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From the moment it started, I couldn’t contain my excitement. The nerd in me was blown away by the extraordinary way in which many of the movie’s messages “measured up” to reality from a neuro-scientific perspective. For example, the way a day full of short-term/working memories is then consolidated during sleep. While the film gave up some scientific integrity for the sake of storytelling, its poetic license didn’t drive too far away from the reality that we are, essentially, made up of personality traits that wax and wane during different points in our life....

up, jumped in the pool, and felt a wash of panic. My heart was racing, and I was breathing hard. Because I was breathing so fast, I found myself either floating to the surface of the pool or sinking to the bottom. I was totally frustrated. At one point I popped out of the water, ripped off my mask, and threw it across the pool, screaming, “I’m sick of this—I hate this!...

Specifically, the app stands accused of aiming to scam low-income and student renters. That’s via its listings, predominantly geared toward users who needed shared accommodations, and a subscription fee charged to users in order to facilitate messaging between potential renters and landlords. According to the FTC, California, and Attorneys General in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York, many of those listings were unverified. Worse, at least some subset of listings were allegedly fabricated wholesale on sites such as Craigslist and others....

Samsung began the Android 13 rollout for the Exynos 990-powered Galaxy S20 FE LTE in Europe a couple of weeks ago. The company has released the update for the device pretty much everywhere since then. The Snapdragon version of the LTE model is now making the jump as well. The update is also live for the Galaxy S20 FE 5G. The new firmware versions for these two models are G780GXXU3DVK5 and G781BXXU4GVK6, respectively....

Customers can still pre-order the Galaxy Tab S8+, though it may not last long. To clarify, the Galaxy Tab S8 series isn’t available just yet, with Samsung only taking pre-orders. Customers lucky enough to get in on the pre-orders should start receiving the Galaxy Tab S8 and the Galaxy S22 models by February 25. “We are thrilled by the consumer response to our new Galaxy Tab S8 lineup. Due to the overwhelming demand in the last 48 hours, we will be pausing preorders at Samsung....