Exposure to dangerous levels of heat and humidity in cities across the world has exploded over the past three decades, according to new research. In a study of more than 13,000 cities, the number of people exposed to extremely hot and humid days in a given year (measured in “person-days”) tripled between 1983 and 2016. Extreme heat is already a leading weather-related killer It’s a symptom of two trends colliding: urban population growth and rising global average temperatures. Cities often reach higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas because they’re typically designed in a way that traps heat. So when people…
Author: Mike Harrison
Sarah had no options left. Over five years, she’d tried every possible treatment for her severe depression, and nothing had helped. “My daily life had become so restricted and impoverished by depression that I felt tortured by each day,” the 36-year-old said. But after undergoing an experimental procedure that implanted a device into her brain, she felt her depression lift for the first time in years. “It was like my lens on the world changed,” Sarah, who is remaining anonymous because of the stigma around depression, said during a press briefing. Sarah was the patient in a proof-of-concept trial of…
Android Auto’s update will pay for the user’s gas via voice command and will be rolling out its support to more than 32,000 fuel stations in the United States. (Photo : by PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)A petrol station employee fills a car with petrol in New Delhi on June 11, 2021. Google has been releasing new noteworthy features for Auto, which shows that the tech giant’s increasing commitment to the operating system for car owners, as per T3. The news outlet further noted that Android Auto started seemingly as a side project of the search engine giant, but it…
Deliveries for year so far are strong amid high demand across model lines Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) today announced U.S. retail deliveries in the third quarter of 2021 totaled 15,289 vehicles, down 1.7 percent from the same quarter a year ago due mainly to global automotive supply chain headwinds. Still, deliveries for the first nine months achieved a record of 51,615 vehicles, 29.9 percent higher than in January-September 2020 and also better than the same period in the pre-pandemic year 2019. PCNA is the sole licensed importer and distributor of the Porsche 911, 718 Boxster, 718 Cayman, Macan,…
Human memory is fallible. That’s why defense lawyers like to age their cases — and why prosecutors were so frustrated with the multiple delays in trying Elizabeth Holmes for her role at the failed blood-testing company Theranos. Given enough time, people forget things. That can open the door for reasonable doubt. Several times on Friday, his fourth day of testimony, former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff was asked about details in meetings and didn’t remember them. But Lance Wade, defense attorney for Elizabeth Holmes, was able to produce minutes from a meeting, a Powerpoint presentation, and old emails that made…
Since the dawn of time (around five or six months ago), people all over the world (Twitter users in the United States) have been puzzling over a very important question: why doesn’t the COVID-19 vaccine card fit in a wallet? The card is too big for a standard wallet card slot and, as Amanda Mull pointed out in The Atlantic, still small enough that it’d be easy to lose. It’s like a reverse Goldilocks: just wrong. A handful of people speculated to Mull in August that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might not have thought about the size…
Facebook is, once again, facing another lawsuit after U.S. lawmakers accused the giant social media platform of exploiting young users to make a profit. (Photo : Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen on March 25, 2009 in London, England. The British government has made proposals which would force Social networking websites such as Facebook to pass on details of users, friends and contacts to help fight terrorism. They claimed that Facebook posts could have harmful effects on teenagers, which could affect their mental health. On Thursday, Sept.…
Wyze, the budget-focused tech company that now sells everything from security cameras to headphones, has launched a new smart scale with four built-in electrodes capable of measuring everything from body fat percentage to body water percentage. In addition to weighing humans, there is also a dedicated mode to let you weigh your “baby, pet, luggage, or your kid’s absurdly heavy backpack,” Wyze says. The Scale S follows the original Wyze Scale released last year, but it’s $5 cheaper with a price of just $15. Weight is displayed on the built-in 3.5-inch LED display, while a companion app (of course) allows…
People who get irregular pulse notifications on an Apple Watch but don’t have atrial fibrillation — the condition the feature focuses on detecting — could still have another type of problem with their heartbeat, according to a new study. The findings show that even if someone with a concerning alert from their Apple Watch doesn’t get an atrial fibrillation diagnosis, they may not be in the clear, says study author Marco Perez, the director of the Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center. “Even if you didn’t find atrial fibrillation, we were finding a lot of people who had…
After a tedious day of bickering, Victoria Sung appeared like manna from heaven — to tell us that Theranos’ tests sucked. Sung worked at Celgene when it contracted with Theranos. Her testimony was brief and to the point: Celgene had not “comprehensively validated” Theranos technology, she said. That would have taken more work than what she did with Theranos’ tests. The work she showed the court from 2012 demonstrated Theranos performed dismally compared to standard testing — often returning results that were “out of range.” Sung is a teaser for a big part of US v. Elizabeth Holmes We’ll get…