Here's Cheddar News' daily dose of news that impacts your day to day.
SLEEP DEPRIVED
According to a new study from Apple and the Bingham Women's hospital, only 31 percent of people are actually getting the recommended seven hours minimum of sleep they need. That study reviewed 42,000 people enrolling in the Apple Watch sleep tracking study. So what's the fix for this? Sleep experts recommend getting into a consistent sleep routine to help fix your internal clock. Then there's easier remedies out there such as getting rid of caffeine, large meals and screens.
META'S NEW SOCIAL APP
Meta is building a stand alone decentralized social network. The platform would provide users with a place to share text-based updates, similar to what Instagram does with photos. So what does decentralized mean? Users could create different servers and communities with their own rules rather than one centralized platform controlled by Meta. There's no word yet on when the app would launch or what it will be called.
Residents in Northern California to have power cut as fire weather intensifies in the region.
Inmate forced to give birth in jail cell after begging for medical help.
A Connecticut man was charged with grand larceny after finding a bag of cash outside of a bank and keeping it.
The FBI announced it took down a criminal ransomware network used for hundreds of thousands of cyber attacks.
Cheddar News checks in with a coast-to-coast forecast of the weather for Wednesday, August 30, 2023, including the latest on Hurricane Idalia.
A 127-year-old water main under New York's Times Square gave way early Tuesday, flooding midtown streets and the city's busiest subway station. Service was restored with delays by midday.
Better catch the show if you can. There won't be another blue supermoon until 2037.
A technical issue that led to hundreds of flight delays and cancellations in the UK on Monday will take 'some days' to fix.
Cheddar News checks in with a coast-to-coast forecast of the weather for Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 and the latest on Hurricane Idalia.
Police charged a graduate student at the University of North Carolina with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing a faculty member.
