AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (via) Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a "U.S.-based technology company". This captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting. AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version,…
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Jutta Leerdam: Speed ​​skating star wins Olympic gold as fiancé Jake Paul cries

Jutta Leerdam: Speed ​​skating star wins Olympic gold as fiancé Jake Paul cries

🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Leerdam has a dedicated following with over five million followers on Instagram and millions more across other platforms.She generally chooses to avoid traditional media and chooses to speak from her own channels, bypassing the attention and criticism of the Dutch press which closely covers Olympic sport where it has historically dominated.Her profile expanded beyond oval speed skating in 2023 when she began a relationship with Paul, whose celebrity journey took him from YouTube personality to professional boxer. He faced former world champion Anthony Joshua last…
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Whistle Review – A smart and sympathetic spin on the horror of cursed artefacts | film

Whistle Review – A smart and sympathetic spin on the horror of cursed artefacts | film

🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Culture,Nick Frost 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn the surface, this teen-targeted, genre-defining Irish-Canadian horror effort looks like the kind of project that went into production after the Filippo brothers' damned Talk to Me was wiped out at the box office. However, instead of suburban Australia, writer Owen Egerton and director Corin Hardy transport us to an autumnal North American town ready for spring, where artistically gifted high school student Chris (Dafne Keen) inherits the locker of the basketball star we just saw engulfed in flames…
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These hackers are turning dead e-cigarettes into music synthesizers

These hackers are turning dead e-cigarettes into music synthesizers

🚀 Discover this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Vapor Ware ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: E-cigarettes are bad For your body and definitely bad for the planet; The world's landfills are full of disposable vape cartridges. But now there's a way to put a little more fun into all that electronic waste.Vape Synth is a project created by a group of makers in New York City who disassemble disposable Elf Bar nicotine vaporizers and turn them into digital musical instruments. The resulting device still looks like a vape cartridge, but with a small speaker…
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Anna Powell: Could Barry John’s granddaughter play football for Wales?

Anna Powell: Could Barry John’s granddaughter play football for Wales?

🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Powell's parents are Lucy - one of John's four children - and Merion, from Caerphilly, who left Wales for Australia in 2003.The family would return to these shores to visit many of their relatives, and Powell recalls how Dadko - a Welsh word for grandfather - "didn't worry about anything".“I have many memories of him,” Powell said. “But the memories I have are not of rugby legend Barry John. He was like a father figure to us all."He was throwing sweets at us in…
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Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become ‘AI-first’ app

Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become ‘AI-first’ app

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Grindr. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Gay hook-up app Grindr is currently trialing a new ultra-premium subscription plan – that uses artificial intelligence and costs members $500 per month. The plan, called EDGE, is being tested with a selection of users in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with prices ranging from $349.99 to $499.99. Grindr has confirmed that EDGE will not replace the current Grindr Unlimited subscription service, but rather sit above it. READ MORE: Grindr announced extra safety measures for LGBTQ+ athletes at Winter…
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Soccer: Why are some shin pads so small?

Soccer: Why are some shin pads so small?

💥 Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: photo BurnleyFootballer's Marcus Edwards has gone viral after the 27-year-old was seen wearing invisible leg pads during a Premier League match against him. West Ham.This mirrors a similar situation from last year when a photo of 17-year-old Brighton midfielder Harry Howell celebrating with teammate James Milner also attracted attention after fans noticed the obvious difference in the size of their leg pads.Howell's "tiny" pair were a marked contrast to Milner's traditionally sized guards.So, what's behind the trend of extra-small shin guards, and why are they…
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‘White Man’s War, Black Man’s Battle’: The Incredible Story of Black Soldiers in Vietnam | books

‘White Man’s War, Black Man’s Battle’: The Incredible Story of Black Soldiers in Vietnam | books

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,US military,Vietnam war,Black US culture,Vietnam,Asia Pacific,History books,Culture,Race,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WHaygood's new book, his tenth, is "The War Within the War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home." He met in Washington, D.C., to discuss the matter, and from the pages produced a small Ziploc bag. Carefully, he pulls out a flyer, yellow and brittle with age. The text at the top is Vietnamese. Below is the English language.It read: "Colored people! The South Vietnamese people, who are fighting for their independence and freedom,…
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Former Google employees are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data

Former Google employees are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data

✨ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,Google Japan,video data 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Companies are producing more videos than ever before. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it unused on servers, unmonitored and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a huge, untapped resource that companies automatically collect but never use in a meaningful way. To address this problem, Aza Kai (CEO) and Hirako Yanagita (COO), two former Google employees who spent nearly a decade working together at Google Japan, decided to create their own solution.…
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Scottish Gossip: ‘Jose Mourinho considered Celtic’s next permanent manager’

Scottish Gossip: ‘Jose Mourinho considered Celtic’s next permanent manager’

✨ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Celtic and Rangers Both were interested in signing Damir Redzic, but the 22-year-old Hungarian striker opted Red Bull Salzburg Despite Celtic making a higher offer, Donajska Strida revealed sporting director Jan van Daele. (Herald), externalRangers He remains hopeful of retaining Billy Rice despite interest from a number of clubs across Europe and in the Premier League and is planning new contract talks with the 19-year-old midfielder, a free agent in the summer, when he recovers from a knee injury. (football inside), externalCeltic european league…
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