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NC Resident Monitored After Hantavirus Cruise
An NC resident is among Americans flown to Nebraska for quarantine and medical monitoring after exposure on a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
2026-05-12
Linux hit by a second severe kernel flaw
Linux faces a second severe kernel vulnerability in short order, with production patches rolling out that administrators are urged to apply immediately.
2026-05-12
Govee’s portable smart lamp gets first discount
Govee’s new battery powered smart lamp is seeing its first sale, adding Matter support, multi‑zone color control and cross‑platform flexibility at a lower entry price.
2026-05-12
Travel
Entertainment
Eye-Level Party Levels Every Guest
An Oakland event used custom foam platforms to equalize guests’ height, turning a casual party into a live experiment in status, posture and eye contact.
2026-05-04
Why Nintendo Keeps Super Mario Galaxy Movie Racing
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto argues the rapid pace of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie mirrors game design, trading character pauses for dense visual action to hold broad, impatient audiences.
2026-05-03
Letterboxd Owner Quietly Tests the Exit Door
Letterboxd’s controlling investor is exploring a stake sale, forcing the film-focused social platform to weigh new ownership, fresh capital and the risk of losing its loyal cinephile identity.
2026-04-27
Animal
Technology
Mira Murati Designs Intelligent Machines That Prioritize Human Connection
Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, is building interaction models that treat AI as a stateful collaborator, logging context and actions rather than just serving static prompts.
2026-05-12
Funko Faces Lawsuit Over User Data Promises
A new lawsuit accuses Everett-based Funko of misleading users about how their personal data is collected, shared, and monetized across its digital platforms.
2026-05-12
Apple finally flips the RCS encryption switch
Apple is adopting RCS with end‑to‑end encryption, answering Google’s long campaign and closing a major security and feature gap between Android and iPhone messaging.
2026-05-12
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Delicacy
Health
Why hantavirus is not the next COVID
Experts argue hantavirus lacks the transmission profile, viral kinetics and silent spread that drove COVID, making a similar worldwide emergency highly unlikely.
2026-05-12
Maryland tracks two possible hantavirus cases
Two Maryland residents are being monitored for possible hantavirus infection after rodent exposure, as health officials trace contacts and remind the public that the virus, though rare, can cause severe respiratory disease.
2026-05-12
Hantavirus monitoring widens across states
Health officials in multiple states are monitoring residents for possible hantavirus infection, with 18 people under observation in Nebraska and Georgia amid wider surveillance efforts.
2026-05-12
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Maryland confirms imported measles case
Maryland health officials confirmed an imported measles case in a Baltimore-area resident who traveled abroad and are tracing contacts and urging MMR vaccination.
2026-04-20
Five surreal sci-fi anime for a Pragmata mood
Pragmata’s eerie, low-orbit isolation has clear cousins in five surreal sci-fi anime that mix cosmic dread, fragile humanity and brutal visual imagination.
2026-04-19
Capturing Affection Through Lenses
2024-04-03