Two cups (330 grams) of mangoes a day have beneficial effects on systolic blood pressure and gut fermentation among healthy postmenopausal women, according to a study presented this week at Nutrition 2018, the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting. Mangoes are rich in mangiferin, a phenolic acid that has multiple …
Read More »Spurs Lead The Way In NBA draft Statistics
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is often given credit for leading the analytics revolution in the NBA, and he has certainly played a major role in utilizing analytics effectively and raising public awareness of it. The proliferation of analytics tools in basketball decisions has grown to the point where …
Read More »Apple Might Finally Dump Its Proprietary Lightning Connector in 2019
Apple is well known for its proprietary connectors and embrace of less-common standards. It didn’t take the company long to move from FireWire to a proprietary 30-pin cable standard with its iPod products, and when the iPhone and iPad debuted, they relied on the same 30-pin cable. In 2012, …
Read More »IBM Aims To Reduce Power Needed For Neural Net Training By 100x
With the rush to incorporate AI into nearly everything, there is an insatiable demand for the computing and electrical power needed. As a result, the power-hungry GPUs that are used today are starting to give way to lower-cost, lower-power, custom devices when it comes to running production-scale trained neural networks. …
Read More »Stanford Researchers Plan to Replace Progressive Lenses With ‘Autofocals’
When the call went out for volunteers to participate in a study on a new technology that could eventually improve on and replace progressive lenses, I was happy to sign up. Like every human over 50 years old, my eyes don’t accommodate as well as they used to. As …
Read More »Loneliness is Bad for Your Health, Claims New Study
Loneliness is a strong predictor of premature death, worse mental health, and lower quality of life in patients with cardiovascular disease, according to a new study. Christensen found that feeling lonely was a stronger predictor of poor outcomes than living alone, in both men and women. Image credit: Marco Massimo. …
Read More »Cometary-Type Interplanetary Particles Contain Presolar Dust, Researchers Find
Samples of interplanetary particles — collected from the upper atmosphere of Earth and believed to originate from comets — contain presolar dust from variable interstellar environments, a group of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and elsewhere has discovered. Cometary-type interplanetary dust particle collected by NASA aircraft. Image …
Read More »Rafael Nadal Says Women Tennis Players Shouldn’t Be Paid Equally
Sports’ Ben Rohrbach, Nadal threw cold water on the idea that women should earn as much as men in tennis, saying “it’s a comparison we shouldn’t even make.” “Female models earn more than male models, and nobody says anything,” he was quoted as saying in the magazine. And while Rohrbach …
Read More »Google’s Family Link software now recommends ‘teacher-approved’ apps
Google today is expanding the capabilities of its Android parental control software, Family Link, to go beyond helping parents better manage their child’s device and app usage. Now, the Family Link app will also help parents learn about what apps they may want to install for their kids, as well. …
Read More »What Is The NBA
Besides being a popular theme in real money online casino games, it is a men’s professional basketball league in North America. The NBA consists of thirty teams; twenty-nine of those are based in the United States whilst one is from Canada. It is widely considered as the top men’s professional …
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