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  • Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design

    Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be by design

    New research shows some people are developing addictive patterns of AI chatbot use—and it’s affecting their daily lives.

  • UBC study identifies social and behavioural factors most closely associated with dying

    UBC study identifies social and behavioural factors most closely associated with dying

    Smoking, divorce and alcohol abuse have the closest connection to death out of 57 social and behavioural factors analyzed in research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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