Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Your Waistline and Heart Disease: What's the Link?

Lose weight. You hear this advice all the time. But did you know that where your body stores those extra pounds matters for your heart health, too?
“A thicker waistline increases heart attack risk,” says Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the New York University Langone Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health.
Stomach fat is linked to high blood sugar, increased blood pressure, and raised levels of triglycerides, a type of fat in your blood. “All of these are major risk factors for heart disease,” Goldberg says.
So what makes an expanding waistline a problem for your heart?

It’s About Location

Belly fat, also called visceral fat, is closer to internal organs, says Sonya Angelone, a cardiovascular nutrition expert in San Francisco.
This type of fat can be related to hormones, like those that kick in at menopause. That's when many women start seeing their tummies thicken.

Tension Plays a Role, Too

Your body also makes a "stress hormone" called cortisol, “which increases belly fat,” Angelone says. It narrows blood vessels and raises your BP to boost blood flow. Your body needs this in times of high stress. But too much cortisol can lead to blood vessel damage and plaque buildup, so it’s hard on your heart.
It can also lead to weight gain. The process draws fat from storage and sends it to your midsection. This has an inflammatory effect that can lead to heart problems, too.
It's a good idea to keep your stress levels down. Stay calm the best way you know how, or try out calming techniques like yoga and meditation.

Make Over Your Diet

These ticker-friendly tips can also help you watch your weight:
Look out for sneaky sugar. Did you know there's some in booze, for instance? “Alcohol is sugar,” Goldberg says. Same goes for sodas and sports drinks.
Swap fruits. Go for strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries instead of high-sugar bananas and grapes. They can quell your cravings just as well.
Watch the whites. Avoid bread and white-flour foods, like white rice. Brown rice and multigrain versions are better for you, but eat them in moderation, Goldberg says.

Try a Mediterranean-style eating plan. The diet is good for your heart and can lower blood sugar. You’ll eat more fruits, grains, beans, and nuts, along with healthy fats like olive oil.
Think spicy instead of sweet. For instance, use vanilla or cinnamon to flavor oatmeal and other foods instead of brown sugar and fatty cream. Try a dash of cinnamon in black coffee, too.
Avoid fads and quick fixes. Trendy diet kits and breath-stopping waist cinchers will always crowd store shelves. But there are no special exercises, devices, or diets that target belly fat. “As you lose weight, the weight will come off the belly, also.”
Eat healthy for the long haul. You might try a hard-core, fat-melting program, and you may pair it with a weight-loss drug. “But it’s not something that works for long term,” Goldberg warns. “People have to learn good habits. There’s no way around it.”
To help map out the approach that’s best for you, ask your doctor or dietitian to test your body fats. You can find out your chances of getting heart disease and learn what foods your body needs. You can also get checked for inflammationdiabetes, and other things that could affect your health. “Personalized care is the best option, and now with the testing available, is the best way to go to ensure success,” Angelone says.

Get a Move On

Stay active. Get up from your desk and take brief walks throughout the day, or while you make phone calls.
“Being more active all during the day will burn more calories than just going for a run once a day,” although focused exercise is important too, Angelone says.
Get out your bike, treadmill, or running shoes. Or just crank up the dance music.
“There are other ways to move than what we normally think of as exercise,” Goldberg says.
You can try aerobic-based DVDs or subscribe to an exercise channel or two. Smartphone apps are handy for keeping track of your fitness as well.
Whether you're young or older, you can lower your odds of getting heart disease if you don't smoke and you find ways to add exercise into your days.


source:webmd

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Friday, 23 December 2016

No.1 G5, a smartwatch that is really smart and inexpensive

No.1 G5 Smartwatch with sleek look, fast MT2502 processor, and a low price tag



The one thing that can make you stand out in a crowd is a good quality watch and if that watch is a smartwatch, you are sure to be a head turner. However, the smartwatches available from the majority of big companies like Samsung, Apple etc. are very expensive and out of the reach of normal smartphone users. Enter the all new No.1 G5 smartwatch manufactured by No. 1, a popular smartwatch company.
The No. 1 G5 smartwatch is sleek yet powerful. It is packed with tech features so that you can get the best out of it with your iPhone as well as Android smartphone. Let’s take a peek at how the No.1 G5 fares.

Build, Design & Display

The No.1 G5 is made up of stainless steel, which is suitable for both sports and casual wear. Which means that you can wear it at parties or while running and doing exercise. Other components include TPU plastic material and Sapphire crystal for its scratch resistant screen. However, the watch is not water resistant. The watch case is made out of 316L stainless steel that is resistant to any rough usage. The band is made of a soft rubber-like material, while the clasp is a thin metal. The sapphire screen above the metal body that is ‘anti-reflective’ and ‘abrasion-resistant’ is surrounded by a plastic, non-rotatable bezel, which has tiny markings as well as cardinal directions (e.g. N/S & E/W) on it.
The No.1 G5 has a round dial with a 1.2” OLED display that comes with a 240×240 resolution and MediaTek MTK2502 CPU processor. It measures 27.5 cm x 4.5 cm x 1.2 cm and weighs 49 grams. The reduced size of the watch makes it light weight and it fits smoothly into your wrist. It also has an automatic light up intelligent power-saving gravity sensing system automatic identification and light up. No.1 G5 is available in three different colors – Gold, Silver, and Black.

Battery

The No.1 G5 packs a large non-removable 380mAh battery, which represents a good 50% increase in battery size over “flagship smartwatches” like the Apple Watch, and the Samsung Gear S2, sneaking much closer to the likes of the Moto 360 and LG G Watch Urbane. As a result of the battery size, No.1 G5 lasts a full day with heavy use.

Software

The screen turns on by pressing the middle button, which displays the watch face of your choice. You can choose an analog, digital, worldwatch or a retro look as your watch face. To navigate, you use gestures and taps to interact with the touchscreen.
A swipe from left to right will change screens and take you through all the apps preinstalled on the tiny 64MB ROM, while a swipe in the opposite direction will move backward one context menu. Then, of course, you tap to interact with various options and elements on-screen. No.1 G5 uses an App called Fundo to connect the smartwatch to your Android smartphone or iPhone, which then syncs health information and notifications to the device.
Speaking of health, the smartwatch tracks steps taken quite accurately and estimates the number of calories burnt. It can also track your sleeping habits as well as heart rate and compiles these all into a nice graph on the Fundo app. It has a heart rate monitor, a pedometer function, and sedentary function that reminds users every time they have been on a prolonged activity.
The other major function of this app is notification control. You can control exactly which Apps can display notifications on the watch, and it performs admirably.

Connectivity and Support

The No.1 G5 supports both the iOS and Android operating systems and can be synced to a smartphone via Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity. It also supports remote camera mode, remote calls, and remote music playback. Languages such as Chinese, English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish are also supported.
There are three physical buttons on the right side of the watch face, which are of decent quality. On the left side is a thin micro-USB port for charging the watch. It comes bundled with a USB cable but not an adapter. You can charge it by plugging it into a computer or using an existing micro USB adapter with the cord provided by the company.

Conclusion

The No.1 G5 smartwatch is a decent, reliable watch that is smart. Since this is a smartwatch first, it is important to remember that the device does not constantly track your stats and activity. You have to open the related app and start a tracker. If you forget to start them, nothing gets recorded. However, given the expensive smartwatch brands available, the No.1 G5 smartwatch stands as a very competent smartwatch on its own in comparison to other smartwatches available in the market.
You can buy the No.1 G5 smartwatch from Banggood here for $30.99.
The holiday seasons is upon us and Banggood is offering a never in the lifetime offer of 50 percent off for the Christmas season. You can order No.1 G5 smartwatch and other electronic gadgets for 50 % off from here.


Source:Techworm
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Thursday, 22 December 2016

What Will Happen If Entire Internet Goes Down

What Will Happen If Entire Internet Goes Down

What would happen to us if the Internet went down…?

The DDoS attack which brought down the Internet in much of United States of America and  parts of Europe left users without Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Netflix and many other websites. The attack also left PlayStation Network users high and dry throughout the day. The DDos attack was fuelled by your and my common Internet of Things connected devices like smart camera, CCTVs, smart refrigerators etc.
For those out of the loop, on Friday morning, a distributed denial of service attack against DNS provider, Dyn brought down websites and apps across the internet, temporarily barring access to Twitter, Pinterest, WhatsApp, and more for millions of users. While Dyn was able to stabilize the situation within a few hours, a second DDoS attack began in the early afternoon, again disrupting services across the web.
Dyn provides domain name system services, translating common internet addresses into machine-legible information that ensures you get to where you’re trying to go on the web. So every request you make for a website has to go through a DNS server. Citing Flashpoint, a security intelligence firm, Forbes reports that the attackers appear to have used a Mirai botnet against Dyn.
Mirai botnets exploit Internet of Things devices, taking advantage of their low security to employ them in DDoS attacks. In late September, someone going by the handle Anna-senpai released Mirai’s source code, and since then, the DDoS attacks using Mirai botnets have increased.
The 1.2TB DDoS attack using such Internet of Things connected devices caused a complete breakdown of the Internet in the United States and parts of Europe. What would happen if the Internet to the entire world goes down? Such a scenario has been actually predicted by a security researcher, Bruce Schneier. In fact, Schneier says that some unknown entity is already working on bringing down the whole Internet. Schneier in an essay last month revealed that companies responsible for the basic infrastructure of the Internet are experiencing an escalating series of coordinated attacks that appear designed to test the defenses of its most critical elements. It seems likely that the attack against Dyn which brought down the Internet on 21st and 22nd October was a part of this grand scheme.
So what happens if Schneier is right and the Internet is actually shut down?  We look at the impact if such a situation arises in near future.
A situation like this brings  E.M. Forster’s disturbing tale ” The Machine Stops” to mind. Written in 1909, it describes the downfall of a civilization that is totally subservient to an automated life-support system. Foster’s novel has its citizens thinking of the Machine as an infallible deity and live in their individual mechanical wombs, communicating and doing business only through the Machine. They worship it in their fashion until in the words of the author:
There came a day when, without the slightest warning, without any previous hint of feebleness, the entire communication system broke down, all over the world, and the world, as they understood it, ended.
Though we have not yet arrived at such a situation where the Internet is a god but it leaves no doubt that our lives totally depend on the being online today. Here are some things that would happen if there was no Internet :
1. No Social Networking = No online friends.  When Internet connection goes off, the first casualties are social network websites like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Snapchat. As soon as this happens, users who normally contacted their friends and colleagues through social media try to contact with friends and family through telephone lines. Due to overload, telecommunication services go down. Due to non-availability of Internet, LTE networks go down leaving users at the mercy of landlines.
2. No Internet = No News/Information Without the Internet you wouldn’t be able to get round the clock information like news, or weather forecast. Air-traffic can’t function, high seas become dangerous. Metros come to a complete standstill. Suburban train networks will run slowly bringing big cities around the world to a creeping halt.
3No Internet = No online banking/ATMs Online banking goes down. ATMs failures cause huge queues at banks. Banks face huge clearing pile up as the cheque clearing and money transfers have to be done manually.  This continues until the time there is a breakdown in services. There would be no PayPal or Visa purchases. Credit and Debit cards would become redundant as Point-of-Sales would not work. NYSE, FTSE, Nifty etc would stop trading in shares and stocks. WTI trades for Crude oil would stop as will Chicago Mercantile Exchange leading to stopping of commodities trade.
4. No Internet = No Satellites. The GPS network would completely breakdown as will the normal satellite communications. Everything which is connected to Satellites would have to be shut down.
The above some examples that come to mind easily. The Internet is much more than dominant in our life today than it was a decade ago. Also millions of IT workers who are dependent on the Internet would be out of work while big companies like Google/Facebook/Uber would shut down.
Seems like a grim scenario! Looks like Foster foresaw the situation in 1909 when he wrote ‘The Machine Stops’. Though there is a counterview to this. The internet is self-resilient.   It can’t simply be “shut down” – it’s not built that way.  Turning off the Internet is like shutting off religion. You just can’t do it.  Come to think of it… it’d be easier to turn off religion than to turn off the internet.
However, we seem to closer to making the Internet our god. Not in the abstract way but the Internet surely dominates our way of life with a god-like presence. Without the Internet we would surely be hurtled to stone age again as switching to manual way of doing things would be too difficult.

Time to remember that the Internet can’t just be turned off… but it can/could be stopped, of course.

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Leaked images show Nokia P Flagship with 6GB RAM, 23MP Camera and Snapdragon 835

Leaked images show Nokia P Flagship with 6GB RAM, 23MP Camera and Snapdragon 835

Leaked Renders Show Nokia P Flagship To Come With 6GB of RAM, SD835 And 23MP camera

Looks like Nokia will live up to its reputation of bringing the best to its smartphone buyers. The yesteryears smartphone king recently confirmed that it would be making its return to the smartphone business with Nokia Android smartphones somewhere in March 2017. According to the reports, Nokia’s Android smartphone will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain in late February.
HMD Global, a Finnish company that currently holds the right over Nokia’s logo has already unveiled the first new Nokia device – the Nokia 150 feature phone.
However, a new leak (two pictures) originating from the Chinese social website Weibo apparently says that HMD is working on a premium Nokia Android smartphone dubbed the Nokia P. The Nokia P is rumored flagship device Nokia stable that is expected to released in early 2017.

According to Weibo, the flagship device will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor coupled with the Adreno 540 graphics processing unit. The chipset is said to offer download speeds of up to 1Gbps and come with 6GB of RAM. The phone in question appears to sport a metal body with an anodized finish. The pictures reveal the front and back panels of the phone, with the Nokia branding on the rear.
Further, it will boast a 23MP camera with a sensor made by Carl Zeiss, the well-known German manufacturer of optical systems. If previous rumors are to be believed, the Nokia P smartphone will sport a QHD display, i.e. a display featuring a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels. The Nokia P might come in 5.2-inch and 5.5-inch sizes and feature IP68 certification for water and dust resistance suggests previous rumors.
We have to take the new leaked information with a pinch of salt as not all Weibo leaks are genuine. But considering that Nokia is making a comeback, it has to be a jaw-dropping device which will awe and shock it’s buyers. And Nokia P flagship Android smartphone looks like one.

Source:Techworm 
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Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement in iPhone and other products

Nokia alleges Apple stole its tech to make iPhone, files court cases in Germany and the U.S.


Nokia alleges Apple stole its tech to make iPhone, files court cases in Germany and the U.S.

Apple has been in trouble for copying tech and designs several times since the launch of iPhone in 2007 till date. Now it has another lawsuit to face this time from Nokia. Nokia says that Apple stole its patented technologies like display and even the iOS to make its own iPhone.
The yesteryears king of mobile phones, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. on Wednesday in Germany and the U.S. for patent infringement over intellectual property used in the iPhone and other Apple products. The suit was filed in Regional Courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich in Germany and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Nokia says its complaint includes “32 patents in a suit across all of the actions, covering technologies such as the display, user interface, software, antenna, chipsets and video coding. Nokia is in the process of filing further actions in other jurisdictions.”
In a statement, Nokia said, “Since agreeing a license covering some patents from the Nokia Technologies portfolio in 2011, Apple has declined subsequent offers made by Nokia to license other of its patented inventions which are used by many of Apple’s products.”
However, Apple claims that Nokia’s failing cellphone business has prompted them to transfer patents to patent assertion entities to get out of FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) licensing deals it established for essential patents, allowing the company to collect higher royalties.
From Apple’s complaint: “With its cell phone business dying, Nokia began to seek out willing conspirators and to commence its illegal patent transfer scheme in full force; that scheme has continued in full effect to the present. The driving force behind Nokia’s strategy was to diffuse its patent portfolio and place it in the hands of PAEs. Acacia and Conversant were its chief conspirators.”
On the other hand, Nokia’s own patent infringement complaint against Apple claims that the company has declined to establish licensing deals for Nokia technology that is used in Apple products.
Ilkka Rahnasto, head of Patent Business at Nokia, said: “Through our sustained investment in research and development, Nokia has created or contributed to many of the fundamental technologies used in today’s mobile devices, including Apple products. After several years of negotiations trying to reach agreement to cover Apple’s use of these patents, we are now taking action to defend our rights.”
This is not the first time Apple is involved in a patent battle. Earlier this year, it paid $24.9 million in a Siri patent lawsuit and $625 million in a Facetime patent lawsuit. And how can one forget, Apple’s famous five-year-patent battle with Samsung over design features. Luckily for Apple, they won that patent infringement battle against Samsung.

source: Techworm
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