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The best Thunderbolt docking stations for laptops
Laptops are great, but a Thunderbolt docking station can make them even better. Anyone who had an older machine will…
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Steam Deck will support games with Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat software | Engadget
Things are looking brighter for Valve’s Steam Deck and its potential game library. On Friday, the company announced titles that…
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Facebook’s Unglamorous Mistakes
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. In a Facebook group…
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Moms in Middle Age: Rarely Alone, Often Online and Increasingly Lonely
Middle age is a crowded time. It’s also a lonely one. Work and family demands leave little time for nurturing…
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Genetic Research Shows Rapid Immune Response in Children Protects Them From COVID-19
Discovery of importance of interferon response in preventing serious infection will underpin new diagnostics and therapeutics. Fundamental differences in the…
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Increasingly efficient production of human pluripotent stem cells
Reliable production of high-quality iPS cells enables their increasingly efficient utilization in biomedical applications. Credit: Ras Trokovic, University of Helsinki…
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Nvidia raises the price of Founders Edition GPUs in Europe, officially
In brief: Nvidia’s European websites have been updated with new MSRPs for the RTX 3000-series Founders Edition models. The GPUs…
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McAfee issues security bulletin, patches bugs that can lead to system level privileges
In brief: McAfee Agent, a component of the company’s ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), is deployed to client machines to report data,…
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A nonlinear-transport perspective of field-induced phase transitions in pentatellurides
The evolution of longitudinal resistivity ρxx and transverse resistivity ρxy as a function of biased electric fields in different magnetic…
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Science Made Simple: What Is Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Reactor Fuel?
By U.S. Department of Energy January 22, 2022 The fusion of deuterium (D) and tritium (T) atoms has been proven…
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OnePlus 9RT review: A lackluster return to value flagships
OnePlus is dead, long live OnePlus. Ardent fans and many closely following the smartphone industry have been sounding the alarm…
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US labor board says Amazon illegally fired union organizer in New York | Engadget
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has determined that Amazon illegally fired former worker Daequan Smith for trying to unionize…
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Lighted nets dramatically reduce bycatch of sharks and other wildlife while making fishing more efficient
A new study finds that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish.…
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How 5G Clashed With an Aviation Device Invented in the 1920s
Altimeters are a key part of the 787’s landing system, turning on the reverse thrusters that slow the plane once…
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The Best Bren Loadouts in Call of Duty: Warzone | Digital Trends
Now that the dust has settled and the Call of Duty: Warzone meta has been established, many players have flocked to…
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Tug of sun, moon could be driving plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study led by geophysicist Anne M. Hofmeister in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in…
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The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here—We Just Haven’t Noticed Yet
Before there was a “metaverse,” before there were crypto millionaires, before nearly every kid in America wanted to be an…
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The best new TV shows to stream this week on Netflix, HBO Max, and more
Ryan Haines / Android Authority We have four all-new streaming TV shows to watch this week. We also have the…
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Biden Looks to Intel’s U.S. Investment to Buoy His China Agenda
WASHINGTON — In celebrating a $20 billion investment by Intel in a new semiconductor plant in Ohio, President Biden sought…
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Robinhood opens cryptocurrency wallet to beta testers | Engadget
, Robinhood announced plans to test a cryptocurrency wallet within its app. At the time, the company said it would…
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead joins the cast of Star Wars: Ahsoka | Digital Trends
The Book of Boba Fett may be currently streaming on Disney+, but the next chapter in the Star Wars saga…
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The Doomsday Clock explained: What to know about the troubling timepiece
The Doomsday Clock in 2021. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists/Thomas Gaulkin It’s never good to see the word “doomsday” making…
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Numbers show the RTX 3050 isn’t worth it for mining
Why it matters: When Nvidia unveiled the desktop RTX 3050 at CES at the beginning of this month, some probably…
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‘We Met in Virtual Reality’ finds love in the metaverse | Engadget
Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a sanitized, hypercapitalist metaverse will likely never be as compelling or idiosyncratic as VRChat, the virtual…
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Rainbow Six Extraction: 9 Tips and Tricks for Beginners | Digital Trends
Rainbow Six Extraction is an unforgiving game. Not only does it throw a bunch of concepts and strange terminology at…
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IBM Sells Watson Health Assets to Investment Firm
International Business Machines Corp. IBM -1.12% agreed to sell the data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business to…
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Experts Roundup: lead magnets, e-commerce trends, software developer Q&A – BizNewsPost Tech
Let’s get into it! Software consulting (BizNewsPost Tech+) How should non technical founders collaborate with software developers? Miranda Halpern continues…
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Simulations show iron catalyzes corrosion in ‘inert’ carbon dioxide
Iron (blue) can react with trace amounts of water to produce corrosive chemicals despite being bathed in “inert” supercritical fluids…
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Icefish build bizarre undersea nests—and that’s just the beginning
Oftentimes, the most astounding scientific discoveries are made entirely by accident. It was 3 am one sunshine-filled night in February…
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Searching for Elusive Continuous Gravitational Waves From the Densest Objects in the Universe
Artist’s impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University A new…
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The deadly combination behind the surge of ‘superbug’ fungus outbreaks
This week, a hospital in New Orleans reported two patients with a fungal disease caused by Candida auris, which can…
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Niantic shuts down Pokémon Go trading on hearing one player got 100 ‘lucky’ trades
In a nutshell: Lucky Pokémon are ultra-rare monsters with better stats and a boon of a 50-percent reduced resource cost…
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More Body Fat Than Expected in Granddaughters of Men Who Started To Smoke Before Puberty
Research shows granddaughters and great-granddaughters of men who start to smoke before puberty have more body fat than expected. A…
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Mid-level flare erupts from sun
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on Jan. 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EST.…
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What the Tonga volcano’s past tells us about what to expect next
On January 15, an underwater volcano in the island nation of Tonga erupted with the explosive force of a nuclear…
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Trillion Dollar Future “Space Economy” Threatened by Debris
The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to…
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Los Angeles weighs phasing out oil and gas drilling
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles has a lot in common with urban areas across…
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Climate change makes it deadlier to cross the US-Mexico border
The climate crisis has created what is an estimated millions of climate refugees. In the Americas alone, communities have experienced…
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Samsung teases the Galaxy S22 for its February Unpacked event
Something to look forward to: The brief teaser for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy flagship hints that the S and Note series…
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NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Grounded: First Flight Delay Due to Inclement Weather on Another World
Dust Storm and Jezero Crater: Images acquired Jan. 9, 2022, from the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance…
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The nerve bundle in an elephant’s trunk found to be one of the largest known structures of its type
Figure 1. The elephant trigeminal ganglion and infraorbital nerve axons (A) Schematic of an elephant head with the brain in dark…
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Tracking quantum phenomena in 2D graphene
Left panel: Downstream (red lines) and upstream (dashed black lines). Middle panel: Schematic for noise measurement for “upstream” mode detection.…
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Modeling how cells choose their fates
Credit: Ronghui Zhu, Elowitz lab, Caltech It may seem hard to believe, but each one of us began as a…
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Russia wants to ban cryptocurrency trading and mining
What just happened? Russia has proposed following China in coming down hard on cryptocurrency. The country’s central bank has suggested…
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We’re still in the dark about a key black hole paradox
Very little about black holes, among the strangest objects in the universe, is straightforward. Scientists have a more complete conception…
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Instagram will now reduce the visibility of ‘potentially harmful’ content | Engadget
Instagram is taking new steps to make content less visible in its app. The company says that the algorithm powering…
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Intel to Invest at Least $20 Billion in Ohio Chip-Making Facility
Intel Corp. INTC -2.95% plans to invest at least $20 billion in new chip-making capacity in Ohio, according to a…
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Intel is spending $20 billion to build a massive chip-making facility in Ohio | Engadget
Intel has revealed its plans to build a massive semiconductor facility in Ohio to Time — one that company CEO…
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Elon Musk asked to help Tonga reconnect to the internet | Digital Trends
A New Zealand lawmaker has asked SpaceX chief Elon Musk to help Tonga restore connectivity after Saturday’s massive volcanic eruption…
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Scientists recommend system of checkpoints to help guide climate engineering research
This graphic describes checkpoints and off ramps to guide research on marine cloud brightening as a proposed strategy for mitigating…
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