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The focus on audio rather than text, photos or videos is a differentiator and part of the appeal. Delia Cai from the Deez Links newsletter wrote about her experience on the app: "It felt spontaneous and engaging and luckily it didn't…

Some of the most vivid examples of the recent economic impact of boredom included amateur traders late last month, including many followers of the Reddit forum Wall Street Bets, who piled into stocks of GameStop, a retailer for gamers.…

In her clinical practice, Dr. Gearhardt encountered patients - some obese and others not - struggling in vain to control their highly processed food intake. Some try to eat them in moderation only to find that they lose control and eat so…

Here’s what you need to know:Retail sales surged 5.3 percent in January, far higher than analysts and economists expected, providing a needed jolt to an economy that showed signs of weakening at the end of last year.The large jump in sales,…

In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used as a form of coded communication to express feelings that could not be spoken aloud. Each flower is supposed to have a specific meaning - for example, daisies that convey innocence, while…

Mr McNeil had a high-profile stumbling block last May when he appeared on CNN urging the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to resign over the agency's treatment for the coronavirus outbreak. "His editors raised the…

More than 7,500 people signed a petition urging The Times not to publish his name, including many prominent figures in the tech industry. "The petitioners gave his full name on The Times and said" would seriously damage public discourse by…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.A remarkable clash between an American internet company and the world's largest democracy takes place over the reasonable limits of freedom of…

Here’s what you need to know:Amid the so-called meme stock frenzy, it is perhaps fitting that a cryptocurrency based on a meme has been swept up in the mania.Dogecoin, a digital currency created as a joke, is now the world’s 10th largest…

In a moment, a herd of goats romps about and casually rummages in the shaggy grass. The next time her long ears twitch and her large golden eyes stare as they purposefully run away. They pick up speed while seemingly attentive to a…