The Stats don’t lie: after age 65, most people will struggle to focus visually on close-up objects. You might have seen this among your friends and relatives or even experienced it yourself, holding books, magazines, or your phone farther away from your face to try to bring words and pictures into focus. Many of those…
Target has set itself apart from big box retailers like Walmart by having trendy clothes, homegoods branded by reality TV stars and, of course, in-store Starbucks. With malls and traditional department stores in decline, Target has even become the go-to destination for stay-at-home parents who need to get out of the house (and maybe get…
The company pretty much invented the hardware superstore when it began in 1978, just by being so big. They inflated the neighborhood tool shop into a whole city of lumber, hammers, caulk, power saws, and big rolls of wire. I would know I’m in a Home Depot blindfolded, because of a distinct quality to the…
8 hours ago Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Watch: Object seen flying away from Aalborg airport as drones disrupt flights Drone incidents at airports and military bases all over Jutland, western Denmark, have not caused any harm or damage – and yet they have exposed the country’s defences as vulnerable to attack. In an era of…
11 hours ago Helen Sullivan Watch: ‘I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,’ says Trump Donald Trump has said he will not allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The US president told White House reporters ahead of Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly on Friday:…
Bearing in mind this is the Chinese model (there’s no word on a global edition yet), I was unable to test all of the functionality, but I have a good idea what will work here and what doesn’t. I love the time and notifications, because I don’t have to pick up my phone as much…
Sara Jane Moore, who fired a handgun at US President Gerald Ford in an attempted assassination outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975, has died, according to US media. Moore, who was sentenced to life in prison but was freed on parole in her final years, was 95. Her attack came just days after Ford,…
The Israeli military says its air force has carried out its “most powerful strike” in Yemen in response to the Houthi movement’s repeated drone and missile attacks on Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said dozens of its aircraft bombed targets belonging to the Houthis’ security and intelligence services, and military in the capital Sanaa.…
The Yunxian 2 skull was squashed, but has now been reconstructed and appears to be an early Denisovan Gary Todd (CC0) The origins of our species may lie much further back in time than we thought, and the same may be true of our extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins. According to a new analysis of…
Pipes made from PVC plastic could be improved by adding nanoparticles valentyn semenov/Alamy A sprinkling of nanoparticles could be the solution to a problem that has long plagued plastics manufacturers – namely, how do you make a material that is both strong, tough and easy to work with? Hu-Jun Qian at Jilin University in China…