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Nine Hours, or 9h, is a design-conscious capsule hotel chain with over 20 locations across Japan. The latest one recently opened in an office building owned by IT and business services provider NTT Data, and the two companies are partnering on more than just real estate. In 2021, Nine Hours began offering its guests a '9h sleep fitscan.' As they sleep, infrared cameras, microphones and other sensors inside the capsules gather data on various physiological sleep markers, including heartbeat, breathing, snoring and body movements. The data is compiled and analyzed using AI, and after checkout, guests receive their personal sleep report by email.Now, through its partnership with NTT Data, Nine Hours is expanding 9h sleep fitscan. Its new hotel, dubbed Nine Hours Shinagawa Station Sleep Lab for Men, features 70 capsules, all fitted with cutting-edge yet non-invasive sleep analysis technology, including EEG and deep body temperature sensors. Both parties stand to gain from the collaboration: NTT Data is building out its food and wellness data business, and Nine Hours aims to leverage the new, advanced monitoring systems as it rolls out more sleep-tech hotels.While the above might sound like a massive invasion of privacy, Nine Hours says all data is anonymized. To date, over 100,000 people consented to having their slumber scrutinized in what's presented as a mutually beneficial arrangement guests get access to a far more rigorous review of their shuteye than a Fitbit or Apple Watch could provide, alerting them to potential issues like poor sleep quality or apnea, and Nine Hours collects swathes of data to share with or sell to university researchers and corporate R&D departments.The capsule hotel as sleep lab is a sophisticated example of healthcare and wellness being integrated into nearly every aspect of daily life a shift welcomed by consumers seeking to optimize how they feel and function. Nine Hours wants to scale up to analyzing 1 million people a year. Given the impact of sleep on everything from mental wellbeing and performance to cardiac health and lifespan, that amount of data could prove invaluable.
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As extreme weather events become ever more common, climate risks are playing a role in many people's long-term decision-making. And few things are more long-term than buying real estate. In response, Zillow has announced a new partnership to bring climate risk information to its for-sale listings. Property listing pages in the US will include data about flood, wildfire, wind, heat and air quality risks at that location. This section will also list any climate-related insurance requirements for that property. The information is being provided by First Street, a specialist in climate risk financial modeling. The climate data is rolling out this year to the Zillow website and iOS app, while Android is expected to get the update early next year. Some locations have already been updated to show climate data on the web. Those five risk categories are also being applied to Zillow's interactive map search view. Each of the different climate concerns has a color-coded visualization to show the risk levels across the country or in a smaller region. It's valuable information for anybody in a position to make that big homebuying leap. For everybody else, it may add simply a touch of gloomy reality to the gleeful experience of scrolling through absurd and/or overpriced houses. Zillow also introduced improvements to its AI search feature earlier this month.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/zillow-is-adding-climate-risk-data-to-all-us-for-sale-listings-220038971.html?src=rss
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X suspended journalist Ken Klippensteins account earlier this afternoon. Xs Safety account says they issued the temporary suspension for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. [J.D.] Vances physical address and the majority of his social security number. Several news outlets that received the vetting dossier of the Republican vice presidential candidate leaked by hackers chose not to publish the sensitive document since it contained personal information. Klippenstein felt the dossier was newsworthy and decided to publish it on Substack and his social media channels and one of them took down his account. Engadget has viewed the dossier and can confirm the details mentioned by Xs Safety team are present and unredacted in Klippensteins copy of the document except for the last four numbers of Vances social security number. Klippenstein explained his decision to buck the medias trend and release Sen. Vances dossier on his Substack. President Trumps campaign has accused Irans government on more than one occasion of hacking into its files and releasing the dossier back in June. Other news outlets chose not to release the document but Klippenstein says he felt they declined in fear of finding itself at odds with the [US} governments campaign against foreign malign influence referring to the National Counterterrorism Centers organization of the same name that seeks to prevent interference in elections. I disagree, Klippenstein added. The dossier has been offered to me and Ive decided to publish it because its of keen public interest in an election season. The suspension extends beyond Klippensteins account. X has flagged the link to the dossier and automatically prevents anyone who attempts to post it. Those who do receive a warning from X saying We cant complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful. X (then Twitter) updated its policy on hacked materials after it blocked stories about Hunter Bidens laptop in 2020, saying it would allow stories about hacked materials but not links to the material if it was published by the hacker or someone working in concert with them.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-suspends-journalist-ken-klippenstein-after-he-published-jd-vance-dossier-214219066.html?src=rss
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