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People who keep every voicemail from a parent long after that parent has died aren't holding on unhealthily, they've discovered that a voice is the last part of someone t…

Faces can be reassembled in the mind. Voices cannot. The research on sensory memory explains why the bereaved cling to old ...
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Research suggests our most enduring regrets concern the selves we never became, not simply the mistakes we made

There is a particular kind of regret that does not attach itself to one bad decision. It gathers around a person who was ...
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We picture loneliness as an old person's burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most ...

The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed ...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got ...
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Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a rumoured public listing — and the answer sits inside a screenless device shaped by the more ...

Apple has allegedly filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI that could complicate the artificial intelligence company's path to a public listing.
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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jum…

The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as ...
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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships l…

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and ...
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Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60 million to build a “sovereign” European cyber defense — and two of its backers are …

A cybersecurity firm built by former employees of the Dutch intelligence services raised €60 million to sell “sovereign” ...
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The hardest part of a long marriage isn't always the arguments or the boredom — sometimes it's the strange grief of watching the person you married slowly become …

Long marriages ask something almost no one warns you about: the quiet grief of watching your partner slowly become someone ...
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Plant-based food sales have flatlined after years of double-digit growth, and grocery data suggests the drop-off is coming from vegans themselves, not skeptics

US plant-based food sales fell 2% in 2024 after years of double-digit growth, and the shoppers walking away aren't skeptics — ...
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Chasing happiness can be the thing that scares it off: research suggests those who prize being happy above all else often end up lonelier and less content

What follows is reading and reflection on published psychology research, not advice. We are writers, not psychologists or ...
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones ran a five-day classroom experiment called 'The Third Wave' — and by day four, 200 students had joined a m…

In five days in April 1967, a 25-year-old history teacher in Palo Alto turned a classroom question about Nazi Germany into a ...