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Crypto fear and greed index compiles emotions and attitudes from various sources into a single, straightforward number The global crypto market’s price behavior is directly driven by sentiment in the crypto market. As a result, the market’s prevailing sentiments, which can be caused by a variety of factors, can ruin any investment strategy. The crypto fear and greed index can perform the job for individuals/businesses rather than attempting to conduct various forms of market analysis and speculating on how…

USGS hydrologist Heather Best places a water level sensor at a monitoring gauge in Alaska’s Yukon River. The state’s size, rugged terrain, and limited transportation infrastructure make traditional stream gauging cost prohibitive. Credit: Derek Frohbieter, North Carolina Association of Floodplain ManagersThe Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide a trove of data on Earth’s water resources, even in remote locations. Alaska serves as a case study.While Alaska straddles the Arctic Circle and is covered by…

Citizen announced a new smartwatch that brings the best of NASA and IBM Watson’s neural networks to help you gauge your wellness, fatigue and sleep patterns. Citizen CZ Smart works alongside the CZ Smart YouQ app for Android and iOS to help determine the wearer’s current energy score and forecast the remainder of the day. The watch also features brief gamified tests based on NASA’s Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test (PVT+) used by the space agency to determine the mental alertness of astronauts. The watch tracks user…

Fossil is leaning into health features for its smartwatches – in October it unveiled Wellness Edition versions of its Wear OS 3 smartwatches with a Wellness app that monitors more health data than the usual Fossil Gen 6 watches. Those have plenty of smartwatch functionality too, at the cost of battery life. Now the company is introducing a Wellness Edition of its Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid watch that changes the balance of that equation. This new model has up to 2 weeks of battery life, unlike the non-hybrid watches that only…

Over the weekend, story details of Star Wars: Eclipse leaked. Other sources now claim that the leak was intentional. Documents concern Eclipse's story details were leaked to the Sacred Symbols podcast, transcribed by VGC. According to Insider Gaming, it was a controlled leak, meant to gauge interest in the title. Sources claimed that the leak is also meant to bolster recruitment efforts for Quantic Dream.The leak revealed that the Eclipse centers around an alien race called the Zaraan, an empire on the…

Gatorade has designed a smart water bottle to help you determine and maintain your baseline hydration level and monitor your post-workout recovery. A ring of LEDs that runs around the Smart Gx Bottle's cap should allow you to monitor you daily hydration, and gently nudge you to drink more when necessary. You can recharge the bottle using a USB cable. A Gatorade spokesperson told Engadget the bottle is dishwasher safe, but the cap is not.  Naturally, your hydration levels can be tracked through Gatorade's iOS-only Gx App,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study by researchers at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute reveals a disproportionate presence of predatory food and beverage marketing in low-income New York City neighborhoods with negative health outcomes compared to wealthier neighborhoods. …

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday that any signs of consumer negativity next week will be a welcome sign for the Federal Reserve in its fight against inflation."I know it's a total drag to hope for negativity, but that's what we need right now" to bring inflation down, he said. "I bet we'll find that confidence is falling rapidly."The "Mad Money" host said he's keeping watch on the consumer price index and University of Michigan consumer sentiment index coming out next week to confirm his prediction that consumer confidence…