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Wellness
fromEntrepreneur
6 hours ago

If Wellness Feels Heavy, Read This Before You Try Another Trend

Wellness culture has shifted from self-care to pressured self-surveillance, turning restorative practices into performance measures that increase anxiety and exhaustion.
Wellness
fromSocial Media Explorer
3 hours ago

Ozone Therapy Treatment Dubai The Rise of Natural Healing and Energy Boost - Social Media Explorer

Ozone therapy boosts cellular oxygenation, enhances energy and recovery, supports immunity and detoxification, and offers anti-aging benefits for wellness-focused individuals.
Wellness
fromInsideHook
18 hours ago

Can You Pass the "Underwear Fitness Test"?

Preserve balance, strength, and flexibility now to maintain everyday mobility and independence into older age.
Digital life
fromIrish Independent
8 hours ago

Government to confirm plans for social media age ban - but critics call strategy 'half-cocked'

Irish Government plans to restrict social media use for under-16s and prioritize EU-wide age verification during its European Presidency, while denying a teenage smartphone ban.
Digital life
fromMedium
3 hours ago

Are we performing ourselves into exhaustion?

Designers and professionals modify their selves through AI and self-surveillance, prioritizing performative online presence at the cost of authenticity and psychological strain.
OMG science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

Weird Little Red Dots' in space are something we've never seen

Tiny, extremely compact, bright red sources called Little Red Dots pervade JWST early-universe images around 600 million years after the big bang.
OMG science
fromYoga Journal
2 days ago

Everything the Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aquarius Mean for You

The February 17, 2026 solar eclipse new Moon in Aquarius triggers evolutionary new beginnings, urging innovation, surrender to intuition, and release of perfectionism.
Tech industry
fromCIO
1 hour ago

5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

Enterprise data centers remain active and stable, supported by substantial spending and persistent on‑prem server/storage capacity despite rapid cloud and hyperscaler growth.
Tech industry
fromTechzine Global
11 hours ago

VMware customers reduce dependency after Broadcom acquisition

86% of VMware customers are reducing dependence due to price pressure, strategic uncertainty, rising costs, and changes to licensing and support after Broadcom's acquisition.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
21 hours ago

Meta's new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips

Meta signed a multiyear deal to deploy millions of Nvidia Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs across its data centers.
UX design
fromMedium
9 hours ago

The problem with best practices in the age of AI

AI-generated designs that follow established SaaS best practices often produce professional yet forgettable results, reinforcing visual sameness over originality.
Privacy professionals
fromLos Angeles Times
21 hours ago

Playboy founder's widow warns Hugh Hefner Foundation about pictures of underage girls

Crystal Hefner alleges Hugh M. Hefner's foundation holds scrapbooks and journals with sexual images, including possibly nonconsensual and underage photos, and seeks to block distribution.
UX design
fromMedium
9 hours ago

Dinosaurs and designers are underrated

Designers should learn from diverse sources, including art, fiction, aviation, and paleontology, to gain unexpected UX insights.
#bot-detection
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
14 hours ago

CISA Flags Four Security Flaws Under Active Exploitation in Latest KEV Update

CISA added four actively exploited high-severity vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog, including Chrome use-after-free, TeamT5 arbitrary upload, Zimbra SSRF, and Windows ActiveX RCE.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
9 hours ago

Dell RecoverPoint for VMs Zero-Day CVE-2026-22769 Exploited Since Mid-2024

Critical CVE-2026-22769 in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (hard-coded credential) enables unauthenticated root-level compromise and was exploited by UNC6201 since mid-2024.
Marketing tech
fromMarTech
6 hours ago

Will AI make your CRM more effective? | MarTech

CRM systems can drive sales and marketing revenue, but most teams have not yet realized that potential.
Marketing tech
fromInc
1 day ago

If Your Analytics Start at Your Website, You're Already Behind

Analytics must shift from site-centric measurement to tracking journeys across external social, app, and marketplace ecosystems where most discovery and conversion now occur.
#remote-work
National Football League
fromMusket Fire
20 hours ago

Patriots finally make the Zak Kuhr move fans have been waiting for

Zak Kuhr has been promoted to New England Patriots defensive coordinator after successfully assuming play-calling duties and leading a top postseason defense.
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
8 hours ago

AI In Advertising: What's Real Beyond The Buzz | AdExchanger

AI is rapidly transforming advertising but delivers measurable impact mainly by enabling agent-to-agent transactions, efficient audience targeting, and scalable activation of premium streaming inventory.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerworld
14 hours ago

With physical AI, gunslingers and risk takers need not apply

Physical AI requires cautious, regulated deployment with clear boundaries and human oversight, especially in controlled industrial settings to prevent dangerous mistakes.
#new-england-patriots
fromESPN.com
21 hours ago
National Football League

Patriots' Zak Kuhr elevated from interim role to full-time D-coordinator

fromESPN.com
21 hours ago
National Football League

Patriots' Zak Kuhr elevated from interim role to full-time D-coordinator

Social media marketing
fromForbes
8 hours ago

The Real Advantage Of Short-Form Video-And How To Get It Right

Authentic organic short-form video builds familiarity and trust, attracts engagement and opportunities, and requires minimal budget, equipment, or planning.
Media industry
fromAdExchanger
15 hours ago

How The Minnesota Star Tribune Protects Advertisers While Covering ICE Crackdowns | AdExchanger

The Minnesota Star Tribune paused advertiser campaigns on sensitive coverage about ICE and police-related killings, sacrificing ad revenue to protect reader and brand safety.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
4 hours ago

Oxford Researcher Warns That AI Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster

AI industry faces a real risk of a Hindenburg-style catastrophe that could destroy public trust due to heavy investment and intense commercial pressure.
Wine
fromMail Online
10 hours ago

What your favourite WINE says about you, according to science

Personality traits like openness, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism are linked to preference for wines with different alcohol levels.
Europe news
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 hours ago

Ukraine sports minister slams Russia's Winter Paralympics entry as deeply outrageous'

Ukraine's sports minister condemns allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under national flags at the Winter Paralympics, calling it propaganda and normalization of war.
Food & drink
fromVinePair
10 hours ago

Meet the AAPI Chefs and Winemakers Headlining the Upcoming AAPI Food & Wine: NYC

AAPI Food & Wine grew from a small Oregon gathering into a national festival showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander winemakers, chefs, and fermentation-focused culinary creatives.
Wine
fromThe Mercury News
2 hours ago

Joseph Phelps was a Napa Valley icon. His granddaughter is continuing his legacy

Kelsey Phelps grew up surrounded by her grandfather's influential Napa Valley winemaking legacy, including Joseph Phelps Vineyards and the landmark Insignia blend.
Writing
fromEsquire
9 hours ago

Tom Junod Finally Reckons with What It Means to Be a Man

Tom Junod contemplates personal ambiguity in the South while reflecting on a long career probing diverse, provocative subjects and confronting historical memory.
Media industry
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 hours ago

Major mobile provider lost nearly 400k customers amid price hikes

Customer losses from recent price increases pressured Virgin Media O2, prompting a warning of lower 2026 sales and earnings and a decline in subscribers.
Privacy technologies
fromZDNET
7 hours ago

My 6 favorite DNS services - and why they're a must for security

Use private (secure) DNS to encrypt DNS queries, improving privacy and security; many reputable secure DNS services are available, often for free.
Privacy technologies
fromZDNET
19 hours ago

5 Android browsers I prefer over Chrome - and why they're worth trying

Some Android browsers provide stronger privacy, customization, and built-in AI tools than Chrome, making them preferable for security-conscious users.
Wine
fromwww.pressdemocrat.com
2 hours ago

Joseph Phelps was a Napa Valley icon. His granddaughter is continuing his legacy

Kelsey Phelps founded Seppi Wines in tribute to her grandfather Joseph Phelps, whose Insignia established a Napa Valley benchmark for Cabernet Sauvignon-based Bordeaux-style blends.
Books
fromPoets & Writers
16 hours ago

Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Mollusks and other overlooked marine animals are imagined as conscious protagonists, revealing endurance, emotional life, and human-caused threats to ocean ecosystems.
Environment
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 hours ago

EPA faces lawsuit over scrapping the endangerment finding, a pillar of climate regulation

EPA's move to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding prompted major medical and environmental groups to sue, asserting climate change endangers human health.
Books
fromPsychology Today
7 hours ago

In Hamnet, Grief Isolates and Art Connects

A family's private sorrow reshapes relationships and identity; a restrained, landscape-driven cinematic rendering lets silence and imagery embody grief.
Books
fromAnOther
7 hours ago

A Masterful New Book by Namwali Serpell Re-examines Toni Morrison's Genius

Toni Morrison's novels deliberately embrace difficulty and ambiguity, inviting readers to engage with complex themes of slavery's afterlife, community, family, and desire.
Remote teams
fromThe Hill
1 day ago

Breaking through the return-to-office mirage

U.S. work patterns stabilized into a hybrid equilibrium with roughly half of remote-capable employees hybrid, averaging 2.3 office days, while tech and federal sectors diverge.
Writing
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
1 day ago

Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World - Hi-Fructose Magazine

Pontiroli's paintings reuse recurring hybrid characters and animate inanimate motifs to create playful, surreal poem-images combining animals, humans, and flesh-like objects.
English Premier League
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

'Relegation a blessing' but issues remain - Cardiff's reset

Cardiff City have been revitalized by relegation, now top of League One, playing exciting football under Brian Barry-Murphy with emerging young Welsh players.
NYC politics
fromFox News
2 hours ago

Mamdani proposes cutting NYPD budget, canceling 5K new officer hires

Mayor Zohran Mamdani canceled a planned NYPD expansion and proposes budget reductions that cap policing staff near current levels to address a major fiscal shortfall.
New York Knicks
fromwww.amny.com
8 hours ago

Jalen Brunson hopes Knicks do right by me' in next contract he sacrificed' on last deal | amNewYork

Jalen Brunson sacrificed salary to stay with the Knicks and expects the team to compensate him later, potentially with a max contract after 2027-28.
NYC real estate
fromtherealdeal.com
7 hours ago

NYC's top deals: Sapir offloads Nomo Soho Hotel for $121M

New York City recorded 197 property transactions totaling $462 million, including major residential and commercial sales at 432 Park Avenue and Nomo Soho.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
6 hours ago

Google's Pixel 10a Looks Pretty Familiar

Pixel 10a raises display brightness, improves glass, speeds wired/wireless charging, adds Satellite SOS, and increases recycled materials while retaining a 5,100 mAh battery and Wi‑Fi 6E.
New York Islanders
fromwww.amny.com
1 hour ago

Islanders' Anthony Duclair focused on 2nd-half reset after pre-break benchings | amNewYork

Anthony Duclair reset mentally and physically during his pre-Olympic break and aims for consistent play to earn coach Patrick Roy's trust and a playoff run.
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