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How to Watch Live Stream about Ingenuity Flight on Mars | Digital Trends
Tiny helicopter Ingenuity is set to make history this weekend, as it is about to become the first aircraft to…
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Long Live Superconductivity! Short Flashes of Laser Light With Sustaining Impact
An infrared laser pulse induces superconductivity at high temperatures in K3C60. After a prolonged excitation, this light-induced state becomes metastable…
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A California city is paying its homeless population to clean up their tent sites as the state fights a homelessness crisis
The California town of Elk Grove is paying its homeless population $20 gift cards to clean tent sites. The year-long…
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Three Planets Spin so Fast They’re Tearing Themselves Apart | Digital Trends
Brown dwarfs are often called “failed stars.” They form like stars but are not massive enough to fuse hydrogen into…
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How GPT-3 Is Quietly Ushering In the A.I. Revolution | Digital Trends
OpenAI OpenAI’s GPT-2 text-generating algorithm was once considered too dangerous to release. Then it got released — and the world…
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Apple: iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’
In context: Apple’s services purposefully lock consumers into the iPhone ecosystem, preventing them from making an easy switch from iOS…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make Historic First Flight Attempt – “Martian Wright Brothers Moment”
Animation illustrating NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA The small rotorcraft’s “Wright brothers moment” is one Mars day…
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Corona Inhibitors: X-ray Screening Identifies Promising Drugs for Treatment of COVID-19
A team of researchers, including scientists from the MPSD, has identified several candidates for drugs against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus using…
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Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner calls fellow Republican Jim Jordan a ‘political terrorist’
Boehner described several fellow Republicans as “political terrorists,” including Rep. Jim Jordan. “I never saw a guy who spent more…
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Asus ZenBook 13 OLED (UM325) Review: AMD Laptop Perfection? | Digital Trends
Asus ZenBook 13 OLED UM325 review: AMD laptop perfection? “The Asus ZenBook 13 OLED is a must-buy laptop, so long…
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All aboard! Next stop space…
This November 11, 2020, image obtained from Virgin Galactic shows pre-flight operations in Las Cruces, New Mexico Several hundred people…
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NASA’s Odyssey Orbiter Celebrates 20 Years of Mapping Mars | Digital Trends
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars’ south pole in this artist’s concept illustration. The spacecraft launched 20 years ago…
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The Amazon unionizing battle follows a familiar pattern as union accuses the company of ‘illegal and egregious’ actions
Amazon defeated a union drive at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The union working with employees will file objections against…
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Wyze Home Monitoring Review: Great Savings, Gaps to Fill | Digital Trends
Wyze Home Monitoring review: Great savings, gaps to fill “Wyze has an irresistibly priced home security services, but it needs…
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Google Pixel Watch leak gives us a first look at the anticipated smartwatch
In context: Whispers about Google’s smartwatch started to emerge back in 2018, but up until now there wasn’t much to…
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4 gray whales found dead in San Francisco Bay Area in 9 days
by Olga R. Rodriguez This Thursday, April 8, 2021 photo provided by the Marine Mammal Center shows an adult female…
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How to Fix a Broken Keyboard | Digital Trends
You try to type an email, but nothing happens. Or perhaps you can type, but either specific letters don’t appear…
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Bernie Sanders expresses ‘serious concerns’ over Biden proposal for modest increase in Pentagon spending
The Biden administration is asking Congress for $753 billion to fund US military operations. That’s a slight uptick over last…
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High index surfaces-exposed nanodendrites as ORR electrocatalyst
Using an atmosphere switching strategy followed by electrochemical dealloying, researchers have synthesized composition-graded [email protected]@Pt nanodendrites exposing high index surfaces, which…
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This Could Be Our First Look at the Google Pixel Watch | Digital Trends
Google has been rumored to be working on a Pixel Watch for years now, and over that time we’ve heard…
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Has the Mac Pro Lived Up to Its Promise of Modularity? | Digital Trends
The Mac Pro redesign of 2019 was one of the biggest overhauls of an Apple product since — well, ever.…
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Genetic Link Discovered Between Face and Brain Shape
An interdisciplinary team led by KU Leuven and Stanford has identified 76 overlapping genetic locations that shape both our face…
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Anti-Defamation league calls on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson after host embraces white supremacist “great replacement theory” on air
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt sent a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott asking for Tucker Carlson to be fired.…
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First Exploration of Ocean Currents Beneath the “Doomsday Glacier” Triggers Concerns
For the first time, researchers have been able to obtain data from underneath Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday…
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Current climate model simulations overestimate future sea-level rise
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The melting rate of the Antarctic ice sheet is mainly controlled by the increase of ocean…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter to make first flight attempt Sunday
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or…
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This Peacock Premium Deal Gives You 4 Months for Just $10 | Digital Trends
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Looking for the best way to…
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An Evolutionary Discovery That “Literally Changes the Textbook”
Behold, the gar’s brain. In this microscope image, the brain’s left hemisphere fluoresces green and the right glows magenta. Yet,…
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The Best Laptops for Video Editing in 2021 | Digital Trends
Video editing is a task that requires you to have access to a high-quality display and enough computing power to…
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Here’s what’s in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that Trump abandoned and Biden is vying to restore
Biden has made restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal a top foreign policy goal. Trump withdrew from the deal in…
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Samsung’s next flagship phones may feature Olympus-branded cameras
Bottom line: Samsung could be the latest smartphone maker to partner with an established photography company on an upcoming flagship.…
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Artemis I: NASA’s Bold Plans to Travel Beyond the Moon [Video]
By NASA April 9, 2021 During Artemis I, Orion will venture thousands of miles beyond the moon during an approximately…
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How to clean your computer screen safely, whether it’s glass-coated or an LED/LCD
It’s important to clean off your computer screen periodically, but many people don’t know how to properly clean their screens.…
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Thousands flee as volcano erupts on Caribbean island of St Vincent
The 4,049-foot La Soufriere, pictured in January 2021, had not erupted in more than 40 years A volcano that has…
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Canopy Growth’s acquisition spree
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The Google Pixel 5a Has Reportedly Been Canceled | Digital Trends
The Google Pixel 3a and 4a have been among the best phones in their price ranges of their times, but…
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4 reasons why the housing market will cool down and settle into a long and sustainable boom, Jefferies says
The housing market’s hot streak will soon evolve to slower and more sustainable growth, Jefferies said. A historic supply shortage…
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Researchers Capture Rare Honey Bee Behavior From Within the Hive
Through video analysis, the researchers identified multiple honey bee behaviors inside the hive, including hive remodeling, surface cleaning, self-grooming, brood…
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Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner says he wishes he’d fought against Bill Clinton’s impeachment by Republicans
John Boehner, the former Republican House Speaker, wrote in his forthcoming memoir that he regrets supporting former President Bill Clinton’s…
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US adds seven more Chinese supercomputing entities to blacklist
What just happened? Not for the first time, the US government has added Chinese supercomputing entities to the same export…
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Sony SRS-RA5000 360 Speaker Review: An Expensive Experiment | Digital Trends
“An intriguing but pricey speaker that doesn’t quite live up to the hype.” Easy setup Crystal-clear sound Chromecast support Works…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Packs Its Tennis Court-Sized Sunshield for a Million Mile Journey
Both sides of the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield were lifted vertically in preparation for the folding of the sunshield…
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Video shows Trump meeting the man at the center of the Matt Gaetz sex trafficking allegations
A video has surfaced of Donald Trump being greeted at an airport by a man at the center of Rep.…
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New cyclone barrels toward disaster-struck Indonesia
Joko Widodo arrived in hard-hit Lembata island Friday morning A new cyclone was barrelling toward Indonesia and threatened to spark…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink releases video of monkey playing Pong with its mind
What just happened? Elon Musk’s Neuralink company has just released a video of a monkey playing a video game using…
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Mystery About How Particles Behave Outside a Black Hole Photon Sphere Solved With String Theory
An artist’s impression of a “string” passing near a black hole. As the string approaches the black hole, it is…
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Biodiversity ‘hot spots’ devastated in warming world
So-called endemic species—plants and animals found only in certain zones—will be hit hardest in a warming world Unless nations dramatically…
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The Ultimate Surround Sound Guide: Every Format Explained | Digital Trends
The state of play Before the coronavirus pandemic upended life as we knew it, movie theaters were undergoing a renaissance…
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One in Ten People Still Have Long-Term Effects 8 Months Following Mild COVID-19
Researchers Charlotte Thålin and Sebastian Havervall at Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet. Credit: Ludvig Kostyal Eight months after mild COVID-19,…
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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Rep. Matt Gaetz ‘needs to resign’ amid sex-trafficking investigation
Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Rep. Matt Gaetz “needs to resign” in a tweet Thursday. Kinzinger also linked to a story…
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