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Apple just banned home services, crypto ATMs and bail bonds from Maps ads before the product even launched — and the exclusions reveal a bet against Google's entir…

Apple has published the rulebook for its forthcoming Maps advertising product, and the document reveals a deliberately ...
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The hardest part of a long marriage isn't always the arguments or the boredom — sometimes it's the strange grief of watching the person you married slowly become …

Long marriages ask something almost no one warns you about: the quiet grief of watching your partner slowly become someone ...
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones ran a five-day classroom experiment called 'The Third Wave' — and by day four, 200 students had joined a m…

In five days in April 1967, a 25-year-old history teacher in Palo Alto turned a classroom question about Nazi Germany into a ...
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Psychology suggests we don't reason toward truth so much as defend what we already believe: we seek out the facts that confirm us and quietly wave away the res…

In 1998, a Tufts psychologist named Raymond Nickerson published a long review article pulling together decades of scattered ...
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Psychology says people who push their chair in when they leave aren't performing for an audience, and the fact that they do it when no one is watching is precisely what …

Last week I watched a bloke in a near-empty café stand up, sling his bag over one shoulder, and then, before he walked out, ...
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After nearly a year on the International Space Station, Scott Kelly found the hard part was never leaving Earth — it was coming back, when the smell of rain felt almost to…

After 340 days on the ISS, astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth to find his own home felt staged, his skin broke out from ...
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Most people assume Dubai became rich from oil, but oil now accounts for less than 1% of the emirate's GDP — down from 50% in the 1980s — with tourism, trade, an…

Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated with the wider United ...
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Plant-based food sales have flatlined after years of double-digit growth, and grocery data suggests the drop-off is coming from vegans themselves, not skeptics

US plant-based food sales fell 2% in 2024 after years of double-digit growth, and the shoppers walking away aren't skeptics — ...
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Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants"

I have moved between Ireland and Southeast Asia year after year for a while now, and one thing has crept up on me quietly. My ...
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Psychology says people who reach their 60s with few close friends aren't bad at relationships — they're often the ones who gave so much in every relationship that …

A person can reach their 60s with only a few close friends for reasons that have little to do with being bad at relationships ...
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India just objected to a WhatsApp feature that hasn't launched, citing harms that haven't happened — and the precedent it sets could quietly redraw how secure me…

When a government objects to a feature that has not yet launched, over harms that have not yet occurred, and demands the ...
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Helsing's $18B valuation is not really about Helsing — private markets are pricing European rearmament as a multi-decade procurement cycle, and the capital is positi…

Munich-based defence AI company Helsing has closed a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation, according to Tech.eu ...