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How to Save Tons of Time. Kelvin Pimont Lightroom Brush Presets Review
The Phoblographer - 16 Oct 2020 12:00
Years ago, I used to create all my own Brush Presets in Lightroom. So I never took all the on-market ones very seriously. But the Kelvin Pimont Lightroom Brush Presets are some of the first that I'm genuinely impressed w...
Marshall Emberton review: Little rockstar
Pocket-lint - 16 Oct 2020 14:00
As a Bluetooth speaker this little banger delivers sound well beyond its small frame. But the real appeal is the classic Marshall styling - not only
How to Use All the New Messages Features in iOS 14
Gizmodo - 16 Oct 2020 21:30
iOS 14 rolled out in September with a completely new look: For the first time, you can customize everything about your home screen, app icons, and much more. With all of the changes, you'd be forgiven for missing some sm...
The Most Effective Drugs for Common Type of Neuropathic Pain
Neuroscience News - 16 Oct 2020 22:33
A study of four drugs to combat chronic neuropathic pain finds Nortriptyline has the highest efficacious percentage and lowest quit rate.
Google Is Bucking Trends with the Pixel 5, and It's Awesome
Gizmodo - 16 Oct 2020 22:10
Ever since Google bought a big chunk of HTC and began integrating its U.S. and Taiwan teams (the Pixel 3a was the first Pixel primarily designed in Taiwan), it's felt like Google has been a bit confused about the Pixel's...
Python tried to eat sleeping woman while being tracked by biologists
New Scientist - 16 Oct 2020 18:49
A biologist tracking a 4-metre-long python in Australia warned local residents to be on their guard - but one woman woke to find the snake trying to eat her
Layer-cake 2-D superconductivity: Developing clean 2-D superconductivity in a bulk van der Waals superlattice
Phys.org - 16 Oct 2020 16:00
Materials science has had a profound historical impact on humanity since the advent of the Iron and Bronze ages. Presently, materials scientists are intrigued by a class of materials known as quantum materials, whose ele...
NASA's About to Try Grabbing a Chunk of Asteroid to Bring to Earth--and You Can Watch
Singularity Hub - 16 Oct 2020 15:00
If you've seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars in a stripped-down rocket in hopes of his carefully-calculated trajectory takin...
Google Made Some Improvements to Search, and I Have Concerns
Gizmodo - 16 Oct 2020 02:04
Google is taking a cue from the Apple-owned music recognition app Shazam by enabling a search feature that will recognize any song you hum to it--and you don't need to hum on-key either, apparently. Hum to Search, along ...
Historical records hint daughters of older mothers may be less fertile
New Scientist - 16 Oct 2020 18:51
A study of women born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1874 adds to the evidence that the daughters of older mothers may be slightly less fertile
Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement
Phys.org - 16 Oct 2020 16:00
In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the formation and breakup of ch...
Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 review: the best easy-to-use Instax Mini model
DP Review - 16 Oct 2020 15:00
Fujifilm Instax Mini 11$60-70 | Instaxus.com The Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 is a fresh entry-level instant camera from Fujifilm and a refinement of the Instax Mini 9 (there is no Mini 10). As the name suggests the camera ma...
Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second
Phys.org - 16 Oct 2020 12:06
In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames per second, fast enough to see light travel. Just like the cam...
Covid-19 news: Remdesivir has little effect on survival, finds WHO
New Scientist - 16 Oct 2020 19:47
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Melting Candy Gives Mathematicians Insight into How Some Landscapes Form
Scientific American - 16 Oct 2020 19:00
Researchers dissolved a sugary treat underwater to understand the origin of spiky rock forests --
Research team discovers uniquely quantum effect in erasing information
Phys.org - 16 Oct 2020 16:01
Researchers from Trinity have discovered a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information that may have significant implications for the design of quantum computing chips. Their surprising discovery brings back to life t...
Slowing light in an optical cavity with mechanical resonators and mirrors
Phys.org - 16 Oct 2020 15:59
Theoretical physicists Kamran Ullah and Hameed Ullah have shown that a position-dependent mass optomechanical system involving a cavity between two mirrors, one attached to a resonator, can enhance induced transparency a...
Weird venomous caterpillars that look like walking toupées are invading Virginia
Live Science - 16 Oct 2020 15:23
Pus caterpillars have among the most venomous stings of any animal in the United States. And they're having a boom year in Virginia.
A new ultrafast control scheme of ferromagnet for energy-efficient data storage
Phys.org - 16 Oct 2020 14:25
The digital data generated around the world every year is now counted in zettabytes, or trillions of billions of bytes--equivalent to delivering data for hundreds of millions of books every second. The amount of data gen...
Why some animals have a penis bone shaped like an ice-cream scooper
Live Science - 16 Oct 2020 13:31
The 'penis bone', or the baculum, is one of the most mysterious structures in mammal biology. To this day, no one really knows what it does or why it's gone missing in humans, horses, elephants and a few other species.
Twitter updates its 'Hacked Materials' policy after NY Post controversy
Engadget - 16 Oct 2020 04:58
In response to a New York Post article this week about Hunter Biden that used emails of dubious sourcing, Twitter blocked links to it, eventually citing the company's existing policies around hacked materials. These poli...
Oculus Quest 2 Facebook account requirement has a terrible consequence
Slash Gear - 16 Oct 2020 03:41
It was inevitable that Facebook would eventually leave a more tangible mark on its Oculus VR business but it still ruffled some feathers when it was revealed that to even use an Oculus headset, one would need to have a F...