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NE-1 Helmet evolved face mask provides N95-level purification
The Gadget Flow - 15 Oct 2020 15:00
The NE-1 Helmet evolved face mask is an air-purifying respirator for everyday use that takes purification to the next level through its powered air system. In fact, it provides N95-level purified air for your breathing a...
PS4 update 8.00 added a privacy notification that has players panicking
Slash Gear - 15 Oct 2020 02:41
The newly released PlayStation 4 version 8.00 software update rolled out to console owners today, adding a number of new features while taking away a couple of minor ones. Not mentioned in Sony’s update announcement, h...
A Profanity Filter Banned the Word 'Bone' at a Paleontology Conference
Motherboard - 15 Oct 2020 15:00
"Words like 'bone,' 'pubic,' and 'stream' are frankly ridiculous to ban in a field where we regularly find pubic bones in streams," one participant said of the filter, which organizers had to thwart.
Zoom is finally rolling out its end-to-end encryption feature
Slash Gear - 15 Oct 2020 01:41
Several months after stating that it would introduce the highly requested security feature, Zoom is finally rolling out end-to-end encryption on its remote working platform, providing users with a more secure option at t...
Bill Nye to flat Earthers and science deniers: 'It affects all of us'
Live Science - 15 Oct 2020 14:16
"The flat earthers, the anti vaxxers, the anti maskers are not on board with the progress of science. And the thing is, it affects all of us," Bill Nye said.
Rice's Haotian Wang wins Packard fellowship
EurekAlert! - 15 Oct 2020 06:00
(Rice University) Rice University engineer Haotian Wang is named a Packard Fellow, one of 20 researchers in the nation to earn the honor this year.
Huawei reportedly trying to sell off parts of Honor subsidiary
Slash Gear - 15 Oct 2020 02:31
Huawei seems to be in dire straits, enough to need to sell off parts of its business to refocus its resources. While it isn’t bowing out of the smartphone business completely, sources claim that it is looking into sell...
What is RNA?
Live Science - 15 Oct 2020 23:18
RNA keeps some of life's most important processes humming, from building your body's proteins to silencing genes.
Remembering Novelty
Neuroscience News - 15 Oct 2020 22:48
Researchers have identified a signaling pathway in the hippocampus that plays a critical role in creates novel memories about new environments.
Automatic Decision-Making Prevents Us Harming Others
Neuroscience News - 15 Oct 2020 21:41
People make automatic and efficient decisions when learning to avoid others. When learning to avoid harming themselves, people make become more deliberative. The study also found people were more willing to repeat decisi...
How the Nervous System Mutes or Boosts Sensory Information to Make Behavioral Decisions
Neuroscience News - 15 Oct 2020 21:10
Researchers have identified a novel neural network in fruit flies that converts external stimuli of varying intensity into decisions about whether to act.
Lack of Interest Linked With Increased Risk of Dementia
Neuroscience News - 15 Oct 2020 20:55
People who experience severe apathy have a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, a new study reports.
Physicists keep trying to break the rules of gravity but this supermassive black hole just said 'no'
Live Science - 15 Oct 2020 19:26
A new test of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has proved the 20th Century physicist right again, this time using a supermassive black hole.
ESA awards contracts for moon and Mars exploration
Space News - 15 Oct 2020 13:07
The European Space Agency has awarded contracts for work on elements of its moon and Mars exploration program, ranging from modules for the lunar Gateway to a mission to return Mars samples to Earth. SpaceNews
Zoom launches OnZoom marketplace alongside new features
Slash Gear - 15 Oct 2020 03:41
Some say that you’ve really become a platform when you’re big enough to have your own store, be it for digital content or even physical products. In that sense, Zoom has probably now grown up to be exactly that, perh...
GameStop's new deal with Microsoft includes Xbox digital revenue sharing
Slash Gear - 15 Oct 2020 23:40
Struggling video game retailer GameStop quietly announced a major new revenue-sharing deal with Microsoft last week, eclipsing the news with information about what Microsoft gets from this arrangement. Details about the ...
Hockey game turned into COVID-19 superspreader event
Live Science - 15 Oct 2020 21:52
Fourteen out of 22 players developed COVID-19 after the game.
Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit
New Scientist - 15 Oct 2020 19:56
A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster have narrowly avoided a collision. If they had hit each other, it would have created two orbiting clouds of hazardous shrapnel that could threaten other satellites
Covid-19 news: Record low percentage of contacts traced in England
New Scientist - 15 Oct 2020 19:53
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Social life of extinct sabre-toothed cat revealed by ancient DNA
New Scientist - 15 Oct 2020 18:00
Homotherium, a sabre-toothed cat that lived in the Americas and Eurasia during the most recent ice age, was a swift and social predator, according to its genes
When Fock meets Landau: Topology in atom-photon interactions
Phys.org - 15 Oct 2020 17:59
Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major research area in condensed matter physics. Many topological phases are predicted in lattices with specific engineering o...
Exclusive: Concerns raised about vital UK covid-19 infection survey
New Scientist - 15 Oct 2020 16:36
A covid-19 infection survey by the UK Office for National Statistics is seen as the gold standard for tracking the coronavirus, but response rates have plummeted, which risks the results being unreliable