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Online audio, podcasting, and AI are the stars in this year's The Infinite Dial presentation from Edison Research. Click to read our coverage and download link for the presentation deck. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Millions of Americans skip meals, stretch medication to afford health care
Even people with six-figure incomes are making financial sacrifices to pay for medical care, a new study finds. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Aging could slow down with one common daily habit: ‘Live longer and better...
Aging can't be stopped, but a daily pill could slow it down, according to new research led by Mass General Brigham in Boston.Among people who took a multivitamin every day for two years, biological aging slowed down by about four months, found the study, which was published in Nature Medicine.Biological aging refers to the pace of aging on a cellular level, which is often different from chronological age.BRAIN TRAINING SESSIONS FOUND TO REDUCE DEMENTIA RISK IN DECADES-LONG STUDYThe findings came from a large randomized clinical trial of nearly 1,000 healthy older adults averaging 70 years of age. The participants were divided into four groups — one took a daily multivitamin-multimineral supplement along with a cocoa extract, one took a daily cocoa extract and placebo, one took a placebo and multivitamin, and one took just a placebo, according to the study press release.The researchers analyzed blood samples taken from the participants at three points during the study, looking at five biomarkers known as "epigenetic clocks" that measure age-related changes to DNA."Aging at the cellular level can be marked by DNA methylation, where in some cells it decreases and in some it increases," Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, told Fox News Digital. "This is also described as epigenetic changes – or DNA expression."MISSING SLEEP MAY TAKE A HIDDEN TOLL ON YOUR BRAIN AND LONGEVITY, RESEARCH REVEALSThose who took multivitamins showed a biological aging slowdown across all biomarkers, including the two that are linked to longevity.The biggest benefit was seen in those who already had a biological age that was older than their chronological age, the researchers found."There is a lot of interest today in identifying ways to not just live longer, but to live better," said senior author Howard Sesso, associate director of the Division of Preventive Medicine in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine, in the press release. "It was exciting to see the benefits of a multivitamin linked with markers of biological aging. This study opens the door to learning more about accessible, safe interventions that contribute to healthier, higher-quality aging."CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIESSiegel, who was not involved in the study, described the results as "scientific and significant," agreeing that they should be studied further.It’s not clear which part of the multivitamin might be responsible for the aging slowdown, the doctor noted."There are so many possibilities, from biotin to calcium to zinc to vitamin B,… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - What Was Grammarly Thinking?
To me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion’s 1987 book, Miami, which begins like this: “Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.”I love that sentence and that propulsive first chapter so much that I once sat down to try to figure out how she did it. I looked at the sentences one at a time to assess what purpose each one was serving, and I counted how many of them Didion had needed to accomplish each thing she wanted to accomplish. Then I thought about how she figured out what order to put them in to have maximum page-turning impact. And then I compared all of it unfavorably with the flailing and feeble way in which I would have pursued the same goals. I marked up my copy of the book in a somewhat desperate fashion and then became depressed.That type of copying is pretty normal, and they teach it in school. It’s how you learn (and how you become depressed). But in the age of generative AI, there are many new kinds of copying. For instance, Wired reported last week on a tool offered by Grammarly, which briefly offered users the opportunity to put their writing through something called “Expert Review.” This produced AI-generated advice purportedly from the perspective of a bunch of famous authors, a bunch of less-famous working journalists (including myself, per The Verge’s reporting), and a bunch of academics (including some who had recently died).[Margaret Atwood: Murdered by my replica?]I say “briefly” because the company deactivated the feature today. A lot of people got really mad about it because none of the experts had agreed for their work to be used in such a way, or to serve as uncompensated marketing for an app that people use to help them write more legible emails. “We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this,” the company’s CEO, Shishir Mehrotra, wrote on his LinkedIn page yesterday. Not long after, Wired reported that one of the journalists whose name had been used in the feature, Julia Angwin, was filing a class-action lawsuit against Grammarly’s owner, Superhuman Platform. In a statement forwarded by a spokesperson, Mehrotra repeated apologies made in his LinkedIn post and added, "We have reviewed the lawsuit, and we believe the legal claims are without merit and will strongly defend against them."Before the tool went down,… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Who Cares If AI Brings Down the Economy?The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI comes crashing down, it will lead to “some spectacular failures,” he said—companies will go under and people will lose their jobs—but that’s a price worth paying for “enduring companies that change the world forever.”His view is widespread in Silicon Valley. Some, such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, reject the notion that their companies are overvalued. But many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in tech are embracing the idea of an AI bubble. Jeff Bezos has argued that AI might be a “good” kind of bubble. Sam Altman has made similar comments, predicting that AI will be a “huge net win for the economy” even if “a phenomenal amount of money” is lost along the way.Indeed, a phenomenal amount of money is at stake: OpenAI, which is still far from profitable, is currently worth more than Toyota, Coca-Cola, and Disney combined. This year, Big Tech plans to spend some $650 billion on the AI build-out—a sum that far exceeds the GDP of most countries. Investors are banking that AI will spur a productivity boom and deliver unimaginable corporate profits, but that future could be far off. If the spending dries up first, the bubble could pop—perhaps dragging the rest of the economy down with it. Nonetheless, Silicon Valley thinks that the present mania will eventually pay back its returns through scientific discovery and economic growth. “Stop trying to make bubbles go away,” as the entrepreneur James Thomason recently wrote. “The benefits of innovation outweigh the costs of volatility.” In other words: Be grateful for the bubble.[Read: Here’s how the AI crash happens]Silicon Valley did not invent the idea that bubbles can be worth the pain. Various economists have made the argument for decades. But as the AI boom has exploded, a book by two investors, Tobias Huber and Byrne Hobart, has helped formalize tech’s pro-bubble ideology. Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation was a hit in Silicon Valley when it came out in 2024, praised by the tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.The authors argue that there are essentially two kinds of bubbles: good ones (dot-com, the railroads) and bad ones (the 2008 housing crisis). Both cause damage when they burst, but… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago
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Online audio, podcasting, and AI are the stars in this year's The Infinite Dial presentation from Edison Research. Click to read our coverage and download link for the presentation deck. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.
6 days ago
Even people with six-figure incomes are making financial sacrifices to pay for medical care, a new study finds. [TheTopNews] Read More.
6 days ago
Aging can't be stopped, but a daily pill could slow it down, according to new research led by Mass General Brigham in Boston.Among people who took a multivitamin every day for two years, biological aging slowed down by about four months, found the study, which was published in Nature Medicine.Biological aging refers to the pace of aging on a cellular level, which is often different from chronological age.BRAIN TRAINING SESSIONS FOUND TO REDUCE DEMENTIA RISK IN DECADES-LONG STUDYThe findings came from a large randomized clinical trial of nearly 1,000 healthy older adults averaging 70 years of age. The participants were divided into four groups — one took a daily multivitamin-multimineral supplement along with a cocoa extract, one took a daily cocoa extract and placebo, one took a placebo and multivitamin, and one took just a placebo, according to the study press release.The researchers analyzed blood samples taken from the participants at three points during the study, looking at five biomarkers known as "epigenetic clocks" that measure age-related changes to DNA."Aging at the cellular level can be marked by DNA methylation, where in some cells it decreases and in some it increases," Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, told Fox News Digital. "This is also described as epigenetic changes – or DNA expression."MISSING SLEEP MAY TAKE A HIDDEN TOLL ON YOUR BRAIN AND LONGEVITY, RESEARCH REVEALSThose who took multivitamins showed a biological aging slowdown across all biomarkers, including the two that are linked to longevity.The biggest benefit was seen in those who already had a biological age that was older than their chronological age, the researchers found."There is a lot of interest today in identifying ways to not just live longer, but to live better," said senior author Howard Sesso, associate director of the Division of Preventive Medicine in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine, in the press release. "It was exciting to see the benefits of a multivitamin linked with markers of biological aging. This study opens the door to learning more about accessible, safe interventions that contribute to healthier, higher-quality aging."CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIESSiegel, who was not involved in the study, described the results as "scientific and significant," agreeing that they should be studied further.It’s not clear which part of the multivitamin might be responsible for the aging slowdown, the doctor noted."There are so many possibilities, from biotin to calcium to zinc to vitamin B,… [TheTopNews] Read More.
6 days ago
To me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion’s 1987 book, Miami, which begins like this: “Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.”I love that sentence and that propulsive first chapter so much that I once sat down to try to figure out how she did it. I looked at the sentences one at a time to assess what purpose each one was serving, and I counted how many of them Didion had needed to accomplish each thing she wanted to accomplish. Then I thought about how she figured out what order to put them in to have maximum page-turning impact. And then I compared all of it unfavorably with the flailing and feeble way in which I would have pursued the same goals. I marked up my copy of the book in a somewhat desperate fashion and then became depressed.That type of copying is pretty normal, and they teach it in school. It’s how you learn (and how you become depressed). But in the age of generative AI, there are many new kinds of copying. For instance, Wired reported last week on a tool offered by Grammarly, which briefly offered users the opportunity to put their writing through something called “Expert Review.” This produced AI-generated advice purportedly from the perspective of a bunch of famous authors, a bunch of less-famous working journalists (including myself, per The Verge’s reporting), and a bunch of academics (including some who had recently died).[Margaret Atwood: Murdered by my replica?]I say “briefly” because the company deactivated the feature today. A lot of people got really mad about it because none of the experts had agreed for their work to be used in such a way, or to serve as uncompensated marketing for an app that people use to help them write more legible emails. “We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this,” the company’s CEO, Shishir Mehrotra, wrote on his LinkedIn page yesterday. Not long after, Wired reported that one of the journalists whose name had been used in the feature, Julia Angwin, was filing a class-action lawsuit against Grammarly’s owner, Superhuman Platform. In a statement forwarded by a spokesperson, Mehrotra repeated apologies made in his LinkedIn post and added, "We have reviewed the lawsuit, and we believe the legal claims are without merit and will strongly defend against them."Before the tool went down,… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI comes crashing down, it will lead to “some spectacular failures,” he said—companies will go under and people will lose their jobs—but that’s a price worth paying for “enduring companies that change the world forever.”His view is widespread in Silicon Valley. Some, such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, reject the notion that their companies are overvalued. But many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in tech are embracing the idea of an AI bubble. Jeff Bezos has argued that AI might be a “good” kind of bubble. Sam Altman has made similar comments, predicting that AI will be a “huge net win for the economy” even if “a phenomenal amount of money” is lost along the way.Indeed, a phenomenal amount of money is at stake: OpenAI, which is still far from profitable, is currently worth more than Toyota, Coca-Cola, and Disney combined. This year, Big Tech plans to spend some $650 billion on the AI build-out—a sum that far exceeds the GDP of most countries. Investors are banking that AI will spur a productivity boom and deliver unimaginable corporate profits, but that future could be far off. If the spending dries up first, the bubble could pop—perhaps dragging the rest of the economy down with it. Nonetheless, Silicon Valley thinks that the present mania will eventually pay back its returns through scientific discovery and economic growth. “Stop trying to make bubbles go away,” as the entrepreneur James Thomason recently wrote. “The benefits of innovation outweigh the costs of volatility.” In other words: Be grateful for the bubble.[Read: Here’s how the AI crash happens]Silicon Valley did not invent the idea that bubbles can be worth the pain. Various economists have made the argument for decades. But as the AI boom has exploded, a book by two investors, Tobias Huber and Byrne Hobart, has helped formalize tech’s pro-bubble ideology. Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation was a hit in Silicon Valley when it came out in 2024, praised by the tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.The authors argue that there are essentially two kinds of bubbles: good ones (dot-com, the railroads) and bad ones (the 2008 housing crisis). Both cause damage when they burst, but… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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