just now (403+ words) The state of New Jersey compels almost every employer to have workers compensation insurance. This system is supposed to offer medical services, wage funds and disability allowances to employees who are harmed or fall sick due to their work. In the event of a work related injury on an employee, a number of benefits can be provided: Health Care: This involves care by the doctor, procedures, drugs, and physical therapy. The employers and insurance firms tend to choose the approved healthcare providers. Temporary Disability Benefits: In the case where you are unable to work and recover, you may be partially replaced in terms of wages. Permanent Disability Benefits: In case of your injury under permanent disability, you can be compensated further. Death Benefits: In case of fatal accidents at work places, dependents are allowed to receive monetary assistance and funeral…...

5+ min ago (68+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jason Koebler / 404 Media: X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle" " The "psyops" revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:35 AM ET, November 25, 2025....

6+ min ago (241+ words) MSI has announced the MAG 274QPF X32, a 27-inch gaming monitor that uses a Rapid IPS panel. A Rapid IPS panel is an improved version of a standard IPS panel designed specifically to deliver faster response times and smoother motion, which are important for gaming. In this model, the panel runs at 320 Hz with a 0.5 millisecond response time, which is aimed at fast-paced gaming. The monitor has a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution. Adaptive Sync is supported to match the refresh rate to the output of the connected device, helping avoid tearing during gameplay. MSI lists VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification with a 400 cd/m" peak brightness. This is enough for regular use and basic HDR, but the contrast ratio is 1,000:1, so high contrast scenes will not look as strong as they do on panels with deeper blacks. The panel covers 129 percent of the sRGB color space…...

7+ min ago (875+ words) Can you trust an AI personal shopper? It's the end of November, and that means it's time to scour the internet for the best Black Friday deals. Luckily, if you're reading this, you probably know TechRadar is one of the best places online to find a discount, especially considering we have journalists all over the world looking for the best ways to save you money. However, as TechRadar's AI Senior Writer, I spend a lot of my time testing the newest innovations in the world of artificial intelligence, and this week, OpenAI launched a new upgrade to ChatGPT just in time for the biggest shopping event of the year. ChatGPT shopping research is a new tool that uses AI to take out the work of doing your own deal hunting, and I decided to try it out to see just…...

10+ min ago (666+ words) In this science activity, we strap skis to an action figure to find out Why would you put planks under your shoes to slide around? Do this activity to find out! Key concepts: Weight, pressure, force, balance, center of mass Credits: Sabine De Brabandere, PhD, Science Buddies Earth's gravity pulls us all the time. It makes us return to the ground when we jump, and it makes objects fall when we release them. But gravity even pulls us down when we are standing on a hard floor! Snowshoes use this concept to make you sink less into fresh, fluffy snow. Snowshoes create a larger contact area with the snow, so your weight pushes less on each square inch of it. The strength of each push per square inch of contact area is what scientists call pressure, and snowshoes reduce that…...

10+ min ago (931+ words) The leaves of lots of trees change color and then fall in autumn. Here's why Some trees put on a colorful show before falling to the ground and leaving their tree bare for the winter. For many trees, autumn is a spectacular grand finale. Their summer greenery gives way to a rich display of gold, crimson and even purple leaves. But those splashes of color are short-lived before leaves fall off their trees. Why do so many deciduous trees undergo this radical transformation? It's all part of how the plants prepare for winter. At the same time, these trees stop putting effort into holding on to their leaves. Shedding their leaves can help trees conserve moisture in their trunks over winter. It also allows harsh winds to blow more easily through trees' branches, putting less strain on them. Bacteria, fungi…...

12+ min ago (642+ words) Home " Health " Mind & Brain Our eyelids may dance to the rhythm, revealing how deeply music moves the brain. When a melody begins, most people begin to tap their feet, nod their heads, or sway slightly to the rhythm. But according to a new study, our eyes join in as well. In a paper published this week in PLOS Biology, neuroscientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences report that spontaneous eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during listening. Even when people sit still, their eyelids naturally blink along with the beat of the music. The research team, led by Yi Du, tracked eye movements and brain activity in 123 young adults as they listened to classical music with steady tempos'mainly Bach chorales. "We found that people's spontaneous eye blinks fall in step with the musical beat'even without being told to move'revealing a…...

14+ min ago (732+ words) I expressed my opinion about vibecoding and LLM usage before, and since then the dev world has gone batshit crazy about it and now every editor, OS, webapp, forces you into having to interact with a stupid AI agent that most of the time is freaking useless. AGAIN, I use LLMs (specifically ChatGPT) day in and out, to do boring stuff, like creating tests or solving specifically small problems I can't be bothered to copy paste. ChatGPT is my StackOverflow, I want it out of my editor and possibly on my browser. Unfortunately vscode, one day, decided to break my VSCode Minimal Setup I had run for the last few years to add bloody CoPilot bars, tabs and crap all over the place. I had enough, so decided to give a serious go to zed. I had only used it…...

14+ min ago (157+ words) For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Cyber Week 2025: If you wish to enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, consider joining Phoronix Premium. This week only is our Cyber Week promotion to help support all of our Linux/open-source hardware and software operations while enjoying the added premium benefits at a discounted rate. Thanks for your consideration and support this holiday season with providing daily original content for over 21 years. X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To…...

15+ min ago (75+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024" " South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:25 AM ET, November 25, 2025....