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"The story behind the strange way Katharine Hepburn (and others) spoke."

"A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime."

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"The UK has just given regulatory approval to Casgevy (exagamglogene autotemcel) for the treatment of sickle cell disease and transfusion dependent beta-thalassemia (TDT). This is a significant milestone because Casgevy is the first approved CRISPR-based treatment – a gene editing tool that has the potentially to permanently “cure” both diseases. The FDA is currently reviewing the same treatment and may provide approval early next year. The European Medicines Agency has also accepted an application for approval."

"The end result is that an entity committed by charter to the safe development of AI has basically handed off all of its work and, probably soon enough, a sizable portion of its talent, to one of the largest for-profit entities on earth."

"SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage."

"In public settings, would you rather yell at your chest to talk to a voice assistant or pull out your phone to look up the information yourself? I know what I would choose, because I recently had to. "

"The quest to have us live more in the moment is admirable, but some moments are personal or just plain dumb. I don’t want to savor my trip to the DMV, I want to zone out and play Wordle on my little pocket computer as I will time to pass faster."