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When a Sore Throat Attacks the Brain
Jessica Slice
One Friday morning in September 2025, my 8-year-old daughter, Rose, woke up with a sore throat. Since her toddler years, we have asked her to hold her hands apart to show us how bad something hurts.
The Cut
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Trumps Childhood-Vaccination Meddling Is All Wrong
Nia Prater
This week President Donald Trump attempted to upend how vaccines are administered to children in the U.S., signing an executive order that lowers the recommended number of childhood vaccinations and

New York Magazine
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This Compact ESEE Knife Solves the Carry Problem Before You E...
Rei Padla
If you buy something from a link in this article, we may earn a commission. Learn more ESEE Knives offers its ESEE-3 fixed blade in a black-on-black configuration called the Model 3P-B. The compact

The Gadgeteer
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25 Years Later, A Star Trek: Enterprise Promotion Finally Hap...
John Orquiola
25 years after Star Trek: Enterprise premiered, one character gets a long-awaited promotion that's performed live by the actor. Star Trek: Enterprise has experienced a remarkable turnaround. When it

Screen Rant
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Tires Season 3 Review: Shane Gillis' Hit Netflix Comedy Deliv...
Greg MacArthur
Netflix's hit workplace comedy series Tires has come a long way from its modest six-episode first season in 2024. Co-star and executive producer Shane Gillis took a large financial risk by taking out

Screen Rant
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Whats behind this summers heat, and why 2027 could be worse
Casey Crownhart
Weve already entered an El Nio phase, defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a period when we see the temperature in a specific part of the Pacific Ocean get 0.5 C hotter

MIT Technology Review
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Dont lose your streak!: 20 Duolingo memes for learning langua...
Giuliana Tiscioni , Giuliana Tiscioni
Many of us have had that language-learning bug bite us at some point in our lives. Perhaps we read that learning a new language is good for our brains, or maybe we have family and friends living abro
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Parents take on Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap in 3,000 youth...
Danny Bradbury
A group of big tech firms is fighting to stop roughly 3,000 youth safety lawsuits from moving forward, and they just lost a critical procedural battle in court. The lawsuits, brought by attorneys ge

Malwarebytes.com
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Israel Justified Its Wars by Calling Enemies Crazy. Now, the ...
Eli Clifton, Ian S. Lustick
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem on Sept. 15, 2025. Photo: Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Eli Clifton

The Intercept
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Chevrolet to stop selling cars in China, vehicles will contin...
Jonathan James Tan
After 21 years and over 7.5 million owners in China, Chevrolet is leaving the worlds biggest car market, after selling fewer than 9,000 units there last year, according to CarNewsChina. Chevys will

Paul Tan's Automotive News
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Sony says that Xperia 1 VIII sales are strong, calls the micr...
Peter
Japanese publication ITmedia Mobile interviewed Sonys Shohachi Ike and Eri Kitazawa, who brought some encouraging news about the performance of the Xperia 1 VIII. You may have thought that Sony had g

GSMArena.com
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Frantic Trump is stoking a raging news cycle to bury this new...
Tara Dublin
Among the multiple bombshells that dropped in DC this month, theres one extra big one that we cant allow to get lost in the raging garbage fire news cycle Trump somehow created so that no one would t

Raw Story
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Akira Affiliate Crashes Ransomware After Attempting EDR Evasion
Phil Muncaster
A ransomware affiliate's attempt to disable security tools by rebooting a victim's system into Safe Mode backfired, with the tactic apparently preventing the malware from successfully encrypting the

Infosecurity Magazine
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Steam Controller Gains HID Drivers for Non-Steam Games
Julian Horsey
Valves recent updates to the Steam Controller bring a mix of exciting advancements and practical improvements. Among the most notable changes is the addition of built-in HID driver support, which all

Geeky Gadgets
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Twitch is training AI on livestreams, says it's an opt out fe...
Connor Makar
Twitch - the popular gaming and IRL streaming platform - has announced it'll start training generative AI models on those livestreaming on the platform. This was immediately faced with pushback from

Eurogamer.net
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Mistral got a US patent on tool calls in 118 days. Without pr...
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On 30 June 2026 the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Mistral AI a patent titled "Code implemented tool calls". The application was filed on 4 March 2026. That is 118 days from filing

Agent-wars.com
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Apple to Reportedly Take Another Stab at Mixing AI and News. ...
Mike Pearl
Siri AI doesnt suck, which is a minor miracle. But new reporting from the Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is feeling itself so much that its in talks with news publishers to form licensing deals

Gizmodo.com
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Mark Zuckerbergs Awkward Pivot to AI Optimism
John Herrman
For what feels like a long time now, the big AI companies have been talking about how future versions of their technology could destroy millions of jobs or escape control in ways that pose dire risks

New York Magazine
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Your Daily Horoscope by Madame Clairevoyant: August 13, 2026
Claire Comstock-Gay
As you deal with the aftermath of yesterdays dramatic solar eclipse in Leo, Mercury and Venus (in Leo and Libra, respectively) offer a bit of relief. With supportive energy flowing between the planet

The Cut
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The Fight for Special Education
Pepper Stetler
Feature / August 13, 2026 Students were denied special education services even before Trump began dismantling the Department of Education. This Texas family is fighting back. Illustration by Hanna

Thenation.com
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The CIA Targets Cuba Again
Peter Kornbluh
Covert operations add to Trumps ruthless regime change efforts. Ad Policy A portrait of the late Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, on August 10, 2026. The United States made numerous unsuccessful attem

Thenation.com
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Top New Jersey lawmaker asks state to investigate Seton Hall ...
Dustin Racioppi
A senior New Jersey lawmaker has asked the state attorney general to investigate Seton Hall University over its handling of sexual harassment and abuse allegations, according to a letter obtained by

Politico
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US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ac...
Al Jazeera Staff
The United States ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has said a days-long siege of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers amounts to terror. Huckabee, a staunch ally of Israel who has voiced suppor

Al Jazeera English
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