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/FEATURED CAN A ‘FINGERPRINT’ OF YOUR BRAIN HELP PREDICT DISORDERS? A process called “brain fingerprinting” may be able to help predict mental health problems in adolescents, according to Smithsonian Magazine. How does it work? Well, it involves measuring brain waves to identify unique brain signatures that are associated with mental health distress.

/HEALTH SLEEP MATTERS Have you ever wished someone would stop using technology to help humans colonize space or create chatbots and simply help you sleep better? After all, better sleep means a healthier brain and a healthier brain means more people can innovate and do things like cure cancer or reverse climate change. Basically, what we’re saying is, if there were a way to help us sleep more productively, we could all save the world and everyone in it. GUESS WHAT? THERE IS A WAY »

/STORIES FDA GIVES 2ND SAFETY NOD TO CULTIVATED MEAT, PRODUCED WITHOUT SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS The FDA has given the green light to Upside Foods to produce lab-grown chicken meat, the second such approval in the U.S., reports NPR. The company's chicken nuggets are made from cultured chicken cells and are expected to be available in retail stores later this year. MICROSOFT RESEARCHERS CLAIM GPT-4 IS SHOWING ‘SPARKS’ OF AGI Microsoft AI scientists claim that OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-4, shows "sparks" of human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to Futurism. Although several within the AI industry believe AGI is a pipe dream, GPT-4 is seen as a serious contender for AGI development. However, researchers did concede that the overall "patterns of intelligence are decidedly not human-like.” So, still a pipe dream, but with a light at the end of the pipe. SO, YOU WANT TO START A SMALL BUSINESS, HUH? You’d think it’s as simple as “I have lemonade! Now I have a lemonade stand!” but not so fast. What about business credit and extending your credit line? What about getting your business listed on multiple directories so people can find your lemonade stand and not your dumb neighbor’s? What about all the tools and support you never knew you needed? FIND THEM HERE » GERMAN MONKS CREATE WORLD'S FIRST POWDERED BEER Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle, a monastic brewery near Munich, claims to have created the world's first powdered beer, which can be transported at a fraction of the weight, reports New Atlas. The brewery will test the dextrin-rich, zero-alcohol beer in small quantities until mid-2023, but plans to produce alcoholic beers by compressing the process to reduce raw materials, labor, and energy.

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/TAKE MY MONEY 🧠 What’s the point of having a keyboard and working if you can’t customize it with your personality? Exactly, Click Here » 🏢 Better sleep can save the world. Yeah, we said It » 🪙 It’s everything you’d ever need in one app — notes, productivity, a marketplace where you can make money. This Is Everything »

/CURIOUS //QUESTION OF THE DAY HOW MANY MOONS DOES JUPITER HAVE? We’re starting to like these little quizzes… GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT » //FROM YESTERDAY POP QUIZ: WHAT TYPE OF GALAXY IS MOST COMMON IN THE UNIVERSE? The answer? “Elliptical,” of course! Here’s what you said… ☉ 61.3% of you said “Elliptical” — Good job, smarty pants ☉ 10.1% of you said “Andromeda” — It sounded cool, we don’t know ☉ 9.4% of you said “Irregular” — Not as common as elliptical galaxies, but irregular galaxies can be some of the most actively star-forming galaxies in the universe

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