Is It Bad to Sit With Your Legs Crossed?

However, crossing your legs at the knees or having one ankle crossed over a knee for extended periods of time has been associated with temporary elevations in blood pressure, poor posture, and chronic musculoskeletal pain, says Max A. Fitzgerald, MD, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago….

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Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

Synthetic voices have been proliferating for years, and the generative AI boom of the new ’20s has sped that process right along. AI voices are everywhere—in podcasts, in political campaigns, and in chatbots where they maybe-not-so-subtly replicate celebrity voices. Soon, they’ll be all up in your audiobooks too. Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook company, announced a…

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How to Get Better Indoor TV Antenna Reception

Of course, many antenna users supplement over-the-air programming with free streaming services. People willing to pay for subscriptions can put together an even more robust package of streaming content for as little as $25 a month. If you want to use an antenna to get your local channels you’ll need to make sure you can…

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How to Compost at Home

What It Comes With• Plastic worm bin with cork lid• 1-cup food-waste container• Moisture/light/pH probe• Compost scoop• Spray bottle Size: The bin measures 18x9x6 inches (width by depth by height), and the manufacturer recommends starting with 1 pound of red wigglers (about 1,000 worms, which costs about $56 from a worm farm). The small, compact container can hold about…

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The Best Tested and Reviewed Mesh Wi-Fi Routers of 2024

Currently, there are four Eero systems on the market worth considering, offering a broadly similar experience. The first two are dual-band systems (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz). Folks with internet connections up to 500 Mbps can go with the regular Eero 6. If you have a faster connection, up to 1 Gbps, and your home…

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The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry’s vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable. Music industry publication Mix spoke with…

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Which iPhone Should You Buy?

If you want a large (but not huge) iPhone at a modest cost, the standard iPhone line is where to look. These models cost $200 less than their Pro counterparts, which offer the most premium features. But they still tend to perform very well in our tests where it matters on metrics like camera performance,…

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How to Avoid Common Car Seat Installation Mistakes

Don’t use nonapproved covers and cushions. Do: Use only covers and cushions that have been approved by the car seat manufacturer for use with that seat. These items have been crash-tested with your seat to meet compliance standards. As a rule, don’t place additional padding between the seat and your child or between your child and the…

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Baby Safety Tips ER Doctors Want You to Know

There’s nothing that an exhausted new parent loves more than a hot cup of coffee after a terrible night. But be extra careful with that mug of liquid treasure: ER docs say that spilled coffee and other hot liquids have been known to lead to baby burns.  “A common source of significant injuries for us…

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