Sitting at a desk all day is generally not considered to be good for your health, but standing while working can be tiring too. Desks that transition between the lows and high seem to solve such issues, giving the user the best of both worlds. If you don’t want to mess around with fiddly buttons to motor your desk up […]
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How Do Lawyers Prove Workers’ Compensation Claims?
If you have ever been injured on the job, you know how inconvenient and devastating it can be. Not being able to work due to an injury you sustained at work can hurt not only your wallet, but on your mental health as well. In fact, symptoms of depression are extremely common in individuals who were injured at work and […]
How Online Meetings are Changing the Face of Business
Some people may remember the days before conference calls were commonplace. Standard phone calls were present, of course, but hosting meetings with multiple people was a hassle if not outright chaotic. It was not uncommon to fly employees to another place and pay for lodging, meals, transportation, and other necessities, all for a two-hour conversation. Virtual meetings changed all of […]
KFC To Trial Plant-Based Chicken
The move away from meat is attracting more and more big names, and now the Colonel himself is getting onboard. KFC has announced its plans to trial a plant-based chicken substitute from Beyond Meat, in a one-store, one-day limited test with an eye towards a possible national rollout across the US. Beyond Fried Chicken, as its known, will be on […]
Purrtec Encryption Key Provides Government-Grade Security
The Savvi Solutions Purrtec Encryption Key is security hardware that protects your files and data from hackers by using government-grade AES 256-BIT hardware encryption. Unlocking the files would require both the physical key itself plus a password, so you know your valuable files are as safe as they can be. Worried about privacy? Not even the developers have access to […]
Borderless Rooftop Homes
A vacant apartment rooftop featuring nothing but a few water tanks has been fitted out with a striking new home for the building’s owner, though you won’t see it unless you know what you’re looking for. Concealed from view to passersby, The Skyscape by local firm WARchitect uses wooden materials and clean, straight lines to create a “borderless” box for […]
Google Photos Allows You To Search For Text
Google Photos has long been the go-to cloud photo service for many, and it’s now getting a new feature that makes it even better. The service already allows you to tag aspects of an image so that you can find images later and group them together, but now it’ll allow you to search for photos based on text in those […]
High Performance Ultrasound
The company EXO Imaging out of Redwood City, CA recently emerged from stealth mode to announce the development of a novel technology called Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (pMUT) for ultrasound imaging. EXO Imaging is bringing together advances in micromachined materials and artificial intelligence to enhance both the ultrasound probe as well as the receiver that a clinician uses to visualize […]
Protecting Cyclists From Wind Tunnels
The City of London has introduced a set of guidelines for proposed developments to protect pedestrians and cyclists from wind tunnels created by the increasing number of skyscrapers. Described by the City of London Corporation as the “UK’s first wind microclimate guidelines”, the rules will require proposed buildings over 25-metres high to undergo strict wind-testing to determine the impact the […]
Fighting Climate Change At Home
A great way to fight climate change is by hitting the streets. Everything from showing up at proteststo participating in trash cleanups to voicing your concerns at town hall meetings can be extremely productive. That being said, those forms of activism are not accessible to people who don’t have free time, or the freedom to leave their house on a whim […]