Gigabyte Aero 16 review: A gaming, coding, & editing workstation
The Gigabyte Aero 16 has incredible speed harnessed behind an AMOLED screen, but the battery and port selection both disappoint.
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Science
Step into VR with $70 off of the Meta Quest 2 and two free games
Meta's most popular headset just got a price drop and a couple of free games, too.
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Blue-ringed octopus, one of the most toxic animals on Earth, bites woman multiple times
An unnamed woman was bitten twice by a blue-ringed octopus, which contains one of the most dangerous neurotoxins on the planet, but she escaped relatively unharmed.
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What’s the difference between poison and venom?
Poisonous and venomous animals can kill, but their toxins are delivered different ways.
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Government Working to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions
Rule Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that make it impossible to cancel them? That practice may become illegal and punishable by law, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule proposal that just dropped. In a press release, the FTC said that its new "click to cancel" rule will require sellers to "make […]
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Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots
I Heart New York New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots deployed in Greenwich Village. The Cornell researchers behind the experiment — which, we should note, featured robotic trash cans that zoomed about Astor Place […]
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FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money
Anecdotal accounts were already abound of people losing money to scammers cloning the voices of their relatives. Now, it's apparently become enough of a prevalent — and serious — issue that federal regulators are stepping in. On Monday, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a consumer alert on emerging voice cloning scams, warning people […]
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We’re in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has spotted an absolutely towering tornado roaring on the surface of the sun, raging with swirls of plasma to such astounding heights that even our entire planet would be consumed in its destructive throes. Astronomers at the observatory had been tracking the "solar tornado" since March 14, until it finally spun […]
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Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing’s ideas about patterns in nature
New experiments confirm that complex patterns in plants emerge from a model proposed by mathematician Alan Turing.
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How long can you go without sleep?
And what can happen to your body if you stay awake way past your bedtime?
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