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A number of users have issued a lawsuit against Fitbit, saying that the health tracking devices of the company can’t be trusted for monitoring heart rates.

CNET reported that the plaintiffs have filed a class-action lawsuit in California saying that the Fitbit Charge HR and Surge models have consistently underestimated their heart rates at the time of workouts.

The lawsuit claimed, “Plaintiffs and many consumers like them have experienced -- and testing confirms -- that the PurePulse Trackers consistently mis-record heart rates by a very significant margin, particularly during exercise”.

Normal operations have resumed in Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan, which were halted after a man jumped onto an oxygen tank, supplying the facility on Friday morning, rupturing it. According to police, the incident took place around 2 am at the facility present at 1000 10th Avenue.

The 31-year-old was declared dead on the sight. Police said that the deceased jumped from an unidentified height from an adjacent building present behind the hospital.

The hospital's emergency room stopped functioning due to the disruption and the incoming patients were temporarily sent to other hospitals.

A 183-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise Jonathan is thought to be the oldest known living animal on Earth.

An unhealthy diet of twigs that the tortoise consumed on the British island territory of St. Helena (map), off Africa's western coast robbed Jonathan of his senses of sight and smell.

However, things changed in 2014, when local veterinarian Joe Hollins noticed the plight of Jonathan and began feeding the reptile a comparatively nutritious menu, including bananas, apples, carrots, cucumbers, and guava.

As per Hollins' latest update on a St. Helena information website after a year, Jonathan hit the headlines again and was seemingly healthier. Hollins wrote on December 7 that the feeding brought a surprising chance in him.

The US Justice Department's consumer protection unit has been investigating a norovirus outbreak at a Chipotle restaurant in California. This has indicated that a recent probe launched by federal prosecutors in California has been grabbing a lot of attention at Washington headquarters.

In the wake of a series of foodborne illnesses, Chipotle Mexican Grill has been under a lot of scrutiny. All this has resulted into a decline in Chipotle’s shares and a fall in its fourth-quarter same-store sales.

On Wednesday, Chipotle revealed that the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California had served it with a grand jury subpoena in December under a criminal investigation carried out by that office and the Food and Drug Administration.

SpaceX has announced that the company is planning to land its Falcon 9 rocket that is scheduled to be launched on January 17, 2016, on a drone ship, which is an autonomous floating platform.

The rocket is scheduled to take off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and will be boarded with the Jason-3 satellite of NASA space agency. However, this time the rocket will land back in the ocean and not a launch pad on ground.

Several members of scientific community think human species have entered a new geologic era: the Anthropocene Epoch.

A report published Thursday in journal Science suggested that use of plastic, concrete and other fossil fuels that we burnt has changed the planet enough to declare the beginning of a new era and end of the thousands of years old Holocene Epoch.

Last about seven decades played a vital role in altering the earth. In the time, humans not only went far from our Holocene ancestors, but also took our planet towards a very tough phase, according to the report.