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India monsoon death toll climbs to 124 as rescuers search for missing
India’s western coast has been inundated by torrential rainfall. The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon…
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It was 1995, 15-inch 800×600 monitors were the norm, what kind of monitor did John Carmack use to code Quake?
Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. When developing Quake at id Software in the mid-90s, John…
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Unvaccinated snow leopard at San Diego Zoo catches COVID-19
In this Oct. 10. 2019, photo, provided by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Ramil, a male snow leopard, rests…
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This natural health doctor has published over 600 articles claiming coronavirus vaccines are a fraud — he’s part of the ‘disinformation dozen’ responsible for the vast majority of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook
12 people are responsible for the majority of COVID-19 disinformation being spread online, a CCDH study found. Number one is…
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Qubit Spin Ice: Emergent Magnetic Monopoles Isolated Using Quantum-Annealing Computer
Researchers have used a D-Wave quantum-annealing computer as a testbed to examine the behavior of emergent magnetic monopoles. Shown here,…
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Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Physicist Steven Weinberg, who won the Nobel prize in 1979 with two other scientists for their…
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The Best 17-Inch Laptop Computers for 2021 | Digital Trends
A 17-inch laptop gives you a larger screen and keyboard, plus additional space for more powerful components. That makes this…
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Wildfire season: 400,000 acres burned in Oregon’s massive Bootleg fire
It’s wildfire season in the US. Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg/Getty Images Over 2.6 million acres have burned in the US this year…
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Investing apps like Robinhood aren’t gambling tools that push new investors to make risky decisions. They’re actually a great way to teach young people how to invest.
As new investors enter the markets, their investment experience can help them make better financial decisions. The SEC’s agenda is…
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary System
A debris disk, which includes comets, asteroids, rocks of various sizes, and plenty of dust, orbits the star Beta Pictoris,…
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A Virgin Galactic ticket holder who met Blue Origin passenger Wally Funk at parties said the 82-year-old had ‘the energy of 6,000 labradors’
A Virgin Galactic ticket holder told Insider that Wally Funk was very “understated” and energetic. Caroline Freeland, who is training…
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Brain Implant Lets Man ‘Speak’ After Being Silent for More Than a Decade
Researchers in California reported Wednesday that they had developed and successfully tested an experimental brain implant that translates brain signals…
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Automakers have battery anxiety, so they’re taking control of the supply – Honest Columnist Tech
‘The batteries don’t show up, you’re bankrupt, you’re dead’ Battery joint ventures have become the hot must-have deal for automakers…
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Freedom Phone: Why you should avoid it and what else to know
The Freedom Phone is a new “free speech and privacy first” handset unveiled last week that’s raising red flags with…
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Biden set to nominate Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador to Australia: report
LoadingSomething is loading. President Joe Biden is set to nominate Caroline Kennedy to become the next ambassador to Australia, according…
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NASA’s Mars helicopter nailed its 10th flight — double what engineers had hoped Ingenuity would do
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its 10th flight on Mars Saturday. That’s twice the number of flights that NASA originally planned…
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Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic: Progress Toward One Drug To Treat All Coronaviruses
Safe and effective vaccines offer hope for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the possible emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2…
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The GOP governor of Arkansas, where vaccines are lagging and COVID-19 is surging, said it’s ‘disappointing’ vaccines are ‘political’
Arkansas is among the states seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases, as many residents are unvaccinated. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson…
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With Steven Weinberg’s death, physics loses a titan
Mythology has its titans. So do the movies. And so does physics. Just one fewer now. Steven Weinberg died July…
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Best Cheap Bose Noise-Cancelling Headphones 700 Deals | Digital Trends
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. The Bose 700 Noise-Cancelling Headphones sit…
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Robocalls still haven’t gone away, so here’s every method we know for stopping them
You should have started to see a reduction in robocalls, or at the least, know who’s calling you, as of…
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Robinhood promises to fix ‘the issues’ that outraged customers when it restricted trading in meme stocks
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev acknowledged the company angered many customers after it blocked them from trading GameStop and other red-hot…
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Solar Dynamics Observatory: Artificial Intelligence Helps Improve NASA’s Eyes on the Sun
The top row of images show the degradation of AIA’s 304 Angstrom wavelength channel over the years since SDO’s launch.…
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Robinhood CEO says the company is all-in on crypto and that users can expect new crypto features at ‘some point’
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is focused on expanding its crypto offerings. He said users can expect a…
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Olympic torches are luminous objects full of symbolism | Popular Science
The Olympic torch relay represents an iconic beginning to the games. Former Olympians and members of the public carry the…
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Monsoon rains flood Philippine villages, thousands evacuate
In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, residents wade along floodwaters as they are evacuated to safer grounds…
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Ingenious Ocean Microbes Team Up Brilliantly To Gather Food When It’s Scarce
Coscinodiscus wailesii diatom with attached Pseudovorticella coscinodisci ciliate epibionts. Streak lines were derived from flows generated by the ciliate epibionts.…
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Cascaded metasurfaces for dynamic control of THz wavefronts
A metadevice for dynamically controlling THz wavefronts by rotating layers of cascaded metasurfaces. Credit: Shanghai University Electromagnetic (EM) waves in…
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Space-Based Infrared Imaging Reveals the Nighttime Weather on Venus
The three main weather patterns on Venus. Researchers think the dayside poleward circulation and newly discovered nightside equatorial circulation may…
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Biden administration cancels border wall contracts covering a 31-mile section in Texas
The Biden DHS is canceling two border wall contracts in the Laredo sector of the US-Mexico border. After taking office…
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6.7-magnitude quake hits Philippines: USGS
A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck deep off the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, followed a few minutes later by a 5.8-magnitude…
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How to use science to talk to kids about gender
From the moment a child is born, they’re bombarded with messages about gender. Girls wear pink and boys wear blue;…
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a Street Culture Symphony | Digital Trends
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is Team Reptile’s (the studio behind the hit pseudo-fighting game Lethal League) upcoming spiritual successor to SEGA’s Jet…
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Early Antiviral Response in the Nose May Determine Mild / Severe Course of COVID-19
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round gold particles) emerging from the surface of a cell cultured in the…
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How To Use the Windows 11 Snap Groups Feature | Digital Trends
Windows 11 brings many new features to play with, and one of those is known as Snap Groups. Though you’ve…
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Why Microsoft Centered the Start Button in Windows 11
Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 11, coming later this year, is fairly similar to its well-received predecessor Windows 10—good news for…
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The Best Steam Games You Should Be Playing in 2021 | Digital Trends
Despite competing platforms like the Epic Games Store and Origin, Steam remains the place to play on PC. Our list of…
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Sequoia’s Mike Vernal outlines how to design feedback loops in the search for product-market fit – Honest Columnist Tech
Sequoia’s Mike Vernal has worn many hats. He was VP of product and engineering at Facebook for eight years before…
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Child tax credit 2021: Manage your monthly payments with an ID.me account. Here’s how
You’ll need an ID.me account to manage your upcoming child tax credit payments. Angela Lang/CNET Haven’t got your July child…
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Mexico to bury archaeological find because of virus costs
The costs of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic have forced Mexican archaeologists to re-bury a unusual find that combined colonial…
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Amazon Prime is giving away Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V
In brief: Are you looking for some older but still fun games to play without putting a hand in your…
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What we know about Russia’s new stealth fighter jet | Popular Science
On Saturday, the tarped form of a new Russian jet rolled into public view. Rostec, the Russian defense giant behind…
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The Best Zelda Breath of the Wild Mods on PC | Digital Trends
Breath of the Wild is a near-perfect game, but super fans might be looking to change up the experience after four…
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Studies examine different understandings, varieties of diversity
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Attitudes toward diversity vary, and its meaning can often be difficult to find consensus about in…
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July’s full moon will be red, thanks to wildfires | Popular Science
Another full moon makes an appearance this weekend. This one, dubbed the Buck Moon by Algonquin tribes from the northeastern…
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Making negative opinions agreeable: Study finds social sharing happens in terms of support
Rhia Catapano is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Her research explores…
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Sony WH-1000XM4 review: Noise-cancelling headphones you can live in
Can a single headphone contain multitudes? Can one piece of audio equipment be something to everyone and everything to more…
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Stanford Device Enables Thousands of Synthetic DNA Enzyme Experiments To Run Simultaneously
HT-MEK – short for High-Throughput Microfluidic Enzyme Kinetics – combines microfluidics and cell-free protein synthesis technologies to dramatically speed up…
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Technology has growing role in corralling US West wildfires
A hotshot hand crew walks in line during a wildfire in Topanga, west of Los Angeles, Monday, July 19, 2021.…
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6 router settings you should change right now
This post has been updated. It was originally published on December 6, 2018. Your router’s features make easier to use,…
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