The Atlantic: The Undecided Voters Who Could Decide the 2024 Election
For most, the big decision is about whether to vote at all.
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How many of these irregular voters are available for the campaign to pursue? Even in the 2020 election, which produced the highest turnout rate since 1900, about one-third of eligible voters didn’t vote. That’s about 80 million people. About two-fifths of both eligible people of color and white people without a college degree didn’t vote last time; neither did nearly half of young people.
MacRumors: Apple Watch’s New Sleep Apnea Detection Feature Approved in Canada
Health Canada this week published approval of watchOS 11’s sleep apnea detection feature on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra 2. The feature launched in the U.S. and over 150 other countries and regionsearlier this month, and Apple is now permitted to make the feature available in Canada.
It is unclear when Apple will expand the feature to Canada.
MacRumors: Apple’s 80% Charging Limit for iPhone: How Much Did It Help After a Year?
With the iPhone 15 models that came out last year, Apple added an opt-in battery setting that limits maximum charge to 80 percent. The idea is that never charging the iPhone above 80 percent will increase battery longevity, so I kept my iPhone at that 80 percent limit from September 2023 to now, with no cheating.
My iPhone 15 Pro Max battery level is currently at 94 percent with 299 cycles. For a lot of 2024, my battery level stayed above 97 percent, but it started dropping more rapidly over the last couple of months.
CBC: B.C. beauty brand battles music giant over social media copyright
Sony Music Entertainment Canada is pursuing Suva for millions allegedly owed for the unauthorized use of music by some of the world’s most popular artists in videos Sony claims Suva produced to build its brand.
Suva denies the claim, saying Sony doesn’t have the right to assert damages on behalf of performers like Beyoncé and Doja Cat and arguing any music used “did not comprise a substantial, vital or an essential part of the videos.”
CBC: Basement-free buildings are better for the future climate
As climate change boosts the risk of extreme rainfall and flooding in many parts of Canada, including Southern Ontario and southern Quebec, some Montreal-area politicians have implemented or proposed bans on basements — the most flood-prone part of a house — in vulnerable parts of the city.
Research also shows that all the concrete that goes into building basements adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and helps speed up climate change. Is it time to stop building them?
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She said the problem has been getting worse. New single-family homes are getting bigger — for example, in Ontario they’re on average 25 per cent bigger than they were in the 1990s, and are more than 50 per cent bigger in some communities. In many cases, so are their basements.
Brighter Side: Medical researchers discover potential cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
The research team, led by Dr. Jaime Grutzendler, the Dr. Harry M. Zimmerman and Dr. Nicholas and Viola Spinelli Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine, found that swelling caused by a byproduct of amyloid plaques may be the true cause of the disease’s debilitating symptoms. Their findings were published in the journal Nature.
The researchers discovered that each formation of plaque can cause an accumulation of spheroid-shaped swellings along hundreds of axons, which are the thin cellular wires that connect the brain’s neurons, near amyloid plaque deposits.
These swellings are caused by the gradual accumulation of organelles within cells known as lysosomes, which digest cellular waste. As the swellings enlarge, they can blunt the transmission of normal electrical signals from one region of the brain to another.
ProPublica: ExxonMobil Accused of Deceptive Marketing of Plastics Recycling Process
The California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to have.
Globe: Gary Bettman swings big as NHL hitches its wagon to Amazon express
In the great org chart of sports media, Monday’s announcement of a new partnership between the NHL and Amazon should not have been a big deal.
Starting this year, Amazon will host Monday night NHL games on Amazon Prime Canada. It will also do a whip-around show for Canada on Thursdays.
Last Updated: 27.Sep.2024 17:57 MDT
