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Researchers are saying you should take your blood pressure medicine at bedtime, for the best results. It’s a simple tip that could save lives, they say in the European Heart Journal. The study suggests the pills offer more protection against heart attacks and strokes when taken at bedtime rather than in the morning, and experts…
It’s not quite the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter, but we’re getting there. The material, dubbed Quantum Stealth, has been developed by Hyperstealth which is a “Canadian camouflage design company”. The “invisible” material is as thin as paper, inexpensive, and requires no power source. While it doesn’t work quite as well as the magical cloak…
“Apparently, it only takes three questions to separate the Einsteins from the Homer Simpsons of this world.” The quiz was developed at Princeton in 2005 by psychologist Shane Frederick, and its designed to test your ability to ignore your gut response and think slower and more rationally. Or in psychology terms, “how good are you…
Police in China have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63 year old named Song Jiang, had originally been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in a tiny…
Recently, people online have been asking an AI tool to see what it sees when it looks at their face. The results have been surprising, sometimes flattering, and often quite racist… ImageNet Roulette uses a neural network to classify pictures of people uploaded to the site. You simply go to the site and paste the…
Bitcoin’s price has dropped rapidly from $9,800 to $8,150 in less than a day, for the first time in months. “According to data from Coin360, Bitcoin investors are experiencing a painful Tuesday, with BTC/USD hovering close to $8,100. Bitcoin’s rapid drop below $9,800 was the latest move in what was otherwise a slow grind downwards,…
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