Isolation

Helpful hams and secret codes By 1957,Admiral Byrd was recognized as the world’s foremost expert in Antarctic exploration and was leading America’s Operation Deep Freeze, a mission to build a permanent American presence on the continent. The US Naval Construction Battalions, known as the Seabees, were deployed to build McMurdo Station on the solid ground of Ross Island, close to the first hut built by Captain Robert Scott in 1901.  Deep Freeze brought a massive military presence to Antarctica, including the most…

Imagine being at a crowded convention or noisy bar and trying to have a conversation with someone across from you. It's tough enough for people with hearing to focus on what the person is saying, not to mention those with hearing loss. Assistive technology company OrCam has rolled into CES 2024 with a host of new products including a set of devices and an iPhone app designed to help those with hearing loss deal with auditory overload. The platform is called OrCam Hear and after a quick hands-on at the show in Las Vegas,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Support for survivors of domestic violence is important, but to end domestic violence once and for all, society needs to understand the people who perpetrate it and how to intervene successfully. Domestic violence is very common in the United States. Nearly half of women and men in the U.S. experience sexual or…

Film: Priscilla Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominczyk, Emily Mitchell, Jorja Cadence, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Tim Post, Luke HumphreyDirector: Sofia CoppolaRating: 3/5Runtime: 110 min What we did not see in Baz Luhrman’s ‘Elvis’ we get to see in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla.’ Coppola’s film is basically the other side of the coin, giving us a perspective that tries to complete the picture regarding the power couple who made it to the headlines several decades…

Gotham Knights leads the pack of new titles coming to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe/ Premium game catalog, this month. Starting October 17, all higher-tier PS Plus members can hop onto their Batcycles and ride around the streets of Gotham City, beating up all kinds of volatile criminals in the hopes of unmasking the enigmatic Court of Owls. Players can switch between Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, and the Red Hood throughout the story to investigate Batman/ Bruce Wayne's death, and build out their character via a gear…

New research challenges the belief that “hot Jupiters” are typically isolated, proposing they can coexist with nearby planetary companions. The new findings, based on NASA’s Kepler Mission data, suggest that the presence of gas giants influences the formation and migration of these planets, offering new insights into the evolution of exoplanets and our solar system.A study spearheaded by an astronomer from Indiana University presents a challenge to the established ideas about the solitary nature of “hot Jupiters,”…

Researchers from the University of Vienna have found that an eight-hour period of social isolation can cause a decrease in energy levels equivalent to going without food for the same amount of time. This effect, suggesting that low energy may be a human response to a lack of social contact, was seen both in laboratory settings and during the COVID-19 lockdowns, with more sociable individuals experiencing lower energy levels during isolation.A lack of social contact for eight hours can result in a decrease in energy levels…

Apple introduced Voice Isolation support in the recent iOS 16.4 update, making the feature available for iPhone voice calls. You might have taken advantage of the feature on FaceTime calls before the recent iOS update or when using other third-party apps. But the good news is you can now enable it to improve the quality of all your calls. Voice Isolation eliminates ambient sound around you with the help of the iPhone’s machine-learning capabilities. But, for some strange reason, Voice Isolation is an…

SINGAPORE—China’s economy rebounded in the first three months of the year after Beijing dismantled its heavy-handed Covid-19 controls, teeing up a revival in growth that is expected to buoy the global economy as the U.S. and European economies slow. China’s economy expanded 4.5% in the first quarter of the year compared with the same three months a year earlier, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday, a better performance than the 4.0% pace expected by economists polled by The Wall Street…

Apple has rolled out the latest iOS 16.4 update for all the eligible iPhones. It has seeded a slew of interesting features such as new emojis, better crash detection feature, Weather app updates with voiceover support, push notifications for Safari, a podcast interface update, and a lot more. Among these, there is one really useful feature for your iPhone calls that will result in super-clear phone conversations.All this is possible due to the Voice Isolation feature for cellular calls. However, before you get to use it,…