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Four foods that become toxic when stored in the refrigerator

Although the refrigerator keeps food fresh, some foods should not be stored in the refrigerator because they can become toxic. Doctor Dimple Yangda, who is a specialist in gut health, stated on Instagram that these foods are garlic, onion, ginger and rice and revealed the reasons why this is so. Garlic Garlic can become soft if stored in the refrigerator. "Never store garlic in the refrigerator because it starts to mold very quickly, and mold on garlic is actually linked to cancer," Yangda said, advising to store garlic in a dry, dark place. "Garlic has a low acidity, which makes it prone to the deposition of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which is one of the culprits of botulism," she warned. Onion Onion is a crop that is resistant to low temperatures. The expert explains: "When you put onions in the fridge, the starch starts to turn into sugar and mold starts to form." Many people make this mistake. Cut the head of the onion, use half

Android phones are finally getting the feature that users have been waiting

  The website Android Authority has released information about a feature that will make it much easier to monitor battery health for Android device users. According to the document, which was published by Android expert Mishal Rahman, Google could start offering users notifications that their device's battery has degraded. Android users currently have to resort to external apps or use special commands to check battery health, whereas Apple has been offering iPhone battery health statistics for quite some time. Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2 has a hidden Battery Health app, according to Rahman. While it doesn't yet activate the battery health meter, the codes indicate that the option will display information such as the percentage of battery charge compared to when the battery was new. Icons are also detected indicating that the battery is low or unable to read the battery. In the Settings section, alerts are sent when there are battery health updates (when the phone can't r

This AI can locate you from a photo

  Stanford students have created a new artificial intelligence project that has the potential to become a "privacy nightmare" because it can determine the location where a photo was taken. The project is called PIGEON (Image Geolocation Prediction) and is designed to help find the locations where Google Street View photos were taken. However, when given several photos it had never seen before, this AI model was able to find their locations with great accuracy. Jay Stanley of the American Civil Liberties Union says this could have serious privacy implications, including government surveillance, corporate surveillance and tracking. For example, governments could use PAGEON to find dissidents or see if you've visited "forbidden" sites. All in all, in the wrong hands, this kind of technology can wreak havoc. Motivated by these concerns, the students said that the technology would not be available to the public, but if they could do something like this, the o

Brussels launched proceedings against the X network

  The European Commission has launched official proceedings against the social network X, formerly Twitter, on suspicion that it has failed to fulfill its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), thus violating the rights of the European Union. The new regulation, which came into force last year, mandates the very large internet platforms and search engines to step up their fight against illegal content and risks to public safety and to protect their services from manipulative techniques. The procedure will focus on preventing the spread of illegal content in the EU, on the effectiveness of the measures taken to combat the manipulation of information, in particular the system of "community notifications" and the measures taken by the X network to increase the transparency of its platform, the Commission states. Emphasizing that he will conduct a thorough investigation as a priority. The X Network, owned by Elon Musk, is part of a group of big tech companies und

“Google Maps” is getting a new feature, and here is what it improves

  Nowadays, it seems nearly impossible to keep something like your location a secret, and we are often left at the mercy of companies to take the appropriate steps to ensure this. To achieve just that goal, Google has released new location controls for Maps designed to give you better control over what data is captured and where. One of the most significant changes being introduced is the option to save your Timeline directly to your device instead of the cloud. If you do not already know, the Timeline is an encrypted record of all the areas and attractions you have visited. You need to turn on location history; it is off by default, to activate Timeline. As part of the Google Maps update, Location History will automatically delete your data after three months, compared to the previous 18 months. However, you can delete all information whenever you want or you can turn off automatic deletion. Additionally, you can turn off Location History at any time. Google Maps will also let you cli

How artificial intelligence changed the internet in 2023

  Although it does not look like it, ChatGPT is only a year old. It came out in November 2022, and a lot has changed in the meantime. The rise of artificial intelligence systems is being called by many a new industrial revolution and has raised various philosophical and ethical questions. Therefore, it has been a big year for chatbots and other AI stuff – even though it is all happening fast, we still do not seem to be aware of what is changed. During 2023 we learned that AI can "hallucinate", but not in a fun way. Those hallucinations make linguistic sense and contain some elements of reality. That is why it is not always easy to separate the truth from complete nonsense. The internet has been flooded with stupid things "said" by various chatbots, for example, Google Bard presented incorrect things as correct, while ChatGPT managed to ruin a lawyer's career. Deepfake has entered the mainstream over the year, as new fake AI-generated content looks even more real

He has access to photos, videos, surfing history: Google's AI could know about users

  One of the most common expressions associated with the most popular search engine in the world is that it knows us better than even our closest friends because, thanks to tracking everything we do on the Internet, Google knows what we like, what we eat, whether we exercise, what music we listen to, etc. But that's nothing compared to what Google is thinking about, a new tool, that is, an option based on artificial intelligence that could really have full insight into everything we do in our lives. As commented by Google in an internal meeting, their tool would be like ChatGPT, with the difference that this tool would fully know people and their lives and habits and would be able to give them suggestions, tips and so on that would be personalized exclusively for them . This new product, which is still being discussed within Google, so it is not known if the company will actually start its development, is called Project Ellmann and should provide a "bird's eye view of the