Tag: chi

Middle-Aged Hearing Loss Doubles Risk of Dementia

“Hearing loss in middle age is associated with higher odds of cognitive decline and dementia in later years,” reports Reuters, citing a large study in Taiwan. Researchers tracked more than 16,000 men and women and found that a new diagnosis of hearing loss between ages 45 and 65 more than doubled the odds of a dementia diagnosis in the next dozen…

Peak Perseid mornings: August 11, 12, 13

Unfortunately, during the 2019 peak of the Perseid meteor shower, the moon is nearly full and in the sky nearly all night. Still, you might catch a meteor in moonlight, or after moonset, shortly before dawn. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/peak-night-for-the-perseid-meteor-shower…

Engineer Faces 219 Years In Prison For Smuggling US Military Chips To China

schwit1 quotes a report from ZDNet: On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Yi-Chi Shih, a part-time Los Angeles resident, attempted to secure semiconductor chips used in US military applications in order to transfer them to Chinese associates. The 64-year-old was subject to a six-week trial in a Los Angeles, California federal court. Prosecutors alleged that Shih, alongside…

Secretive Magic Leap Says Ex-Engineer Copied Headset For China

Magic Leap, a secretive U.S. startup that makes a $2,295 augmented-reality headset, filed a lawsuit Monday accusing one of its former engineers of stealing its technology to create his own AR device for China. Bloomberg reports: In a lawsuit filed Monday, Magic Leap alleges that Chi Xu, who left in 2016, exploited its confidential information to “quickly develop a prototype of…

Bioelectricity and Chi – Bees Can Sense the Energy Fields of Flowers to Communicate With Them

Alex Pietrowski – A new study discovers a subtle process of communication relying on electricity. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/19/bioelectricity-and-chi-bees-can-sense-the-energy-fields-of-flowers-to-communicate-with-them/…