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How to Find Out If Microplastics Are Actually Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-24 03:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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The Best Smart Scales for 2025 and How to Get the Most Accurate Reading

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 02:00:00

Weigh yourself at the same time: To get a consistent reading when using any scale, it's important to weigh yourself first thing in the morning before you've drunk or eaten anything. "You should weigh yourself without clothes, or minimal clothing, and if you do so, try to wear the same clothing each time you weigh yourself," said Stella Lucia Volpe, professor and head of the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech. Volpe recommends weighing yourself no more than once a

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-24 03:00:00

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Accessibility-focused tech provider Envision has partnered with eyewear company Solos to launch new smart glasses specifically designed for blind and low-vision users. Envision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, desc

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I flew Insta360’s Antigravity — it could change how drones are made

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-24 03:00:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. I know my way around a pair of joysticks — but I’d prefer to soar. I don’t want to think about filming while I’m flying. I’d rather explore. Now, camera maker Insta360 is launching its first drone, under a new drone company, to serve that exact demand. It’s called Antigravity, and in January 2026, it’ll ship a flying 360-degree camera whic

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Cadillac’s Elevated Velocity concept could foreshadow the brand’s future in off-roading

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-24 03:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On the surface, Cadillac’s new Elevated Velocity looks like your typical concept car: gull-wing doors; a plush red interior; a retractable steering wheel for fully autonomous driving; and futuristic lighting scheme. But the real attenti

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Airbnb will allow US users book stays without paying upfront

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-24 03:00:00

Airbnb has launched a new feature called “Reserve Now, Pay Later” that lets users in the U.S. reserve a property without paying upfront, potentially allowing people to cancel their bookings with less hassle if their plans change. The feature is applicable to properties that have a “flexible” or “moderate” cancellation policy. Flexible policies let users cancel their reservation up to 24 hours before they check-in, while moderate policies allow for no-fee cancellations until five days before che

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Apple’s blood oxygen monitoring returns to its latest Apple Watches

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-24 03:51:23

Apple announced on Thursday it’s introducing a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Watch Series 8, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra. With this move, Apple is bringing back blood oxygen monitoring by tweaking the feature to get around the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data will be measured and calculated on the user’s paired iPhone, and results can be viewed in the Respiratory section of the Health app. This means users won’t be able to view the data on the

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Data brokers just gave us another reason to hate them

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-24 08:37:44

If you were holding a competition for the scummiest business model, then data brokers would be very high up the list. These companies make money by buying personal data from app and website owners and selling it to companies who want to spam us. A US Senator has now drawn attention to the latest sketchy practice by these companies: making it harder for us to opt out by hiding that option from search results … The dark world of data brokers Data brokers are companies that buy personal data fro

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HTC takes on Meta with the Vive Eagle smart glasses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 08:00:48

HTC is once again attacking the wearable space with a pair of new smart glasses, the company announced. The Vive Eagle is a rival to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses with a fashion-foward lightweight design, open ear audio, voice-activated AI and an ultra-wide AI-powered camera. They look promising, if a bit expensive, but will only be available in Taiwan to start with. The Taiwanese firm clearly noticed that Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have been a surprise hit. It's easy to see why — in our Engadget re

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Cowboy e-bikes rescued from collapse thanks to rescue deal

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 08:30:12

E-bike company Cowboy has secured short-term financing that would allow its operations to go back to normal after a period it describes as the "most challenging in [its] history." The company has revealed that it has signed a term sheet with a new partner, Rebirth, which it believes would pave the way for long-term stability. As The Verge notes, Rebirth is the parent of ReCycles, the prominent French manufacturer that took over bike assembly for Cowboy back in February. For quite some time, the

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A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data. What changed and why?

news.ycombinator.com Joe Hasell 2025-12-20 11:03:31

$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why? In June 2025, the World Bank increased its extreme poverty estimates by 125 million people. This doesn’t mean the world has gotten poorer: it reflects a new, higher International Poverty Line of $3 a day, up from $2.15. To track progress towards ending extreme poverty by 2030, the United Nations relies on the World Bank to estimate the share of people living below a certain threshold, calle

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New Protein Therapy Shows Promise as Antidote for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 06:56:20

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, along with their colleagues, engineered a new molecule that appears promising as an effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other molecules currently being tested, according to a new study published in the journal PNAS. Carbon monoxide poisoning accounts for 50,000 emergency room visits in the U.S. each year and causes about 1,500 deaths. These deaths may occur when carbon monoxide released from

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Can I Drink Electrolyte Water Every Day? Experts Weigh In (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-24 08:32:00

Wellness marketing is a little out of control, and electrolytes are as buzzy as it gets. Touted by influencers and podcasters as a miracle supplement that helps your body perform at its peak, electrolyte beverages are as numerous as they are readily available. But the dietitians and nutritionists I spoke with are less willing to embrace these beverages as a cure-all for what ails you. I say as much in our guide to electrolyte powders: Whether or not you need to drink electrolyte water, and how

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Save $250 on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 03:17:36

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Smaller phones are dying, but many of us still look for more manageable phones that don’t add too much bulk in the pocket. Your next best bet might be to go for something like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, known for being especially thin. Right now, you can take one home at a $250 discount, bringing the price down to $849.99 Buy the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge for $849.99 ($250 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The discount applies to all color versions avail

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YouTube Music gets another music discovery tool that Spotify doesn’t have

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:28:57

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new Daily Discover feed in YouTube Music. Like the existing weekly discover, the daily discover aims to help you find artists or music similar to what you already listen. Google only appears to be testing it at the moment, as the feature hasn’t rolled out widely. Although its supremacy is contentious, YouTube Music is easily among the top five music and podcast streaming services globally. Its popularity naturally stems from the f

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I’ve always been more of a Flip fan, but the Galaxy Z Fold 7 has won me over

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:00:50

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 might be headed the wrong way on price, but it's going in the right direction for everything else. It's both slimmer and more powerful than any Fold before it, fitting the same battery and a new chipset into a body that's barely over four millimeters when open. I'd love to see one or two S Ultra-tier improvements, but there's no denying this is the foldable Samsung has wanted to make for years. I’ve been on board with foldable phones since the s

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The Galaxy S25 series might be more popular than all other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones combined

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 18:27:53

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy S25 reportedly sold more units than any other brand’s flagship. The Galaxy S25 series is also claimed to have outsold all other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones combined. The leaker, who shared these statistics, says this makes the regular variant of the Snapdragon 8 Elite appear to be a “minority.” Samsung’s efforts with the Galaxy S25’s subtle redesign and extensive focus on AI features appear to have paid off. Last week, we learned about the brand

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Funky new wallpaper to welcome the latest Apple Store

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-24 18:53:34

Apple has today previewed its latest retail store ahead of its opening on Saturday. As usual, the company has created a funky new wallpaper to celebrate the opening, and made it available for download. The store design mirrors what we have seen in other recent mall openings: a curved frontage with lots of glass, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior … Qianhai Yifang City Apple store The latest store is in Shenzhen, which is coincidentally home to a lot of Apple suppliers. Apple

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CISA warns of N-able N-central flaws exploited in zero-day attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 16:15:14

CISA warned on Wednesday that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in N‑able's N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. N-central is commonly used by managed services providers (MSPs) and IT departments to monitor, manage, and maintain client networks and devices from a centralized web-based console. According to CISA, the two flaws can allow threat actors to gain command execution via an insecure deserialization weakness (CVE-2025-8875) and inject

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Changing these 6 settings on my iPad improved the battery life by hours

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-24 17:00:14

Adam Breeden/ZDNET As an avid iPad user, I'm all too familiar with the internal struggles that course through me when the battery is about to die. I love using either the iPad 11 or iPad Air to write and work, but I also use it to stream content, play games, and browse the internet after work. This makes me appreciate the iPad's long battery life, yet my anxiety grows when I start getting 'low battery' alerts without a charger nearby. Also: How you're charging your tablet is slowly killing it

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What I look for in typeface licenses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 15:11:51

Typeface licenses Process Journal I can’t remember the last time I undertook a design project where we didn’t use a commercial typeface. I often recommend these to clients because: The world of commercial typefaces is broad and it opens up a range of high-quality options for a project Using a commercial typeface is an easy way to level-up a design (though it won’t fix a bad design) Supporting independent foundries is important There’s no judgement on open source typefaces – I’m often pairi

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500 Days of Math

news.ycombinator.com Gabe Is Building 2025-12-22 17:33:20

I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy. I wrote about my experience after 100 days here. TL;DR: I am still very impressed by the Math Academy system and highly recommend it, but you get out of it what you put in. My consistency has been exceptional, but my volume has been frequently low, which has had a cascading impact on my progress. To help, I spent January and February building a habit app to help improve my volume along with some other changes in how I handl

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Your Smartwatch's Sleep Tracker May Be Sleeping on the Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 17:00:00

If sleep is important to you -- and it should be -- you might want to think twice before you put a lot of stock in the latest stress charts from your fitness wearable. A recent study from the Netherlands' Leiden University, published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, has found that when smartwatches and similar devices record readings on stress, fatigue or sleep, they're frequently getting it wrong. Researchers studied 800 young adults using the same Garmin Vivosmart 4 sma

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Best Apple Watch for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 18:00:00

Smartwatches have become the de-facto way to measure activity from your wrist and can encourage you to get moving. It's increasingly common for them to offer health features like a blood oxygen sensor. Some may even have an ECG (also known as an electrocardiogram) which can check for signs of a heart condition called atrial fibrillation. Smartwatches reflect your personal style and come in a variety of finishes, from aluminum to titanium, with a seemingly endless variety of watch bands to choos

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Change These 3 Settings on Your OLED Laptop for Better Battery Life

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 18:00:04

The advantages of an OLED laptop are readily apparent as soon as you power it on. With individual pixels that are able to be turned completely off, an OLED display is able to produce perfect black levels for an infinite contrast ratio. Text appears with great clarity on an OLED display, with the incredible contrast ratio producing inky black letters against a bright white background (or vice versa). And the individual control of each pixel results in accurate and vivid colors. So, when you aren'

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I Replaced My Mac With an iPad for an Entire Week. It Went as Well as You’d Expect

wired.com Craig Grannell 2025-12-24 18:00:00

Even the most die-hard iPad fans have started to lose faith in recent years. Apple has constantly hobbled its tablet’s potential, twinning laptop-grade chips with an operating system that screamed, “You still need a Mac to do your work.” But now iPadOS 26 promises Mac-like multitasking, a revamped Files app, and proper background tasks. All of which sounds like something that should be fully investigated. Because we do things properly here at WIRED, this could not be a mere cursory glance at ne

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44 Must-Have Back-to-School College Dorm Room Essentials and Gear (2025)

wired.com Brenda Stolyar 2025-12-24 18:39:00

More Accessories to Consider All of us at WIRED have complicated desk setups that make working from home easier. You don't have to go that hard for a dorm room, and you probably only have so much space to spare anyway. See our full work-from-home guide for more options, but these are some of our favorite desk accessories worth considering—plus some more options for around your dorm room. Photograph: Kat Merck Aecooly Chic Touch Control Desk Fan for $25: I've been testing this small cordless f

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Cowboy’s e-bikes granted a second life

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-12-24 15:00:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After months of speculation over the e-bike maker’s imminent demise, Cowboy says it now has the financial backing it needs to survive. The Brussels-based maker of boutique e-bikes says it has secured short-term financing to keep the lights on and a

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These displays are banned in US, and here’s how it affects Pixel 10 and iPhone 17

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:53:22

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The International Trade Commission has decided to ban BOE’s OLED screens from the US. However, a display expert says companies like Apple and Google can still sell devices with BOE screens in the US. The ruling could adversely affect the repair market, though. The International Trade Commission (ITC) recently ruled that it would ban display maker BOE’s OLED screens from the US market. The ban, which isn’t final, could see BOE banned from the country for a

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Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Wu 2025-12-24 06:11:50

Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy, joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots for emotional support and advice. Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks. Companies are also not allowed to offer AI-powered therapy services — or advertise chatbots as therapy tools — without t

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How to Find Out If Microplastics Are Actually Destroying Our Health

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

I flew Insta360’s Antigravity — it could change how drones are made

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Airbnb will allow US users book stays without paying upfront

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Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

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