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Intel Xe DG2 GPUs could be “around the corner,” or they could be months away
Why it matters: Intel’s Discrete-Graphics-2 GPUs have been bobbing on the horizon for years. Now, while demand is insatiable and…
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Science Made Simple: What Are Batteries and How Do They Work?
By U.S. Department of Energy May 9, 2021 Batteries and similar devices accept, store, and release electricity on demand. Batteries…
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Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies Provide Crucial Insight Into the Early Universe
Astronomers have discovered two pairs of quasars in the distant Universe, about 10 billion light-years from Earth. In each pair,…
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Indie Game Developers Are Redefining the Word Cinematic | Digital Trends
Over the past decade, the word cinematic has become a cliché in video games. It’s a term that’s come to…
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Reversing a Genetic Cause of Poor Stress Tolerance
Deleting the Ophn1 gene causes mice to respond to stressful situations with an inappropriate helpless behavior. CSHL Professor Linda Van…
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Embattled Matt Gaetz boasts about being ‘canceled man’ at first high-profile public appearance since sex-trafficking probe
Rep. Matt Gaetz is embroiled in a sex-trafficking scandal and is under investigation. He boasted he was a “marked” and…
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How India’s COVID-19 crisis became the worst in the world
PUNE, India — Mohanish Ellitam watched helplessly as his 49-year-old mother’s oxygen levels dipped dangerously and she gasped for air. “I…
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Robot That Senses Hidden Objects – “We’re Trying to Give Robots Superhuman Perception”
MIT researchers developed a picking robot that combines vision with radio frequency (RF) sensing to find and grasps objects, even…
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Pace of Life: Friends and Enemies “Make Sense” for Long-Lived Animals
Hyenas are slow-lived and have complex social structures. Credit: Dave Hudson It makes evolutionary sense for long-lived animals to have…
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Michael Cohen says Trump won’t give Giuliani ‘2 cents’ to help his ex-attorney pay his mounting legal bills
Michael Cohen in an MSNBC interview discussed Rudy Giuliani’s legal woes. He predicted that Trump wouldn’t be helping Giuliani pay…
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Land a Trophy With These Expert-Approved Fishing Reels
Staff The first fishing reel was invented some 1,700 years ago, and yet somehow each season, gear manufacturers continue to…
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AI “Magic” Just Removed One of the Biggest Roadblocks in Astrophysics
Simulations of a region of space 100 million light-years square. The leftmost simulation ran at low resolution. Using machine learning,…
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How To Make a Built-In Bookshelf
Ben Goldstein . POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular…
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Awake Next-Generation Acceleration Particle Experiment Brings Proton Bunches Into Sync
A train of short proton bunches travels through the plasma field, forming a wave on which electrons can be accelerated.…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First Trip to New Airfield – “Another Great Achievement!”
The Red Planet rotorcraft headed south in support of furthering research into the potential use of aerial scouts on Mars…
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NASA Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages
This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon’s far side. The early-stage concept is being studied…
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Astronomers See First Hint of Silhouette of Star Spaghettified by Black Hole
A black hole tears down a star, leaving a long string of star material, which then wraps itself around the…
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Archaeologists discover remains of 9 Neanderthals near Rome
This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a cave near Rome where fossil findings were discovered, shedding new…
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Do You Need a High-Refresh Gaming Monitor? | Digital Trends
High refresh rate monitors have become all the rage in recent years, showing up in many of the best gaming…
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Sherpa guide scales Mount Everest for record 25th time
In this May 20, 2018, file photo, Nepalese veteran Sherpa guide, Kami Rita waves as he arrives in Kathmandu, Nepal.…
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How to Spot a Habitable Exoplanet by Investigating Its Core | Digital Trends
UBCO’s Brendan Dyck is using his geology expertise about planet formation to help identify other planets that might support life.…
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New Research Finds Good News for Designing the Next Generation of Coronaviruses Vaccines
An analysis of blood plasma samples from four people who recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infections shows that most of the antibodies…
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Biologists Discover a Trigger for Cell Extrusion – Process for Eliminating Unneeded Cells
A C. elegans embryo (green) extrudes a cell (magenta cell at center of image) during embryonic development. Credit: Image courtesy…
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Essential virulence proteins of corn smut discovered
Ustilago maydis hyphae inside an infected maize leaf. The red spots are caused by a fluorescent protein that is fused…
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96% of users are not enabling in-app tracking in iOS 14.5
Not surprising Early analysis suggests that following the release of Apple iOS 14.5 on April 26, the vast majority of…
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Citrus Derivative Makes Transparent Wood 100% Renewable
A piece of the transparent wood is displayed. Credit: Céline Montanari Since it was first introduced in 2016, transparent wood…
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18.5 million year old vine fossil identified as new species
A cross-section of an 18.5 million-year-old fossil of Ampelorhiza heteroxylon. Credit: Nathan Jud/Provided An 18.5 million-year-old fossil found in Panama…
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Improvised flamethrower modeled on an Elon Musk design among the weaponry found at US protests, documents focusing on the far-right reveal
Federal, state, and local documents that focus primarily on the threat of the far-right have been made public. An array…
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Need a Great G-Sync Monitor? Here are Your Top Choices
Nvidia’s G-Sync technology gets rid of screen tearing while you’re playing games. For a long time, G-Sync displays were expensive…
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A man was arrested after allegedly spending $5 million in stolen COVID-19 relief on Ferrari, Bentley, and Lamborghini sports cars
A man was arrested Friday on charges related to fraudulently obtaining and spending $5 million in PPP loans. Officials said…
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Roku Yanks YouTube TV From Its Store Over Spat With Google | Digital Trends
In late April, Roku made the decision to pull the YouTube TV app from its channel store, effectively denying it…
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Netflix considering ‘N-Plus’ service that offers playlists, podcasts, and the ability to influence shows
In brief: Netflix is reportedly considering a new service that will let users create shareable, Spotify-style custom playlists, offer a…
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New research sets stage for development of salmonella vaccine
Salmonella forms a biofilm. Credit: CDC With the COVID-19 vaccines on many people’s minds, some may be surprised to learn…
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Archaeologists pinpoint population for the Greater Angkor region
A pair of contemporary Cambodian houses: The house in the background is made from wood and modern materials. The house…
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Best Cheap Soundbar Deals for May 2021: Bose & Sonos | Digital Trends
If you’ve got a shiny new TV, you might run into a common problem — your screen looks great, but…
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Sony Game Boost trailer suggests more older games will receive PS5 improvements
What just happened? Sony has released a short trailer showing off the PS5’s Game Boost feature. Not only does it…
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Measuring time accurately increases the entropy in the universe
By Leah Crane The most accurate clocks create the most disorder Bruce Rolff/Alamy Keeping time accurately comes with a price.…
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NASA Wallops Rocket Launch Will Be Visible in the Eastern United States
KiNet-X Visibility Map. Credit: NASA A mission to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launching…
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Winning gene combination takes all
Young oat seedling roots glow under UV due to the accumulation of the antimicrobial triterpene avenacins. Oats naturally produce avenacins…
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Best Cheap 8K TV Deals for May 2021 | Digital Trends
When you want the best possible resolution for your new TV and not even a 4K TV will do, then…
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StarCraft and Microsoft Flight Simulator among latest inductees into the Video Game Hall of Fame
In brief: The Strong National Museum of Play has announced its class of 2021 inductees into the World Video Game…
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Nano Flashlight Enables New Applications of Light – Such As Detecting Viruses
By Elizabeth A. Thomson, MIT Materials Research Laboratory May 7, 2021 Schematic of three different nano flashlights for the generation…
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China’s emissions now exceed all the developed world’s combined
Credit: CC0 Public Domain China now accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the world’s developed nations combined,…
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April’s dismal jobs report shows the 2019 economy is not coming back and that’s a problem
The US economy only added 266,000 jobs in April, far less than economists’ predictions of 1 million. While leisure and…
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Hdmi 2.1: What It Is, and Why Your Next TV Should Have It | Digital Trends
HDMI 2.0 and its newer sibling, HDMI 2.0b, are still the most common versions of the HDMI standard, but in…
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Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon hits record in April
A riverboat in the Brazilian Amazon transports logs on September 18, 2020 Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon hit a record…
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A Canadian bitcoin ETF has attracted $823 million in just 3 weeks since launching as crypto demand remains strong
S3studio/Getty Images A Canadian bitcoin exchange-traded fund that has only been trading publicly for three weeks has amassed $832 million…
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Apples review: A tender and absurd story of a memory loss pandemic
By Gregory Wakeman Courtesy of Curzon Set in a world where a mysterious illness has puzzled doctors, Christos Nikou’s Apples…
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Why Is COVID-19 So Hard to Treat? A Comprehensive Review of What We Know
Growing Evidence Points to Unique Infectious Profile A comprehensive review into what we know about COVID-19 and the way it…
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7 Things You Didn’t Know Your Video Doorbell Could Do | Digital Trends
A video doorbell can be one of the most powerful items in your home security arsenal; after all, it’s impossible…
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