Tracy Mumford

France's prime minister said relying on non-European-made tools meant they lacked control over their data and faced cybersecurity risks.

Recently, French officials were also asked to start using a government-designed messaging app instead of foreign-owned ones, which would include WhatsApp, owned by Meta, or Signal, owned by a U.S.-based nonprofit.

The German government's been making similar moves, even developing its own alternative to Microsoft Office in an effort to build up digital autonomy.

And finally, the key to living a long life, I'm talking cracking 90 or even 100 years old, has been studied, debated, theorized about.

Experts say you got to move your body, eat your fruits and vegetables, get enough sleep, don't smoke, don't drink too much, make sure you see friends.

A new study out this week in the journal Science, though, pins down another factor, your genes.

According to the new research, your potential lifespan is written in your DNA.

A healthy lifestyle can help, of course, but basically, if you want to know if you could live to be 100, you need to have won the genetic lottery for longevity.

The researchers looked at data from sets of Swedish twins.

They also looked at data from over 400 Americans who lived to be 100 and what happened to all of their siblings.

They controlled for outside factors like accidents or infections and found that the biggest single factor when it comes to differences in lifespans

seems to be genes.

One public health professor who was not involved in the study told the Times that the research has a powerful message.

You don't have as much control as you think.

He said, basically, it turns out some of us are driving a Mercedes and some of us aren't quite that lucky.

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