quarta-feira, 10 de março de 2021


A Bloodsucking Fish May Not Be the Vertebrate Ancestor We Thought

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 08:15 AM PST

Derpy from the side and hellish from below, the lamprey is the bane of the Great Lakes fisheries industry. A jawless, bloodsucking fish, the lamprey is often considered an ancestral early vertebrate for its rudimentary morphology and its larval life stage. Now, a team of researchers has authored a new study about…

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Researchers Created a High-Contrast Transparent Screen That Might Make You Want to Wear Smart Glasses

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 08:00 AM PST

Researchers at Jilin University in Changchun, China, have come up with a method for making transparent displays that look as good as the screens on our mobile devices, with color reproduction and contrast levels that could soon have us permanently ditching smartphones and tablets for smart glasses.

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Physicists Measure the Smallest Gravitational Field Ever Detected

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 08:00 AM PST

Over the Christmas season of 2019, four physicists hovered over two minuscule gold orbs, each about the size of a ladybug, in a Vienna laboratory. It was silent, in all the ways you can imagine: audibly, seismically, even electromagnetically. It had to be, as the researchers were trying to detect the influence of one…

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Save Big on Laptops, Desktops, and Monitors in Today's Best Dell and Alienware Deals

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 06:45 PM PST

Featured Deal: Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Laptop | $398 | Dell | Use code SAVE17

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Nikon's Z9 Could Be Its Last Shot to Hang with Canon and Sony

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 07:31 AM PST

It's no secret Nikon has been struggling, but that isn't stopping the company from pulling out all the stops for the upcoming Z9, which has now been officially announced to arrive sometime before the end of 2021.

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You Can Play Tetris on a Giant Mechanical Flipboard Display but Would You Want To?

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 07:10 AM PST

There's a certain charm to the old-school mechanical flipboard displays that were most commonly used to display arrival and departure times at airports and train stations for decades. There's a good reason they weren't used for much else, however, as this attempt to play Tetris on one of the displays demonstrates.

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Peloton Brings Back Popular Sessions Feature for Working Out With Friends

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 07:00 AM PST

Peloton's limited social features are expanding—sort of. The company is bringing back a feature called Sessions, though only in its iOS app.

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James Gunn Hits Back at Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Casting Rumors

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 06:17 AM PST

A Schitt's Creek star is coming to Russian Doll's second season. Sam and Bucky discuss "the big three" in the latest footage from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Mirror Master strikes back in the next episode of The Flash. Plus, what's to come on Batwoman. Spoilers now!

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How to Fix Crypto Art NFTs' Carbon Pollution Problem

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 06:20 AM PST

The "crypto-" carbon crisis is evolving. And after years of low-key use, art and collectibles tied to what are known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have exploded into the global discourse as the Next Big Thing. Embedded with it, though, is an existential tension.

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This Is the SSD I'd Put in My Next PC

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 06:00 AM PST

A PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD is the newer and faster sibling to the gum stick-sized SSD you probably have in your computer right now, and with new options from AMD, Intel, and Sony, we now have more reasons to upgrade.

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Get 10% off Nintendo Gift Cards Today Because It's This Mario Guy's Day or Something?

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 05:26 AM PST

How to Switch Password Managers Without Losing Your Data

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 05:30 AM PST

Using a password manager or web browser to store all of your login credentials is a convenient and secure way of managing access to your accounts, but you don't necessarily want to keep all of your passwords in the same place forever. Maybe the pricing structure has changed in the app you're using, or you just want to…

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This Drone in a Bowling Alley Is the Coolest Video You'll See All Week

Posted: 10 Mar 2021 02:15 AM PST

Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos? Then you're in luck, because we've got the coolest video you'll see all week—an expertly piloted and impressively directed video that was shot at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis.

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Hackers Target Surveillance Firm, Exposing 150,000 Live Camera Feeds in Hospitals, Jails, and Tesla

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 04:45 PM PST

A hacker group claims to have recently broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada, a Silicon Valley startup that sells and manages security systems to thousands of organizations across the country.

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Get a $100 Xbox Gift Card for $90 and Put That Extra $10 Towards More Xbox Games

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 05:10 AM PST

$100 Xbox Gift Card | $90 | Newegg | Use code EMCETEB25

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Elon Musk Explains Why the Starship SN10 Prototype Exploded After Landing

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 04:22 PM PST

The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype ended with a successful landing on March 3 — and then, moments later, ended for a second time with an explosion.

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Samsung's Next Galaxy Unpacked Event Set for March 17

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 03:50 PM PST

Samsung's last product launch was just two months ago, but it seems the Korean tech giant has enough shiny new devices to hold another Galaxy Unpacked event on March 17.

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Cloud Gaming Platform Shadow Has Filed for Bankruptcy, a 'Victim of Its Success'

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 03:30 PM PST

The company behind the cloud gaming platform Shadow has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and receivership in France, according to 9to5Google. Shadow recently posted an update to its blog confirming that it was undergoing a "reorganization" to get rid of the debt it had amassed building its cloud gaming platform in…

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Some Mandalorian Books Have Been Canceled, But Not for the Reason You Think

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 12:30 PM PST

Fans looking forward to the universe of The Mandalorian expanding in print are going to be disappointed, as two future books centered on the Disney+ Star Wars franchise have been cancelled. But it's not for the reason you think.

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No, Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality Goggles Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 02:03 PM PST

The billionaires are once again claiming that tech will save us. In an interview published Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that by the end of this decade, he expects we'll all have access to virtual reality goggles that will allow us to feel like we're teleporting into other people's houses and hanging out.…

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Expert Panel Calls for More Smokers to Get Tested for Lung Cancer Starting at 50 Years Old

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 02:50 PM PST

More people with a long history of smoking should be tested annually for lung cancer, even if they've quit in recent years, according to new guidance released Tuesday by a government-backed panel of health experts.

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Disney Zooms Past 100 Million Subscribers as It Aims for 100 New Titles Each Year

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 02:40 PM PST

A little over a year after its launch, Disney says it has already reached an astonishing 100 million subscribers.

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The 10 Best Deals of March 9, 2021

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 01:00 PM PST

Recovery of Rare Meteorite a ‘Dream Come True’ for UK Scientists

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 02:15 PM PST

A chunk of black rock dating back to the earliest days of the solar system has fallen onto a residential driveway in the UK.

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Facebook Details Its Dream for AR Glasses, and Honestly, I Don't Hate It

Posted: 09 Mar 2021 02:00 PM PST

It's well-known that Facebook's partnering with Ray-Ban to develop a pair of augmented reality glasses. What's less clear is how Facebook envisions these glasses will function, and how the company imagines people will interact with the device. A new Facebook Reality Labs blog sheds a little light on that front—and it…

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