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New Zealand drugs regulator approves use of MDMA to treat severe PTSD

New Zealand decision follows Australian approval in 2023 of psychedelics to treat PTSD and treatment-resistant depression Two psychiatrists in New Zealand won approval on Friday to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to people with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The move by New Zealand’s pharmaceutical regulatory body Medsafe makes the country only the second worldwide to approve…

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Save $3,000 Off the Massive 83" LG Evo M3 4K OLED TV With Wireless Connectivity and 5 Year Warranty

Save $3,000 Off the Massive 83" LG Evo M3 4K OLED TV With Wireless Connectivity and 5 Year Warranty

LG OLED TVs are generally divided into three tiers: the highest-end G (Gallery) series, the mid-range C-series, and the budget-friendly B-series. Lesser known amongst LG's OLED lineup is the M-series. This is a specialized model that has the same panel as the G-series but with the added advantage of wireless connectivity. It's priced higher than…

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Adobe names insider Chakravarthy CEO, Narayen transitions to executive chair – reuters.com

Adobe names insider Chakravarthy CEO, Narayen transitions to executive chair  reuters.com Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen  CNBC Adobe Announces Anil Chakravarthy to Become President and CEO and Shantanu Narayen to Become Executive Chair on December 1, 2026  Adobe Newsroom Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Narayen transitions to executive chair  The Hindu Adobe just announced…

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I’ve worn Garmin smartwatches for years — but I can’t deny that these affordable alternatives are a better buy

I’ve been a Garmin user since 2016, having tried a range of smartwatches and other fitness trackers to track my runs, hikes, bike rides, swims and even social badminton games. But I can’t deny that they are premium products that most people can’t justify paying a big chunk of cash for. In fact, the just-announced…

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Two people rescued from Nepal hydropower tunnel more than a week after flash flood – BBC

Two people rescued from Nepal hydropower tunnel more than a week after flash flood  BBC Nepal-China floods latest: Rescues underway as two men pulled alive more than a week after disaster  CNN One trapped worker rescued alive from tunnel in Nepal, says official  The Hindu How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal’s flood rescue efforts  reuters.com Himalayan…

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Steam earned Valve $15 billion in revenue so far this year, with Crimson Desert alone topping $203 million according to analyst

Steam has made a top-heavy $15 billion in gross revenue so far this year according to Alinea Analytics market analysis lead Rhys Elliott – and Crimson Desert was its most lucrative new IP by far. Elliott describes Steam as “Valve’s functional monopoly on the PC market” in a new Substack post breaking down its 2026…

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Gautam Gambhir, Shubman Gill's Big '2027 World Cup' Request, BCCI In Talks With South Africa: Report – NDTV Sports

Gautam Gambhir, Shubman Gill’s Big ‘2027 World Cup’ Request, BCCI In Talks With South Africa: Report  NDTV Sports BCCI explores four-to-six match ODI series in South Africa ahead of 2027 World Cup  Yardbarker India Could Play ODI Series In South Africa Ahead Of ODI World Cup 2027 | Cricket News  News18 JUST IN: Six-match South Africa vs India…

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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners

It’s that time of year again, when we learn which lucky scientists are among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes. This year, the prizes honor research on designing the perfect splash-free urinal; using mosquito proboscises to “necroprint” tiny nozzles; studying composition rates of buried cotton underwear; and the aerodynamics of a healthy nose-blow, among…

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Patient lived with world's first pig kidney transplant for nine months before getting human organ – Sky News

Patient lived with world’s first pig kidney transplant for nine months before getting human organ  Sky News Patient Who Received Pig Kidney Becomes First To Progress to Human Kidney Transplant  Harvard Medical School Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months  The Guardian Pig kidneys successfully transplanted into humans  Financial Times Pig kidney works in human…

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'Hanuman Ansh' box office collections day 28: Vishal Chaturvedi film jumps 41.9%; India net reaches Rs 72 – The Times of India

‘Hanuman Ansh’ box office collections day 28: Vishal Chaturvedi film jumps 41.9%; India net reaches Rs 72  The Times of India Hanuman Ansh director says he sought help from Bollywood but got no support: ‘Industry is filled with confused people’  Hindustan Times ‘Hanuman Ansh’: This Hindi film on Neem Karoli Baba has crossed Rs 50 crore at…

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BCCI plays down Agarkar's absence – Cricbuzz

BCCI plays down Agarkar’s absence  Cricbuzz Agarkar skips BCCI review meeting, uncertainty over chief selector’s future grows  Telegraph India BCCI ‘trying to find ways’ to avoid frequent player injuries  espn.in BCCI working like a well-oiled engine, says Saikia  The Hindu ‘What more do you want?’: BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia’s blunt message on Rohit Sharma amid 2027 World Cup speculation  The…

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16 glistening galaxies shine in new images form NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory

While we have months to wait for the first images from the freshly-launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s other incredible observatories do not disappoint. The agency released a new collection of 16 galactic images taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.  Galaxies are separated into three main categories—spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars. Spirals…

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Nifty 50, Sensex prediction today: Check how Indian stock market is expected to trade on 4 September – Livemint

Nifty 50, Sensex prediction today: Check how Indian stock market is expected to trade on 4 September  Livemint GIFT Nifty jumps 100 pts, signals strong start for Sensex, Nifty; Wall Street rallies, Fed rate-hike bets…  Moneycontrol.com D-Street set for a strong opening as GIFT Nifty signals firm start  economictimes.com Indian Markets Open Higher as Rupee Strengthens and Gold…

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Estonia Defence Minister Resigns Over Botched Rs 770 Crore Arms Deal With Indian-Owned Firm – News18

Estonia Defence Minister Resigns Over Botched Rs 770 Crore Arms Deal With Indian-Owned Firm  News18 Estonia minister quits over ammunition deal with India-owned firm that never arrived  India Today Estonian defence minister quits over €70m EU-funded arms scandal  Euronews.com Estonia’s €70 million ammunition scandal: How a Ukraine arms deal involving an Indian-owned company ended with the Defence Minister’s…

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High school students spot two spiral galaxies colliding in Hawaiian constellation

High school students interning at an observatory in Hawaii have successfully imaged a pair of colliding spiral galaxies located deep within overlapping cultural constellations. Formally classified as NGC 7253, the two galaxies are over 200 million light-years away, and reside in both Pegasus and Ka Lupe o Kawelo, or “The Kite of Kawelo.” “NGC 7253…

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BCCI plays down Ajit Agarkar's absence at key review meeting – Cricbuzz

BCCI plays down Ajit Agarkar’s absence at key review meeting  Cricbuzz Agarkar skips BCCI review meeting, uncertainty over chief selector’s future grows  Telegraph India BCCI ‘trying to find ways’ to avoid frequent player injuries  espn.in BCCI working like a well-oiled engine, says Saikia  The Hindu ‘What more do you want?’: BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia’s blunt message on Rohit Sharma…

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jumping ring robot

Bracelet-shaped robot just keeps jumping

Much like the earworm “The Song That Doesn’t End” from Shari Lewis’ Lamb Chops’ Play-Along, a new soft robot does not stop…curling up and jumping. A team of mechanical engineers from North Carolina State University say that they’ve created the bracelet-shaped bot that moves indefinitely when it’s exposed to infrared light.  Called a Ring Leaper,…

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While us lot in the West might like Dragon's Dogma 2's friction, Japan doesn't quite agree, and its producers say balancing that has been a real challenge

While us lot in the West might like Dragon's Dogma 2's friction, Japan doesn't quite agree, and its producers say balancing that has been a real challenge

Both the original and Dragon’s Dogma 2 are not games for everyone. Not in the Dark Souls, uber challenging sort of way necessarily, just in that they do not hold your hand, right down to not even having a lock-on feature in combat. There’s a long list of other aspects that provide friction, interesting friction,…

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Oil prices mixed as investors weigh Middle East escalation, chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal – Reuters

Oil prices mixed as investors weigh Middle East escalation, chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal  Reuters Oil price today: Crude continues to trade beyond $95 per barrel amid Hormuz supply tensions  The Times of India Oil near multi-week highs after fresh Iran strikes; Trump says war won’t last long  Investing.com India Oil Heads for Biggest Weekly Gain Since July…

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Mark Sanchez agrees to plead guilty in Indianapolis stabbing case, requests November sentencing – WTHR

Mark Sanchez agrees to plead guilty in Indianapolis stabbing case, requests November sentencing  WTHR Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez files guilty plea in downtown Indy stabbing  Fox 59 Ex-Jets QB Mark Sanchez to plead guilty in attack on grease truck driver that left him badly injured  New York Post Mark Sanchez files guilty plea as ex-NFL quarterback faces…

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ChatGPT Stickers

I thought ChatGPT’s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop — then I made a pack I actually wanted to use

I have developed a fairly strong allergy to the AI slop filling some corners of the internet. It’s not that I haven’t seen impressive demonstrations of what AI models can do visually; it’s just that the baseline creations made by most people are execrable at best and blandly monotonous when they aren’t horrifying or malevolent….

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El Nino: A phenomenon supercharged by climate change – Al Jazeera

El Nino: A phenomenon supercharged by climate change  Al Jazeera UN warns of ‘supersized’ El Niño as countries prepare for impact  bbc.com 100% chance of El Nino lasting till Feb next year, India may see warmer winter  Hindustan Times El Nino strengthened rapidly, firmly established, may intensify further: WMO  Down To Earth El Nino could be strongest in decades,…

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Coen looks at someone else in The Blood of Dawnwalker within some kind of church

The Blood of Dawnwalker's first post-launch patch is here as Rebel Wolves promises more updates with fixes for stuttering and crashes

The Blood of Dawnwalker finally launched this week to “Mostly Positive” reviews on Steam as well as from critics and players, but as you should come to expect in the year 2026, there also seem to be some fairly substantial performance and optimization struggles bogging the whole thing down. Rebel Wolves’ debut title has been…

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John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell Are Pure Delight in Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine

Malkovich as Chris and Rockwell as Lee in Wild Horse Nine —Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Where’s the line between shtick and style? If a filmmaker returns to similar themes over and over again but folds them into entertaining shapes each time, is that consistency or a lack of imagination? Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine—playing…

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'This is GREAT': Trump lauds Syria 'pitching itself' as alternative to Strait of Hormuz amid Iran war | World News – Hindustan Times

‘This is GREAT’: Trump lauds Syria ‘pitching itself’ as alternative to Strait of Hormuz amid Iran war | World News  Hindustan Times Syria, eyeing role as Middle East hub, offers options to bypass Hormuz  The Washington Post Syria pitches oil route as alternative to Strait of Hormuz, Trump backs corridor  Firstpost Why UAE’s real estate push in Syria,…

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Machine learning interprets genome sequences to map possible microbial symbionts

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03212-2 A machine-learning framework called symclatron uses genome sequencing content to predict whether uncultivated bacteria and archaea live independently or in close association with hosts. Applied to a global genome collection, it suggests that host-dependent microbes are widespread across Earth’s biomes and microbial phyla. Source link

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ISRO successfully launches Earth observation satellite EOS-05 – The Hindu

ISRO successfully launches Earth observation satellite EOS-05  The Hindu ISRO Successfully Launches GSLV F17 Rocket Carrying Imaging Satellite EOS-05  NDTV Work on uncrewed Gaganyaan mission in full swing: ISRO chief Narayanan  ThePrint Breaking news live updates, September 4: Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary  The Times of India For ISRO, Friday Is Not About Putting Another Satellite…

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Accelerating natural CO<sub>2</sub> removal from the atmosphere with ocean bacteria

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 03 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03287-x Bacterial siderophores can accelerate mineral dissolution, a natural rock weathering process that traps CO2 in alkaline seawater. We demonstrate that engineering of siderophore production and selection of renewable feedstock to feed the siderophore-producing bacteria are sufficient to achieve net carbon removal at large scales. Source link

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GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit reveals new People and Workplace focus, dedicated to shaping the future of games workplaces

GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit reveals new People and Workplace focus, dedicated to shaping the future of games workplaces

This year’s GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, returning to the Royal Institution on October 1, will have a new focus on People and Workplaces, with a series of sessions featuring, and speaking to, both HR professionals and business leaders on what the modern games workplace needs to be in a time of ongoing turmoil in the industry….

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