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For Jim Breyer, the mantra, “Silicon Valley is a state of mind” has always been behind Breyer Capital, his personal investment fund. While many of his investments and board seats (which have included Facebook, Blacks...

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A call to public galleries, libraries, archives, and museums to liberate our cultural heritage. Illustrated with the cautionary tales of extinct species and our lack of access to what remains of them. Part I. How many pe...

The Peloton Bike+ home exercise bicycle seriously upgrades your indoor workout experience. In fact, this indoor bike gives you access to classes for cycling, yoga, stretching, strength, and meditation. And it’s easy to...

As the race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus that causes covid-19 continues, a crucial question is on the horizon: Should a successful vaccine be made mandatory for children entering school? In a new paper out Mo...

The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow! The post An Update on the Damage to the Arecibo Observatory appeared first on Univ...

Intel has quietly confirmed that it will do an 8-core version of its 11th-gen Tiger Lake chip. In a September 3 blog post on Medium noticed by Tom's Hardware, Intel's Boyd Phelps confirmed that in addition to the quad-co...

Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold. The post Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See app...

In about 12 hours, LG will be revealing one of its craziest smartphones yet. Having tried the dual-screen idea and not really that interested in an expensive foldable phone, the company will instead be putting a smaller ...

The story of Crystal Dynamics and Square-Enix's Marvel's Avengers caught many off-guard heading into the grindy, loot-driven brawler, expecting a perfunctory tutorial to the game's all-encompassing live-service mechanics...

Mysterious midnight disaster spared critical electronics in iconic alien-hunting telescope called the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Combining two popular diets — intermittent fasting and the Mediterranean diet — may be the most effective protocol for reducing one’s risk of developing a large number of health issues, according to new research pu...

This afternoon Fortnite experienced some issues. Messages such as “you do not have permission to play Fortnite” or “Your account no longer has play access to Fortnite” appeared for a significant number of gamers ...

With the clock ticking down to Apple’s official virtual event on Tuesday, last-minute leaks of this year’s iPhone generation continue to come in. Not all of them, however, are encouraging, like word about the expecte...

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An infinite chain of hydrogen atoms is just about the simplest bulk material imaginable--a never-ending single-file line of protons surrounded by electrons. Yet a new computational study combining four cutting-edge metho...

Researchers have detected significant amounts of DNA traps in distinct compartments of the lungs of patients who died from Covid-19. These traps, called NETs, are released massively into the airways, the lung tissue and ...

What you need to know A new thermostat from Nest has passed through the FCC. The inclusion of a 60GHz transmitter is leading some to believe this model will launch with Soli-based gesture controls. After seeing Google's ...

The proliferation of true wireless stereo or TWS earbuds like the Apple AirPods is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it has helped make wireless earbuds and earphones more common, making the loss of the headphone ja...

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The United States has seen a 200% increase in the rate of deaths by opioid overdose in the last 20 years. But many of these deaths were preventable. Naloxone, also called Narcan, is a prescription drug that reverses opio...

A team of scientists led by Kanazawa University proposed a new mathematical framework to understand the properties of the fundamental particles called neutrinos. This work may help cosmologists make progress on the appar...