Ketogenic diet beneficial for infants with genetic epilepsy…
August 29, 2019
"Based on our experience, clinicians could consider offering ketogenic diet earlier to infants diagnosed with genetic epilepsy, perhaps even before it becomes clear that the patient is not responding to anticonvulsant medication," said Millichap.
The ketogenic diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate and protein-restricted diet that is rigorously medically supervised. It is widely recognized as an effective treatment for epilepsy that does not respond to medications.
"The ketogenic diet helps control seizures by reducing fluctuations of blood sugar, which reduces hyperexcitability in the brain," explained Millichap...
Iran’s Zarif says Iran will not be meeting with Trump admin unless DC stops its “economic terrorism” against the Iranian people…
August 29, 2019
"If they want to come back to the room, there is a ticket, and that ticket is to observe the agreement," said Zarif referring to the the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Iran and world powers.
Zarif said Iran does not want to "meet for the sake of meeting." "The basic principle of civilised world is that you do not negotiate with terrorists," said Zarif. "If they want to negotiate, they have to abandon terrorism."...
SALVINI OUSTED…
August 29, 2019
Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going forward – Apple will no longer keep Siri recordings by default…
August 29, 2019
Facebook quietly ditched the ‘It’s free and always will be’ slogan from its homepage…
August 29, 2019
It was switched silently between 6 and 7 August, and Facebook is yet to state why. Speaking to Business Insider, an expert in digital law said the change is a way of Facebook acknowledging that the site isn't really free, as users are paying with their data...
Hackers working for the US government wiped out a database and computer systems that Iran’s paramilitary arm used to plan attacks against oil tankers in the Persian Gulf…
August 29, 2019
The attack occurred on June 20, the same day that President Trump called off a retaliatory airstrike after Iran shot down a US drone. Iran is still trying to recover information destroyed in the attack and to restart Iranian computer systems and military communications networks that were taken offline, Wednesday’s report said.
The attack was part of a sustained and undeclared cyberconflict between the US and Iran...
Facebook acknowledges flaw in Messenger Kids app…
August 29, 2019
“We are in regular contact with the FTC on many issues and products, including Messenger Kids,” Facebook Vice President Kevin Martin wrote in a letter to two Democrats... “Based on our review, we have determined that the technical error you have inquired above arose in October 2018. The fix we implemented is designed to prevent the issue from happening again,” Facebook said in the letter.
The senators had written to Facebook on Aug. 6 questioning whether there was a “worrying pattern” of poor privacy protection for children using the Messenger Kids app and sought transparency.The senators were “disturbed” to learn that the application allowed thousands of children to join group chats in which not all members of the group were approved by their parents, they said in the letter to Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. In July, Facebook agreed to pay a record $5 billion fine to resolve an FTC probe into its privacy practices...
Man caught in failed ISIS-inspired attack on DC area charged with supporting terrorists…
August 29, 2019
Henry now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for attempting to provide material support for ISIS and an additional 10 years for interstate transport of a stolen vehicle, according to the Department of Justice...
Here Is The List Of Obama-Era Russiagate Docs Sought By AG Barr…
August 29, 2019
A trip to Mars could cause brain damage. Here’s how NASA aims to protect astronauts…
August 29, 2019
During his year in space, Scott Kelly was zapped relentlessly by radiation — the equivalent of 10 chest X-rays a day for more than 11 months starting in March of 2015. The onslaught damaged the astronaut's DNA and affected his immune system while raising his risk for cancer. And Kelly was aboard the International Space Station, whose tight orbit around Earth lies within the magnetic field that surrounds our planet and blocks the most damaging forms of radiation.
Astronauts who travel to Mars or other destinations in deep space will leave Earth’s protective cocoon for months or years at a time. And a new NASA-funded study suggests that chronic exposure to radiation could harm astronauts’ minds as well as their bodies — potentially affecting space flyers’ moods and even their ability to think.
That could be a big deal... The agency is now testing a radiation-shielding vest designed to limit astronauts' radiation exposure...
Sub-par gold bars worth $50 MILLION has been stamped with logos of prestigious Swiss refineries and slipped into the global market – and some have been found in JPMorgan Chase & Co. vaults…
August 29, 2019
In the last three years, bars worth at least $50 million stamped with Swiss refinery logos, but not actually produced by those facilities, have been identified by all four of Switzerland’s leading gold refiners and found in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase & Co... It is not clear who is making the bars found so far, but executives and bankers told Reuters they think most originate in China, the world’s largest gold producer and importer, and have entered the market via dealers and trading houses in Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand... The Shanghai Gold Exchange, which regulates China’s gold market, said in a statement it was not aware of counterfeit bars being made in or transported through China.
Today, the forgeries are more precisely made using what appears to be sophisticated machinery. Although some of the forged ones have high level of purity, many have been found to not be 99.99% pure. The refineries are responding to the problem with technology. ⠀⠀
Why This New 16-Bit Carbon Nanotube Processor Is Such a Big Deal…
August 29, 2019
Carbon isn't just the stuff life is made of—it's also the stuff our future is being built on. Carbon—a versatile element that frequently trades off its electrons to create various forms of itself—has been gaining an exciting reputation in tech thanks to the successful exfoliation of graphene, a sheet of carbon that's just one atom thick and has remarkable chemical properties.
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So When Does the Carbon Nanotubes Future Begin? Shulaker's team is working with DARPA and companies like Analog Devices (who, contrary to their name, builds cutting edge semiconductors for digital computing), on scaling up the microprocessor, and making use of the SkyWater Technology Foundry to build a fuller-scale processor outside the lab...BMW shows off new car using Vantablack technology, the blackest of blacks…
August 29, 2019
At next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW will display a one-off version of the forthcoming third-generation X6 SUV that’s been fully coated in Vantablack paint, in which carbon nanotubes are used to create one of the darkest substances on Earth...
The paint is, by all accounts, a transfixing thing to look at: