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Over-the-counter cold medications don't work, FDA panel rules


Adding weight to the large body of scientific evidence showing that phenylephrine is as useless as a placebo for nasal congestion, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has unanimously declared common oral medications ineffective. It paves the way for these products to be taken off shelves and reformulated.
 
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Android 14 adds support for using smartphones as webcams


Video conferencing platforms like Zoom and Google Meet exploded in popularity during the COVID era, but the webcam market struggled to keep up. The best webcams were hard to get or were too expensive, causing most people to turn to cheaper, more readily available webcams or their laptop’s integrated webcam. The camera in most smartphones offers significantly better image quality than the one found in the vast majority of webcams, though, so many people installed third-party software on their phones to turn them into webcams.
 
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A celebrity-studded L.A. water district has a very big drought idea: Seafloor desalination


A water district best known for supplying the celebrity-studded enclaves of Calabasas and Hidden Hills could soon become famous for a very different reason.
The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District recently partnered with California-based OceanWell to study the feasibility of harvesting drinking water from desalination pods placed on the ocean floor, several miles off the coast of California.
 
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NearLink launches, 6X faster than Bluetooth, with 1/30th the latency


Today's official launch comes after the technology was presented at Huawei's Developer Conference in August. Compared with "traditional wireless technologies," Huawei says NearLink offers:

  • 60% lower power consumption
  • Six times higher data transmission speed
  • 1/30th the latency
  • 7 dB improvement anti-interference for a more stable connection
  • Twice the coverage distance, and
  • 10 times more network connections
 
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