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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Sept. 29. I’m Ada Tseng, assistant editor on the Utility Journalism Team, which you were introduced to in Tuesday’s newsletter. On Wednesday, you heard more about our mental health coverage.Today, I want to tell you about Alex Daniels, a veteran stunt performer and coordinator who was David Hasselhoff’s double on “Baywatch” — the classic action drama about lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles. He, along with a handful of other…

In 2017, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured images of nine cyclones at Jupiter’s north pole. Now, over four years later, those nine cyclones are still in the same pattern they were when Juno first discovered them. In an attempt to understand how these bizarre cyclones on Jupiter have remained stable, scientists took a deeper look. A group of scientists, including Andrew P. Ingersoll, Shawn P. Ewald, and Federico Tosi, came together to inspect Juno’s images of the cyclones on Jupiter. The study’s goal, the…

Facebook and Instagram are set to offer better integration as parent company Meta announced it is testing a deeper integration across both platforms. The firm has revealed two updates that include a new user interface for the Accounts Center feature across mobile and Web platforms, and a redesigned login and onboarding experience on its mobile apps. The tests include two new features that are intended to make it easier for users to switch between and create new accounts and profiles on Facebook and Instagram. The company…

In countries such as the UK, US and Canada, ultra-processed foods now account for 50 percent or more of calories consumed.This is concerning, given that these foods have been linked to a number of different health conditions, including a greater risk of obesity and various chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and dementia.Ultra-processed foods are concoctions of various industrial ingredients (such as emulsifiers, thickeners, and artificial flavors) amalgamated into food products by a series of manufacturing…

We interviewed the core team at Norway's World Wide Wind (WWW) to learn more about its floating, tilting, contra-rotating, double turbine design, which it says can unlock unprecedented scale, power and density to radically lower the cost of offshore wind. To briefly recap our article from August 30, WWW has designed a floating offshore wind turbine unlike any other. Indeed, it's two vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in one, tuned to rotate in opposite directions. With one turbine attached to the generator's rotor, and…

It appears there's more to a doppelgänger than meets the eye.DNA analyses of 16 look-alike couples have revealed some unrelated people with super similar faces also have similar heights, weights, habits, and behaviors.Human resemblance, it would seem, is more than just skin deep.In the study, 3 different facial recognition algorithms were tasked with scoring the likeness of 32 look-alikes pairs; half were classified as doppelgängers by all 3 algorithms. Researchers then conducted genetic analyses and found 9 pairs of…

I’ve been excited for Intel’s Arc Alchemist GPUs — the first discrete gaming graphics cards Intel has ever released. But that hype has quickly faded over the last few months, as reports of subpar performance, broken drivers, and a pile of delays have plagued Intel’s entrance into the market. It takes a lot to enter the pantheon of the best graphics cards, but Intel’s issues go well beyond performance and features. Driver bugs are rampaging through the Arc Alchemist stack, and it’s becoming clear that Intel doesn’t…

After the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. relied heavily on the Federal Reserve to stimulate growth, leading to a frequent quip that monetary policy had become the “only game in town.”Now, high inflation is fanning fears this is true again but in the opposite direction: Washington risks relying excessively on the Fed to lower inflation by reducing demand rather than have other policy makers work to increase the economy’s capacity to supply more goods and services or workers. The danger is the Fed will raise interest rates…

StackCommerceThe following content is brought to you by ZDNet partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation.Between accessing entertainment and social media accounts, everyone seems to be spending much more time in the cloud and online than ever before. And considering how much more frequent and severe cybercrime has become, it's easy to see why so many of us are using the most effective VPN services we can find.However, even that kind of protection doesn't…

It’s a big ol’ Spotify day here at Hot Pod. The company is making moves, acquiring Wordle-inspired music trivia game Heardle, expanding its video podcast reach to new countries, and taking another hit podcast exclusive. Plus, a roundup of the best Prime Day audio deals. Let’s get into it. Spotify acquires music trivia game Heardle Spotify announced Tuesday that it has purchased Heardle, one of the many themed trivia games that cropped up in the wake of Wordle’s blockbuster success. Heardle is Spotify’s first game…