- newThe EU just approved a food additive that curbs weight gain
European regulators just approved a food additive designed to keep you from gaining weight. It's inulin propionate ester, or IPE, cleared for sale in the EU after 15 years of work by researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Glasgow. — Read the rest The post The EU just approved a food additive that curbs weight gain appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 1 hour ago 9 Jul 26, 10:30pm -
- newMeta patented a wearable that listens all day to guess your feelings
Meta has patented a wearable that listens to you all day and guesses how you feel. As 404 Media reports, the device would continuously record audio and surroundings, then use AI to read your emotional state from "sighs, laughter" and other vocal cues, ostensibly to fine-tune workout suggestions. — Read the rest The post Meta patented a wearable that listens all day to guess your feelings appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 1 hour ago 9 Jul 26, 10:27pm -
- newCongo's Ebola outbreak has killed 600 and is reaching new provinces
Congo's latest Ebola outbreak has killed 600 people and is now spreading into provinces that had been untouched. Authorities have logged 1,759 confirmed cases since declaring the outbreak on May 15, and new suspected cases have surfaced in Kisangani, in Tshopo province, well beyond the epicenter in Ituri. — Read the rest The post Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed 600 and is reaching new provinces appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 1 hour ago 9 Jul 26, 10:25pm -
- newThe novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy
The Paris Review was partly a CIA front, and one of its founders led a double life to match. In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen reviews a new biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, nature writer, and CIA operative who helped start the magazine as cover. — Read the rest The post The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 1 hour ago 9 Jul 26, 10:24pm -
- newMexican Government files charges against ICE for murder
At the time that this post was written, at least 50 individuals had died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The deaths were due to a lack of care for people with chronic medical issues like heart disease and diabetes, and, thanks to a shocking lack of oversight, the completion of suicide by individuals under extreme mental duress in custody or who suffered from pre-existing mental health conditions. — Read the rest The post Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 3 hours ago 9 Jul 26, 8:57pm -
- newPhotographic memory is not real, but this guy's brain came close enough to scare everyone
In 1929, a Moscow newspaper editor discovered that one of his reporters never wrote anything down because his brain was apparently already doing the recording.That is where the popular myth starts to wobble. People talk about photographic memory as if the brain can take a perfect screenshot of a page and retrieve it on demand. — Read the rest The post Photographic memory is not real, but this guy's brain came close enough to scare everyone appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 9 Jul 26, 7:35pm -
- newSean Astin tells Congress AI should not get to steal your face
SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin testified before Congress about nonconsensual AI replicas, warning that deepfakes are not just an actor problem but a reality problem.In his testimony, Astin said AI can now make people appear to say things they never said, endorse things they do not believe, or confess to things they know nothing about. — Read the rest The post Sean Astin tells Congress AI should not get to steal your face appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 9 Jul 26, 7:23pm -
- newMike Johnson likes birthright citizenship when it scores goals
Folarin Balogun is eligible to play for the United States because he was born in Brooklyn, which is awkward for Republicans currently trying to make "born in America" mean "terms and conditions apply.""Like all good things, it can be abused, and birthright citizenship goes back to the root of the country, the history of the tradition. — Read the rest The post Mike Johnson likes birthright citizenship when it scores goals appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 9 Jul 26, 7:09pm -
- newAstronomers keep finding giant radio rings in space they can't explain
Astronomers keep finding enormous rings of radio light in deep space that nothing in the textbooks can account for. Each is more than 50 times the width of the Milky Way, glows only at radio wavelengths — invisible to optical, infrared, and X-ray telescopes — and is brightest around its edges. — Read the rest The post Astronomers keep finding giant radio rings in space they can't explain appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 9 Jul 26, 6:26pm -
- newA 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery
The Wicked Bible is a 1631 reprint of the King James Bible that accidentally ordered its readers to sin. Setting the Ten Commandments, London's royal printers dropped the word "not" from Exodus 20:14, so the Seventh Commandment read "Thou shalt commit adultery." — Read the rest The post A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 9 Jul 26, 6:21pm -