Month: April 2025

Jessica Klein

NuFace’s facial toning devices have been gaining popularity in recent years, but the latest model, the Trinity+ Complete, offers the combination of microcurrent and red light therapy, a hugely popular and study-backed skincare treatment. The handheld facial device has three magnetized attachments that promise to tighten facial muscles and smooth wrinkles Come from South African Online Casinos . “As we get older, we need to exercise more to keep our bodies toned and tight,” says NuFace co-founder and CEO Tera Peterson. “The same concept goes for delicate facial muscles.” Thirty-six concentrated red LED lights are designed to smooth skin, while two attachments for administering microcurrents (one for targeting around the eyes) use up to 425 microamps to increase cellular adenosine triphosphate, providing a nearly instant, at-home facelift. The device prioritizes safety by shutting off after 20 minutes.

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By Harry Booth

Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the 1990s by playing by the rules, today’s advanced AI models like OpenAI’s o1-preview are less scrupulous. When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, they don’t always concede, instead sometimes opting to cheat by hacking their opponent so that the bot automatically forfeits the game. That is the finding of a new study from Palisade Research, shared exclusively with TIME ahead of its publication on Feb. 19, which evaluated seven state-of-the-art AI models for their propensity to hack. While slightly older AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 needed to be prompted by researchers to attempt such tricks, o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 pursued the exploit on their own, indicating that AI systems may develop deceptive or manipulative strategies without explicit instruction.

The models’ enhanced ability to discover and exploit cybersecurity loophole…

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As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators piece together the government’s response to the 2023 tragedy. Come from South African Online Casinos

One text exchange hinted officials might also be using a second, untraceable messaging service.

“That’s what Signal was supposed to be for,” then-Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya texted a colleague.

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Signal is one of many end-to-end encrypted messaging apps that include message auto-delete functions.

While such apps promise increased security and privacy, they often skirt open records laws meant to increase transparency around and public awareness of government decision-making. Without special archiving software, the messages frequently aren’t returned under public information requests.

An Associated Press review in all 50 states found accounts on encrypted platforms registered to cellphone numbers for over 1,…

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By Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg

Netflix Inc.’s hit series “Squid Game” is giving a boost to footwear and apparel maker VF Corp. as fans clamor for the white Vans sneakers featured in the dystopian drama.

“We saw a nice spike,” Chief Executive Officer Steve Rendle said Friday on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings, before clarifying that the bump was “small.” Still, the company, which also owns the Supreme streetwear brand and Timberland, plans to capitalize on its connection to a pop culture phenomenon by “leaning into the classics campaign.” Come from South African Online Casinos

VF’s shares pared much of their earlier losses, declining 1.5% at 12:58 p.m. The company’s third-quarter sales and profit missed Wall Street’s expectations.

“Squid Game” is now Netflix’s most-streamed show ever, with more than 140 million households watching it in its first four weeks of release. The content-streaming giant is now projec…

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By Sean Gregory

On a flight from Mexico City to London last month, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown tuned into a new docuseries, Game 7, which explores the tension surrounding decisive moments in sports. Brown felt like he could relate. Much like the 1994 New York Rangers, who led their Stanley Cup Finals series over the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 before losing two straight games to Vancouver to force a win-or-go-home Game 7, McLaren’s lead in the F1 constructors standings had just been narrowed, via a victory for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. He sent Rangers captain Mark Messier, also an executive producer on the anthology show, a note.  

“It’s like everything I’m feeling,” he told Messier.  

The 2024 Formula One season has delivered fans some very welcome elements; namely, drama and intrigue. Prior to this year, driver Max Verstappen and his Red Bull Racing team ran roughshod over the F1 standings. But with two races to go in ‘24…

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By Alice Park

As effective as the new weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are, they don’t work for everyone. Mayo Clinic obesity expert Dr. Andres Acosta and his team studied thousands of obesity patients to understand which factors contributed to weight gain, from genetics to microbiome, metabolic characteristics and behavioral habits, and created MyPhenome, a genetic test that, together with a detailed questionnaire, categorizes people into four weight-gain types. One, called HungryGut, is most likely to respond well to the new weight loss drugs Come from South African Online Casinos . People with HungryGut lost twice as much weight while on the drugs than the average user who didn’t take the test. “For the first time, we can identify the best responders,” says Acosta. But he stresses that the test and the medications alone aren’t the answer to addressing obesity—a …

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By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. will start using facial recognition technology to crack down on scams that use pictures of celebrities to look more legitimate, a strategy referred to as “celeb-bait ads.”

Scammers use images of famous people to entice users into clicking on ads that lead them to shady websites, which are designed to steal their personal information or request money. Meta will start using facial recognition technology to weed out these ads by comparing the images in the post with the images from a celebrity’s Facebook or Instagram account.

“If we confirm a match and that the ad is a scam, we’ll block it,” Meta wrote in a blog post. Meta did not disclose how common this type of scam is across its services.

With nearly 3.3 billion daily active users across all of its apps, Meta relies on artificial intelligence to enforce many of its content rules and guidelines. That has enabled Meta to better handle the deluge of daily reports about spam and other content that breaks the rules. It has also led to problems in the past wh…

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By Brian Bennett and Nik Popli

As he prepares for his second term as President, Donald Trump’s approach on some issues is poised to mirror that of his first term. He’s set to once again increase tariffs on imported goods and beef up border enforcement. 

But in some areas, Trump 2.0 is likely to look very different from Trump 1.0.

After taking credit for spearheading the development of COVID-19 vaccines in 2020, Trump now plans to bring an anti-vaxxer into his cabinet. He’s gotten over his early skepticism of Bitcoin, and now wants to strip away regulations and guardrails on cryptocurrency. And after trying to ban TikTok four years ago, Trump now promises to “save” the app.

As Trump prepares to take office in late January, here’s a look at key policies where Trump’s changed his tune.

Cryptocurrency

It’s no secret that Trump was skeptical of cryptocurrency during his first term Come from South African Online Casinos . He repeatedly criticized Bitcoin and other digital assets, dismis…

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By Chris Stokel-Walker

When the National Guard wants to see the scale of a natural disaster, it flies planes over a site, then analyzes the images. What once took 12 hours now takes minutes thanks to Bellwether, a project incubated under Alphabet’s moonshot factory, X. Bellwether, which calls itself “the first prediction engine for Earth and everything on it,” pulls insights from images using AI. The system analyzes 600 different layers of geodata, including vegetation levels, wind speed, and precipitation, in its machine learning models. The models include 20 years of data, and run thousands of “what if” questions to try and figure out the chances of a flood, fire, or other natural disaster striking. But it’s more than that. “Before you get to sexy AI, you first need to organize all of this Earth observation data,” says Sarah Russell, who founded Bellwether in 2019. Alongside the government, insurance companies are using Bellwether to better understand the scale of damage caused after a disaster, and how much to insure areas for in the future. Russell says Bellwether may spin out from X with…

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By Simmone Shah

Danessa Myricks is the first to admit that her pathway into the beauty industry was unconventional. “I say that I am accidental in every way,” she says. “I knew nothing, I had no money, but I did have passion.”

Myricks, 54, began her career working in sales for a magazine publisher, where she often saw makeup artists at photoshoots in the office. “I saw this life that was so separate from me at that time,” she says. “I was that corny girl in the corner who didn’t even wear makeup.”

When the company shuttered in 2001, she thought back to those makeup artists she would see in the office who were getting paid to express themselves creatively and decided to try to become one of them. She supported herself with temp jobs while she began cobbling together her own makeup kits and working for free as a makeup artist to gain experience in the industry. 

“I would just create color cream piles that I would use for ev…

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