Photo: muco.co.uk on Instagram While the classic dining room may have once been viewed as a formal, stately space, the contemporary dining room can easily inject effortless style and sophistication into your home. If you’re aiming for a modern space which is also perfect for entertaining guests, we’ve curated a few …
Read More »Does Fasted Cardio Really Burn More Fat?
Photo: Twenty20 On the surface, it seems to make sense. Exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and your body should burn more fat. After all, without food intake for eight to 12 hours, you’re in a fasted state. With glycogen stores depleted and low morning insulin …
Read More »Raiders sitting out early free agency
Through two days of free agency, the Oakland Raiders have lost seven of their 13 unrestricted free agents to other teams and have yet to sign one away from another squad, let alone re-sign any of their own. Quarterback Derek Carr, right, says he’s confident in the course coach Jack …
Read More »AMD Ryzen CPUs are readily available, but Ryzen motherboards? Not so much
Ever since AMD launched Ryzen, the CPU has been selling well — it continues to occupy multiple spots on Amazon’s best-selling CPU list (currently Ryzen chips hold #9, #10, and #15, with the old FX family holding spots #8 and #14, at the time of this writing). Ryzen motherboards, however, …
Read More »Tivoli Audio updates Model One radio with Wi-Fi, doubles the price
Tivoli Audio’s classic 2000 Model One table radio gets a complete makeover 17 years later. The Model One Digital, announced this week, adds Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections to stream music from your smartphone, PC, or the Web. It still tunes FM directly, but Tivoli dropped AM radio. Adding an optional …
Read More »Google’s new bot-stopping reCAPTCHA is completely invisible
You may be certain you’re not a robot, but a robot could be programmed to think that. Existential crises aside, determining which users are and are not robots is a complex task for web services. Go too easy and bots could flood in; make the test too hard and users …
Read More »New GOP bill lets companies force you to take genetic tests, lets them share results with third parties
A new bill introduced by Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would allow corporations to force employees to undergo genetic testing — and then share those results with third parties. In theory, this is already illegal, thanks to a 2008 law known as GINA. …
Read More »Banned crime reporting app Vigilante returns as Citizen, says its ‘report incident’ feature will be pulled
Remember Vigilante? The controversial crime reporting app was kicked out of the App Store in November shortly after its release because Apple believed it encouraged private citizens to engage in, well…vigilantism. Now the app is back, under different branding. The new “Citizen” app, operating in New York City, will send you real-time …
Read More »New Hypothesis for Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates Proposed
It was the power of the eyes — not the limbs — that first led our ancient aquatic ancestors to make the leap from water to land, according to a team of scientists led by Northwestern University Professor Malcolm MacIver and Lars Schmitz of Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer Colleges. …
Read More »Researchers Determine Age of Ceres’ Brightest Spot
Cerealia Facula, a dome-like feature located in the center of Ceres’ Occator crater, is only 4 million years old — approximately 30 million years younger than the crater itself, according to research led by Dr. Andreas Nathues of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Cerealia Facula, a bright …
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