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Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

Meredith Haggerty • August 7, 2026 From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise – in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can only have sex one night a year – to deliver an entirely traditional romantic comedy. I’m here

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

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Emma Roth • August 7, 2026 For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple’s App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live

Life lessons: Joe Newman on what life so far has taught him

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Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI

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SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • July 28, 2026 Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. Building new enzymes is a labor of love. These proteins are the body’s chemical workhorses, speeding up the reactions

Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.

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SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • August 4, 2026 Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, computer chips in a massive data center whirl into action. In the blink of an eye, they ping