Now that Samsung has launched its 2025 lineup, including the high-end Frame Pro, we’re starting to see steep discounts land on the 2024 models. Right now, for example, Samsung’s 85-inch Frame TV — its largest Frame TV to date — has dropped to around $2,498 ($1,800 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung’s online storefront. Other sizes are on sale at Amazon as well, with the 43- and 75-inch configurations going for $797.99 ($200 off) and $1,997.99 ($1,000 off), respectively.RelatedSamsung’s Frame TV remains one of the most unique models on the market, even if Hisense and TCL both launched competing models last year. The 4K QLED can showcase artwork on an anti-glare matte panel when idle, which gives it a canvas-like appearance. The Frame is more than just eye candy, though, as it offers a smooth 120Hz refresh rate, support for several streaming apps, and compatibility with Alexa and Google Assistant. It also boasts HDMI 2.1 support, though it’s still better for streaming shows and movies than it is for gaming.There are some features you’ll only find in the 2025 models and the Pro, however, like a faster 144Hz refresh rate. Plus, only the Frame Pro comes with a Neo QLED Mini-LED panel and a Wireless One Connect Box, which drastically minimizes cable clutter so only the power cord is visible. But if all you want is a cool TV that looks like a piece of wall art and offers good specs, the last-gen model is still a great choice.Samsung The Frame TV (2024)$1498$299850% off$1498Samsung’s art-inspired 4K TV uses an anti-glare matte QLED display, which can showcase artwork and photos with canvas-like quality when idle.A few more ways to save todayIf you’re looking for a minimalist smartphone, you can still preorder the Light Phone III ahead of its August debut for $599 ($200 off). The charming phone is a bit of an upgrade over previous models — it’s got a 3.92-inch OLED panel, a 50-megapixel main shooter, and USB-C — but its main selling point remains its lack of features. It connects to all the major US carriers, but unlike virtually every other smartphone in existence, there’s no app store, no social media, and no browser. We just wish some of the newer features, such as the fingerprint reader, were active. Read our review.Hades II might already be available for PC in early access, but if you’re holding out for the console release on the Nintendo Switch 2 and need a refresher, Nintendo is selling the digital Switch version of the original Hades for $8.74 (about $16 off) through April 21st. The hack-and-slash action RPG was one of our favorite games in 2020, one that combines great roguelike gameplay, gorgeous visuals, and a Greek-mythology-inspired storyline to great effect.You can buy Baseus’ 3.3-foot Right Angle USB-C Cable for $12.74 (about $3 off) at Amazon, or the 6.6-foot version for $17.09 (about $2 off). The braided USB-C cable can supply up to 100W of power, while its angled design allows for a more comfortable grip while gaming on an Android phone or a more recent iPhone model.See More:

Developing an accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) is a fundamental part of medical care, typically achieved through a step-by-step process that integrates patient history, physical exams, and diagnostic tests. With the rise of LLMs, there’s growing potential to support and automate parts of this diagnostic journey using interactive, AI-powered tools. Unlike traditional AI systems focusing on producing a single diagnosis, real-world clinical reasoning involves continuously updating and evaluating multiple diagnostic possibilities as more patient data becomes available. Although deep learning has successfully generated DDx across fields like radiology, ophthalmology, and dermatology, these models generally lack the interactive, conversational capabilities needed to engage effectively with clinicians. The advent of LLMs offers a new avenue for building tools that can support DDx through natural language interaction. These models, including general-purpose ones like GPT-4 and medical-specific ones like Med-PaLM 2, have shown high performance on multiple-choice and standardized medical exams. While these benchmarks initially assess a model’s medical knowledge, they don’t reflect its usefulness in real clinical settings or its ability to assist physicians during complex cases. Although some recent studies have tested LLMs on challenging case reports, there’s still a limited understanding of how these models might enhance clinician decision-making or improve patient care through real-time collaboration. Researchers at Google introduced AMIE, a large language model tailored for clinical diagnostic reasoning, to evaluate its effectiveness in assisting with DDx. AMIE’s standalone performance outperformed unaided clinicians in a study involving 20 clinicians and 302 complex real-world medical cases. When integrated into an interactive interface, clinicians using AMIE alongside traditional tools produced significantly more accurate and comprehensive DDx lists than those using standard resources alone. AMIE not only improved diagnostic accuracy but also enhanced clinicians’ reasoning abilities. Its performance also surpassed GPT-4 in automated evaluations, showing promise for real-world clinical applications and broader access to expert-level support. AMIE, a language model fine-tuned for medical tasks, demonstrated strong performance in generating DDx. Its lists were rated highly for quality, appropriateness, and comprehensiveness. In 54% of cases, AMIE’s DDx included the correct diagnosis, outperforming unassisted clinicians significantly. It achieved a top-10 accuracy of 59%, with the proper diagnosis ranked first in 29% of cases. Clinicians assisted by AMIE also improved their diagnostic accuracy compared to using search tools or working alone. Despite being new to the AMIE interface, clinicians used it similarly to traditional search methods, showing its practical usability. In a comparative analysis between AMIE and GPT-4 using a subset of 70 NEJM CPC cases, direct human evaluation comparisons were limited due to different sets of raters. Instead, an automated metric that was shown to align reasonably with human judgment was used. While GPT-4 marginally outperformed AMIE in top-1 accuracy (though not statistically significant), AMIE demonstrated superior top-n accuracy for n > 1, with notable gains for n > 2. This suggests that AMIE generated more comprehensive and appropriate DDx, a crucial aspect in real-world clinical reasoning. Additionally, AMIE outperformed board-certified physicians in standalone DDx tasks and significantly improved clinician performance as an assistive tool, yielding higher top-n accuracy, DDx quality, and comprehensiveness than traditional search-based assistance. Beyond raw performance, AMIE’s conversational interface was intuitive and efficient, with clinicians reporting increased confidence in their DDx lists after its use. While limitations exist—such as AMIE’s lack of access to images and tabular data in clinician materials and the artificial nature of CPC-style case presentations the model’s potential for educational support and diagnostic assistance is promising, particularly in complex or resource-limited settings. Nonetheless, the study emphasizes the need for careful integration of LLMs into clinical workflows, with attention to trust calibration, the model’s uncertainty expression, and the potential for anchoring biases and hallucinations. Future work should rigorously evaluate AI-assisted diagnosis’s real-world applicability, fairness, and long-term impacts. Check out Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter and don’t forget to join our 85k+ ML SubReddit. Sana HassanSana Hassan, a consulting intern at Marktechpost and dual-degree student at IIT Madras, is passionate about applying technology and AI to address real-world challenges. With a keen interest in solving practical problems, he brings a fresh perspective to the intersection of AI and real-life solutions.Sana Hassanhttps://www.marktechpost.com/author/sana-hassan/Moonsight AI Released Kimi-VL: A Compact and Powerful Vision-Language Model Series Redefining Multimodal Reasoning, Long-Context Understanding, and High-Resolution Visual ProcessingSana Hassanhttps://www.marktechpost.com/author/sana-hassan/Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency in Language Models: A Two-Phase RL Post-Training Approach for Concise ReasoningSana Hassanhttps://www.marktechpost.com/author/sana-hassan/RoR-Bench: Revealing Recitation Over Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Subtle Context ShiftsSana Hassanhttps://www.marktechpost.com/author/sana-hassan/T* and LV-Haystack: A Spatially-Guided Temporal Search Framework for Efficient Long-Form Video Understanding

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The Atlantic DailyFacebook Is Just Craigslist NowThe social-media giant has manifested its final form: not digital connector, but digital bazaar.By Evan McMurryIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.April 11, 2025, 5:08 PM ET This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.I was recently surprised to learn that my wife is still on Facebook. “I’m not,” she replied. “I’m on Facebook Marketplace.”Facebook Marketplace has emerged as a major planet within the Facebook universe. Its conceit recalls that of Craigslist, a virtual classifieds page that reached its cultural peak during the early aughts. Accessible and affectless, Craigslist rewards the dogged; successful navigators might refresh a page multiple times a minute. I used it long before the age of smartphones, and bruised my poor mouse smacking those blue links.Craigslist’s bare aesthetic feels as removed as hieroglyphs from our world of For You feeds and AI slop. But toggle over to the more popular Facebook Marketplace, with its thumbnails of wares photographed in gray basements on cloudy days, and see if the word janky—applied, perhaps proudly, to Craigslist—does not fit. I just did this, and found a post hawking a workout set with “$2,500” crossed out. The new price: $50. I believe neither number. Sponsored posts that don’t sell what’s in the description gum up the feed, just like the spam posts that have eroded Craigslist’s usefulness. Replies are clogged with scammers. One post claimed that the seller had “joined Facebook in 2024”; bless this innocent soul.According to one report, Facebook Marketplace had grown to 1.2 billion monthly active buyers by 2023, eclipsing eBay; an estimated 16 percent of Facebook’s monthly active users access the platform solely to participate in Marketplace. Some of this is a case of being in the right place at the right time. Four years after the launch of Marketplace, the coronavirus pandemic disrupted supply chains, and then inflation raised prices. As new products became costlier and less available, used ones became more desirable—and, to those who’d once derided the term pre-owned, more acceptable. Meanwhile, Facebook suggests that Marketplace is gaining popularity with younger users, a demographic that has otherwise drifted away from the platform; perhaps its endless scroll of stuff reminds them of the endless scroll on the app that lured them away.I take occasional breaks from Facebook. (Hold your applause; they don’t last. And as a full-blown trade war looms, I might be a Facebook Marketplace regular soon enough.) Each time I leave, I notice something different. In the past few months of refraining from thumbing through my feed, I have not missed status updates; most of my friends left the platform long ago, and Facebook’s heavily mediated algorithm shows me little from those still there. Instead, what I’ve noticed is the newfound stability of my bank account. Without Facebook, I spend less money, because what my news feed serves me is, and I cannot stress this enough, ads. I consider myself an über-savvy digital operator, yet Facebook’s fundamental calculation still works on me as intended: The more time I spend on the app, the better it knows me, and the better it knows me, the better it can sell me J.Crew corduroys and Walrus Audio delay pedals.A feed creaking with ads, an infinite garage sale two tabs over: Facebook’s final form is not digital connector, but digital bazaar. The platform hosts not connections, but transactions. In fact, that seems to be the lesson Facebook has been gesturing at this whole time: Connections are transactions. Facebook introduced the “Like” reaction in 2009, and quickly seized on its potential to collect data on users’ preferences, which it then auctioned to advertisers. That addictive affirmation, which kept us refreshing the page to count the “likes” from our friends, masked a market. Click over to Facebook Marketplace, and the mask comes off entirely.But as powerful as they are, social-media platforms cannot completely control their users’ behavior. To that end, Facebook has become the primary host for the hyperlocal giveaway clusters known as Buy Nothing groups, which embrace a gift-economy ethos and mutual aid—and, tellingly, prohibit advertising goods and services. My wife, a wizardess at these neighborhood exchanges, reports having made a treasury of friends from Buy Nothing interactions—porch pickups lead to playground playdates and blossom from there—but not from Facebook Marketplace. In other words, the groups least reflective of Facebook’s transactional ethos are the most effective at achieving its purported goal of actually linking people. Perhaps connections are not transactions after all.Facebook promised to connect people as a means of selling them things; now people are giving things away as a means of connecting. This is far from the company’s original imagining of itself as a societal nexus. And it feels a tad subversive: We should be on our own feed less, and on one another’s porches more.Related:Here are four new stories from The Atlantic:Today’s NewsA Louisiana immigration judge ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist with lawful permanent residency, can be deported. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to give daily updates about their efforts to secure the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. China raised its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports from 84 percent to 125 percent.DispatchesThe Books Briefing: A new subgenre of literature explores what’s uncovered when you take away someone’s public-facing persona, Maya Chung writes.Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening ReadIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.Guess What Kind of Cooking Oil Is Tariff-Proof?By Rachel SugarScientists and seed-oil skeptics can agree on this: olive oil, what an oil! Earlier this year, the fast-salad chain Sweetgreen launched a limited-time-only seed-oil-free menu featuring dressings made with olive and avocado oils, chosen for their flavor but also for “their health benefits and alignment with our values.” But olive oil may soon cost more—potentially a lot more. Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, which he delayed by 90 days yesterday, are coming for the country’s liquid gold. You know what is mostly insulated from the president’s proposed plan? Seed oils.Read the full article.More From The AtlanticCulture BreakIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Warner Bros.Watch (or skip). The new Minecraft movie (out now in theaters) may be a box-office smash, but it ignores what makes the video game so special, David Sims writes.Read. 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At what price? Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones How does Apple solve a problem like Trump’s trade war? Ashley Belanger – Apr 11, 2025 1:32 pm | 37 Credit: tang90246 | iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Credit: tang90246 | iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only   Learn more Despite a recent pause on some tariffs, Apple remains in a particularly thorny spot as Donald Trump's trade war spikes costs in the tech company's iPhone manufacturing hub, China. Analysts predict that Apple has no clear short-term options to shake up its supply chain to avoid tariffs entirely, and even if Trump grants Apple an exemption, iPhone prices may increase not just in the US but globally. The US Trade Representative, which has previously granted Apple an exemption on a particular product, did not respond to Ars' request to comment on whether any requests for exemptions have been submitted in 2025. Currently, the US imposes a 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports, while China has raised tariffs on US imports to 125 percent. Neither side seems ready to back down, and Trump's TikTok deal—which must be approved by the Chinese government—risks further delays the longer negotiations and retaliations drag on. Trump has faced criticism for delaying the TikTok deal, with Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) telling The Verge last week that the delay was "against the law" and threatened US national security. Meanwhile, China seems to expect more business to flow into China rather than into the US as a result of Trump's tough stance on global trade. With the economy and national security at risk, Trump is claiming that tariffs will drive manufacturing into the US, create jobs, and benefit the economy. Getting the world's most valuable company, Apple, to manufacture its most popular product, the iPhone, in the US, is clearly part of Trump's vision. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters this week that Apple's commitment to invest $500 billion in the US over the next four years was supposedly a clear indicator that Apple believed it was feasible to build iPhones here, Bloomberg reported. "If Apple didn’t think the United States could do it, they probably wouldn’t have put up that big chunk of change," Leavitt said. Apple did not respond to Ars' request to comment, and so far, it has been silent on how tariffs are impacting its business. iPhone price increases expected globally For Apple, even if it can build products for the US market in India, where tariffs remain lower, Trump's negotiations with China "remain the most important variable for Apple" to retain its global dominance. Dan Ives, global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, told CNBC that "Apple could be set back many years by these tariffs." Although Apple reportedly stockpiled phones to sell in the US market, that supply will likely dwindle fast as customers move to purchase phones before prices spike. In the medium-term, consultancy firm Omdia forecasted, Apple will likely "focus on increasing iPhone production and exports from India" rather than pushing its business into the US, as Trump desires. But Apple will still incur additional costs from tariffs on India until that country tries to negotiate a more favorable trade deal. And any exemption that Apple may secure due to its investment promise in the US or moderation of China tariffs that could spare Apple some pain "may not be enough for Apple to avoid adverse business effects," co-founder and senior analyst at equity research publisher MoffettNathanson, Craig Moffett, suggested to CNBC. And if Apple is forced to increase prices, it likely won't be limited to just the US, Bank of America Securities analyst Wamsi Mohan suggested, as reported by The Guardian. To ensure that Apple's largest market isn't the hardest hit, Apple may increase prices "across the board geographically," he forecasted. "While Apple has not commented on this, we expect prices will be changed globally to prevent arbitrage," Mohan said. Apple may even choose to increase prices everywhere but the US, vice president at Forrester Research, Dipanjan Chatterjee, explained in The Guardian's report. "If there is a cost impact in the US for certain products," Chatterjee said, Apple may not increase US prices because "the market is far more competitive there." Instead, "the company may choose to keep prices flat in the US while recovering the lost margin elsewhere in its global portfolio," Chatterjee said. Trump’s US-made iPhone may be an impossible dream Analysts have said that Trump's dream that a "made-in-the-USA" iPhone could be coming soon is divorced from reality. Not only do analysts estimate that more than 80 percent of Apple products are currently made in China, but so are many individual parts. So even if Apple built an iPhone factory in the US, it would still have to pay tariffs on individual parts, unless Trump agreed to a seemingly wide range of exemptions. Mohan estimated it would "likely take many years" to move the "entire iPhone supply chain," if that's "even possible." Further, Apple's $500 billion commitment covered "building servers for its artificial intelligence products, Apple TV productions and 20,000 new jobs in research and development—not a promise to make the iPhone stateside," The Guardian noted. For Apple, it would likely take years to build a US factory and attract talent, all without knowing how tariffs might change. A former Apple manufacturing engineer, Matthew Moore, told Bloomberg that "there are millions of people employed by the Apple supply chain in China," and Apple has long insisted that the US talent pool is too small to easily replace them. "What city in America is going to put everything down and build only iPhones?" Moore said. "Boston is over 500,000 people. The whole city would need to stop everything and start assembling iPhones." In a CBS interview, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that the "army of millions and millions of human beings" could be automated, Bloomberg reported. But China has never been able to make low-cost automation work, so it's unclear how the US could achieve that goal without serious investment. "That’s not yet realistic," people who have worked on Apple's product manufacturing told Bloomberg, especially since each new iPhone model requires retooling of assembly, which typically requires manual labor. Other analysts agreed, CNBC reported, concluding that "the idea of an American-made iPhone is impossible at worst and highly expensive at best." For consumers, CNBC noted, a US-made iPhone would cost anywhere from 25 percent more than the $1,199 price point today, increasing to about $1,500 at least, to potentially $3,500 at most, Wall Street analysts have forecasted. It took Apple a decade to build its factory in India, which Apple reportedly intends to use to avoid tariffs where possible. That factory "only began producing Apple’s top-of-the-line Pro and Pro Max iPhone models for the first time last year," CNBC reported. Analysts told CNBC that it would take years to launch a similar manufacturing process in the US, while "there’s no guarantee that US trade policy might not change yet again in a way to make the factory less useful." Apple CEO’s potential game plan to navigate tariffs It appears that there's not much Apple can do to avoid maximum pain through US-China negotiations. But Apple's CEO Tim Cook—who is considered "a supply chain whisperer"—may be "uniquely suited" to navigate Trump's trade war, Fortune reported. After Cook arrived at Apple in 1998, he "redesigned Apple’s sprawling supply chain" and perhaps is game to do that again, Fortune reported. Jeremy Friedman, associate professor of business and geopolitics at Harvard Business School, told Fortune that rather than being stuck in the middle, Cook may turn out to be a key intermediary, helping the US and China iron out a deal. During Trump's last term, Cook raised a successful "charm offensive" that secured tariff exemptions without caving to Trump's demand to build iPhones in the US, CNBC reported, and he's likely betting that Apple's recent $500 billion commitment will lead to similar outcomes, even if Apple never delivers a US-made iPhone. Back in 2017, Trump announced that Apple partner Foxconn would be building three "big beautiful plants" in the US and claimed that they would be Apple plants, CNBC reported. But the pandemic disrupted construction, and most of those plans were abandoned, with one facility only briefly serving to make face masks, not Apple products. In 2019, Apple committed to building a Texas factory that Trump toured. While Trump insisted that a US-made iPhone was on the horizon due to Apple moving some business into the US, that factory only committed to assembling the MacBook Pro, CNBC noted. Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring suggested that Apple may "commit to some small-volume production in the US (HomePod? AirTags?)" to secure an exemption in 2025, rather than committing to building iPhones, CNBC reported. Although this perhaps sounds like a tried-and-true game plan, for Cook, Apple's logistics have likely never been so complicated. However, analysts told Fortune that experienced logistics masterminds understand that flexibility is the priority, and Cook has already shown that he can anticipate Trump's moves by stockpiling iPhones and redirecting US-bound iPhones through its factory in India. While Trump negotiates with China, Apple hopes that an estimated 35 million iPhones it makes annually in India can "cover a large portion of its needs in the US," Bloomberg reported. These moves, analysts said, prove that Cook may be the man for the job when it comes to steering Apple through the trade war chaos. But to keep up with global demand—selling more than 220 million iPhones annually—Apple will struggle to quickly distance itself from China, where there's abundant talent to scale production that Apple says just doesn't exist in the US. For example, CNBC noted that Foxconn hired 50,000 additional workers last fall at its largest China plant just to build enough iPhones to meet demand during the latest September launches. As Apple remains dependent on China, Cook will likely need to remain at the table, seeking friendlier terms on both sides to ensure its business isn't upended for years. "One can imagine, if there is some sort of grand bargain between US and China coming in the next year or two," Friedman said, "Tim Cook might as soon as anybody play an intermediary role." Ashley Belanger Senior Policy Reporter Ashley Belanger Senior Policy Reporter Ashley is a senior policy reporter for Ars Technica, dedicated to tracking social impacts of emerging policies and new technologies. She is a Chicago-based journalist with 20 years of experience. 37 Comments

Darshan Shah uses what he learned about his own health to treat his patients. Darshan Shah 2025-04-12T05:12:01Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? When Dr. Darshan Shah was expecting his first child, he was stressed and overweight. He feared he wouldn't see his son grow up if he didn't make lifestyle changes. He lost 50 pounds and came off medications after making lifestyle changes including improving his diet. At 42, Dr. Darshan Shah was used to being stressed. As a successful surgeon based in Los Angeles, he had spent 20 years regularly working 12-hour days, starting at 6 a.m.But when his wife got pregnant with their first child in 2016, he realized he needed to make a change to be healthier."I found myself in a state of poor health. I had developed an autoimmune disease, I was 50 pounds overweight, I had high blood pressure that could not be controlled with medication, I had high cholesterol, and lots of risk factors for an early death," Shah, 52, told Business Insider. "But my son had a long life ahead of him, and I wanted to be around for it."Shah took a year off from being a surgeon and began researching the science behind long-term health. Darshan Shah before he made lifestyle changes to become healthier and lose weight. Darshan Shah "I was able to completely turn my health around and completely come off 10 different prescription medications within a year. I lost 50 pounds, and my autoimmune disease completely disappeared," he said.His focus improved at work, too, and he found that he was no longer tired. Instead, he "wanted to wake up every morning and jump out of bed to attack the day."Shah's transformation made him realize this was the type of medicine he wanted to practice — helping people get and stay healthy rather than just addressing medical issues as they arise. In 2016, he founded Next Health, a health optimization and longevity clinic with locations across the US and in Dubai.Now, Shah does experimental longevity treatments at his clinics, but he still thinks that getting the basics right, as he did, is key for a long, healthy life. He told BI the lifestyle changes he made.Cutting out ultra-processed foods "My nutrition was horrible. I was eating a lot of ultra-processed food, especially highly processed carbohydrates," Shah said, so he eliminated them from his diet. Shah lost 50 pounds and set up a healthy lifestyle by focusing on four key things. Darshan Shah Evidence suggests that UPFs are associated with a range of health problems. In a 2024 metareview of 45 studies involving over 9.8 million people published in the journal The BMJ, UPFs were linked to cardiovascular disease, depression, and type 2 diabetes. Researchers don't agree on whether all UPFs are equally harmful, so nutritionists advise eating fewer without stressing about quitting them.Getting 7 hours of sleep a nightBefore his son was born, Shah said he "barely slept four hours a night."The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that adults between the ages of 18 and 60 get seven or more hours of sleep a night.Not getting enough sleep can be harmful. A 2022 study conducted on over 10,000 British civil service workers found that participants who reported getting less than five hours of sleep a night at the age of 50 had a higher risk of developing chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, and dying from long-term health conditions.Getting enough sleep is also associated with eating fewer calories. Now, Shah sleeps for seven hours a night and says he feels amazing. Shah founded his own longevity clinics after starting his health journey. Darshan Shah Moving moreShah sees exercise as an essential part of a "good health routine," and doing a mixture of strength training and cardio has been linked to living longer. He goes to the gym every other day to do a routine that is 70% strength training using free weights, and 30% cardio, for which he runs on a treadmill — plus some stretching to warm up. Shah also tries to get up and move every 45 minutes when he's at work to break up periods of sitting."They say that sitting is the new smoking, and I think that's true," Shah said. "As a surgeon, you spend a lot of time either standing or sitting in one position, and that sedentary non-movement leads to a high risk of disease."While research shows that sitting for longer than 10 hours a day is associated with a higher risk of dying early, a 2023 study of about 12,000 people over the age of 50, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, suggests a solution. It found that 22 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a day — such as doing housework, brisk walking, or cycling — appeared to offset the negative effects of being sedentary all day. Shah does regular experimental longevity treatments, such as plasma exchange, pictured here. Darshan Shah Bringing his testosterone levels to a normal range "I had no idea that my hormones were in the toilet. But when I measured my testosterone level, it was very low for a 42-year-old male," Shah said.Low testosterone can cause symptoms such as a reduced sex drive, erectile dysfunction, low moods, and increased body fat, according to the Cleveland Clinic.Shah used hormone replacement therapy and increased his testosterone levels to a range considered normal.The lifestyle changes he made may also have helped. According to Cleveland Clinic, eating a healthy diet, exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding excessive alcohol and drug use can help to keep testosterone levels normal.As BI previously reported, once considered taboo, growing numbers of men are doing testosterone replacement therapy without an official diagnosis of "low testosterone," to help them build muscle, get erections, and have more energy. However, it's unclear whether it is beneficial for young, healthy men, and side effects can include acne, hair loss, and infertility. Recommended video

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Moonrise is set in a near future where humanity flourishes in a seemingly idyllic utopia, free from racial discrimination, war, pollution, and prejudice—thanks to Sapientia. This global AI network, trusted wholeheartedly by humanity and followed without question, meticulously oversees global politics. One of Sapientia’s far-reaching initiatives sees Earth offload its challenges of yesteryear through a lunar development project, where criminals and pollutants are sequestered on the moon. This ignites a civil war among three factions: a rebel army on the moon, lunar “Sapientian” loyalists, and Earth’s joint military force. At the heart of this space conflict is Jack Shadow, who, driven by the loss of his family in a terrorist attack, joins a covert scout unit tasked with neutralizing rebel leader Bob Skylum, known as “the king of the moon.” However, his mission turns unexpectedly when he discovers that a childhood friend is fighting on the opposing side. From the jump, Moonrise embodies the grandeur of a high-budget Hollywood space opera, perfectly matching the prestige of its dream team of creators. Towering CG space freighters boast intricate architectural designs meticulously crafted from stern to bow. The fight choreography is immaculately drawn, as heroes and villains glide across the screen in fluid, weightless movements—evoking the Survey Corps’ acrobatic 3D maneuver gear from Attack on Titan fused with the gravity-defying double jumps of Destiny 2‘s guardians. Blending its weighty and uncannily relevant political themes—mirroring the socio-political climate of 2025, where disenfranchised rebels criticize Sapientians for their economic privilege to afford eggs, now a rare luxury—the show introduces a distinctive form of space magic known as “engrave.” This ability allows its heroes to transform special matter, crafted by Sapientia, into energy-based weapons like blades, guns, and ammunition. While Moonrise takes a loose approach to defining the limits of engrave, likening it to the alchemy of FMA or the power of Green Lantern rings, that doesn’t hamper the anime’s undeniable cool factor. Another small but not insignificant quality that makes Moonrise stand out: Arakawa’s comfy character designs. While much of the aesthetics of its main characters, like Jack and Phil, look like sci-fi versions of FMA‘s titular alchemists, Arakawa’s designs also enrich the anime with diverse body types and ethnicities. It is refreshing to see a space-faring anime go to the lengths to make its cast feel like a reflection of the real world. All of the above are glistening tools that would otherwise lead to Moonrise being a classic in the making, had its narrative not struggled to stay in orbit with its brilliance. By the midpoint of Moonrise, its once-absorbing themes and gripping narrative begin to dissolve, like a vibrant sticker in a car’s rearview mirror—its colors fading until only a shadow of its former self lingers as the story trudges forward. Much of this stems from the show’s peculiar storytelling approach. While its early episodes are packed with political jargon, shifting allegiances, and name-dropped space territories—elements that usually signal a fully realized sci-fi world—the anime squanders this foundation with its erratic time handling, ultimately undermining its depth. Instead of feeling like you’re piecing together its plot alongside its characters, Moonrise leaves viewers in the dark until characters casually mention that years have passed between scenes that otherwise felt like they occurred moments after each other. This turns Moonrise into a frustrating experience, leaving viewers grasping for clarity as they struggle to decipher the true motives of its key players beyond the basic notion of opposing factions. The show obscures character dynamics, making it difficult to pin down where alliances genuinely lie. Despite its ambitious attempt to weave numerous moving parts into an 18-episode run—longer than the typical 12-episode anime season—Moonrise struggles to maintain narrative cohesion. Instead of feeling like a fully realized story, its plotting resembles the rushed finale of a multi-season show or a compilation film that glosses over heartfelt character moments, reducing its depth to broad strokes. As a result, despite its extended runtime, the anime feels like it sacrificed crucial content that could have smoothed out its abrupt character developments, leaving viewers with the sense that too many significant details and explanations are missing. – Wit Studio/Netflix – Wit Studio/Netflix – Wit Studio/Netflix – Wit Studio/Netflix Another casualty of Moonrise‘s bizarrely paced narrative is its wonderfully designed characters; the takeaway feels like you’ve given a kid a 128-color crayon box and then witnessed them favor a handful of colors, leaving the rest unused. Outside of the anime’s four leads, the supporting cast is visually striking but ultimately hollow, serving archetypal roles rather than contributing anything truly meaningful to the story. The only glimpse of meaningful characterization for Moonrise’s supporting cast lies in its ending theme—ironically bypassed by Netflix’s autoplay. In those brief moments, viewers get a clearer sense of their dynamics and personalities than the actual show ever provides. Viewers are left adrift, subjected to characters who petulantly withhold explanations from both their opposition and the audience—even as they themselves appear perplexed in the show’s penultimate episode. While Moonrise does attempt to unravel some of its not-so-high-concept mysteries, it does so through lifeless exposition dumps that sap any remaining intrigue. Eventually, you stop leaning in with each revelation, letting them passively wash over you until the show finally hands you an answer—one you were never given the chance to decipher on your own. Even more frustratingly, the show loses its grip on political intrigue and the tension surrounding the political upheaval among the factions. The sharp psychological edge of the political conflict is blunted by the abrupt introduction of a fourth entity, which drains the momentum from its human drama. Ultimately, Moonrise crashes and burns, weaving loose plot threads, themes, and action into a cohesive conclusion. Its finale largely avoids the political intricacies it initially set up. The result is a lackluster and unsatisfying payoff to the promising groundwork of its first half. While the anime’s action hints at the potential for a sci-fi classic, its undercooked narrative and feeble ending reduce its political commentary to Netflix’s “We’ve got Mobile Suit Gundam at home.” All 18 episodes of Moonrise are streaming on Netflix. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.