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For 28 days, Keshav had a new item on his daily to-do list: masturbate for research purposes. Both before and after self-pleasuring, he logged his mood, energy levels, cravings for various vices, and whether he was procrastinating. Keshav was taking part in AI companion company Joi AI’s experiment assessing
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In Brief 3:44 AM PDT · August 14, 2026 Chinese autonomous vehicle maker Pony AI and Uber plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to four cities in Europe as part of an expanded partnership. The announcement illustrates the growing ambitions of both companies to carve out market share in the
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* Watch Palestine 36 for free on BFI Player (UK) with 14-day trial * BLOCKED? Use NordVPN to watch local streams anywhere (Save 75%) Palestine 36 is a moving historical drama that revolves around the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt in Mandatory Palestine. Instead of portraying the usual hero-vs-villain narrative, director Annemarie Jacir (Wajib,
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* Kanto Audio launches Obi3 Gen 2 turntable * Follows on from October 2025 previous model * Has speed sensor, user-friendly manual arm, automatic size sensing Canadian hi-fi brand Kanto Audio has just unveiled a second-gen model of a turntable it originally unveiled in October 2025; now the Obi3 Gen 2 is here,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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The use of electrical muscle stimulation as a shortcut to improving physical fitness was first commercialized sometime in the early 19th century, and while EMS has waxed and waned in popularity over the years, it’s never gone away. Today it is widely used across rehabilitative medical applications but also
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Enter the MagSafe Accessory World WIRED has been testing MagSafe accessories for years; you should totally take advantage of the vast ecosystem with your Pixel 10. Whether you want a magnetic wallet or phone tripod, there’s a corresponding WIRED guide with plenty of tried-and-true recommendations. Most of our picks
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Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that a breach at one of its shipping partners exposed the personal data of more than 13,000 customers. The company'
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In today’s supply chain, a week is not merely a long time. It can be the difference between protecting margins and absorbing avoidable cost; maintaining availability and losing sales; or preserving customer trust and explaining why another commitment has been missed. Geopolitical tensions, tariff changes, economic uncertainty and supplier
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* Insomniac Games explains why Logan's suit in Marvel's Wolverine heals itself * Head of technology Mike Fitzgerald says there are "some practicalities to it" and "you can’t play through most of the game wearing just shredded rags on his body" * He adds
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The recent release of Anthropic Mythos is a wake-up call for the tech industry – and the fact that Anthropic themselves chose not to release it publicly speaks volumes about the level of risk we have now reached. AI agents have evolved from chatbots with upgraded capabilities to effective employees with
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The personal information of 1.6 million individuals appears to have been stolen from the widely used business communications platform RingCentral by a notorious extortion group. The incident occurred in July and was the result of a “sophisticated social engineering campaign”, RingCentral said in a notice on its website. “Upon
