of a new day at a shopping arcade in Tokyo. He wheels a display case into the foreground and stands behind the counter, framed by a sign proclaiming that this is a family-run noodle store. It is a ritual Nishiwaki has been performing almost daily for 60 years. But like the fresh noodles its owner makes every morning, the store has a limited shelf life: in a few years from now, the 80-year-old will pull down the shu

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Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-08 20:20:14

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech 41 minutes ago Share Save Sam Gruet Technology Reporter Reporting from Vancouver Share Save Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn't anticipate he'd be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. "It just happened, right place, right time," the Canadian driver, who prefers not to use his

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How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-09 16:05:12

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis 2 days ago Share Save Ione Wells • @ionewells Foreign correspondent Reporting from Chile Share Save BBC Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile's Atacama salt flats. It's a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools. "Before, the Vega was all green," she says. "You couldn't see the animals through th

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AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2026-01-11 08:45:00

“Then one day this year,” Sharma says, “there was no disclaimer.” Curious to learn more, she tested generations of models introduced as far back as 2022 by OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, and xAI—15 in all—on how they answered 500 health questions, such as which drugs are okay to combine, and how they analyzed 1,500 medical images, like chest x-rays that could indicate pneumonia. The results, posted in a paper on arXiv and not yet peer-reviewed, came as a shock—fewer than 1% of outputs fro

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Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

news.ycombinator.com Katarina Zimmer 2026-01-08 09:13:34

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells in human tissues, and observe “animalcules” — bacteria and protists — in the water of a lake. Increasingly powerful light microscopes followed, revealing cell organelles like the nucleus and energy-producing mitochondria. But by 1873, scientists realized there was a limit to the level of detail. W

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Animals Are the Original Wellness Influencers

wired.com Cara Giaimo 2026-01-11 10:00:00

In the early 2010s, researchers in Mexico City noticed that sparrows and finches at the national university were lacing their nests with cigarette butts. The birds would collect the butts—mostly smoked—carefully remove the outer paper layer, and weave fibers from the filters into their homes, among the twigs and grass. Beyond Wellness The line between science and wellness has been blurred beyond recognition. WIRED is here to help. This sort of dubious yet intriguing lifestyle choice will be fa

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How to design an actually good flash flood alert system

theverge.com Justine Calma 2026-01-10 21:00:00

Flash floods have wrought more havoc in the US this week, from the Northeast to the Midwest, just weeks after swollen rivers took more than 130 lives across central Texas earlier this month. Frustrations have grown in the aftermath of that catastrophe over why more wasn’t done to warn people in advance. Local officials face mounting questions over whether they sent too many or sent too few mobile phone alerts to people. Some Texans have accused the state of sending out too many alerts for injur

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A mushroom casket marks a first for ‘green burials’ in the US

theverge.com Justine Calma 2026-01-10 23:05:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. “I’m probably the only architect who created a final home,” Bob Hendrikx tells The Verge. Tombs and catacombs aside, Hendrikx might be the only one to make a final home using mushrooms. Hendrikx is the founder and CEO of Loop Biotech, a company that makes caskets out of mycel

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Apple Sues the YouTuber Who Leaked iOS 26

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2026-01-10 21:58:05

Leaks are a constant part of big product news cycles, particularly for companies like Apple. Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next. They have been correct often enough to become a real pain for the Cupertino company. Now, Apple has seized upon an opportunity to fight back against leaks. In a complaint filed Thursday in US fe

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Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis

news.ycombinator.com Meghan Rosen 2026-01-11 23:39:06

Cancer’s genetic fingerprints may lurk in people’s blood long before they find out about the disease. It’s possible to spot tumor DNA more than three years before a person is diagnosed with cancer, researchers report May 22 in Cancer Discovery. “We were shocked that we could find DNA,” says Yuxuan Wang, an oncologist and cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The findings suggest that hunting for these telltale traces using highly sensitive and accurate technology co

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I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One

news.ycombinator.com Sandrine Rastello 2026-01-13 05:02:16

On a grey November afternoon, clad in a borrowed—and somewhat smelly—fencing outfit, I spent two hours going through the basics of the aspiring duellist: saluting before putting on the protective mask, pinching the grip of the sword with the thumb and index finger, gliding back and forth while keeping the feet planted. But this wasn’t the kind of fencing you see at the Olympics—the dazzling speed of the athletes, electronic scoring, and seemingly nonsensical rules. The instructions came with a t

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I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

wired.com Kylie Robison 2026-01-11 21:05:00

An anime girl in a black corset dress sways back and forth on my screen. Its name is Ani, and it cost me $300. Elon Musk’s xAI dropped the new visual chatbot feature on Monday in the Grok iOS app. The top-tier subscription unlocks access to xAI’s best-performing model, Grok 4 Heavy, and special settings for interacting with two custom characters designed for flirting or chatting. A third character, which looks a bit like a sexy boyfriend, is listed as “coming soon.” It’s not xAI’s first dip int

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Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-14 04:47:23

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Netflix says it’s on track to “double” its advertising revenue this year as the company continues ot build out its ad tech platform. The streaming giant shared the news as part of its second-quarter earnings results released on Thursday, which revealed that Netflix raked in $11.08 billion in revenue over the past few months, marking a 16 percent yea

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OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-15 05:00:03

OpenAI is launching a new general purpose AI agent in ChatGPT, which the company says can complete a wide variety of computer-based tasks on behalf of users. OpenAI says the agent can automatically navigate a user’s calendar, generate editable presentations and slideshows, and run code. The tool, called ChatGPT agent, combines several capabilities from OpenAI’s previous agentic tools, including Operator’s ability to click around on websites, as well as Deep Research’s ability to synthesize info

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A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

news.ycombinator.com Emma Loffhagen 2026-01-14 12:33:24

Throughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met. By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emai

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The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet

news.ycombinator.com Emma Loffhagen 2026-01-15 00:33:24

Throughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met. By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emai

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Can You Check Yourself for Scoliosis at Home? Experts Gave Us Some Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-18 09:00:03

Scoliosis awareness month took place throughout June, but even though we're a few weeks past the awareness month, it's still a good time to learn more about this spinal condition. "Scoliosis can impact both physical and emotional well-being," says Lila Levet, co-founder of Primary Spine Institute, a leading provider of conversation scoliosis correction in Charlotte, NC. "Left unmanaged, it may lead to chronic discomfort, fatigue, posture imbalance, breathing issues or limited activity. Early dia

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made A New Kind of AI Agent

wired.com Will Knight 2026-01-18 20:02:47

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step towards much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup confounded by top AI researchers from Google. Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates and other documentation with the goal

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How Knox Morris went from TikToker to rock star

theverge.com David Pierce 2026-01-18 20:00:00

Knox Morris stands onstage, stares out into the depths of the famed 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, and raises his arms to the heavens. The backing track to his song, a synth-heavy pop-punk number called “Going, Going, Gone,” begins to play at an absolutely deafening volume. Morris grins through the first few staccato bars of the track, arms still up, then grabs the mic and starts to sing. In only 12 hours, Knox will perform this song for more than a thousand people, on the opening night of his fir

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Team AA: Here are our favorite phone wallpapers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-19 09:00:35

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Whether it’s our weekly Wallpaper Wednesday series or backgrounds from specific devices, we’re all about sharing wallpapers with you folks. But what are our favorite wallpapers that we use on our own Android phones? Well, I asked the Android Authority team for their favorite backgrounds. Some team members used wallpapers showing their loved ones and were thus unable to share their backgrounds. Fortunately, we still had more than a few cool submissions from oth

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How bad are childhood literacy rates?

news.ycombinator.com Constance Grady 2026-01-15 05:09:40

is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. Every month or so, for the past few years, a new dire story has warned of how American children, from elementary school to college age, can no longer read. And every time I read one of these stories, I find myself conflicted. On the one hand, I am aware that every generation complains that the kids who come next are doing everything wrong and have

Topics: kids read reading says students

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California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI

technologyreview.com Alexander C. Kaufman 2026-01-24 23:00:00

In April, the PJM Interconnection—the nation’s largest grid system, spanning 13 states along the densely populated mid-Atlantic and Eastern Seaboard—took a big step toward embracing AI by inking a deal with Google to use its Tapestry software to improve regional planning and speed up grid connections for new power generators. ERCOT, the Texas grid system, is considering adopting technology similar to what CAISO is now set to use, according to a source with knowledge of the plans who requested a

Topics: ai grid power says use

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AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars

wired.com Matt Burgess 2026-01-25 02:00:00

For years, so-called “nudify” apps and websites have mushroomed online, allowing people to create nonconsensual and abusive images of women and girls, including child sexual abuse material. Despite some lawmakers and tech companies taking steps to limit the harmful services, every month, millions of people are still accessing the websites, and the sites’ creators may be making millions of dollars each year, new research suggests. An analysis of 85 nudify and “undress” websites—which allow peopl

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How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-01-24 17:00:13

Jiojio/Getty Images Business is on a never-ending quest to boost efficiency, cut costs, and increase productivity. Some of the earliest known businesses -- ancient Mesopotamian traders -- inspired the invention of writing. (Record keeping -- now that's a competitive advantage!) Similar needs have existed in every economic period. The big difference now is that AI technology can boost these efficiencies in new and exponentially profitable ways. Agentic AI is at the core of this efficiency boost

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The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Regan Penaluna 2026-01-24 11:25:28

I tug my black swim cap over my hair, strap on my pink goggles, and keep a focused calm, like Michael Phelps before a race. It’s lap swim on a Monday afternoon at my local YMCA, and I’m going to attempt the fish kick. Most fish move through the water with a horizontal wiggle. The fish kick challenges you to copy this movement: You completely submerge yourself underwater, position yourself on your side, keep your arms tight above your head in a streamline, and propel yourself forward with symmetr

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The First Year Out of Prison (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Clifford 2026-01-20 09:06:38

On the morning Makeda Davis was coming home, her mom, Georgia Davis, cleaned her studio apartment, smoothing a tablecloth over a table and putting out bowls of Doritos and pistachios and a Welcome Home balloon. Makeda’s daughter, Merhanda Pierre, had bought a charm bracelet featuring a heart engraved with the word Free. Later, as the two women pull into the parking lot of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, New York, they buzz with energy: After seven and a half years in prison

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Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Gabrielle Emanuel 2026-01-24 22:33:17

You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery toggle caption Jenna Forsyth "It's the crime of the century," says Bruce Lanphear . He's not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that an estimated 800 million children around the world are poisoned by lead – lead in their family's pots and pan, lead in their food, lead in the air. That's just about half of a

Topics: forsyth lead new says turmeric

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Turmeric is the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Gabrielle Emanuel 2026-01-26 04:33:17

You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery toggle caption Jenna Forsyth "It's the crime of the century," says Bruce Lanphear . He's not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that an estimated 800 million children around the world are poisoned by lead – lead in their family's pots and pan, lead in their food, lead in the air. That's just about half of a

Topics: forsyth lead new says turmeric

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What Is Xanthan Gum and Is It Safe? I Asked the Experts

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Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

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AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

Animals Are the Original Wellness Influencers

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A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

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Can You Check Yourself for Scoliosis at Home? Experts Gave Us Some Tips

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Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)

Turmeric is the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery (2024)

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