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To speedily summarise a lot of very knotty reporting, last month a bunch of credit card companies and payment processors forced Steam and Itch.io to alter their definitions of acceptable sexual material in PC games. Seemingly faced with the prospect of having all transactions blocked, the two storefronts now require developers to comply with the extremely open-ended adult content policies …

NEW YORK (AP) — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make the U.S. the world leader in research and development. The order requires all federal agencies, including FEMA, …

Moitra, P. et al. Programmable wavefront control in the visible spectrum using low-loss chalcogenide phase-change metasurfaces. Adv. Mater. 35, 2205367 (2023). CAS  Google Scholar  Karvounis, A., Gholipour, B., MacDonald, K. F. & Zheludev, N. I. All-dielectric phase-change reconfigurable metasurface. Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 051103 (2016). Wang, Y. et al. Electrical tuning of phase-change antennas and metasurfaces. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 667–672 …

With One Colossal Mistake, the NCAA Lost Control of College Football  The Wall Street Journal NCAA policy revamp gives Power 4 more influence  ESPN DI board eliminates several DI committees, increases student-athlete representation  NCAA.org Speed reads for SBJ Unpacks newsletter for August 5  Sports Business Journal NCAA restructures governance policy to give more influence to Power Four conferences  USA Today Source link

Polls show people across political lines agree that contraception should be legal and accessible. Liudmila Chernetska/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Liudmila Chernetska/iStockphoto/Getty Images Contraception is a routine part of life for many Americans and polls show people across political parties agree that it should be legal and accessible. But the Trump administration is walking back access to birth control …

from the nice-try dept This whole attempted censorship of adult games on gaming platforms is becoming a thing. Collective Shout—a group out of Australia that wraps itself in a feminist flag while behaving like the religious right to get anything it doesn’t like out of the video game industry—put on a pressure campaign with payment processors, writing in to demand …

President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to have the federal government take control of Washington, D.C., after an assault on a well-known original staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency in the nation’s capital over the weekend. Edward Coristine, also known by his online name, “Big Balls,” and a woman characterized in a police report as his significant other were the …

A driver going 283 mph (455 km/h) trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died on Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon, organizers said. Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run and was treated by medical …

India Shifts to Damage Control After Trump Ramps Up Threats  Bloomberg.com Trump again threatens India with harsh tariffs over Russian oil purchases  Reuters What to Know About India’s Trade in Oil With Russia  The New York Times “India Fuelling War Machine”: Trump’s 24-Hour ‘Substantial’ Tariff Threat  NDTV Modi was ready to ‘make India great again,’ then Trump put America first  NBC News Source link

Shortened telomeres have been linked to aging. peterschreiber.media/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption peterschreiber.media/Getty Images It’s no secret that stress isn’t good for you. But just how bad is it? Well, in the last few decades, scientists have linked psychological stress to changes in our DNA that look a lot like what happens on the molecular level as we age. …