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A new study suggests that there’s a key lifestyle tweak you should make during retirement to protect your brain health. People who said they had a higher sense of purpose in life were about 28 percent less likely to develop cognitive impairment, including dementia, researchers found. Here’s how you can implement these findings to life a longer, healthier life. When …

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent. Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling. The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos. YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes …

Summary: A new study of over 13,000 adults found that having a strong sense of purpose in life is linked to a reduced risk of dementia. Those with higher purpose were 28% less likely to develop cognitive impairment, even when accounting for genetic risk and other factors. The effect was consistent across racial and ethnic groups and modestly delayed the …

Google didn’t need to make its own smartphone. Even though the company spent several years having other manufacturers build phones it could slap its “Nexus” branding on, selling hardware is not core to Google’s business. Things like advertising and Search still handily dwarf the inroads the company’s made as a smartphone manufacturer, and that will likely remain true for the …

OpenAI is launching a new general purpose AI agent in ChatGPT, which the company says can complete a wide variety of computer-based tasks on behalf of users. OpenAI says the agent can automatically navigate a user’s calendar, generate editable presentations and slideshows, and run code. The tool, called ChatGPT agent, combines several capabilities from OpenAI’s previous agentic tools, including Operator’s …

“Superwoke.” It’s not exactly a clever term, but then again, most of the turns of phrases that drop like rotten apples from the slack jaws of far-right talking heads aren’t stickers. “Make America Great Again” has always been completely meaningless; if it didn’t make such a memorable abbreviation, I doubt it would’ve taken off. The same goes for “Superwoke,” the …