Antibiotics were miracle drugs for most of the 20th century, but they’re no longer a silver bullet that can treat any infection. Overuse of antibiotics has fostered the proliferation of resistant organisms that can prove life-threatening, especially to those with already weakened immune systems. A teenager in the UK was at death’s door following complications from a lung transplant, but a last-ditch effort has saved her life. Doctors say this is a watershed moment for the use of so-called bacteriophages in medicine. Problems for 17-year-old Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway started when she was a toddler. Doctors diagnosed her with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that cuts life expectancy in half.
It’s an unwritten rule that the infotainment systems built into cars are terrible, but systems like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto have saved many drivers from the monstrosities designed by automakers. Owners of some BMW vehicles have found themselves unable to access CarPlay lately, and that appears to be due to an outage in the company’s ConnectedDrive system. That’s a paid service, so owners have essentially . In most cars that support CarPlay or Android Auto, you get the necessary software support at a particular trim level. Then, you plug in your phone and it works — there’s nothing else to worry about.
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The Dow Jones and S&P 500 had a jittery Thursday as a new tariff deadline nears. The S&P 500 fell 0.3 percent, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.53 percent (138.84 points). That’s a substantial improvement for the Dow, which dipped as much as 450 points during the day. The isn’t being driven by any single company’s quarterly performance, but by the looming imposition of fresh tariffs on Chinese goods. The Trump Administration has announced that it will raise tariffs on $200B worth of Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent, and impose new 25 percent tariffs on an additional $325B worth of goods.
Windows 95 was a massive step for personal computers when it came out almost 25 years ago. It included innovations like the start button, cascading sub-menus, and long file names. Users could even push Windows 95 beyond its original parameters thanks to a collection of tools from Microsoft called PowerToys. These utilities were abandoned after XP, but now PowerToys is back. This is an open source project for Microsoft, so you can check out a on Github right now. The PowerToys of yesteryear allowed Windows users to do many things that are baked into the OS today. For example, PowerToys introduced the idea of moving window focus with the mouse, adding new items in the “send to” menu, and opening command prompts from Windows Explorer (which was itself new in Windows 95).
Years ago — back before the launch of Windows 8 — Microsoft announced that going forward, app development would be driven by fundamentally different rules and capabilities than what had been the case before. Applications distributed via the Windows Store would be written to new standards, with new rules about what data they could access and which languages were supported. Older Win32 apps would still run, but they were ultimately intended to be replaced by an entirely new suite of applications written under new design rules, and distributed through the Windows Store. Pretty much none of this actually happened.
Google’s Pixel phones are, by many measures, the best Android phones you can get. However, they’re expensive, and consumers . Google’s solution is, apparently, the cheaper Pixel 3a. Now, we can get a battery look at what makes it cheaper thanks to a . The first thing to know about the Pixel 3a is that its plastic frame is not water-resistant. That’s not great if you plan to use it in the rain, but it does make the phone easier to disassemble. Getting the chassis open is the first step in tearing down any phone, and the Pixel 3a is easier to access than most.
Foldable screen technology might be unproven in smartphones, but that hasn’t stopped companies from integrating them into even larger products. According to Intel, however, there’s no plan to bring foldable laptops to market in the near future. Seriously, we need a better term for this than “foldable.” Laptops fold already. “Foldable” at least works for smartphones because the vast majority of smartphones no longer fold, and phones that do are now referred to more as a “flip phone” than a “folding phone.” The expectation of a laptop, however, is that it folds, while a tablet does not. Senior Intel executives, speaking to the Nikkei Asian Review, have that Intel is exploring this technology as potentially interesting for its own work.
PC gaming has a plethora of benefits: customizability, absurdly high frame rates, enormous variety, and – most importantly – low prices. If you’re not looking for brand new AAA releases, you can stock up on loads of games without spending much. At any given moment, there are surely thousands of cheap PC games available, but where do you even begin? To narrow down the selection, we’ve put together a list of 30 of our favorite PC games that cost $20 or less. Whether you’re looking for an updated, modern rogue-like, discounted AAA titles from a few years back that you haven’t played before, story-driven titles, indie platformers, quirky games, or far-off lands, we’ve got games for you.
