K. Farmer

North Korea conducted an underwater test of a new torpedo weapon system to verify technological upgrades, state news agency KCNA reported, describing the test as a success and a significant step in the country’s naval development. The test verified propulsion technology developed through more than 180 tests over the past five years, KCNA said, adding that artificial intelligence was used ⁠for target detection and guidance in the new high-speed precision-guided torpedo. Meanwhile, South Korean...

Mohammad Saeed had just turned 18 when he fled to Iran with his parents and younger brother and sister, escaping the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Now Saeed and his family are among thousands who have returned home to escape the economic crisis in Iran triggered by the conflict with the U.S. and Israel. The family came back nearly empty-handed, Saeed said. “The Iranian currency had fallen so sharply,” he said, that the family’s ‌savings, held in Iranian rials, lost over...

Bryan Johnson, the biohacker who says he wants to extend human life for as long as possible, is living with an autoimmune condition in which his stomach is “eating itself,” the tech founder shared on social media. Johnson, who was diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism at age 21, said that this condition, called autoimmune gastritis (AIG), was only diagnosed recently. Johnson eats a mainly vegetarian diet, and many vegetarians can struggle to get enough iron, as it’s harder to get adequate...