Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers found that over the course of a week, there was a 32% likelihood the tests would detect the presence of at least one person infected with mpox in a population ranging from thousands to millions.
Amy Kirby, who oversees the CDC’s was
Social media is broken. It feels impossible now to keep up with friends and news in the same place—to be informed, entertained, and part of a community all at once. As Ryan Broderick has written, there’s no longer anywhere to figure out what everyone’s talking about, and the addition of competing Twitter clones makes the idea of an “everyone” feel more threadbare than ever. The news element has been degraded by For You feeds, Threads’ seeming desire t
For the first time in ages, the hottest tech launch of the year won’t be a smartphone. It’ll be a spatial computer. On February 2, Apple will begin selling the Apple Vision Pro to the public via Apple Stores in the U.S. (preorders began on January 19). At $3,499, the headset isn’t cheap, but the device is expected to sell out almost immediately, considering that Apple will have fewer than 100,000 units for sale initially, according to TF International Securities analyst M
The consistent allure of sports is in the pursuit of an unknown outcome. If a competitor or team wins the championship, can they do it again? If they lose, can they come back again and win? The scenario is played out every single day or every single year across every professional sport. Billions of dollars in TV rights and fan tickets, year in and year out, are a testament to its lasting attraction.
It’s also the genius of FanDuel’s 2024 Super Bowl ad strategy.
“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Imagine you’re a litigation partner at a law firm. You have a brand-new associate who seems to surpass all expectations: works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year; reads and absorbs millions of pages of material in a fraction of a second.
What’s the catch? The associate is subject to random hallucinatio
YouTube is making millions of dollars a year from advertising on channels that make false claims about climate change because content creators are using new tactics that evade the social media platform’s policies to combat misinformation, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to review transcripts from 12,058 videos from the past six years on 96 of Alphabet’s YouTube channels. The cha
This week, condiments brand Sir Kensington’s (part of Unilever’s portfolio) announced its desire to travel to the great beyond by launching a petition for NASA to consider stocking its wares on all its missions. The brand created a “Proposal Pack,” with a variety of its products, hoping to impress the space agency, given that human taste is significantly dulled out of our orbit.
Chris Symmes, Unilever North America’s senior marketing director of dr
The music industry had an eventful 12 months. Taylor Swift and Beyoncé undertook massive tours that broke records and brought people to movie theaters. Vinyl was the most popular physical medium in the U.S. for the first time since the Reagan administration. Gen AI appeared on the scene (looking a bit like Drake and the Weeknd). And streaming services finally started to change how they pay artists.
To understand the trends and changes that are shaping the industry, the entertai
The best CES products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives.
The worst could harm us or our society and the planet in such “innovatively bad” ways that a panel of self-described dystopia experts has judged them “Worst in Show.”
The third annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday.
AND THE AWARD GOES TO . . .
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Slapping a “best of” label on a product at the Consumer Electronics Show is a dicey proposition. Too many of the things on display evolve and lose their magic or disappear into a puff of smoke before they ever get to retail. But “most interesting”? That’s a bit more approachable.
There were plenty of things at this year’s CES that turned heads. Some were flashy. Some combined two items into one. Some were simply practical. (Practical, it