Health: IFLScience has US military tips on how to fall asleep anywhere in under 2 minutes (posted in September 2018). Health: People who walk slowly in their 40s are more likely to have health problems and die sooner in their 70s and 80s, a study concluded, per the Independent. Fauna: Cnet has University of Hawaii video showing humpback whales blowing bubbles to catch fish. Personal technology: CNBC has tips on “how to keep your old phone working like new.” Chemistry: Researchers have developed a solar-powered technique to produce fresh water and liquid fuel out of the desert air, per Science magazine. Tech policy: 5G mobile are far more reliant on software (as opposed to hardware) than 3G and 4G networks, noted an EU risk assessment, which outlined some possible security issues of using kit from Chinese telecom vendor Huawei and others, per The Register. Here are 7 science & technology stories you may have missed ![]() Saturday 26-Sunday 27 October: Luxembourg African Market at the Tramschapp. Sunday 20 October, 12noon-6pm: D’Coque sports centre hosts a “ Family Day”. Agendaįriday 18 October: State Street earnings announcement. The firm’s highly successful Alexa voice recognition system and video stream service were born out of the failure of its Fire phone. The New Yorker has intriguing insight into the internal workings of Amazon and the management style of CEO Jeff Bezos. Competition inquiry: AppleĮU antitrust investigators have started looking at Apple Pay, according to Mlex. The e-cigarette outfit Juul will stop selling fruity-flavoured vaping pods in the US. Sources: Bloomberg, Financial Times and Reuters. The energy giant Saudi Aramco’s on-again, off-again stock listing is temporarily off once again. ![]() Sources: Financial Times, the Register and South China Morning Post. Huawei sales riseĬhinese telecom gear-maker Huawei may be on US government and Google blacklists, but revenue for the first three quarters was up 24.4% compared to the same period last year (and up 27% in the third quarter) and it shipped 26% more smartphones. Sources: CNBC, Financial Times, Reuters and South China Morning Post. China GDP growth below forecastĬhina’s economy expanded by 6% in the third quarter of 2019, the lowest rate recorded since 1992 and under the 6.1% expected. Sources: Deutsche Welle, the Guardian, Reuters and New York Times. The ceasefire will allow Kurdish forces to withdraw from the so-called “safe zone” that Turkey wants to establish in the territory. Turkey pauses Syria offensiveĪnkara agreed to suspend its assault in northeastern Syria for 5 days following a meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, and Mike Pence, the US vice president. Jean-Claude Juncker said the 31 October Brexit deadline stood, but Donald Tusk said the EU could give the UK an extension, per the Guardian, as did Pierre Gramegna on Bloomberg. Boris Johnson now faces what France 24 called an “uphill battle” getting the agreement through the British parliament this Saturday, but the BBC quoted the PM saying “I am very confident” that MPs will back the deal. News of the compromise sent the pound up, noted CNBC and Marketwatch. * Unlike the "The Great Suspender" extension, this extension uses the native method for discarding tabs, which means that even if the extension is removed or the browser crashes, your browser will automatically restore everything for you.The EU and UK have struck a new Brexit deal, with London making concessions on the status of Northern Irish, per Deutsche Welle, and Brussels budging on the backstop, reported the Irish Times. * Permanently delete (remove) old discarded tabs that are inactive. * Store YouTube's timestamp before a tab is discarded. * Automatically discard all newly opened inactive tabs. * Release the discarded state of all tabs in the active window. ![]() * Release the discarded state of the next or previous tab. The available plugins for "Auto Tab Discard" are: ![]() The options for configuring whether tabs should be discarded or not include: * Allows for the forced discarding of specified hostnames. * Restores the state of a tab, including scroll position and text box content, after it is released from being discarded. * Indicates the discarded state of a tab through the favicon or title. * Preserves the discarded state of tabs when the browser is closed and reopened. * Includes a list of hostnames or regular expressions that can be excluded from auto-discarding. * Improves browser performance and reduces memory usage by automatically or manually discarding inactive, idle, or forgotten tabs. There are two options on the extension's interface to either discard tabs or release discarding (the "x" buttons) "Auto Tab Discard" is a lightweight browser extension that automatically reduces the amount of memory used by open but inactive tabs, helping to conserve battery life on portable devices by disabling JavaScript code and DOM events on discarded tabs.
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