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If your Fitbit Charge 5 has had flaky performance lately, you'll be glad to hear that a solution is on the horizon. 9to5Google has learned Fitbit is promising a fix for frequent disconnections between the activity tracker and its host phone. If you're affected, the Bluetooth connection will spontaneously drop and prevent your wearable from syncing fitness data, whether you're using an Android phone or iPhone. Reports of the problem first surfaced in January. Common solutions like rebooting the Charge 5 have little effect.…

Ryan Mac / New York Times: Sources: SpaceX fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter calling Elon Musk's behavior “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment” — In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.” Ryan Mac / New York Times: Sources: SpaceX fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter calling Elon Musk's behavior “a…

Julee Cruise, the singer whose ethereal music deepened the drama of David Lynch’s work, has died aged 65.Her husband, Edward Grinnan, wrote on Facebook: “She left this realm on her own terms. No regrets. She is at peace … I played her Roam during her transition. Now she will roam forever. Rest in peace, my love.”Cruise’s best-known song was Falling – its instrumental, written by Angelo Badalamenti, was used as the theme to Twin Peaks, Lynch’s iconic TV show that debuted in 1990. Lynch wrote lyrics for Cruise’s vocal…

Researchers have been studying the symptoms of Parkinson's disease for a long time. This degenerative neurological disorder affects a person's sensory-motor functions including thinking, mood and memory. Loss of control over body movements and tremors in limbs are other signs of the disease. A recent study on old men shows that the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can be identified early in life. According to experts, frequent nightmares can be an early sign of Parkinson's disease. Association between distressing dreams…

The development of nightmares later in life could be an early sign of Parkinson's disease, according to new research in older men.Distressing dreams have long been associated with the neurological disease, especially among men, but this is the first study to investigate whether these symptoms are a warning of Parkinson's or a byproduct of the condition.  Tracking the health of 3,818 older men with typical brain functioning for 12 years, researchers found those who experienced frequent nightmares were twice as likely to…

Google Assistant is reportedly set to get a new personalised speech recognition feature to recognise a user's voice better. A recent report has discovered a few hidden strings of code in recent iterations of the Google app, which suggests that Google Assistant is working on better recognition of users' frequent words and names. Personalised speech recognition could appear in Google Assistant settings with a description that states that the feature will store audio recordings on device to help the assistant get better. The…