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An Israeli digital health start-up called Healthy.io has developed an FDA-cleared at-home smartphone urinalysis test to help people test their kidneys for proteins, a sign of damage to the organ. Thirty million Americans have chronic kidney disease, often due to diabetes and hypertension; that's 1 in 9 adults, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Early detection makes an enormous difference in avoiding complications from kidney disease.
Israeli startup turns cellphone into a testing lab for kidney disease

An American 14-year-old has reportedly become the youngest known person in the world to create a successful nuclear reaction. The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, a hobbyist group, has recognised the achievement by Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, when he was aged 12 in January 2018.
Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab | Environment | The Guardian

Quote:According to the CDC, oil of lemon eucalyptus could be a much safer and more natural weapon than DEET. It's easy to say you'll never use DEET, that is until you come down to South Carolina. My home state boasts mosquitoes that rival your house pet in size and stature. But still, many fear the toxicity of DEET and try to avoid it even with those mini-monsters landing on you noon and night. According to the CDC, oil of lemon eucalyptus could be a much safer and more natural weapon. The CDC confirmed that oil of lemon eucalyptus can be as effective as DEET in repelling mosquitoes
 
CDC confirms oil of lemon eucalyptus as effective as DEET | TreeHugger

Quote:A woman who licked a tub of ice cream before putting it back in a supermarket freezer could face up to 20 years in prison, according to US police. Police are working to confirm the identity of a female suspect, seen outside a Walmart branch in Lufkin, Texas, around 11pm on 28 June, before issuing an arrest warrant on a charge of second-degree felony tampering with a consumer product. That charge carries a sentence of between two and 20 years in prison, along with a potential fine up to $10,000 (£8,000), according to the Texas penal code.
 
‘Lufkin licker’: Woman faces 20 years in prison for licking ice cream tub in Walmart | The Independent

Quote:I suggest for your due diligence the Defiance 5G Next Gen Connectivity ETF (FIVG) as a way to gain good exposure to the major players and major trends within the 5G world. I like that it is laser-focused on this particular area. FIVG is a brand-new ETF. It launched on March 4th in the wake of Goldman Sachs’ barrage of five “future economic trends” ETFs that same week. While I surveyed all five of the Goldman offerings, I find them too broad-brush in their approach.
 
The Defiance 5G NextGen Connectivity ETF Is The Smart Way To Play 5G - Defnc Nxt Gen Shs (NYSEARCA:FIVG) | Seeking Alpha
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Quote:Private chef Rachel Muse, who creates bespoke meals for elite athletes, including top footballers, agrees and gives the simple tip that adding “pea powder is a really easy way to up the amount of protein in lots of different meals including sauces, soups and even vegan wellingtons”. Heather Russell recommends using fortified soya milk as a dairy milk alternative, as “it contains much more protein than other plant milks, and the quality of soya protein is similar to that of meat and dairy”.
 
Does being vegan make you a better footballer? - BBC Food

Quote:But politics and ethics aside, there is a high cost to abortion bans in the United States. Each year, anti-abortion legislation costs American taxpayers billions of dollars due to costs associated with unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, complications from unsafe abortions, and legal challenges that taxpayers must cover. The recent wave of abortion bans might also cost states in business investment. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research institution on sexual and reproductive health, unintended pregnancies cost the U.S. over $20 billion a year in 2010 (according to the study, an unintended pregnancy is one that is either unwanted or wanted, but at a later date). Those costs include births, abortions, and miscarriages. “That amounts to 51% of the $40.8 billion spent for all publicly funded pregnancies that year,” the study said.
 
Abortion bans could cost American taxpayers billions of dollars each year

Quote:NHS patients with lymphoma have for the first time been given a pioneering treatment that genetically reprogrammes their immune system to fight cancer. Mike Simpson, 62, from Durham, says his cancer is now "on the run". The therapy, called CAR-T, is a "living drug" that is tailor-made for each patient using their body's own cells Doctors at King's College Hospital, London, said some patients were being completely cured in a way that had "never been seen before".
 
'Living drug' offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients - BBC News

Quote:Olaparib could become a revolutionary treatment for prostate cancer - the first genetically targeted drug for fighting the disease, say experts. The precision medicine is already used by the NHS for ovarian cancer and has been called a game-changer by cancer doctors. A cancer conference heard how, in trials, it slowed tumour growth in men with advanced prostate cancer. This could improve survival for some men, researchers hope.
 Revolutionary' drug for prostate cancer - BBC News

Quote:It took nine-year-old Kade Lovell longer than expected to finish his 5km race in Minnesota, but only because he was busy accidentally winning a separate 10km event.
 'I kept going': Nine-year-old enters 5km race ... and accidentally wins 10km event | Sport | The Guardian
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Quote:Google keeps a log of everywhere you go if you use Google apps and services on your phone. It has a creepy level of detail that might surprise you. Google makes it easy to find this information and limit how it can track you, though. Here’s how to do that.
 
How to stop Google from storing your location history

Quote:Chinese border police are secretly installing surveillance apps on the phones of visitors and downloading personal information as part of the government’s intensive scrutiny of the remote Xinjiang region, the Guardian can reveal. The Chinese government has curbed freedoms in the province for the local Muslim population, installing facial recognition cameras on streets and in mosques and reportedly forcing residents to download software that searches their phones. An investigation by the Guardian and international partners has found that travellers are being targeted when they attempt to enter the region from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan.
 
Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones | World news | The Guardian

Quote:"Every time we wash our clothes an average of nine million [plastic] microfibres are released into the environment," she tells BBC News. "The way we wash our clothes affects this, as well as the way our clothes are made - but the more we wash our clothes, the more microfibres are released."
 
Is Stella McCartney right - should we stop washing our clothes? - BBC News

Quote:On the day Deutsche Bank began making thousands of employees redundant, some managing directors at the company’s office in the City of London were being fitted for suits that cost at least £1,200, it has emerged. Tailors from Fielding & Nicholson, an upmarket tailor, were pictured walking out of the bank’s office with suit bags on Monday. Ian Fielding-Calcutt, the tailor’s founder, and Alex Riley were there to fit suits for senior managers in spite of plans to cut 18,000 jobs worldwide.
 
Deutsche Bank bosses fitted for £1,200 suits as thousands lose their jobs | Business | The Guardian

Quote:Streaming online pornography produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as Belgium, according to a new report by French think tank The Shift Project.  Researchers found that overall online videos emit 300 million tonnes of carbon each year and a third of this comes from streaming videos with pornographic content.  The research, which was lead by engineer Maxime Efoui-Hess who specialises in computer modelling, found that the energy consumption of digital technologies is increasing by nine per cent a year. Sixty per cent of world data flows come from online video.
 
Porn produces same amount of carbon dioxide as whole of Belgium, study finds | The Independent
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Quote:He was the worse player for four of the five sets. He did not conjure a break point until deep into the fourth. He was down two match points at 8-7 in the fifth. His opponent served better, volleyed better, returned better, hit 40 more winners and won 14 more points. And yet Djokovic still emerged victorious. Brad Gilbert once wrote a book called Winning Ugly. This was the director’s cut.
 
Djokovic has time on his side as he eyes Federer’s grand slam haul | Sport | The Guardian

Quote:Camilleri was 66 when his first bestseller, La Stagione della Caccia (1992, published in English in 2014 as Hunting Season), appeared, and 68 when he published the first novel featuring the Sicilian detective, Salvo Montalbano, who was to bring him international renown. But that was only the half of it. Success inspired Camilleri to a frenzy of literary activity at an age when most writers are in tranquil decline. Between 1994, when his first Montalbano story appeared, and his death, at the age of 93, he not only published 30 books detailing the exploits of his grouchy sleuth, but more than 60 others.
 
Andrea Camilleri obituary | Books | The Guardian

Quote:“It’s a very odd scenario,” he says. “You have a safe and effective vaccine licensed by the FDA and anti-vax campaigners reject it. But on the other hand, you have people so desperate for protection that they’re even willing to take a canine vaccine that has never been studied in humans.”
 
Lyme disease: is a solution on the way? | Science | The Guardian

Quote:The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world…second only to oil,” the recipient of an environmental award told a stunned Manhattan audience earlier this year. “It’s a really nasty business…it’s a mess.” While you’d never hear an oil tycoon malign his bonanza in such a way, the woman who stood at the podium, Eileen Fisher, is a clothing industry magnate.
 
It’s the second dirtiest thing in the world — and you’re wearing it – Alternet.org

Quote:Barrios keeps thing simple and proudly Andalucían. “I make it with a tiny bit of garlic, onion, half a cucumber, one or two green peppers, tomatoes, good salt, sherry vinegar and good extra virgin olive oil.”
 
‘Gastronomic terrorism!’ How the cucumber has sliced Spain in two | World news | The Guardian
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Quote:When potential customers visit the online resale store ThredUp, messages on the screen regularly tell them just how much other users of the site are saving. “Alexandra from Anaheim just saved $222 on her order” says one message next to an image of a bright, multicolored dress. It’s a common technique on shopping websites, intended to capitalize on people’s desire to fit in with others and to create a “fear of missing out.” But “Alexandra from Anaheim” did not buy the dress. She does not exist. Instead, the website’s code pulled combinations from a preprogrammed list of names, locations and items and presented them as actual recent purchases. The fake messages are an example of “dark patterns,” devious online techniques that manipulate users into doing things they might not otherwise choose to. They are the digital version of timeworn tactics used to influence consumer behavior, like impulse purchases placed near cash registers, or bait-and-switch ads for used cars.
 
How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want - The New York Times

Quote:More than 1,000 apps are gathering personal data from our smartphones despite not having permission, a study has revealed. Up to 1,325 Android apps available on the Google Play store could be secretly tracking people, researchers at the International Computer Science Institute in California discovered. The apps use hidden work-arounds to bypass permission systems within the Android operating system. “Our work shows a number of side and covert channels that are being used by apps to circumvent the Android permissions system,” the study stated.
 
Hundreds of Android apps steal your data even if you deny permission, study reveals | The Independent

Quote:Ever since Alexa and Google Assistant first burst onto the scene and started populating people's homes with smart speakers and other gadgets outfitted with always-listening microphones, people have wondered whether anyone other than their AI assistant of choice was listening in.  Well, the answer is yes -- both Amazon and Google have admitted that they hire contractors to listen to anonymized user audio clips for the purposes of improving their respective assistant's capabilities.
 
Amazon and Google are listening to your voice recordings. Here's what we know about that - CNET

Quote:Porn sites are riddled with web trackers, including from Google, Facebook, and Oracle, according to researchers at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Pennsylvania. More than 22,484 porn sites were analyzed, of which 74% were found to contain Google trackers. Oracle had trackers on 24% and Facebook on 10%.
 
Facebook and Google know what porn you're watching, even when you're in incognito

Quote:A large-scale “sextortion” campaign is making use of a network of more than 450,000 hijacked computers to send aggressive emails, researchers have warned. The emails threaten to release compromising photographs of the recipient unless $800 (£628) is paid in Bitcoin. And they contain personal information - such as the recipient’s password - probably gathered from existing data breaches, to specifically target more than 27 million potential victims at a rate of 30,000 per hour. While analysis suggests a small fraction of targets have fallen for the ploy, one expert said such botnets still offered a great “return on investment” for cyber-criminals.
 
'Sextortion botnet spreads 30,000 emails an hour’ - BBC News
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Quote:As winter approaches it might be tempting to curl up under a thick feather duvet, but experts have warned it might lead to more than just warm toes. Doctors have reported a case of “feather duvet lung” – a lung inflammation caused by breathing in dust from the feathers in bedding – and have called for medical professionals to be on the alert if patients turn up with unexplained breathlessness.
 
Doctors warn of danger of 'feather duvet lung' | Science | The Guardian
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