Between the Noise🎯 #21: What Happens to Your Body on No Sleep, What Will Happen When Robots Store All Our Memories & More

Jul 23, 2019

Article: What Happens to Your Body on No Sleep

I always think getting few hours of extra ‘No Sleep’ hours won’t affect much on my body until I read this. This piece explains how ‘No Sleep’ affects our Mind, Heard, Endocrine System, Immune System & Overall performance.

Your blood pressure rises over the course of the day, usually due to the physical and emotional stressors you inevitably encounter. Every night while you sleep, your blood pressure (as well as your heart rate) drops back down. Sleep, in other words, is a natural blood pressure medication. Without that daily reboot, it steadily rises, and your risk of heart attack, stroke, and even long-term heart disease skyrockets.

Article: Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook

Facebook has nearly 2.5 billion monthly active users to FaceApp’s 80 million. It, too, applies facial recognition to photos that those users upload to its servers. It also actively pushed a VPN that allowed it to track the activity of anyone who installed it not just within the Facebook app but anywhere on their phone.

Article: What Will Happen When Robots Store All Our Memories

“I’m not saying they have to take in all of these memories,” said Ken. “I think a lot of empathy has to be evolved into this kind of a situation. Memory Bot has to understand what’s going to work for you, and certainly not to bring up something that’s going to traumatize you.”

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Twitter Thread: Chennai’s Water Crisis

Rajini Vaidyanathan @BBCRajiniV

An important thread 👇🏽 Many of us take water for granted - but imagine living in a big city, where the taps have run dry. That's the plight of people in one of India's largest cities, #Chennai. And what's going on there, could affect the wider world too. #ChennaiWaterCrisiJ4

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