About 2 million customers in Florida were without power as of this morning, according to PowerOutage.us. Massive storm surges, the rise in ocean water above typically dry land, hit Fort Meyers hours before the storm’s official landfall. Water rushed into parking garages and power lines burst into flames south of the eyewall in nearby Naples. The storm surge likely peaked as high as 12 feet in some areas of the state according to government officials....
Over the course of one day, Sam went from winds of 35 mph to 70 mph—what meteorologists call a “rapid intensification,” according to CNN. Currently, the storm is about 1,470 miles southeast of the Leeward Islands, which include Guadeloupe, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin, and the Virgin Islands. The storm is expected to move closer to the islands with on-land impacts felt over the next week....
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars on the App Store and listed on5 Apps That Identify Your Plants and Help You Save Them From the Brink of Death on Well+Good, the NatureID app uses innovative AI technology to identify over 14,000 indoor and outdoor plant species. It then provides you with specific diagnoses of their state and recommendations on what soil, fertilizer, or temperature conditions are needed to keep the plant alive and well....
As new parents there are a lot of things to learn (and worry) about. A big one is your baby’s bones. The steps you take to ensure your baby gets good nutrition from their time in utero up to their first birthday can have a lasting impact on how they grows. They can even play an important role in preventing future fractures and medical conditions like osteoporosis. Maintaining bone health is a little like having a savings account, says Dr....
In the metaphysical, Honey I Shrunk The Kids-style experiment, researchers suited up 18 test subjects with virtual reality helmets, landing them in a computer-generated room with posters on the walls. (As a cheeky aside, the posters had pictures of Mickey Mouse and a computer mouse.) Another pixely human avatar was in the room with them. The subjects were told they were going to a) be working with a human to solve tasks, or b) interacting with a rat controlling the other avatar....
But the benefits of the nanotechnology don’t stop there. Most evidence is usually destroyed after a gun is fired, because of the heat generated. The coating has been designed to avoid such heat damage and can even be varied subtly for every cartridge batch, making it easier for officials to tie guns back to the offenders. The breakthrough technology is cost-effective and could potentially be put to use within a year....
The researchers, who are based at University College London, set up a computer game in which study subjects could win money. Players saw strange, complex symbols on a computer screen, and were told to predict which symbols consistently led to payout, and which led to penalty. Yet it was impossible to tell the symbols apart. The researchers designed them to look, to the conscious mind, identical. “Just follow your gut feelings,” the game instructions coached, “and you will win, and avoid losing, a lot of pounds!...
Researchers in Brazil studied and compared more than 1,300 symptomatic COVID-19 patients. In their double-blind study, half of the patients were treated for three days with ivermectin while the other half received a placebo. Ivermectin did not help with a number of other health measures such as viral clearance after a week, speed of recovery, hospitalization, or risk of death. The findings add to a growing pool of research disproving the drug’s touted benefits against coronavirus....
Forget pulling and twisting a corkscrew to open your wine, the Wine Ziz opens up your bottle through an air pump. Similar to how you would use a traditional wine opener, you position the Wine Ziz’s needle in the middle of the cork, before pumping the air a few times and viola, the cork slides right out. This opener also comes with a blade foil cutter that works by twisting around the neck of the bottle....
While you can always outfit them with weather-appropriate (and cute) clothing like pet-sized hats and sweaters, there may be times that both their fur and jackets won’t be enough to withstand the coldest of temperatures, especially at night time. They may appreciate you tucking them in under the covers, but they deserve their own warm spot, too. The HEATD Dog Pet Bed Mattress may be the comfiest solution for your dog during chilly nights, and it’s on sale for 35 percent off....
To make your life a little easier, we’ve highlighted the key factors to consider when choosing a phone or computer. These devices are similar in a lot of ways, even if they’re built on very different scales, and we hope our guide removes some of the mystery surrounding their specifications. CPU (central processing unit) The central processing unit (CPU), sometimes simply called “the processor,” is the brain that runs your laptop or phone....
We ran some tests to find out if you can save your recipe or if you’re doomed to another trip to the grocery store. Eggs The proteins in egg yolks are strong emulsifiers, which means they’re good at keeping water and fat together. If a food needs structure or leavening, chances are you’ll find an egg in it. Yet as jam makers can tell you, proportions are crucial—you need to add enough pectin to absorb excess water, but not so much that it stiffens up your food to inedibility....
Samsung unleashed the Galaxy S9 The latest additions to the Samsung smartphone line up are the Galaxy S9 and S9+. Both phones got significant camera upgrades—especially when it comes to shooting in low-light—and slow-motion video capture. The Galaxy S9 phones also have augmented reality emojis you can plaster on your face as well. You probably shouldn’t use them as your LinkedIn picture. Sony launched its XZ2 smartphone The new phones we’ve seen from MWC this year haven’t exactly blown the doors off the market....
The new iPhone tends to steal the show during these Fall events. This year, we’re expecting iPhone 13 to follow last year’s iPhone 12 lineup. Rumors suggest we could also get a new Apple Watch 7 to replace the Apple Watch 6 at the top of the lineup. We also may get a new AirPods update since the vanilla version of Apple’s super-popular earbuds, which went into version 2 back in 2019....
A team of researchers in the United Kingdom analyzed the health outcomes of adults who contracted COVID-19 and then used a voluntary symptom-tracking mobile app. The participants who received one of two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or AstraZeneca vaccines between December 2020 and July 2021 were compared against a control group of unvaccinated individuals. Researchers found that only 0.2 percent of nearly 1 million fully vaccinated people reported a breakthrough infection....
Understandably, Poliquin and his supporters are not happy. The outcome seems to fly in the face of democracy’s most basic tenets: one person, one vote, the candidate with the most votes wins. But Maine’s voters have chosen to do things differently. In 2016, Mainers approved an alternative scheme that redistributes votes from losing candidates until someone wins at least 50 percent. Researchers agree that the new system is mathematically superior to the old one, but that’s little consolation to Poliquin, who’s suing to be declared the winner....
Visually, Messenger Kids is a Betty Crocker confetti cake. The app has the same logo as regular Messenger, but with a lime green color gradient of dots. When a user first opens it—something they can only do if they were born in 2005 or later, or make a fake account posing as someone 13 or younger—they’re met with a few magenta panels, each representing one of their parent-approved contacts. You can send text-based messages and video chat, just as you would in the regular app, except this video chat comes with a few dozen augmented reality options, so you can try on Santa’s beard or watch a UFO abduct a cow off the cornfield that is your mom’s head....
That was the beginning of Ronen’s involvement with the internet, the start of the path that would eventually lead to a move from his native Israel to an airy, open, vaguely industrial office in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood, complete with requisite friendly dog. Ronen is the founder and CEO of Boxee, a company that’s poised to release the Boxee TV, a time-shifting, place-shifting streaming media box that could truly free us from the tyranny of the cable providers–though Ronen is very careful not to put it quite that way....
As science writer Ferris Jabr pointed out when he tweeted the image, originally taken by scientist and photographer Andreas Kay, the dog head looks like something straight out of the third Harry Potter. (Sirius? Is that you?) The critter is formally called a Bunny Harvestman thanks to its rabbit-like ears. The bizarre body is only about as big as your thumbnail. Harvestmen are in the same family as the docile daddy longlegs—an arachnid, but not actually a spider....
Anki, founded in 2010, creates robots with personalities and even feelings; robots that are more human. Vector, “The Good Robot,” will be available to consumers in early October, and he can tell you the weather, take photos, answer questions, and even challenge you to a game of blackjack. He has three of the five human senses: sight, hearing, and touch, he can also react to his surroundings, learn your habits, and adapt to it all....
