All posts tagged: longer

Can homegrown brands like Yeo’s and Tiger keep their Singapore roots even if they are no longer made here?

Can homegrown brands like Yeo’s and Tiger keep their Singapore roots even if they are no longer made here?

Published by Sam Flores

Barely a week later, Yeo Hiap Seng, the maker of Yeo’s beverages, said that it would consolidate its can manufacturing to Malaysia, laying off 25 employees in the process.  Established in Singapore in 1938, Yeo’s first made its name in the domestic market through its soy sauce, and in the 1950s, it diversified into other products such as canned curry chicken, bottled soy milk and other Asian drinks.  The announcements by two Singapore icons made back-to-back led some people to wonder: “Which Singapore brand is next?”  Dr Samer Elhajjar, senior lecturer from the department of marketing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, said that this discomfort is a rational response. “Brands are part of national memory and industrial identity. When an iconic brand stops producing locally, people are not only mourning a beverage or a can line.  “They are reacting to the sense that another piece of everyday nationhood has become more abstract,” he added. “In small states especially, brands often carry outsized symbolic weight because they are among the few globally …

I’m no longer using Google Photos as just a cloud storage – 5 tools that elevate the app

I’m no longer using Google Photos as just a cloud storage – 5 tools that elevate the app

Published by skeptic

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Google Photos is more than just a storage tool. With these five tricks, you can up your Photos game. Each of these features is built into Google Photos. Google Photos is a necessity for anyone who uses Android and takes a lot of photos. With this app, you can organize, search, and even create. But did you know there were things you can do that go beyond the usual? Also: How I ditched Google Photos for my own private self-hosted alternative – for free Android users who want to level up their Google Photos game are in for a treat. And iPhone users should not feel left out, as the first four of these five tools will work in iOS, too, although the steps will vary. (Naturally, iOS users need to have the Google Photos app installed.) Check these out: 1. Create Reels If you’re seriously into social media, you’re no doubt familiar with Reels, Stories, …

Make Your MacBook Battery Last Longer With This Setting

Make Your MacBook Battery Last Longer With This Setting

Published by skeptic

If you own a MacBook and work from home, it’s easy to have your laptop plugged in for hours on end without thinking about the long-term battery life implications. Fortunately, Apple recently added a setting that lets you cap how high your Mac’s battery charges, and if you own an iPhone that was released in the last few years, you may already be familiar with it. Lithium-ion batteries generally degrade fastest when held at a high state of charge, which means keeping your iPhone or your Mac’s battery at 100 percent accelerates the chemical wear that permanently reduces its actual capacity over time. To mitigate this on iPhone 15 and newer models, Apple lets you set a Charge Limit that prevents your device from charging beyond 80, 85, 90, 95, or 100 percent. And in macOS Tahoe 26.4, Apple has brought over the same Charge Limit feature to Macs for the first time. This option differs from Optimized Battery Charging, which learns your daily routine and delays charging past 80 percent until you’re likely to …

Midlife exercise linked to a 50% longer life for women

Midlife exercise linked to a 50% longer life for women

Published by Jenni Sidey

Halfway through life, the body starts changing in ways that are easy to miss at first. Muscle mass begins to thin. Strength can slip gradually. Daily movement, once automatic, may take more planning than it did years earlier. A new study suggests that what women do during that stretch of life can shape what comes next in a very serious way: those who consistently met exercise guidelines in their 50s and 60s were about half as likely to die early as women who did not. The research, published in PLOS Medicine, followed 11,169 Australian women born between 1946 and 1951. Over 15 years, researchers tracked whether they were meeting the World Health Organization’s recommendation of at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. The strongest finding was not about a short burst of fitness or a temporary health kick. It was about consistency. Women who kept meeting those activity targets across midlife had half the risk of death from any cause compared with women who consistently fell short. The study also found signs …

The science, tech and business of living longer examined in new docuseries

The science, tech and business of living longer examined in new docuseries

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Journalist Kara Swisher starts her new six-part CNN series about longevity and health in an interesting location: a cemetery. It’s the final resting place of her father, who died in 1968 at 34 years old. Swisher was only 5 and his sudden death had a deep effect on her career and how she views life. “My father’s death has created an awareness of death that is very profound,” she says in an interview. “I’m very aware of my death and I don’t mean I’m going to die tomorrow. I just know the time is limited.” Swisher wades into the intersection of how health and tech can lengthen life for the series “Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever,” exploring everything from wellness influencers like Gwyneth Paltrow to AI-powered robotic companions for the elderly. It premieres Saturday. “I come to it pretty neutral …

The best mascaras for longer, fuller and fluttery lashes: 12 favourites worn and rated by our beauty expert | Mascara

The best mascaras for longer, fuller and fluttery lashes: 12 favourites worn and rated by our beauty expert | Mascara

Published by Sam Flores

If you were allowed to pick only one makeup item to use for the rest of your life, what would you choose? Without a doubt, mine would be mascara. It’s the most transformative beauty staple. Defining your lashes has literally eye-opening results, making them appear bigger and brighter. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. If the questions I’ve been asked as a beauty editor are anything to go by, even those who consider themselves low-maintenance usually own a mascara: requests for mascara recommendations are by far the most common. It seems no one is immune to how effortlessly eye-framing a few coats can be. Recommending the best mascara, however, isn’t straightforward. A one-type-suits-all mascara doesn’t exist, so the performance of mascaras often divides people. The key is to work out what your lashes’ needs are: are you looking for volume, length, lift, curl or something else? Whatever your requirement, you’ll find a recommendation here that suits you. At a glance £28 at …

What About Knowledge That No Longer Knows What It Is For?

What About Knowledge That No Longer Knows What It Is For?

Published by Jenni Sidey

This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Što sa znanjem koje više ne zna čemu služi?” It has been translated by the author and reproduced here with the permission of Kronika. “Where is the life we lost in living?Where is the wisdom we lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we lost in information?” T. S. Eliot (The Rock, 1934) If we are to judge by the notorious “policy frameworks” housing various research, education, and innovation “strategies,” “implementation plans,” “guidelines,” and “statements” issued by different national and international “bodies”—all those indispensable, buzzword-laden panaceas of modern administration—science and higher education appear to have merged into a miraculous creature. This creature is at once flexible and stable, competitive and inclusive, excellent and sustainable, socially relevant and market-adaptable. It measures, evaluates, optimizes, and improves, and in doing so shows not the slightest trace of fatigue. However, if knowledge really functioned as described in the tables and indicators of these documents, we would have known everything there is to know long ago. The problem, of course, is that science and higher education …

Should You Exercise Harder or Longer? What New Data Suggests

Should You Exercise Harder or Longer? What New Data Suggests

Published by Jenni Sidey

For years, public health advice has emphasized a simple message: sit less, move more. On its surface, this is sound advice. However, two new studies using the same data set and published just days apart (Wei et al., 2026, and Cai et al., 2026) suggest that how hard you move may be just as important as how much you move. Both of these studies utilized data gathered from approximately 100,000 U.K. Biobank participants. These individuals, recruited between 2006 and 2010, are followed longitudinally over many years. Their activity levels are monitored via wearable fitness trackers, providing researchers with objective data rather than relying on self-reported exercise logs. While these research teams analyzed the same population, their different “analytical lenses” highlight why exercise intensity is a critical variable for long-term health. By looking at the same 100,000 people through different measurement metrics, these two studies offer a more complete picture of how movement helps prevent disease and extend lifespan. Because these findings are based on observational U.K. Biobank data, they can’t prove causation. However, the large …

The tiny lifestyle tweaks that could help you live longer

The tiny lifestyle tweaks that could help you live longer

Published by Sam Flores

Scientists say even the smallest lifestyle tweaks could have a meaningful impact on how long we live and how healthy those years are. A major new study led by researchers in Australia suggests that modest adjustments to everyday habits may be enough to extend lifespan. Analysing data from tens of thousands of participants, the team found that adding just a few minutes of sleep, a short burst of physical activity and a slight improvement in diet could collectively make a measurable difference. The power of tiny daily tweaks The findings indicate that as little as five extra minutes of sleep, roughly two additional minutes of exercise and a small increase in healthy food intake, such as half a serving of vegetables, may add a year or more to life expectancy. While each of these changes might seem insignificant on its own, together they appear to have a much greater effect. In fact, the research suggests that combining these small adjustments produces stronger benefits than making a larger change in just one area. “There seems to …

War crimes are no longer shameful. That should terrify you | US-Israel war on Iran

War crimes are no longer shameful. That should terrify you | US-Israel war on Iran

Published by Sam Flores

For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean. What has changed in the Middle East is the swaggering contempt we have seen from the United States, Israel and Iran as they instead dismiss, mock or flout the international laws protecting civilians. If the international community does not urgently reassert support for those norms, it may be acquiescing to their destruction. US President Donald Trump, who told The New York Times he doesn’t “need international law” and the only restraint on his power was his “own morality”, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has dismissed “tepid legality” in favour of “maximum lethality”, have expressed little regard publicly for the safety of civilians  affected by the US-Israeli war on Iran, which just entered its second month. After announcing that the US had “demolished” Iran’s Kharg Island, Trump told NBC News, “We may hit it a few more times just for fun.” Hegseth has declared that “no quarter” would be given to enemies …