Alarm

Last month, an actress and comedian in the U.K named Tessa Coates, who was recently engaged and was trying on wedding dresses, posted a seemingly straightforward snapshot of herself dressed in white, looking at herself in a double mirror, on Instagram. As most brides and those who have been through the wedding process know, such a mirror gives two views of a bride. Since the photograph was shot from behind Coates, with her iPhone, you could see much of Coates and the dress from the back, giving you a third view.However,…

Set on the front meadow of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, minutes from the Guinness brewery, it is no surprise the first wave of tickets for Dublin’s Forbidden Fruit festival sold out within days.The line-up – a heady mix of veterans, newcomers and nostalgia acts – is one of many festivals currently being announced for next summer. “We’ve got Nelly Furtado, who hasn’t played in Ireland for 24 years, Bicep and Barry Can’t Swim, who’s from that generation of artists with ironic names that audiences love” says festival…

If you take even a cursory glance at TikTok from time to time, you might well have encountered the mysterious case of Angele Sofia, who has recently started documenting her struggles with an iPhone alarm that goes off at 9:25 am every morning, without fail, for seemingly no reason whatsoever. What quickly started as a throwaway ask-for-help TikTok video has become a viral multi-part series with returning fans vested in her ongoing struggle. Sofia first took to TikTok on November 21 to reveal that she had “some sort of…

What would you do if your iPhone played the same alarm every morning at 9:25 AM for years without the Clock app actually showing an alarm for that time? You’d probably try everything to make this iPhone alarm bug from hell disappear. Most likely, you’d go to Apple first, hoping they’d have a solution. You’d change iPhones, hoping that would fix it. Eventually, you’d learn to live with it.That’s what a woman did before she finally decided to take the matters to the public forum and ask for help. Angele Sofia is…

Allison Murray/ZDNETLike most people, I have a hard time falling asleep at night and waking up in the mornings. My nightly routine consists of either scrolling through my phone in bed or falling asleep to the sounds of Netflix. And my morning routine isn't much better: I go from snoozing the alarm to checking my work emails within seconds.But there is one gadget that has managed to improve my sleep hygiene: The Hatch Restore 2for Black Friday. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)…

Over the course of last year, National Consumer Helpline (NCH) received nearly 10,000 complaints concerning airlines, as reported by the department.(Representative Image)The article also mentioned that the department stated that employing such tactics take advantage of consumers' interests and falls under the classification of unfair trade practices as per the Consumer Protection Act.The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has raised concerns with all airlines and online travel aggregators for allegedly engaging in unfair trade…

Everything is Fine is an absurdist browser game that tasks players with testing a smoke alarm through eight “ear-piercing” levels, but even its creator admits that it’s “not necessarily fun to play”. Available to play here, Everything is Fine starts simply, with a finger hovering under a smoke alarm. As soon as you begin the test, the finger begins waving across the screen, and each timed level becomes increasingly absurd – you’ll battle volume controls and sprinklers, all while the alarm beeps loudly in your ear. The…

When the alarm goes off in the early morning, it’s tempting to hit the snooze button and curl back under the warm covers for a few more minutes of slumber. This repeated postponing of the buzzer is often thought of as a bad habit—one that creates not only a lazy start to a day but also a fragmented sleep pattern that’s detrimental to health. Now, however, a growing body of recent research is contradicting this notion.A new study published in the Journal of Sleep Research found that people who regularly press the snooze…

Climate change would be much worse if it weren’t for the oceans, which have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat humanity has pumped into the atmosphere. That warming of the oceans has already been devastating for the organisms that live there, but it’s also come back to bite us in a more unexpected way: It’s contributing to the destruction of ice sitting on top of Greenland.That ailing ice sheet (the bit resting on land) contributed more than 17 percent of observed sea level rise between 2006 and 2018, and new research…

At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsBright, sharp displayAlexa responds quicklyCamera for video callsConsMore expensive than predecessorsNot much use as a security cameraNetflix not supported and YouTube via browser onlyOur VerdictAmazon’s third-generation Echo Show 5 changes little from previous generations, with slightly improved sound quality and a screen that can go dimmer at night. It isn’t worth upgrading to from an older model, and if you can’t find a discounted second-gen version (which would be better value) then…