UPI reports: Too little sleep. Not enough exercise. Far too much “screen time.” That is the unhealthy lifestyle of nearly all U.S. high school students, new research finds. The study, of almost 60,000 teenagers nationwide, found that only 5 percent were meeting experts’ recommendations on three critical health habits: sleep; exercise; and time spent gazing…
3D Printed Diffusers Make More Natural Light
A strip of LEDs may be a simple and flexible way to add light to a project, but they don’t always look natural. There is an easy way to make them look better, though: add a diffuser. That’s what [Nate Damen] did using a 3D printer. He created a diffuser using PETG giving a standard…
Latest photo leak for cheapest Galaxy S10 is completely bananas – CNET
You’ve got to see this Galaxy S10E render in Canary Yellow. …read more Source:: CNet
New “Metallic Wood” Is As Strong As Titanium But Much Lighter
Titanium “has long been touted as the metal of the future,” writes Dwell, “due to its strength, rust resistance, and amazing lightness.” But can careful atom-stacking lead to something better? An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have discovered a way to create a new “metallic wood” material that is as strong as titanium, but five times…
Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral ‘Boiling Water Challenge’
A burn surgeon at Loyola University Medical has treated eight different people for second and third-degree burns after they attempted to replicate the viral “boiling water challenge,” according to one local news station. These people (like many others as seen across social media) heated water and threw it into the sub-zero air, expecting it to…
Elon Musk is flirting with Mars on Twitter and it’s weird – CNET
Mars is sending hot pics to the SpaceX founder. …read more Source:: CNet
‘Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger’
“While it’s creepy to imagine companies are listening in to your conversations, it’s perhaps more creepy that they can predict what you’re talking about without actually listening,” writes an NBC News technology correspondent, arguing that data, not privacy, is the real danger. Your data — the abstract portrait of who you are, and, more importantly,…
Test PCBs on a Bed of Nails
While it might be tempting to start soldering a circuit together once the design looks good on paper, experience tells us that it’s still good to test it out on a breadboard first to make sure everything works properly. That might be where the process ends for one-off projects, but for large production runs you’re…
YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their ‘Dislike’ Button
“YouTube is no stranger to viewers weaponizing the dislike button, as seen by the company’s recent Rewind video, but the product development team is working on a way to tackle the issue,” writes the Verge. Suren Enfiajyan shares their report on a new video by Tom Leung, YouTube’s director of project management. “Dislike mobs” are…
Python Developer Survey Shows Data Analysis More Popular Than Web Development
Over 20,000 programmers from more than 150 different countries provided answers for the second annual Python Developers Survey (conducted by the Python Software Foundation and JeBrains). An anonymous reader submitted this condensed version of their results: 84% of Python users in our survey use Python as their main language…up 5 percentage points from 79% in…
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