Loser apps
Put down the phone鈥� and the chocolate bar. Smartphone apps alone aren鈥檛 that effective at helping people lose weight. Researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, asked 122 overweight people to track their diet, weight and exercise with an Android app. After two years, the app users and a control group had lost the same amount of weight 鈥� just 0.9 kilograms, on average (Obesity, ).
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Start-up Faraday Future says it is building a $1billion factory for electric cars, amid speculation that Apple or a Chinese billionaire is behind it.
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Ghost house
From my kitchen to yours. An invention called 鈥淕hosting鈥� syncs sound and light between houses. When someone turns the lights on in one kitchen, they automatically switch on in the connected house. Sounds are picked up and relayed, too. Engineers at the University of Michigan successfully linked an apartment in Michigan with one in Maryland. The work was presented at the IoT-App conference in Seoul, South Korea, last week.
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