Right now, if you click on the three dots above a Facebook ad, you can select “Why am I seeing this ad?” and it will show you some information about how it ended up in your feed. This feature has been around since 2014, but you still have to go looking for it every time you want to figure out how that ad ended up in your view. If you haven’t use this feature, you might find some interesting info already....
Last week, the Carnegie Institution for Science astronomer announced he had just discovered an object that sits about 140 astronomical units away. One AU equals the 93 million miles between Earth and the sun, so that means this object is 140 times the distance of Earth from the sun, or 3.5 times farther away than Pluto. This is just a mere couple months after he and his team discovered 2018 VG18, nicknamed “Farout,” which sits 120 AU away, and for a brief moment was the farthest known object in the solar system....
First spotted in late April, 2008HJ was visible for a few days as it passed relatively close to Earth—less than three times as far away as the moon. Just a few hours before the closest approach, Miles took a series of photographs in which the moving asteroid appeared as a trail of reflected sunlight. By measuring the fluctuations in the light’s brightness as the asteroid rotated, Miles was able to calculate how fast it was spinning....
The flight of the sleek electric plane, which its maker calls Alice, was a significant milestone for a sector of aviation that focuses on carrying small amounts of people—nine or fewer—short distances, and doing it with no tailpipe emissions. “We made aviation history flying Alice, the world’s first all-electric commuter aircraft, here at the Moses Lake Flight Test facility,” Gregory Davis, the company’s CEO, said during a press conference following the flight....
For such a small gadget, the Fitbit Charge 4 packs a powerful suite of features. The fitness watch offers necessary health features like 24/7 heart rate tracking, built-in GPS for mapping workouts, and sleep monitoring. At the same time, it provides practical features that are useful outside the gym—like Spotify controls, one-tap payments, and a long seven-day battery life that cuts down on charging. Over the several weeks when I wore the watch, I integrated new health habits into my daily routine and improved my fitness regimen....
This diet is exactly what it sounds like: You eat nothing cooked. Seem doable? Try downing an entire crudité platter, warns Christopher Gardner, a nutritional scientist at Stanford University. Taking in the FDA-recommended 2,000 calories per day would require chomping 60 cups of raw kale, 38 of carrots, or 90 medium-size tomatoes. That much raw roughage is wholly unpalatable, says Gardner. Cooking produce not only makes it tastier, but research shows that heating it also can aid digestion and boost antioxidants, such as phenolic acids....
The Test I made a Skype video call to my wife, who used the $20 Akkord, a $50 HP model and an $80 Logitech webcam. The Results The Akkord and Logitech cams kept my wife in focus as she moved in closer or stepped back, but the HP couldn’t focus unless she sat perfectly still. The Akkord was no match for the Logitech at capturing accurate colors, fine details and smooth movement, however....
It’s experienced when the central nervous system receives conflicting information from the inner ear, eyes, and both the pressure and sensory receptors, found in our joints, muscles, and spine. Our sense of balance is controlled by the interaction of these systems. “In motion sickness the fluids of the inner ear are moving along with you in the moving vehicle. The brain is interpreting that movement, [and] instead of saying ‘yes you are in a moving car,’ it’s interpreting it as an incorrect stimulus,” Chandrasekhar says....
The meanies aren’t necessarily more physically attractive than anyone else, they are just better at using what the study calls “adornments” (clothes, makeup and the like) to make themselves seem more appealing. The researchers, Nicholas Holtzman and Michael Strube at Washington University in St. Louis, had their subjects remove all makeup, pull long hair back into a ponytail and don a white T-shirt and grey sweatpants. They were rated on their attractiveness in this unadorned state, set loose to adorn themselves to their hearts’ content, and rated again....
If your team is down, try a stress ball if your team rather than screaming at the TV or the people around you. You can get a set of three to share with your friends. The 2.25-inch balls are made of rubber. $11. Want to hear something horrifying? 90.5 percent of all plastic waste has never been recycled. That’s a nearly impossible figure to comprehend—though we tried. Bring a unique—and eco-friendly—cup with you wherever you’re going....
But you don’t have to be using Google Now to see the problem. Head over to Google Translate and type in “end with,” and you’ll get the same “he now praises the iPad” when you click the audio button on the left. Apparently, putting a dee sound before the word “with” triggers it. One Foot Tsunami explains how text from this random article was somehow used as the voice source text....
A key test for language models is writing—an exercise that many people struggle with as well. Google engineers designed a proof-of-concept experiment called Wordcraft that used its language model LaMDA to write fiction. The tool was first built two years ago and is still far from becoming a publicly usable product. So, what exactly is Wordcraft? And what can it do? Google describes it as “an AI-powered text editor centered on story writing” that can act as a kind of assistant to help authors brainstorm ideas or overcome writer’s block....
Now may just be the most opportune time to break into the field of information technology, but before you decide to dive in, you should first equip yourself with the necessary certifications to be deemed worthy of hiring. In the IT field, CompTIA is considered one of the top trade associations, and gaining certifications from them can help you put your best foot forward. The Complete 2022 CompTIA Certification Course Super Bundle is designed to offer you the best guidance for certification exams, and for a limited time, you can get it on sale at an exclusive Deals Day price....
Our friends at Texas Instruments, which makes the DLP projector inside the Show, let us snag the phone for a quick hands-on. As with most great gadgets, the Show premiers in Asia. (That may make it the first projector phone to hit the market, depending on when rival Logic Wireless gets its Logic Bolt out.) We don’t know exactly when it comes out, but it looks like lucky Koreans will be the first to watch movies and display photos on the big screen, courtesy of any flat or semi-flat surface they find....
Alfa Romeo revealed its ambitious plan to release five new vehicles in the next six years, and the first model on that list will be an electrified crossover, the Tonale. This new plug-in hybrid will be available to customers in the US in early 2023 as part of Alfa Romeo’s transition to an EV brand. With its Dare Forward 2030 strategy, which it announced on March 1, Stellantis committed to selling more than 75 different kinds of battery-electric vehicles, or BEVs....
Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a day like most any other, a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana about 66 million years ago. The ground is a bit mushy, a fetid muck saturated from recent rains that caused a nearby floodplain stream to overrun its banks. If you didn’t know any better, you might think you were wading on the edge of a Gulf Coast swamp on a midsummer day....
You can’t block the message This Presidential Alert, as it’s known, closely resembles an Amber Alert or an emergency message from the National Weather Service. It’s a jarring sound with a standard text box on your phone. This new IPAW message is different, however, because you can’t opt out of it. If you have an iPhone, you can head into your Notification settings, scroll to the bottom of the list, and checkboxes for turning off Amber and weather alerts....
A quick note before we begin: Android has a wide variety of makes, models, and versions, which makes it more difficult to find features that will be consistent across all devices. We only verified the following tips on stock Android 13—they should also work on related systems, but some of the menus and procedures may vary slightly. There’s also another way to set up mirroring. First, check to make sure you’ve installed the Google Home app for Android—you probably already used this program to set up your Chromecast....
The California resident became so overwhelmed by her disease that she quit her job and moved back in with her parents. Then, Sarah, the 36-year-old patient, joined an experimental trial as its first participant—University of California, San Francisco neuroscientists surgically implanted a battery-operated “pacemaker for the brain.” About the size of a business card, the device produces a quick jolt of electricity into the area of her brain causing her illness....
Why eyes look different colors Humans get their eye color from melanin, the protective pigment that also determines skin and hair shades. Melanin is good at absorbing light, which is especially important for the iris, the function of which is to control how much brightness can enter the eyes. Once it passes through the lenses, the majority of the visible light spectrum goes to the retina, where it’s converted to electrical impulses and translated into images by the brain....
