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Shady iOS developers are hiding casino gambling inside kids’ games
In a nutshell: Several casino gambling games have been popping up in Apple’s App Store disguised as kids games. While…
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Archaeologists Uncover Evidence From Monumental Tombs of Domesticated Dogs in Ancient Arabian Peninsula
This burial site in a badlands area of AlUla in north-west Saudi Arabia is currently rare for Neolithic-Chalcolithic Arabia in…
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Exploring ‘Aquaterra’, the drowned continent walked by our ancestors
A continent’s worth of land inhabited by ancient people has been submerged by rising seas over the past 20,000 years.…
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Dell Refurbished Computers Unbelievably Cheap This Weekend | Digital Trends
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Meltwater Pulse 1A: Melting Ice Sheets Caused Sea Levels to Rise Up to 18 Meters
It is well known that climate-induced sea level rise is a major threat. New research has found that previous ice…
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Researchers develop microscopic theory of polymer gel
Credit: National Research University Higher School of Economics Russian scientists have proposed a theory of phase transformation in polymer gels.…
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Netflix cancellations fell during the first quarter to their lowest level in 2 years, exclusive web-tracking data suggests
Netflix made big subscriber gains amid the pandemic, and new data suggests it’s retaining customers. Visits to Netflix’s cancellation page…
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Tech companies including Amazon, Google, and Uber say they agree to a corporate tax hike to fund the American Jobs Plan
The big picture: Biden wants to fund his American Jobs Plan by raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent…
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Hypnotic New NASA Visualization Probes the Light-Bending Dance of Binary Black Holes
In this frame from the new visualization, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million solar masses lies in the foreground.…
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The Trojan-Horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The social science literature has long viewed homophily and network-based job recruitment as crucial drivers of…
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Bitcoin tumbles 5% from record highs amid Turkey’s crypto-payments ban starting April 30
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Bitcoin slipped as much as 5% from record highs on Friday after amid reports that Turkey’s central…
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Facebook says its AI could help find drug combinations to treat cancer
By Chris Stokel-Walker There are too many drug combinations for humans to evaluate millionsjoker/Getty Images Facebook claims that its new…
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7 Things You Didn’t Know Your Apple Watch Could Do | Digital Trends
The Apple Watch is considered to be the best smartwatch out there, and for good reason. It offers excellent fitness…
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Genshin Impact PlayStation 5 Upgrade Coming This Month | Digital Trends
Free-to-play action RPG Genshin Impact is headed to the PlayStation 5 on April 28, 2021, the PlayStation Blog confirmed today.…
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The Best Laptop Brands for 2021 | Digital Trends
If you like to write, browse, game, or work in different parts of your home or office, a good laptop…
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Scientists in Japan Discover Key to Coronavirus Transmission: Triangular-Shaped Spikes
A more accurate image of a coronavirus particle has triangular-shaped spikes. Scientists from OIST and Queen’s University have found that…
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New NASA visualization probes the light-bending dance of binary black holes
In this frame from the new visualization, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million solar masses lies in the foreground.…
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Resident Evil Village showcase reveals new trailer, demos, Netflix anime clip
Something to look forward to: The Resident Evil Village showcase took place a few hours ago, and with it came…
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Turkey says it will ban the use of cryptocurrencies as a form of payment
The Turkish central bank said on Friday it would ban the use of cryptocurrencies as a form of payment, effective…
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Best Cheap Nespresso Deals for April 2021 | Digital Trends
Are you shopping for cheap deals on single-serve coffee makers or the best Nespresso machines? Nespresso’s single-serve espresso machines and…
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Resident Evil Village Gets Mercenaries Mode and Timed Demo | Digital Trends
A Resident Evil showcase on Thursday revealed new details on Resident Evil Village, including a new game mode and demo…
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Fascinating or Horrifying? Scientists Create Human-Monkey Chimeric Embryos
This image shows a chimera human-monkey blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and…
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SpaceX, NASA give ‘go’ for astronaut launch, 3rd for Dragon
This undated photo made available by SpaceX in April 2021 shows the crew for its third astronaut launch to the…
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Expert advice for keeping ants out of your home
This post has been updated. It was originally published on April 27, 2018. We’re finally starting to move away from…
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Getting COVID-19 doesn’t always protect young people from reinfection, study finds
Getting COVID-19 doesn’t guarantee protection from reinfection. In one study, around 10% of Marine recruits who previously had COVID-19 were…
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Best Buy Just Made the Surface Laptop 3 Incredibly Cheap | Digital Trends
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Microsoft does many things well, though…
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Human cells grown in monkey embryos raise ethical concerns
By New Scientist and Press Association A human-monkey blastocyst, an early stage of embryo development Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of…
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Environmental group sues over protections for 20 species
An environmental group filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the federal government has failed to act on petitions to protect nine…
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How to View Google Earth’s Timelapse Imagery in 3D | Digital Trends
Google has added more enhancements to its impressive Timelapse feature to show in greater detail than ever how our planet…
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The Best Smartphones
Samsung made all the right decisions with its 2021 Galaxy S lineup, bringing a major redesign for its flagship hardware…
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New “Time Machine” Technique Unveiled to Measure Cells
Dendritic cells (co-stained Red/green) in a lymphoid follicle (peyer’s patch) draining the intestine (blue). Credit: Wang Cao and Shengbo Zhang,…
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Around 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex ever walked the Earth
By Karina Shah Estimates suggest that 20,000 adult T. rex existed at any one time ROGER HARRIS/Science Photo Libra A…
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Understanding the growth of disease-causing protein fibres
Transmission Electron Micrograph of fibrils from the protein alpha-synuclein, which is associated with Parkinson’s disease. Credit: University of Bath Amyloid…
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Dancing With the Stars: Corridor Test of Proba-3’s Formation Flying Sensors
Due to launch together in 2023, the two satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in precise formation to form an…
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Officials, voters, show greater concern about ocean waste after kids’ presentations
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from North Carolina State University found that, on average, voters and local leaders…
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Investigating heavy quark physics with the LHCb experiment
A new review published in The European Physical Journal H by Clara Matteuzzi, Research Director at the National Institute for…
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American voters overwhelmingly support the nontraditional measures in Biden’s infrastructure bill
A CNBC poll found that just 36% of voters support Biden’s infrastructure plan as is. But most supported funding for…
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Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe,…
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Bezos talks Amazon Prime, employee work conditions, stock and more in annual letter to shareholders
What just happened? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has published what will ultimately be his final annual letter to shareholders before…
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Recent wildlife documentaries affect public understanding of wider conservation
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Research led by the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has found…
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TSMC: component shortages could continue through 2022
The big picture: To combat the shortage, the world’s largest contract chipmaker is increasing investments to expand capacity and build…
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Detecting Unknown Anomalies: Artificial Intelligence for Space
SONATE-2 in orbit: Visualisation of the new technology testing satellite for highly autonomous payloads and artificial intelligence. Credit: Hakan Kayal…
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Virgin Galactic falls 9% after founder Richard Branson unloads $150 million stake in the company
Virgin Galactic fell as much as 9% on Thursday after its founder Richard Branson sold about $150 million worth of…
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An Australian company helped the FBI crack the San Bernardino iPhone; here’s how
What just happened? The question of who cracked the San Bernardino iPhone and how they did it has been shrouded…
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Norovirus Clusters Known to Cause Stomach Flu Are Resistant to Environmental Stresses and UV Disinfection
Vesicles containing clusters of viruses, including norovirus, within the gut. Credit: NIH New study suggests need to reconsider current disinfection,…
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Sponge parks and vertical gardens – how cities are using nature to overcome extreme weather
GrowGreen’s team adapted the idea of a ‘sponge city’ in West Gorton Park, Manchester, where the natural environment acts as…
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Bank of America smashes forecasts to double profits in 1st-quarter earnings as the US rebound boosts Wall Street
Bank of America’s trading division increased its revenue sharply. Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images Bank of America’s first-quarter earnings smashed…
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Tunisia ‘sandy’ farms resist drought, development
Tunisian farmers in the small fishing town of Ghar El Melh are fighting to preserve a unique way of growing…
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Best Prime Day iPhone Deals 2021: What to Expect | Digital Trends
We’re expecting to see lots of Prime Day deals soon and that includes some no doubt impressive Prime Day iPhone…
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Public Trust in the CDC Falls During COVID Pandemic
This image depicts the exterior of CDC′s “Tom Harkin Global Communications Center” located on the organization′s Roybal Campus in Atlanta,…
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