Amelia Wong is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on consumer technology, digital wellness, health-related tools, calculators, and practical lifestyle explainers. Articles under this byline help readers understand everyday data, online tools, and wellness-related information without replacing professional advice.

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Consumer Tech

EU Privacy Regulators Tell Smart-Glasses Makers to Make Recording Obvious

The EDPB says makers cannot pass their GDPR duties to wearers, and that glasses should not record with the indicator covered. Meta, meanwhile, fixed an audio-logging issue.

15 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
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Home & Living

Dog pregnancy length and why counting from mating widens the due date

A dog's pregnancy averages about 63 days counted from ovulation, but how wide the window is depends on which event starts the count. In one Beagle colony, births fell on 16 different days counted from the first mating and on 3 counted from the luteinising hormone peak.

15 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Health & Wellness

Singapore's Haze Turns 'Very Unhealthy' as Free N95 Masks Go Out

Western Singapore's air turned very unhealthy on Wednesday night. What NEA advises, and who qualifies for a free mask.

15 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
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Health & Wellness

Malaysia's MediAsas Medical Plan Launches in January, With Premiums Payable From EPF

Budget 2027 adds a RM200 first-year subsidy for small-firm workers. Health policy experts ask whether enough people will join a voluntary, privately sold plan.

14 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Home & Living

Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong codes set stair risers lower than a US layout assumes

Singapore's Fire Code and Hong Kong's Fire Safety Code limit risers in their escape stairs to 175 mm, and Malaysia's building by-laws set 180 mm for any staircase. A stair laid out to a 7½-inch riser, just inside the US model code's limit, came out taller than the Singapore and Hong Kong figure at every floor height we tried.

14 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Home & Living

A cat's age in human years is read off a chart printed with no stated basis

The usual cat-years chart gives 15 human years for a cat's first year, 24 by its second birthday and 4 for each year after, and the 2010 veterinary guidelines that carry it state no basis for those numbers. Set against UK life tables, it puts the average cat's lifespan 17 to 19 human years short of a person's.

12 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Health & Wellness

The Supplement Nicotinamide Riboside Did Not Slow Early Parkinson's in a Year-Long Trial

In a 410-patient Norwegian trial, the NAD-raising compound brought no benefit, and patients did slightly worse than on placebo. The researchers advise against using it outside studies.

12 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

WHO Does Not Recommend Obesity Drugs for Under-10s and Sets Strict Conditions for Teenagers

Teenagers may be offered medicines only if they have weight-related complications and six months of supervised lifestyle care has not worked. WHO rates the evidence as low.

12 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
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Health & Wellness

A bathroom scale's rounding can shift a sweat-rate test by a tenth of a litre an hour

Sweat rate is body weight before exercise minus weight after, plus fluid drunk, minus urine, divided by the hours. On a scale that reads to 0.1 kg, rounding alone can move a one-hour result by up to 0.1 litre an hour, and runners measured in Singapore and Thailand averaged inside the typical published range.

8 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Personality

Blood type explains almost none of the variation in large Japanese and US surveys

The belief that ABO blood type shapes temperament and compatibility has been popular in Japan since a 1971 book. In surveys of nearly 9,700 people in Japan and the US, blood type explained less than 0.3% of the variation in answers on every test, and the few positive findings elsewhere are faint or confined to believers.

7 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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