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Pentax K-1 Mark II Silver Edition
Photography Blog - 27 Aug 2020 10:00
Pentax have unveiled a limited-edition silver model of the K-1 Mark II 35mm full-frame digital SLR camera and three HD PENTAX-D FA... lenses. The Pentax K-1 Mark II Silver Edition costs £1899 and will be available from ...
Apple Employees Who Completed This Year's 'Close Your Rings' Challenge Receive Shirt and Congratulatory Card
Mac Rumors - 27 Aug 2020 22:24
Apple each year hosts a company wide fitness challenge for its employees at corporate offices and retail stores around the world, tasking participants to close all three of their Apple Watch Activity Rings every day of t...
The Loophole the DMV Uses to Sell Your Data to Private Investigators
Motherboard - 27 Aug 2020 15:00
Some private investigators told Motherboard that the reasons they can give to DMVs to access drivers' personal data are too broad.
Sensing the Moon
ESA - 27 Aug 2020 14:41
Image: A new sensor to identify lunar volatiles is being assembled in a clean room at The Open University, UK ahead of some exciting missions to the Moon. The Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) imaged above is a part of a...
How to apply both left and right alignment by using a table in Microsoft Word
TechRepublic - 27 Aug 2020 22:44
Unlike a line of text, which responds to only one alignment setting, a table lets you set a different alignment for every cell.
Luna-25 Lander Renews Russian Moon Rush
Scientific American - 27 Aug 2020 12:45
The former front-runner in the lunar space race aims to rekindle its exploration after nearly half a century --
Climbing Mount Everest Has Gotten Easier, Study Finds
Gizmodo - 27 Aug 2020 22:34
Climbing Mount Everest is one of the hardest athletic feats a person can do. But new research out this week suggests that it has gotten easier to pull off in recent years. The study found the success rate of climbing the...
LG's battery-powered face mask will "make breathing effortless"
Ars Technica - 27 Aug 2020 18:53
The face mask lasts for up to eight hours on a charge.
Report: Facebook Chose Not to Take Down Militia Group That Brought Guns to Kenosha Protests
Gizmodo - 27 Aug 2020 02:55
Facebook received reports in advance about the Kenosha Guard, a self-proclaimed militia that urged gun owners to "defend" Kenosha, Wisconsin against Black Lives Matter protesters on Tuesday. It chose not to do anything, ...
We can train our brain to access our unconscious for a cognitive boost
New Scientist - 27 Aug 2020 12:00
People who were rewarded whenever they acted according to their unconscious brain activity were able to learn a rule for answering questions correctly, without consciously being aware of the answer
Record-setting Hurricane Laura kills 4, leaves trail of destruction across Louisiana
Live Science - 27 Aug 2020 22:01
The strongest Gulf hurricane since Katrina barrelled ashore in southwestern Louisiana early this morning (Aug. 27). Floodwaters may not recede for days.
Earth may have formed with enough water to fill the oceans three times
New Scientist - 27 Aug 2020 21:00
A fresh look at the type of space rocks thought to have formed our planet suggests they contain more water than we thought, indicating early Earth was very wet
Octupole corner state in a three-dimensional topological circuit
Phys.org - 27 Aug 2020 18:45
Higher-order topological insulators featuring quantized bulk polarizations and zero-dimensional corner states are attracting increasing interest due to their strong mode confinement. Recently, scientists from China and t...
Supernovae could enable the discovery of new Muonic physics
Phys.org - 27 Aug 2020 15:50
A supernova, the explosion of a white-dwarf or massive star, can create as much light as billions of normal stars. This transient astronomical phenomenon can occur at any point after a star has reached its final evolutio...
Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245
Live Science - 27 Aug 2020 13:00
A scientist predicts looming crises based on the growth of digital content
Fauci: I Was Having Surgery When Task Force Discussed Watering Down CDC Testing Guidelines
Gizmodo - 27 Aug 2020 05:00
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that he wasn't present in the room when other members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force decided to change its covid-19 testing guidelines. In fact, he was zonked out to high he...
Google Location-Tracking Tactics Troubled Its Own Engineers
SecurityWeek - 27 Aug 2020 03:35
Google's own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn't want to be followed until a 2018 Associated Press investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, accordin...
SpaceX to attempt rare on-shore Falcon 9 rocket landing this week - CNET
CNET - 27 Aug 2020 01:37
The rocket will follow a path not flown since 1960.
Ancient caiman with 'no parallel in the modern world' left 46 bite marks on sloth leg
Live Science - 27 Aug 2020 23:39
This type of caiman could grow to up to 33 feet in length.
Facebook is cracking down on platform abusers with a pair of new lawsuits
Digital Trends - 27 Aug 2020 23:16
Facebook said the developers violated its terms of service
Cells solved Henry VIII's infamous hedge maze by 'seeing around corners,' video shows
Live Science - 27 Aug 2020 23:10
Cells intuitively avoided dead-ends in a microscopic maze using a technique called chemotaxis.
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
New Scientist - 27 Aug 2020 21:00
For the first time, Google has used its quantum computer Sycamore to simulate a chemical reaction, paving the way for quantum chemistry algorithms