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What’s at stake: Many Black women and girls use synthetic hair extensions as a long-lasting way to enhance their braided hairstyles. But people who use these products, as well as professional hair braiders, have long reported negative skin reactions, prompting CR to investigate. What we found was concerning: Every one of the 10 popular synthetic braiding hair products we tested…
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Dune Awakening Base Building Guide: Best Locations, Tips and More
Base building is always the most fun experience in survival and MMORPG games. As Dune Awakening is a mixture of both genres, base building is crucial here. Building bases in the right locations can decrease your grind by half, while doing the opposite can make life in Arrakis a literal hell. So, if you’ve just begun to get serious about…
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Here are three new apps building out the open social web
For the past couple of years, the virtual FediForum conference has offered a glimpse at what’s new in the open social web, with last year’s big news being Threads’ foray into the fediverse. This year’s presentation was no different, with several developers showing off new apps that will help to expand the ecosystem of decentralized social networks. During FediForum, Bonfire…
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OpenAI and Jony Ive are building a ChatGPT-powered super-gadget
Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years of watching the industry try and shove AI into every form factor you can imagine, we have…
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Building trust through expert content
It’s an understatement to say that the UK’s national health system was exposed for its inadequacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. A decade-long policy of government budget cuts left it ill-equipped to supply enough beds for patients, staff and medical equipment for hospitals, and investment in research to offer guidance on long COVID – as well as showing flagrant inequality in…
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Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful is Building the World’s Largest AI Data Center in Canada
Photo from Data Center World 2025 in Washington, D.C. Image: Drew Robb/TechnologyAdvice Kevin O’Leary — better known as “Mr. Wonderful” from ABC’s “Shark Tank” — made a surprise appearance at Data Center World 2025 in Washington, D.C. What’s a venture capitalist doing at a major IT event? He’s building the world’s largest AI factories, and he’s ready to talk about…
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DOGE is reportedly building a ‘master database’ of government information
The Committee has also received reports about troubling, fumbling efforts by DOGE to combine sensitive information held by SSA, the IRS, HHS, and other agencies into a single cross-agency master database. Improving how federal agencies share data to improve outcomes and customer service is a longstanding and bipartisan goal in Congress. Information obtained by the Committee, however, indicates that DOGE…
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By Consumer Reports Join with us to make a safer, fairer, healthier marketplace Making Food Safer What’s at stake: Red Dye No. 3 has been shown to cause cancer in animals and has been linked to hyperactivity and other behavioral effects in children. The Food and Drug Administration even banned the use of the artificial colorant in cosmetics in 1990,…
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Adobe is building AI agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro
Adobe Photoshop’s agentic AI, or what the company calls its “creative agent,” will be presented in a new floating Actions panel that will recommend context-aware edits after analyzing your photo. For instance, it will be able to suggest removing people standing in the background or creating a greater depth of field by blurring everything behind the subject. All you need…
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Tariff war throws building of data centers into disarray
Forrester’s bottom line? “Because of the long term planning and all of the potential policy changes, I wouldn’t change my data center plans that much,” Nguyen said. Confusion reigns Every day it seems, the tariff situation becomes muddier. For example, according to a fact sheet released Wednesday, the White House has temporarily exempted semiconductors from tariffs, but not the aluminum…
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