A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber

What the body does need is fiber, a nutrient found in vegetables, whole grains, and legumes that helps regulate the bowel and lower blood cholesterol and glucose levels. Only about 5 percent of Americans get the recommended amount of daily fiber, which is about 30 grams a day. The enzyme Zya is developing comes from […]

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Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains

Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you walk over buried fiber optics or drive a car across them, above-ground activity creates a characteristic vibration that ever-so-slightly disturbs the way light travels through the cables. With the right equipment, scientists can parse that disturbance to […]

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OnePlus Open video teardown reveals titanium screws, some carbon fiber bits

At the beginning of this month, the OnePlus Open was put through the now-traditional ‘durability test’ by Zack from the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything, and perhaps surprisingly survived being bent / folded the wrong way. If you were wondering what structural magic enabled that, today Zack is back with a teardown of the device in question. […]

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Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them

One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into an “interrogator.” This device fires a laser through the cable and analyzes the light that bounces back. It can pick up tiny perturbations in that […]

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Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 to have a ceramic fiber back, latest teaser reveals

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 is about to get its official release later today and ahead of the announcement, Ice Universe shared what seems to be a leaked official poster. It reveals a “special material” edition of the Mix Fold 3 with ceramic fiber. As per the poster, the exotic material ensures exceptional rigidity without […]

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Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 now have an incredible carbon fiber band option

Samsung releases some really good first-party watch bands for its smartwatches. It has something for everyone, including basic silicone bands to rich metal loop ones. Plus, Galaxy Watches feature standard connectors, so you can swap out the bundled watch bands for any regular watch band. Now, the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 series […]

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How Fiber Optic Cables Could Warn You of an Earthquake

And last month in the journal Scientific Reports, a separate team of researchers described how they used undersea cables off the coasts of Chile, Greece, and France to detect earthquakes. They compared this data to seismometer data that monitored the same events, and they matched well. “We can, in real time while the earthquake is happening, analyze […]

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Apple to Release Foldable iPad With Carbon Fiber Kickstand in 2024

Apple will launch a foldable iPad with a carbon fiber kickstand next year, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a series of tweets, Kuo said he expects an “all-new design foldable ‌iPad‌” to be the next big product launch in the ‌iPad‌ lineup, with no major ‌iPad‌ releases in the next nine to 12 months. […]

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Scientists Spy on Mount Etna With Fiber Optic Cables

Towering 11,000 feet above a million humans, Mount Etna is one of the most thoroughly-monitored volcanoes on Earth. Hundreds of sensors dot its flanks, and for good reason: It’s Europe’s most active volcano, periodically spewing lava and huge plumes of debris that ground planes and generally make life miserable for those living in its shadow. […]

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