Author: 0knmk
Why weight-loss drugs became more popular than ever this year
This year, celebrity gossip, a national shortage and eyebrow-raising clinical trials made household names of weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. The buzzy drugs belong to a class of powerful medications that can manage blood sugar levels and drastically reduce body weight — a hot property that kicked them into the mainstream….
Twitch loosens its policy on sexual content
Twitch is updating the way it responds to sexual content. As part of the change, the streaming platform will now allow some previously prohibited content — as long as it has a label to warn viewers. The platform will now allow “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region” if the stream has a Content Classification…
Anonymous Crypto Interests Bombard Key Senator Sherrod Brown With Political Ads
“SEC Chair Gary Gensler is protecting the big banks, stifling American innovation and willing to ship critical American technology and jobs to China,” according to the organization’s website. “Senator Sherrod Brown needs to use his power as Chair of the Senate Banking Committee to stand up to Gensler and fight for Ohio jobs.” Brown, who’s…
A bar of stars at the center of the Milky Way looks surprisingly young
The biography of our home galaxy may be due for some revisions. That’s because a bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of the Milky Way appears to be much younger than expected. The bar is a prominent feature of our galaxy (SN: 6/25/21). It spans thousands of light-years and links the galaxy’s spiraling arms…
Beeper says some people aren’t getting iMessages again
Here we go again: Just two days after getting Beeper Mini working again after Apple’s block, Beeper says that it’s looking into reports that some users aren’t getting iMessages on Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud. The issues appear to have started as early as about 6PM ET; at that time, one Verge staffer reported that…
FTX Bankruptcy Judge Takes Step to Shorten Timeline for Customers’ Recoveries
U.S. Judge John Dorsey, from the Delaware Bankruptcy Court, scheduled a hearing for early next year to calculate the crypto exchange’s debt to the IRS, a sticking point that has stagnated efforts to remunerate the exchange’s many victims. As FTX’s largest creditor, the IRS’ claim must be resolved before FTX victim’s can recover their losses….
The Tesla Cybertruck’s infamous wiper will reportedly cost $165 to replace
The Cybertruck’s entire windshield will also be replaceable, of course, and will cost you a cool $1,900, assuming these prices are accurate and assuming they’re consumer prices rather than internal prices. (I am not sure if that’s a safe assumption, but if so, they seem reasonable for a $60K-and-up vehicle.) Source link
CFTC Pushes FTX-Inspired Rule to Protect Customers' Money
CFTC Pushes FTX-Inspired Rule to Protect Customers' Money Source link
Stretchy electrodes shrink when wet to fit snugly around organs
A circular electrode that contracts when it gets wet Junqi Yi, Guijin Zou, Jianping Huang, et al. A material that can shrink to fit around internal organs without crushing them could be used to monitor electrical activity in the body. It contracts to less than half of its initial length when wet, and can conform…
Threads will let you push fact-checked posts further down your feed
Meta announced in a blog post update yesterday that it will apply an obscure Instagram setting to Threads that lets users control how much fact-checked content they see in their feed. Meta says its fact-checking is intended to address misinformation, so effectively, users will be able to decide how much they want to see controversial…