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Apple Facing $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Over ‘Unfair’ App Tracking Rules
Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers over its app tracking rules, with the iPhone maker accused of abusing its power to unfairly impose greater restrictions on third parties. The lawsuit, filed at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday, follows years of regulatory scrutiny over Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, which was launched in 2021.
‘Baby Dunks-A-Lot’: Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is out with a new picture book
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Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is out with a new picture book
By Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with NBA and two-time Olympic champion Jayson Tatum about " Baby Dunks-A-Lot: The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing," his new children's picture book written with Sam Apple and illustrated by Parker-Nia Gordon. Book excerpt: 'Baby Dunks-A-Lot' By Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple From "Baby Dunks-A-Lot The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing," published by Abrams Books for Young Readers. Text © 2026 Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple. Illustrations © 2026 Parker-Nia Gordon.
Baby Dunks-a-Lot: The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing
All-star Baby Dunks-a-Lot is back and ready to help his team solve a basketball mystery in this hilarious and sporty tale from NBA champion Jayson Tatum "There's only one person who can save the game of basketball . .
Why governments are selling Vitamin D short
With all of the remarkable health benefits of sunlight and vitamin D, why haven’t governments and federal health organizations been supporting the sunlight vitamin? Studies keep piling up that prove vitamin D’s amazing health benefits in nearly every area of human health. An still vitamin D receives little or no media attention. Why is this? In this in-depth article by Sam Apple, we learn the reason why governments are unlikely to support a vitamin gotten from the sun. Could it be greed for money?
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WIRED | September - October 2025 WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE DEEPLY, SERIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH A CHATBOT? TO FIND OUT, I ORGANIZED A WEEKEND GETAWAY FOR THREE HAPPY COUPLES. WE BARELY SURVIVED. AT FIRST, THE IDEA SEEMED A LITTLE ABSURD, even to me. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made: If my goal was to understand people who fall in love with AI boyfriends and girlfriends, why not rent a vacation house and gather a group of human-AI couples together for a romantic getaway?
Me fui a un retiro con tres personas (humanas) y sus parejas (de IA)
Al principio, la idea me parecía un poco absurda. Pero cuanto más lo pensaba, más sentido tenía: Si mi objetivo era entender a la gente que se enamora de novias y novios de IA, ¿por qué no alquilar una casa de vacaciones y reunir a un grupo de parejas humano-IA para una escapada romántica?
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
At first, the idea seemed a little absurd, even to me. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made: If my goal was to understand people who fall in love with AI boyfriends and girlfriends, why not rent a vacation house and gather a group of human-AI couples together for a romantic getaway? In my vision, the humans and their chatbot companions were going to do all the things regular couples do on romantic getaways: Sit around a fire and gossip, watch movies, play risqué party games.
Jayson Tatum scores with new kids picture book 'Baby Dunks-a-Lot'
Host Scott Tong speaks with NBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Jayson Tatum about “Baby Dunks-a-Lot,” the new kids’ book Tatum coauthored with Sam Apple. The two also discuss Tatum’s close relationship with his mom, his childhood in Saint Louis and his thoughts on his lack of playing time in the Paris Olympics. Book excerpt: ‘Baby Dunks-a-Lot’ By Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple, illustrations by Parker-Nia Gordon Excerpted with permission of the publisher Abrams Books.
The Sunday Read: ‘My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.’
Adrienne Hurst and Daniel Farrell and By the time Sam Apple pulled up with his goldendoodle, Steve, to their resting place, he was tired from the long drive and already second-guessing his plan. He felt a little better when they stepped inside the Dogwood Acres Pet Retreat. The lobby, with its elegant tiled entrance, might have passed for the lobby of any small countryside hotel, at least one that strongly favored dog-themed decor.
My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog 'Hotels.' I Tagged Along.
How exactly did dogs take over our world? This writer journeys into the bespoke pet care industry to find out. The author and his goldendoodle, Steve, in the Annapolis suite at the Holiday Barn Pet Resorts outside Richmond, Va. Credit... Holly Andres for The New York Times Listen to this article, read by Eric Jason Martin Image I tried to remain positive as Steve and I made our way into the recesses of Dogwood Acres.
Tolstoy and Chill
In 1883, Evert Nymanover, a Swedish scholar at the University of Minnesota, proposed a new invention that some thought would affect the future of humankind: a device that played recordings of books. Nymanover called the device a “whispering machine” and suggested that it could be placed inside of a hat so that someone walking down the street or reclining in bed “could be perpetually listening” to great works of literature.
My Forties in Internet Headlines
He Can’t Stop Talking About His Low-Carb Diet. So Why Does He Go to Dunkin’ Donuts, Like, Literally Every Single Day?
Second Opinion: Do we really know what makes us fat?
The scientific understanding of why Americans just keep gaining weight — why our fat cells are holding on to calories rather than releasing that energy — may be changing. (Patrick Sison / Associated Press ) We’re familiar with the pattern by now: Every few years, a new study emerges with new obesity statistics. The numbers seem shockingly high, almost impossibly high, until the next study comes along with numbers that are higher still.
A Beach in Jerusalem?
I discovered that there was a beach in Jerusalem a few months after my book was published in Hebrew. One day, as I was visiting my parents, I met my father’s childhood friend from Jerusalem, Yuval. He asked me why I named my debut short story collection Jerusalem Beach. I told him the name came from one of the stories about an elderly woman, named Lilian, who has Alzheimer’s. One of the only memories she has left is of visiting a snowy beach in Jerusalem as a child.
Otto Warburg's Jewish Identity
Several years ago, if someone had asked me who counted as Jewish in Nazi Germany, I would have been sure of the answer: anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent. That, after all, is what I was taught in my Jewish day school and in the various Jewish programs I participated in throughout my childhood. However, while working on my new book Ravenous, I was surprised to discover that what I had been taught was not correct. Not exactly.
‘A complicated hero’: The gay Jewish man who studied diet and cancer in Nazi Germany
Eighty years ago, on June 21, 1941, an unusual meeting took place at Nazi Party headquarters. Otto Warburg, a German scientist who directed a branch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was summoned to meet with SS leaders Heinrich Himmler and Viktor Brack. Despite being a Nobel laureate, Warburg had been evicted from the institute and his career jeopardized because he was Jewish and suspected of being gay. However, the SS allowed Warburg to keep working.
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Thread: 1/25: Can sugar be thought of as a cause of cancer? I explore this question in my new book Ravenous: amzn.to/3eJi4L2 (Pub date is 5/25. If it looks interesting, pre-orders are a huge help!) Thread: 2/25: I think the evidence points strongly in the direction of “yes” — sugar can be thought of as a cause of cancer. But I also think there are some important nuances to the science that are sometimes easy to overlook.
How Did a Gay Scientist of Jewish Descent Thrive Under the Nazis?
Nonfiction Otto Warburg was “a true Faust,” Sam Apple writes in his biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, someone so “ravenous for knowledge and power” that he would do anything, including sell his soul to the devil, to achieve “full mastery over life.”Credit...Jung/ullstein bild, via Getty Images June 6, 2021 RAVENOUS Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection By Sam Apple At the start of the 20th century, the German Empire was the undisputed hub of the...
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
FORMAT Available Description The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg--a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs--was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred.
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Un-Miracle Drugs Could Help Tame the Pandemic
A new idea for how to fight pandemics came to David Fedson as he walked through Lausanne on a sunny spring afternoon in 2004. That a global catastrophe was on Fedson’s mind even as he made his way along the Swiss city’s scenic streets was not unusual. Fedson, who studied medicine at Yale and trained at Johns Hopkins, had served on a number of national vaccination committees in the United States.
Keto for Disease Treatment: A Notorious Ex-Con's Unlikely Role
After 30 minutes, the rat should have been dead. Sealed in a capsule-shaped chamber, the animal was breathing pure oxygen at a pressure high enough to cause a normal rat to have a seizure in five to 10 minutes. Dominic D’Agostino, a researcher at the University of South Florida, stood by, ready to flush the chamber with fresh air and rescue the creature at the first signs of a problem. But 30 minutes became 40 minutes, and still the rat appeared unbothered.
At the Vatican, a Search for Cancer’s Miracle Cure
Pope Francis addressed a number of the leading cancer researchers in the world, assembled at the Vatican for a conference on regenerative medicine, including immunology.Photograph by Giuseppe Ciccia / NurPhoto via Getty Late last month, a number of the leading cancer researchers in the world assembled at the Vatican for its third conference in regenerative medicine.
Rocket Boy
If I had to sum up my childhood with a single image, it would be the poster of Moses Malone that was taped to the wall next to my parents’ bed, in the master bedroom of our suburban Houston home. In the poster, a mustached and decidedly sober-looking Malone, a Hall of Fame center for the Rockets from 1976 to 1982, parts a Red Sea of basketballs with a shepherd’s crook. At the bottom, it said, simply, “Moses.” Malone was there because my mother, who had multiple sclerosis, was not.
MIT Index
From its laid-back hackers to its rigorous academics, MIT can be a bewildering place for the uninitiated. From 1925 to the 1940s, a multi-day “Freshman Camp” was held at Lake Massapoag, featuring talks, sports, and traditions like dunking the sophomore class president. Today, first-years learn about campus culture during Orientation/Residence Exploration (REX) week. Find out a bit more about the Class of 2022 and the experiences of previous generations with this compilation of first-year facts.
The cartographer of cells
Last October, Aviv Regev spoke to a gathering of international scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science. For Regev, a computational and systems biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the gathering was also a homecoming of sorts. Regev earned her PhD from nearby Tel Aviv University in 2002. Now, 15 years later, she was back to discuss one of the most ambitious projects in the history of biology.
'The Butcher of Desire; or Imagining Philip Roth,' New Fiction by Sam Apple
No more books. No more revolts against the self. No more self-righteousness as self-parody. No more laugh-out-loud desperation. No more boundless desire. No more waning desire. No more Jews. No more America. No more fucking. It’s now been more than two years since Roth announced his retirement and still I keep expecting the next book to come.
Investing in Tech That’s Worth the Wait
Liquid separation wouldn’t top most people’s lists of world-changing technologies. But consider this: every day, US companies tease apart chemicals in billions of reactions to make food and beverages, drugs, and fuel. In fact, this process is so common in industrial settings that it uses as much energy as all US cars and trucks combined. “It represents 12 percent of all US energy consumption,” says Shreya Dave, cofounder of the year-old startup Via Separations.
Turning Air Pollution into Art
In 2012, on a visit home to Mumbai, India, MIT Media Lab student Anirudh Sharma, SM ’14, saw something that resembled dirt accumulating on his T-shirts. It turned out this grime was soot from fossil-fuel emissions. Produced by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, soot is made up of tiny black particles of carbon. Inhaling it can cause major health issues: in India, studies have linked this and other forms of air pollution to as many as 1.4 million premature deaths over the past few years.
The Man Who Uncovered a New (Old) Way to Fight Cancer
One day last October, MIT biology professor Matthew Vander Heiden showed up in one of his trademark plaid shirts to teach his undergraduate course on cancer biology. As usual, he peppered his lecture with questions, filling six sliding chalkboards with arrows mapping cellular pathways; he had to erase the boards halfway through class to make room for more notations.
A Less-Artificial Intelligence
A fair number of engineers working on artificial intelligence don’t care whether their systems resemble real brains or not, as long as they perform well. But even today’s best systems can generalize only if fed thousands of samples, and they can’t transfer their generalizations to new contexts. This leaves AI vulnerable to attackers, who can trick it with tiny tweaks to the data. Neuroscientist Andreas Tolias believes that brain-like features could fix these problems.
The Houston Billionaire Who Is Conducting a War on Bad Science | RealClearMarkets
The Houston Billionaire Who Is Conducting a War on Bad Science
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In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linked to being overweight or obese, among them a number of the most common and deadly cancers of all — colon, thyroid, ovarian, uterine, pancreatic and (in postmenopausal women) breast cancer.
Sam Apple: Sugar, carbs and cancer links
In August 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linked to being overweight or obese, among them a number of the most common and deadly cancers of all — colon, thyroid, ovarian, uterine, pancreatic and (in postmenopausal women) breast cancer.Earlier this month, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added more detail: Approximately 631,000 Americans were diagnosed with a...
Sugar, carbs and cancer links
Earlier this month, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added more detail: Approximately 631,000 Americans were diagnosed with a body fat-related cancer in 2014, accounting for 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed that year. Increasingly, it seems not only that we are losing the war on cancer, but that we are losing it to what we eat and drink. These new findings, while important, only tell us so much.
Sugar, carbs and cancer links
In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linked to being overweight or obese, among them a number of the most common and deadly cancers of all — colon, thyroid, ovarian, uterine, pancreatic and (in postmenopausal women) breast cancer.Earlier this month, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added more detail: Approximately 631,000 Americans were diagnosed with a body...
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In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linked to being overweight or obese, among them a number of the most common and deadly cancers of all — colon, thyroid, ovarian, uterine, pancreatic and (in postmenopausal women) breast cancer.
Commentary: It's getting clearer - the diet-cancer connection points to sugar and carbs
In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linked to being overweight or obese, among them a number of the most common and deadly cancers of all — colon, thyroid, ovarian, uterine, pancreatic and (in postmenopausal women) breast cancer.
Steve Jobs' Life Is the Perfect Opera
Steve Jobs was a visionary , perfectionist , tyrant , and genius . Now the late technologist is something new: a baritone. The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs , an original opus by Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist Mark Campbell and DJ-slash-composer Mason Bates, premieres at the Santa Fe Opera in July. “Too often people think of opera as this stupid old European art form that has nothing to do with our lives,” Campbell says.
Eerie Photos Prove It: Amusement Parks Are Totally Creepy
Seen in daylight or illuminated by neon and bright lights, amusement parks look like a lot of fun. The rides, the games, the cotton candy and fried food. Seen in the dead of night, they look haunted, even apocalyptic. Stefano Cerio taps that creepiness in his photo book Night Games . He prowls amusement parks in the wee hours, when still rides, vacant playgrounds, and forgotten machinery are their spookiest. "I like to see these amusement parks when they’re empty,” he says.
How Honda Killed the Most Annoying Thing About Front-Wheel Drive
The new Civic Type R sports the most powerful engine Honda has ever stuffed into a street car: a turbocharged screamer that puts out 306 horsepower and goes like stink. The rest of the car is bonkers, too: six-speed manual, nimble chassis, record time on Germany's famously difficult Nürburgring racetrack , etc. All good stuff. But what really makes the hottest of hot hatches truly remarkable is this: The steering wheel doesn't twitch in the slightest when you stand on the gas.
Here’s What It’s Like to Control a Predator Drone
I was wired on Rip It energy drinks heart pounding, eyes glued open to the bright screens as we followed a white bongo truck for miles as it drove south, kicking up dust from the Syrian border through the open desert. “Raise altitude and switch to thermal sensors,” I called over to the team.
Forget the Blood of Teens. Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pill
Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades. And Barzilai knows about the science of aging. He is, after all, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. And, as such, he usually talks about his plan with the caution of a seasoned researcher. Usually.
Airbus' High-Speed Racer Helicopter Cruises at a Wild 250 MPH
Emergency workers and the obscenely rich love helicopters, and for good reason. Unlike airplanes, whirlybirds can take off and land almost anywhere, making them just the thing for tight spots and urban areas. The drawback, though, is speed. Choppers are slow. While Gulfstream's G650 private jet streaks along at north of 600 mph, conventional choppers like the police or your local traffic reporter might use maxes out around 160 mph. Quick, but not that quick when talking about flight.
Why the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Shouldn't Spark Monopoly Fears
In a recent episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley , Richard, the show’s protagonist startup founder, and Monica, one of his investors, stroll through the aisles of a bountiful grocery store that looks not unlike Whole Foods. “You do realize I am literally the only person in this grocery store actually buying stuff for myself?” Monica says to Richard. The camera cuts to zombified contract workers wearing branded T-shirts for delivery startups like Instacart, Postmates, and TaskRabbit.
Serena Williams Responds to John McEnroe on Twitter, Plus More Volleys of the Week
Happy long weekend, friends. How’s it going? Feeling rested? After last week, you deserve a break. And that's not even because everything that happened last week was bad—Jay-Z did drop a new album to apologize to Beyoncé and Germany did legalize same-sex marriage , after all—it was all just kind of a lot. In other words, it was another seven days on the internet. Convinced you missed something? Take our virtual hand, dear readers, we’ll revisit the highlights and the lowlights together.
Enron's billionaire-philanthropist behind the Arnold Foundation on fighting bad science
Brian Nosek had pretty much given up on finding a funder. For two years he had sent out grant proposals for his software project. And for two years they had been rejected again and again - which was, by 2011, discouraging but not all that surprising to the 38-year-old scientist. An associate professor at the University of Virginia, Nosek had made a name for himself in a hot sub-field of social psychology, studying people's unconscious biases. But that's not what this project was about.
John Arnold: Young Billionaire Behind the War on Bad Science | RealClearMarkets
John Arnold: Young Billionaire Behind the War on Bad Science Melissa Brower/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP Meet the former Enron trader and hedge fund founder who's on a quest to expose bad science
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