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If you're struggling to lose weight, could chilling your carbs help?

Online influencers claim the secret to low-calorie rice, pasta and potatoes may be as simple as chilling out.
Are they right? Not quite. But a small yet solid body of science does suggest that chilling these carbohydrate-rich foods after cooking them still could help people slim down.
For several years, wellness and nutritio ... (full story)


AI song generator startups Suno and Udio angered the music industry. Now they're hoping to join it

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Suno CEO Mikey Shulman pulls up a chair to the recording studio desk where a research scientist at his artificial intelligence company is creating a new song.
The flute line sounds promising.
The percussion needs work.
Neither of them is playing an instrument. They type some descriptive word ... (full story)


One Tech Tip: Unspoken group chats rules you're probably ignoring, but shouldn't

One Tech Tip: Unspoken group chats rules you're probably ignoring, but shouldn't

Communicating on group chats has quickly become a way of life, but what are the rules?
We used to use email, the phone or talk in person. Now we use platforms like iMessage, WhatsApp or Slack to coordinate a night out with friends, a kid’s birthday party, a work project or even to discuss sensitive military information &md ... (full story)


What Smithfield's move could mean for environment, economy

Besides 120 acres of prime downtown real estate, Sioux Falls city leaders got something that has sometimes been elusive over the history of the Smithfield pork plant: an assurance that it’s not leaving.
That’s also good news for hundreds of farmers in three states that supply the 20,000 hogs slaughtered each day at w ... (full story)


Government penalizes businesses over 6 deaths at Colorado dairy

Federal workplace safety regulators penalized three businesses Feb. 24 over their failure to protect six Colorado dairy workers who were killed by exposure to highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas after a manure pipe disconnected in an enclosed space.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced proposed fines to ... (full story)