Humans Are Surprisingly Good at Predicting When They Will Die – With One Big Bias : ScienceAlert #health

People who expected to have more years ahead generally survived longer. The association remained after the researchers accounted for age, sex, socioeconomic characteristics, and health-related factors.

So, can simply expecting a long life help you live longer?

The study, available as a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, cannot answer that question. Because it was observational, it does not show that expecting a longer life extends a person's lifespan or that positive thinking keeps people alive.

Instead, people may know things about their health, habits, or family history that shape both their predictions and their longevity. Someone who feels healthy, for example, might expect to live longer and also be more likely to do so.

Although the researchers accounted for a range of health factors, unmeasured characteristics could still have affected both expected and actual lifespans.

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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil | Space #space #engineering

The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today (Sept. 5) at 4:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT; 10:12 p.m. local time in Norway). A little over seven minutes later, it etched its name into the record books, settling into an elliptical path around our planet.

OpenTrailPaper — DIY e-paper bike computer #diy

OpenTrailPaper is firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 4.7" E-Paper PRO. It shows ride data and offline maps, follows GPX routes, records FIT files and connects to Bluetooth sensors. You buy and protect the board yourself.

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John Doe' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive * TorrentFreak #copyrigts

A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta. The adult film producer wants to link the two lawsuits, arguing that a Reality Labs executive downloaded nearly 20,000 files at his home for work purposes, not for personal use. Meta counters that the alleged home downloads are not linked to the company.

Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+ - Ars Technica #hardware #opensource

The new $650 Fairphone Gen 6+ is designed both for longevity and easy repairability. There are trade-offs to this approach if you’re used to the standard glass and aluminum sandwiches filled with glue, gaskets, and teeny-tiny screws. But the drawbacks could be worth it for the right buyer. Fairphone CTO Chandler Hatton told Ars that Fairphone’s goal is to provide a compelling mobile experience while also enabling the user to “fully own” their device. At the end of the day, this is what a lot of people say they want in a smartphone.

US military disables ad trackers on troops’ phones amid security fears | US military | The Guardian #privacy #security

US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and ⁠statements given to Reuters.

The development follows reports ​that commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East.

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior | PNAS #society #psychology

Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds #psychology #health

TL;DR;

• Memory accuracy for pairing faces with objects and scenes dropped sharply after young adulthood, with middle-aged and older adults scoring similarly to each other rather than declining in a steady line.
• Brain activity patterns that helped younger adults remember accurately were linked, in older adults, to more mix-up errors that crossed between entirely different categories of items, such as mistaking a scene for an object.
• Neither brain shrinkage nor attention differences fully explained why older adults’ brains showed this shift toward blended, less precise memories.

A portable, battery-powered cellular conversion for classic rotary telephones—fully reversible, with no modification to the original phone. · GitHub #diy

RotaryCell converts a traditional rotary telephone into a self-contained, battery-powered, portable cellular telephone without modifying the original telephone.

The design continues to use the original handset, rotary dial, switch-hook, mechanical ringer, network block, and existing jacks. The added electronics mount reversibly inside the case; no original telephone parts need to be drilled, cut, or permanently altered.

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