Month Archives: August 2025

Science

Urine tests detect high-risk HPV as effectively as DIY vaginal swabs

Someone’s cervical cancer risk could be gauged non-invasively by collecting and analysing samples of their urineSolStock/Getty Images Urine tests seem to detect strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that are particularly associated with cervical cancer with the same level of accuracy as vaginal swabs that people carry out themselves. Cervical...

Social media

Threads Tests In-Stream Text Expansion for Longer Updates

Threads is looking to help users post longer missives, with the addition of a custom text editor, which attaches a separate text window to your update. As you can see in these examples, posted by Robert Nickson, Threads is live testing a new text editor, which provides an easy way...

MovieMovies

Bugonia – first-look review | Little White Lies

Although Lanthimos has moved away from the stilted hyper-stylised hallmarks which announced him to the filmmaking world at large, his preoccupation with misfits and oddballs endures. Limp-haired, grubby and isolated, Teddy has become entirely consumed by his search for answers, mired by anger and pain following the slow deterioration of...

Market

Domain, LMXD’s Greenpoint Landing Stake Revealed

Domain Companies and LMXD officially bought their way into one of Brooklyn’s biggest waterfront plays. More is emerging about the cost to do so.The pair, through a limited liability company, paid roughly $122 million for a 76 percent stake in a Greenpoint development site valued at $160 million, PincusCo reported. The...

Health

Spiritual Trickster Gurdjieff in 1920s New York

Almost everyone who encountered Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher Georges Ivan Gurdjieff (ca. 1866-1877 – 1949) in 1920s New York agreed he was enigmatic, strong, and charismatic. Perhaps, also, brash and mercurial. Beyond that, his merits (or faults) lay in the eyes of beholders.A reporter for Time magazine in 1930 illustrated this,...

Food

Crispy Crack Wings (Viral TikTok Recipe)

This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my disclosure policy. Meet your new wing obsession: Crack Wings. Salty, tangy, peppery, with a touch of sweetness. I’ve never seen a wing with a powder dusting so full of flavor! They are...

Gadget

Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

Microsoft is expanding its AI footprint with the of two new models that its teams trained completely in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is the tech major's first natural speech generation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the company's first foundation model trained end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is currently being used in the Copilot Daily...

Gambling

Piles of Human Cremains Found in Desert Outside Las Vegas

Posted on: August 28, 2025, 02:14h.  Last updated on: August 28, 2025, 02:33h. Numerous piles of cremated human remains have been found on federal land in Searchlight, Nev. The piles were illegally dumped on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management Authorities are investigating the source of the illegal...

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