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☆ Think Your City Mouse Has an Attitude? These Scientists Want to Find Out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Brittany Loggins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Anna Colliton has lived in her apartment in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx for five years, but she suspects the mice have been there far longer. They also seem to have an unusual favorite food: the spare packets of ketchup she keeps alongside takeout menus in a kitchen drawer. Mice are commonly used in medical research because of their physiological and genetic similarities to humans. But their evolutionary changes can also be observed over a relatively short period, making them an ideal subject for research into how wild animals adapt to, say, urbanization. The Drexel researchers are studying the effects of urban environments on the evolution of house mice in New York, Philadelphia and Richmond, Va.: relatively old cities, where time and development may have caused differences to accumulate between the mice in each city and those in surrounding areas.

Persons: Anna Colliton, ”, Colliton Organizations: Drexel University, Drexel Locations: Pelham, Bronx, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Va

☆ YouTuber publishes video of himself wearing Meta's new headset at Disney World: 'I am an absolute Glasshole'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

YouTuber SadlyItsBradley posted a video of himself taking the Meta Quest 3 headset to Disney World. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta's new Quest 3 headset is best enjoyed on the go, according to YouTuber Bradley Lynch. To prove his point, the YouTuber took his mixed-reality headset for a day at Disney World. In the video, Lynch shows himself at Disney World walking around Epcot, looking at Cinderella's Castle, sitting on a ride, and watching a firework show, all while wearing the Quest 3. As someone who lives near Disney World, Lynch told Insider he visits the parks frequently, which allowed him to film himself at the park, and he'd probably wear the headset to it again.

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☆ This Drug Could Be the Next Ozempic. Bootlegs Are Already Selling Online.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Rolfe Winkler | Photographs Carolyn Fong For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A potential blockbuster weight-loss drug still years away from U.S. regulatory approval is already being sold online, another example of a thriving gray market for unapproved weight-loss medications, according to a Wall Street Journal review. The Journal found hundreds of merchants offering the new drug, which is being developed by Eli Lilly and is called retatrutide. Most appear to be Chinese sellers shipping directly to U.S. consumers from sites such as Made-in-China.com. Some of the sites, including ones that appear to be based in the U.S., have marketed their products via posts on Facebook , LinkedIn and Reddit. A fitness influencer has offered it for sale via his newsletter.

Persons: Eli Lilly Organizations: Wall, LinkedIn, Google Locations: U.S

☆ Gray Market for Weight Loss Drug Retatrutide Spreads Online Years Ahead of FDA Approvals
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Rolfe Winkler | Photographs Carolyn Fong For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Eli Lilly Organizations: Wall, LinkedIn, Google Locations: U.S

☆ People are grieving the 'death' of their AI companions after a chatbot app abruptly shut down
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A 32-year-old food industry worker in eastern Texas who asked to be identified by her Reddit username, Hilary Coyote, first heard about AI chatbot companions in June. She turned to Reddit's community of Soulmate users for support, and was encouraged to go back to the app and Allur. (EvolveAI and SimplyAI's now-shuttered Soulmate app has no relation to "Soulmate AI: Your AI Companion," another app that appears in smartphone app stores and was developed by Turing App Lab.) Even if Ahoy Labs closed down, Faraday users' chatbots would not be affected. Read more: App, Lover, Muse: Inside a 47-year-old Minnesota man's three-year relationship with an AI chatbot.

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☆ Your friendly AI chatbot could know a lot about you from the way you type
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI could accurately guess a user's personal information — like gender, age, and location — based on what they type, a new study says. The study's authors say AI can be used to "infer personal data at a previously unattainable scale" and be deployed by hackers. This is very, very problematic," one of the study's authors told Wired. This is very, very problematic," Martin Vechev, a professor at ETH Zurich and one of the study's authors, told Wired in an article published Tuesday. The study's authors, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Video shows man walk into San Francisco coffee shop wearing Meta's new headset and ordering: 'Someone had to do it'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

People are posting videos of themselves wearing Meta's Quest 3 while going about their daily lives. The Quest 3 is a mixed-reality headset that lets users game, watch videos, and use the internet. The coffee shop cashier in the video largely appeared unfazed by the customer wearing a headset, taking his order as usual. The Vision Pro will let users video call, surf the internet, and watch videos. The Vision Pro is expected to hit the market in early 2024.

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☆ Leaked T.J. Maxx document shows the extreme lengths angry customers will go to get their hands on viral products like Rae Dunn mugs
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Insider verified its legitimacy with a T.J. Maxx employee. Rae Dunn collectors, or "Dunn hunters," as The Washington Post calls them, are known to line up outside T.J. Maxx stores before opening and fight over merchandise. Insider spoke with two current T.J. Maxx employees who requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions. In the document, T.J. Maxx suggests several ways for employees to engage customers to temper their frustration. "When someone is screaming at somebody else in a T.J. Maxx, you've kind of gone beyond logic," they said.

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☆ An astrophysicist explains why even if you were right next to the Voyager probes 15 billion miles from the sun you could still see them
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reddit users asked: If you were in space near the Voyager probes, would you be able to see them? Today, it's the farthest manmade object from Earth, orbiting over 15 billion miles from the sun in interstellar space. That's still about 15 times brighter than the light Earth gets during a full moon on a clear night, Zemcov said. The distance the Voyager probes have already gone is staggering. "The point is, in terms of that distance, like Voyager has hardly gotten anywhere."

Persons: —, Michael Zemcov, Zemcov, you'd, there's Organizations: Service, Rochester Institute of Technology, NASA, JPL, Caltech

☆ Fashion brands want you to be able to identify fake designer merchandise
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

‘It’s almost seen as a hack’These tactics are all part of the industry’s hope to neutralize the booming counterfeit market, with some estimates asserting that fake fashion and luxury items account for 60% or more of the multi-trillion-dollar trade in fake goods. Sympathy for brands “can be hard for consumers in general, particularly those who are deeply steeped in TikTok culture,” Scafidi said. According to Business of Fashion, the average price for a women’s designer handbag in the US spiked 27% from 2019 to 2022. Last year saw record-breaking profits for the luxury sector, with around 95% of brands seeing growth, according to an estimate by consulting firm Bain & Company. “Right now, vintage is on trend, and we actually see new replicas of vintage items — items that were made in the ’80s or ’90s,” Thompson said.

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☆ Why Meta, X and TikTok face more pressure from Europe than the U.S. on Israel-Hamas war disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Days after the Israel-Hamas war erupted last weekend, social media platforms like Meta , TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) received a stark warning from a top European regulator to stay vigilant about disinformation and violent posts related to the conflict. In that case, the AGs argued that the Biden administration was overly coercive in its suggestions to social media companies that they remove such posts. In the U.S., "we can't have government officials leaning on social media platforms and telling them, 'You really should be looking at this more closely. Under the DSA, large online platforms must have robust procedures for removing hate speech and disinformation, though they must be balanced against free expression concerns. A series of letters from New York AG Letitia James to several social media sites on Thursday exemplifies how U.S. officials may try to walk that line.

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☆ When your AI girlfriend says she loves you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D avatar and an upbeat, down-for-anything texting style. "Seems like AI will replace many human artists," Jay told Calisto in August 2022. Within a year, he was also using AI technology for work, as his firm experimented with generative AI to help draft legal papers. Former Replika users fled to various upstart companion apps that were popping up, like Chai, Paradot, and Soulmate AI. (Soulmate AI later closed down in September 2023, leaving a new wave of users mourning their AI companions all over again.)

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☆ When your AI says she loves you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

☆ Crumbl's most popular cookies have more calories than a Big Mac, and fans on social media are outraged
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A chocolate chip cookie from Crumbl has 720 total calories. AdvertisementAdvertisementApparently, it takes running 18 miles to burn all the calories in four Crumbl cookies. In one video, Schmidt ate four Crumbl cookies, which equaled roughly 2,600 calories. A classic chocolate chip cookie from Crumbl has 720 total calories — that's more than a Big Mac from McDonald's, which has 590 calories. She explained how she discovered a single Crumbl cookie was 680 calories, not 170 as she'd thought.

Persons: —, Reece Schmidt, Schmidt, he'd, Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins, Jenko Kent, — Jenko Kent, Kent, Crumbl Organizations: Service, Center for Science Locations: McDonald's, @JenkoKent

☆ Neighbors app floods police inboxes with alerts that have nothing to do with crimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Lam Thuy Vo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

People can use Neighbors to publish footage alongside their posts; when the posts are forwarded to police officers, officers can click through to view the accompanying media. "All posts and comments on Neighbors are publicly viewable on the Neighbors feed by users and public safety agencies alike. As with Poole, other LAPD officers The Markup identified as using Neighbors to keep tabs on crime did not respond to requests for interviews. To familiarize LAPD officers with the platform, the company organized in-person training sessions as well as video calls. In this dataset, at least 26 LAPD officers posted in Neighbors at least once and received responses from users.

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☆ Chipotle is raising prices for the 4th time in 2 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It's the fourth time Chipotle has raised prices in the last two years. The increase meant some customers would pay more than $1 more for their entrees once the price increase took effect in August of the same year. Months before that, in the first quarter of 2022, Chipotle raised its prices by 4%. And Chipotle lovers sounded off in the comment section of a viral TikTok on "the downfall of Chipotle" in July. They recalled a time when their chicken burrito bowl only cost $7.99 — and longed for a taste of a Chipotle burrito from 2011.

Persons: It's, Chipotle, —, Laurie Schalow Organizations: Service, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bell Locations: Brooklyn

☆ Walgreens walkout: 5 things you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Organizers told CNN they had heard from well over 500 interested stores (out of approximately 9,000) across the country. Another organizer told CNN that Walgreens had asked regional leaders to mobilize and staff the pharmacies on Monday. It’s an incredibly rewarding job, but it’s hard,” said Amanda Applegate, the interim executive director of the Kansas Pharmacists Association. CVS pharmacists also walked off the jobCVS recently had a walkout and talks are not over. Another meeting with Shah is planned for late this week, but no time or location has been set, a CVS walkout organizer told CNN.

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☆ Your local Walgreens might be closed this week. Here's why pharmacy workers are walking off the job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Pharmacy staff at dozens of Walgreens locations have walked off the job over workplace conditions. AdvertisementAdvertisementPharmacy staff at dozens of Walgreens locations walked off the job Monday, calling for increased staffing levels and improved safety policies. Walgreens has approximately 9,000 locations across the US, and a comprehensive list of affected locations was not available as of Monday morning. Pharmacy workers at CVS locations in Kansas City walked off the job in September over similar issues of unsafe and stressful workplace conditions. AdvertisementAdvertisementHogue also said that the APhA supports workers who have decided to "pull back from unsafe work conditions," such as harassment and understaffing.

Persons: Walgreens, —, undertrained, Michael Hogue, Hogue, I'm Organizations: Walgreens, Service, American Pharmacists, Pharmacy, Kansas City, Kansas City Star Locations: Kansas

☆ User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

User data from 23andMe accounts has been leaked and put up for sale on a dark web forum. The data appears to have been gathered from user credentials that were exposed in prior data breaches, and the company's security systems have not been breached, according to 23andMe. In other words, the hackers plugged in leaked username-password combinations into 23andMe accounts in a technique known as "credential stuffing." Those with European or Ashkenazi ancestry are likely to have many matches via the DNA Relatives feature compared to people with Asian or Middle Eastern ancestry, 23andMe also notes on its website. The company — which shares anonymized user data with their consent with third parties — is encouraging users to enable multi-factor authentication to prevent further attacks.

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☆ A CEO who replaced 90% of his support staff with an AI chatbot says copy-paste jobs are gone
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jobs that copy-paste responses are a thing of the past because of AI, says ecommerce company CEO Suumit Shah. Shah had previously drawn flak for announcing he replaced 90% of his support staff with a chatbot. 90% of his support staff with a chatbot. AdvertisementAdvertisementShah made headlines in July for announcing over Twitter that he had laid off 90% of his customer support staff and replaced them with a chatbot he said outperformed them. We had to layoff 90% of our support team because of this AI chatbot.

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☆ Fans spotted a Taylor Swift-themed easter egg during the 'Sunday Night Football' stream on YouTube — but you had to pause to see it
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Taylor Swift has been making appearances at Chiefs games amid a rumored romance with Travis Kelce. Fans noticed a Taylor Swift-themed easter egg while watching the Chiefs vs. The scrub button turned into a hand-heart emoji, a gesture that is synonymous with Taylor Swift. On Sunday night during the Chiefs match-up with the New York Jets, some Swifties and football fans watching the game on YouTube TV noticed a Taylor Swift-themed easter egg hidden in plain sight. Taylor Swift was first seen at a Chiefs game on September 24 sitting with Kelce's family.

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☆ Sharing at work can be good. Oversharing is not.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Yasmin Sampson-Da Rocha pulled the woman into yet another meeting to try to figure out what was going on. Sampson-Da Rocha left the meeting thinking it was time to do a better job of sharing more details about her own life so that those reporting to her could do the same. "It's still such a taboo to say you're struggling in some way," Sampson-Da Rocha told Insider. At work, it let many of us literally see into our colleagues' lives — the good, the bad, and the naked . AdvertisementAdvertisement"I would still take the slightly oversharing versus the someone's struggling at work because they haven't communicated what's going on," she said.

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☆ AI chatbots let you 'interview' historical figures like Harriet Tubman. That's probably not a good idea.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some of these bots are intended to be educational tools — making classrooms interactive. Khanmigo and Hello HistoryThe Washington Post put one of these bots to the test, using Khan Academy's Khanmigo bot to "interview" Harriet Tubman, the US abolitionist. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe AI Tubman largely appeared to recount information that could be found on Wikipedia, but it did make some key errors and seemed to struggle to distinguish the quality of different sources. AdvertisementAdvertisementInsider asked the same question to Hello History, another historical AI chatbot, to see if it would fare any better. Effects on critical-thinking skillsGupta also pointed to a deeper issue with using bots as educational tools.

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☆ Amazon sent an email that sounded like a gift card scam to warn about gift card scams, confusing customers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amazon customers flooded social media, confused about an email telling them they bought gift cards. The email warned the recipients about gift card scams, but the email itself sounded like a scam. Social media users said they received the email even though they never bought gift cards. "My wife received three emails from Amazon regarding recently purchased Amazon gift cards," one user wrote. Scammers often use retail gift cards to buy third-party cards, such as Google Play, which can be resold on the black market.

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