Today Briefly

Today Briefly

Expensive wellness products often make grand claims without strong scientific evidence and are unnecessary compared with basic diet, hydration, and lifestyle habits.

Consistent simple daily habits—regular movement, deep social connections, and mindfulness—preserve cognitive sharpness into the 90s.

Young people use physical, app-linked tools to reduce impulsive doomscrolling while keeping phones accessible.

Consistent pre-sleep routines and techniques used by Olympians—rhythmic breathing, visualization, controlled tech use, and portable comforts—reduce performance anxiety and improve sleep.

Spoken telephone communication revolutionized long-distance contact, but modern preferences increasingly favor texting and messaging over voice calls.

Allocating additional spectrum below one-GHz significantly increases rural 4G and 5G coverage, improves speeds, and strengthens the business case for rural deployments.

Living neurons can process real-world data and offer a path toward energy-efficient biological computing as an alternative to silicon-based AI.

Oregon law gives residents rights to access, correct, delete and opt out of sales, targeted advertising and some profiling, with new universal opt-out and notable limitations.

Silicon Valley's tech leaders have neglected social responsibility, prioritizing profit and political influence over affordable housing, inequality, and harms from AI and social media.

Silicon Valley tech leaders are abandoning social responsibility, ignoring housing, inequality, AI and social-media harms, and tarnishing the region through unethical political ties and donations.

A design-system enforcer ensures system adoption, integrates improvements back into the system, and resolves conflicts to maintain consistency and organization-wide design integrity.

Ring terminated a planned integration with Flock Safety, saying the integration required more time and resources and that no customer videos were sent.

Use molly guards (deliberate friction) and reverse molly guards (auto-confirmation after idle) to prevent accidents and enable reliable unattended processes.

Provide a short category description plus detailed guidelines addressing purpose, differentiation, content scope, and whether to merge or keep the category.

Narrowing the definition of personal data in EU reforms risks eroding privacy rights, creating legal uncertainty, and weakening protections against automated decision-making.

Threat actors increasingly use AI across attack stages while critical infrastructure faces authentication and vulnerability gaps, prompting government responses and legal action.

Boll & Branch uses generative AI to streamline internal workflows and produce intentionally surreal marketing imagery while avoiding AI that attempts to convincingly reproduce real people.

AI ROI expectations have shifted from productivity gains to demonstrable economic impact, lowering reported confidence even as rigorous measurement yields strong, often multi‑fold returns.

Joe Brady added veteran NFL head coach John Fox as a senior assistant and reshuffled Bills coaching roles, promoting Rob Boras and Joe Danna.

February brings notable literary releases including a translated Vargas Llosa novel, Lauren Groff's short-story collection Brawler, and Tayari Jones's novel Kin.

Creative work often arises in ordinary, cluttered, shared, or constrained spaces rather than in idealized secluded retreats.

NFL teams must address roster holes this offseason through hirings, free agency, trades, and the draft while many franchises search for or build around quarterbacks.

About a quarter of CBS Evening News non-union staff accepted buyouts amid Bari Weiss's leadership changes, with producers citing ideological pressure, self-censorship, and looming layoffs.

Russia launched extensive missile and drone strikes on multiple Ukrainian cities, causing casualties and significant damage to energy and heating infrastructure while Ukraine reported strikes inside Russia.

A StarTech.com double-sided gold privacy screen for MacBook Pro provides effective side-view privacy while requiring a brighter display and altering color and brightness.

Teleworking surged regionally—20% full-time and nearly 60% at least occasionally, with higher rates among high-income households, while solo driving rose to 82%.

The Los Angeles Dodgers repeated as 2025 World Series champions, powered by stars like Shohei Ohtani and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

The Washington Post cut about one-third of its staff, eliminated sports and international departments, and reduced local coverage amid financial losses under Jeff Bezos.

Matty Matheson's Just a Dash stages chaotic dump-and-stir cooking scenarios while food stylist Michelle Rabin ensures visually perfect dishes under unpredictable conditions.

The Washington Nationals rank 86th among 154 U.S. big-five sports franchises, valued at $2.25 billion and 15th among MLB teams.

Clear, consistent personal branding aligned with your intellectual property and ideal customers attracts clients, talent, capital, and opportunities more powerfully than business branding.

Treat recurring personalities as ongoing content franchises, package moments quickly into shareable formats, and sustain attention with culture-driven, nonstop social media production.

Susumu Kakinuma stages a five-night Seirinkan residency at Sake No Hana in NYC offering Tokyo-style neo-Neapolitan pizzas with imported flour and mochi-mochi crust.

AdLock Premium offers lifetime system-wide ad blocking, tracker removal, and malware protection for up to five devices across major OSes for $14.99.

Prestigious multigenerational winemaking families created PFV Generations and launched an ultra-limited €32,000 case of 12 flagship wines with VIP estate visits.

Millions of eligible UK households are not claiming average £220 broadband discounts through social tariffs, leaving about £1.05bn unclaimed.

Snoopreport monitors public Instagram profiles and delivers weekly or monthly CSV reports of likes and follow activity without requiring users' Instagram passwords.

Sonoma County's Sonoma Sips offers wine tastings for $15 at over 50 wineries, restaurants, and hotels from February 15 through March 15.

Napa Valley combines world-class wine, luxury dining, and scenic outdoor recreation within easy reach of San Francisco.

Writing should be a rapid, breath-driven, associative outpouring that privileges rhythm, immediacy, and improvisation over revision and strict grammatical correctness.

Youth accompanies hunters in blaze-orange, too young to carry a gun, observing fencerow wounds envisioned as a 'string of pearls'.

Sunderland are among Premier League clubs interested in signing Fulham winger Harry Wilson, whose contract expires this summer.

Antonio Jose Seguro won Portugal's presidency with 66.7% over Andre Ventura, signaling rejection of hard-right populism and support for moderate, pro-European leadership.

Russia has sharply increased hybrid attacks across Europe, targeting infrastructure and civilians to undermine support for Ukraine and disrupt NATO and allied logistics.

Newcastle United sit 11th amid an injury-hit run but retain adequate squad strength when fit, though multiple injuries in one position would seriously weaken depth.

Cardiff City have been revitalized by relegation, now top of League One, playing exciting football under Brian Barry-Murphy with emerging young Welsh players.

Disabling AICore on Pixel phones can free up to 10GB, reduce memory and battery usage, and remove AI notifications while still allowing access to AI features.

Dirty Carol and Sister Roma hosted a reopening benefit for the Castro CBD’s 20th anniversary; Andrea Aiello and Paul Miller received a state commendation.

Manchester City host Salford City in an FA Cup fourth-round tie at the Etihad with City heavily favored by form, history, and likely squad rotation.

City will install offset bus lanes on Fordham Road and complete Ashland Place protected bike lane to improve transit speed, reliability, and street safety.

Real Madrid can move top of La Liga at the Bernabeu and may rely on returning Trent Alexander-Arnold to strengthen their title bid.

Creators are diversifying beyond single social platforms by using offline networks like LinkNYC to reduce algorithmic risk and reach broader audiences.

Mayor Mamdani is retreating from a campaign pledge to expand CityFHEPS eligibility and is pursuing a legal settlement while citing substantial budget shortfalls.