Samsung is ending software support for the Galaxy S9 & S9 Plus Samsung is ending software support for the Galaxy S9 & S9 Plus Samsung kept its promise, but it has now removed both devices from its security updates page. Prior to that, they were downgraded to a quarterly update schedule. That is as per usual for Samsung, as that’s something it does for phones that are in the final year of software support....
Researcher Karen Renaud talks to Mindful about how the simple act of being aware of one’s email habits changed her own sending style, as well as the solutions her research teams were coming up with to solve email overload. KR: I’ve been doing email research for about ten years now. In the beginning, I was really interested in interruptions and how people recover from being interrupted when they’re working on their computers....
Food for Thought Regular mindfulness practice may temper food-related desires in daily life. In a small preliminary study, Esther Papies of Utrecht University and her colleagues surveyed 33 meditators, and results showed practitioners who were able to detach themselves from thoughts about food—for instance, viewing their reaction to, say, a tempting chocolate as a “transient mental event” that soon fades away—had fewer food cravings. That was more so for women than for men....
Motorola and Verizon share a tight partnership, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Verizon just announced that the phone is now available to get the Moto Edge 2022 with a contract. With the contract, you’ll pay $18.33/month for 36 months. There’s no option to pay it off over 24 months, as the company did away with those plans a while back. For a limited time, you can get the phone for much cheaper....
Let’s take a quick look at the numbers. Over the last three years, I’ve spent over $5000 having my hair professionally bleached twelve times, and, after each double-process, my color is lifted twelve levels. Also, I’ve used over 150 bottles of product, cut roughly 48 inches of hair, lost countless strands to shedding, and experienced more breakage than I care to admit. Even still, I’ve come down with a serious case of blonde fever and I’ve committed to being a (bottle) blonde bombshell for life....
