Living near green space lowers risk for children to develop mental disorders
Living near a park, forest or other green space may protect your children’s mental health later in life, a new Danish study suggests. Children who grow up in these natural surroundings have up to a 55 percent lower risk of developing a mental disorder as an adult, researchers found. Further, the protective effect grows stronger […]
'Unbelievable scene' as plane crashes into Florida home, killing flight instructor
A newly-released recording of a 911 call reporting a plane’s crashing into a home in Florida gives a sense of what a sheriff said was an “unbelievable scene.” A flight instructor, James Wagner, 64, was killed in the crash on Saturday, in Winter Haven, Florida. A trainee pilot on board walked away with minor injuries […]
More password-less logins are coming to Android
The FIDO Alliance and Google today announced that Android (from version 7.0 up) with the latest version of the Google Play Services is now FIDO2 certified. At first glance, that sounds rather boring, but it will enable developers to write apps that use a phone’s fingerprint scanner or a FIDO security key to authenticate users […]
Woman finds python hiding in her shoe after trip to Australia
A Scottish woman traveling home from Australia after visiting relatives made a startling discovery Friday when she found a python hiding inside one of her shoes in her luggage. The snake, which had shed its skin during the 9,000 mile flight, somehow made its way into Moira Boxall’s luggage and onto a plane completely undetected. […]
World’s first 1TB microSD cards launched
The inexorable march of increasing storage capacities continues with the announcement of the world’s first 1-terabyte microSD cards. Micron and Western Digital’s SanDisk brand have both launched UHS-I microSDXC products at Mobile World Congress, which will be good news for anyone looking at Samsung’s new 1TB Galaxy S10 Plus and thinking “what if that, but […]
Nokia 9 PureView uses five cameras to take a photo
A new Nokia smartphone fuses together shots taken simultaneously by five rear cameras to offer owners what it says is “the richest image capture possible”. This lets it preserve details in the highlights and shadows that would otherwise be lost as well as giving more control over depth-of-focus edits than rival devices, it claims. It […]
Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo
Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following TechCrunch’s investigation about Onavo code being used in a Facebook Research app the sucked up data about teens. The Onavo Protect app will eventually shut down, and will immediately […]
The Samsung Galaxy S10 can wirelessly charge other phones
Hole punches aside, Wireless PowerShare is the S10 line’s marquee feature. Samsung’s new flagship isn’t the first handset with the feature — the Huawei Mate 20 Pro beat it to it by a few months — but it’s a cool new addition, nonetheless. And perhaps more importantly, Samsung’s beat Apple to the punch here. From […]
World's largest pair of jeans unveiled at Peru mall
A Peru department store chain broke a Guinness World Record by creating a pair of jeans roughly the size of a 22-story building. The Paris department store chain, owned by Cencosud, teamed with fashion brand Kansas to create the massive pants, which were unveiled at the Mall del Sur in San Juan de Miraflores. The […]
Rabbit does 20 tricks in 1 minute for Guinness record
A Finland woman’s pet rabbit performed 20 tricks in 1 minute to earn a Guinness World Records title. Aino Kivikallio’s mixed-breed bunny, Taawi, performed the tricks at his owner’s Turku home and was awarded the Guinness record for most tricks by a rabbit in 1 minute. The tricks performed by Taawi include giving a high […]
Facebook adds new background location privacy controls to its Android app
Facebook is updating its privacy settings on Android to make it easier for users to control what location data is sent to and stored by the company. In its announcement, Facebook acknowledged that Android users have expressed concern over the app’s ability to continuously log location data in the background. Due to Android’s all-or-nothing system […]
Microsoft launches new Office app for Windows 10
Microsoft is making a new Office app available to Windows 10 users today. It’s replacing the “My Office” app that currently exists, and it’s designed to be a lot more useful to Office users. It’s essentially a hub for launching recent documents, accessing the Office desktop apps, or simply finding the free web versions of […]
Nike’s smart sneakers are breaking when used with an Android phone
Nike’s brand-new Adapt BB smart sneakers have stopped working for some users because of a bad Android update just days after they were released. Affected owners say either their left or right shoe no longer pairs with Nike’s app, meaning it can’t be used to tighten their fresh pair of $350 self-lacing shoes. Some people […]
Nigeria's electoral body cautions Buhari, Atiku
Nigeria’s electoral commission has called on politicians to ‘moderate their rhetoric’ ahead of Saturday’s delayed presidential election. The chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu called for calm as both president Muhammadu Buhari and the opposition’s Atiku Abubakar have become more combative in their tone following the postponement of the election. “Please […]
