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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here’s how to stop it — Last week, some Android users received an email from Google notifying them that starting July 7 (yesterday), Gemini will, as the company puts it, “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone,” regardless of whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.
People with ‘young brains’ outlive ‘old-brained’ peers […] We all guess people’s actual ages, almost unconsciously, by scanning their faces for wrinkles, baggy eyes and other telltale signs. But figuring out how old someone’s brain, arteries or kidneys are is another matter. “We’ve developed a blood-based indicator of the age of your organs. With this indicator, we can assess the age of an organ today and predict the odds of your getting a disease associated with that organ 10 years later. […] The brain is the gatekeeper of longevity,” he said. “If you’ve got an old brain, you have an increased likelihood of mortality. If you’ve got a young brain, you’re probably going to live longer.”
Sense of humor is a universal human trait, enjoyed daily across cultures. However, little is known about the factors that shape individual differences in humor, particularly what contributes to developing a great sense of humor. […] This study is the first to assess the genetic and environmental influences on humor production ability using a twin study design. […] humor production showed no evidence of additive genetic effects. Instead, all individual differences were shaped by shared and nonshared environmental influences, though a small genetic effect cannot be ruled out.
Recent research has shown that memory consolidation (MC) is not only facilitated by sleep, in particular NREM sleep, but also by wakeful resting states. Mind wandering (MW) is a common phenomenon during waking state, especially during rest. The hippocampus is involved in both MC and MW, and both cognitive processes have been associated with hippocampal ripple activity. Therefore, it is an important and obvious question whether MW interacts with MC. […] A provisional synthesis suggests that autobiographical thinking and daydreaming negatively impact MC. However, a specific offline state characterized by greater slow oscillation power and decreased task-focus, which suggests increased MW, has been reported to facilitate MC.
Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date that cancer is extremely rare in turtles
In most jobs, the way your employer finds out that you have accepted a new job is that you come to them and say “I quit, I’m starting a new job in two weeks.” Investment banking analysts are unusual in that they traditionally accept their next job (in private equity) two years before it starts, and then spend those two years working away at their investment bank. So if the bank wants to find out whether or not they have accepted a new job, it has to ask them periodically. The banks have not always wanted to find out, but now Goldman does: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to ask junior bankers to confirm their loyalty on a regular basis in a bid to limit advances from talent-hungry buyout firms. The investment bank will ask new analysts to certify every three months that they haven’t already lined up jobs elsewhere, according to people familiar with the matter
