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As intense atmospheric rivers become more common in a warming world, so too do questions about stormwater capture in Los Angeles. Each year, when rain pours down and the L.A. River roars back to life, Angelenos want to know how much of that water is being captured and stored — and how much is washing out to sea.The monster storm that hammered Southern California this week dropped billions of gallons of rain, but as much as 80% of that water was whisked into the Pacific Ocean, experts say.…

Regular exercise is linked to a lower risk of developing certain cancers, such as those of the head, neck and the lungs, according to a new study. The researchers also found that people who were diagnosed with cancer but exercised still tended to live longer than those who didn’t exercise.Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?Countless studies have found that exercise can blunt the risk of many health problems, cancer included. But according to study author Lee Jones, an exercise scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering…

If you’ve ever felt like you need more hours in the day, well how does 60 sound? A new study suggests we’d have 60-hour days by now if a stalemate between the Sun and Moon hadn’t interfered with Earth’s rotation for over a billion years.A day seems like a pretty stable amount of time, but in fact today is longer than this same date was a century ago – albeit by a mere 1.8 milliseconds. That’s because the Moon is very gradually drifting away from Earth, which is causing our planet’s rotation to steadily slow down, and of…

As the war rolled on, organizations responding to the crisis came to realize that they had to be flexible and think beyond fixed, brick-and-mortar health care infrastructure. They needed to get ART to people—interrupted treatment can contribute to drug resistance—and they needed to continue, and scale up, harm reduction programs.Andriy Klepikov, the executive director of the Alliance for Public Health, a nonprofit organization that focuses on HIV and tuberculosis, says his teams deployed 37 mobile clinics from Lviv in the…

Discord is one of the most popular gaming apps out there, but a new change in how the service's usernames work has led to a significant amount of controversy in recent days. Recently, notable indie studio Rusty Lake noted on social media that it now can't claim its own name on Discord, which is an inconvenience to say the least.A warning for all the #indiedevs waiting to claim their own username @discord;We just received an email that we, as Verified Owners, could finally submit a new username and wow...…

Apple announced that it successfully stopped over $2 billion in fraudulent transactions on the App Store during the year 2022. The company’s robust measures ensured that nearly 1.7 million app submissions were rejected due to failure to meet the stringent standards for privacy, security, and content upheld by the App Store. ALSO READ l iPhones will be able to speak in your voice after 15 minutes of training, Apple announces ahead of WWDC 2023 In 2021, the company terminated a substantial 802,000 developer accounts due…

Image Source : APPLE Apple's App Store prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2022 In 2022, Apple made a significant announcement regarding its App Store's remarkable achievement in combating potential fraudulent activities. The company reported that it successfully defeated over $2.09 billion worth of suspicious transactions, which has been…

Keeping the App Store secure is as difficult as it has ever been, and Apple has the numbers to prove it. On Tuesday, Apple revealed in a blog post that the App Store stopped over $2 billion in fraudulent transactions and rejected close to 1.7 million app submissions that failed to meet the App Store’s standards for privacy, security, and content. As Apple notes, online payments have become increasingly common in recent years. Apple Pay and StoreKit are two technologies that hundreds of thousands of apps use to…

In an effort to keep Google Play safe for users and developers, Google has said that it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating apps from being published in 2022 in part due to new and improved security features and policy enhancements.Additionally, the company banned over 1,73,00 bad accounts and prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent and abusive transactions to combat malicious developers and fraud rings.Moreover, in response to the new licensing requirements for personal loan apps in India, Google removed over 3,500…

Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney Like him or not, there’s no denying that Chris Pratt is one of the biggest and most bankable stars in the entire industry, but he wouldn’t even be anywhere near the top of the Hollywood A-list if it wasn’t for James Gunn‘s perseverance. It’s become Hollywood folklore that nobody was sold on the prospect of the schlubby Andy Dwyer from Parks and Recreation taking top billing in a Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster – and that extended to the actor himself – before…