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Jazz up Your iPhone Videos With These Ideas From Apple | Digital Trends
If you’re looking for some inspiration on how to shoot more engaging videos on your iPhone — or any smartphone…
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Study: Residents left big metros during pandemic for family
Rows of homes, in suburban Salt Lake City, on April 13, 2019. Utah is one of two Western states known…
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Netflix publishes chilling new Stranger Things 4 trailer
The big picture: Whereas the first trailer focused on the fate of Jim Hopper, this new clip appears to delve…
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How We Created the “Perfect Storm” for the Evolution and Transmission of Infectious Diseases Like COVID-19
The way that many of us live has created the “perfect storm” for the evolution and transmission of infectious diseases…
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What Peloton’s future looks like after its recall on treadmills
Summary List Placement Hi and welcome to Insider Advertising for May 7. I’m senior advertising reporter Lauren Johnson, and here’s…
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The Best Smart Displays for 2021 | Digital Trends
Smart displays let you control your smart devices from the convenience of one central location, and they can sometimes even…
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How to record your screen on a Mac computer with the Screenshot Toolbar or QuickTime Player
To screen record on Mac, use the Screenshot Toolbar or QuickTime Player. If you have a new Mac, you can…
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Apple left an Easter egg in the Find My app that leads to am AirTag developer menu
What just happened? People love Easter eggs so much that developers often create them intentionally or leave accidental ones when…
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Multidisciplinary cooperation leads to catalysts that are up to 50 times more effective
Chemical reactions occur at the surface of bimetallic nanoparticles. Researchers found that arranging the two metals in a core-shell design…
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Cutting methane emissions key to slowing warming: UN
The fossil fuel sector accounts for 35 percent of human-caused methane emissions, the UN said Industry could cheaply and easily…
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These climate-friendly microbes recycle carbon without producing methane
Earth’s hot springs and hydrothermal vents are home to a previously unidentified group of archaea. And, unlike similar tiny, single-celled…
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I lived under a glacier for two weeks looking for life
By Jemma Wadham Michelle D’urbano CHISELLED, grey rock walls loom on all sides, brought to life by the faint beam…
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This Year’s Tribeca Festival Features Eight Indie Games | Digital Trends
This year’s Tribeca Festival will include eight indie video games as official selections. The digital experience will allow attendees to…
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IBM’s new 2nm chip design promises higher performance, better battery life
The big picture: IBM has unveiled what it is calling the world’s first 2 nanometer (nm) chip technology. According to…
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Record-Breaking Laser Pulses Allow Astrophysical Phenomena to Be Studied in the Lab
Artist’s concept. Researchers have demonstrated a record-high laser pulse intensity of over 1023 W/cm2 using the petawatt laser at the…
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Random close packing or jamming of spheres in a container
Fig1: Configuration of a hard-sphere glass close to jamming. For a comparison, the close packed structure of the crystalline face-centered…
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Saturn has a fuzzy core, spread over more than half the planet’s diameter
One of Saturn’s rings has revealed properties of its core, hidden deep beneath the planet’s golden atmosphere. That core isn’t…
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Google ‘arguably violated’ labor law when it fired employees involved in unionizing, says NLRB chief
Google ‘arguably violated’ labor laws when it fired employees involved in unionizing activity. NLRB chief Peter Sung Ohr accused the…
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Peloton recalls over 125,000 treadmills following child’s death, dozens of injuries
What just happened? Fitness giant Peloton has announced a voluntary recall of two treadmills in the US and UK over…
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60 Years Ago: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space
Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and Alan B. Shepard Jr. standing by the Redstone rocket in…
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Dogecoin’s social media-driven 13,000% rally looks a lot like the GameStop saga. 5 experts explain why
Dogecoin’s red-hot rally over the last few days has shocked traditional investors and has been driven on by social media…
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Boris Johnson has sent gunboats to Jersey as France threatens to cut power to island in Brexit fishing protest
The UK has sent British gunboats to Jersey amid tensions with France over Brexit fishing rights. Around 80 French boats…
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EA Acquires Super Mega Baseball Developer Metalhead Software | Digital Trends
EA has acquired Metalhead Software, the studio behind the Super Mega Baseball series, as the video game developer doubles down…
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Signal wanted to run Instagram ads to show how user data is collected and sold, promptly gets banned by Facebook
A hot potato: Signal, the encrypted messaging app that recently exploded in popularity, attempted to run an Instagram ad campaign…
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A 5-step plan for creators in choosing the best influencer agencies and talent managers that will boost their careers, according to experts
Selecting management or a talent-agency partner is an important step in an influencer’s career. Executives from agencies such as Gleam…
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Global Warming Could Lead to the Melting of More Than a Third of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Huge Rise in Sea Levels
Larsen C ice sheet. Credit: ULiège Data collected using the MAR climate model developed at ULiège indicate that this could…
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Achieving High COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage Levels by Summer Can Prevent Millions of Cases and Save Billions of Dollars
New study finds if the United States vaccinates half its population by the summer vs fall, 6.8 million cases could…
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Watch SpaceX Land Next-gen Starship Rocket for First Time | Digital Trends
SpaceX has successfully landed a prototype of its next-generation Starship rocket, marking a major breakthrough for the private space company.…
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Many Consumers Misinterpret Food (Best By / Use By) Expiration Date Labels
Consumer education is needed to increase understanding of food date labels according to a new study in the Journal of…
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Flat Pasta Developed That Morphs Into Shape When Cooked
CMU Lab leads development of pasta that morphs into shape when cooked. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Flat-packed noodles create more…
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Experts Debate: Is PTSD Overdiagnosed?
Some clinicians are concerned that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis has risen throughout Western society since the late 1980s. Is…
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Machine-learning text adventure AI Dungeon is now being censored and users are furious
In context: Whenever the public gets ahold of something it can tweak, it is bound to be perverted eventually. We…
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Facebook refused to answer a bunch of questions from its Oversight Board, and they all get at what makes the company so toxic
As part of the Oversight Board’s decision whether or not to continue Donald Trump’s suspension, it asked Facebook 46 questions.…
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Flat pasta that morphs into 3D shapes when cooked saves on packaging
By Donna Lu In hot water, this pasta automatically takes on a 3D shape Morphing Matter Lab. Carnegie Mellon University…
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Blood test could predict when pregnant women will give birth
By Clare Wilson How long to go? Jamie Grill/Tetra Images/Alamy Many pregnant women are eager to know exactly when they…
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Sony teams with Nike on PlayStation 5-themed sneakers
Editor’s take: Sony’s PlayStation 5 remains next to impossible to find at retail, but maybe shoes modeled after the new…
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Gravitational-Wave Scientists Brilliant New Method to Refine the Hubble Constant – The Expansion and Age of the Universe
Artist’s illustration of a pair of merging neutron stars. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University A team of international scientists, led…
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Inside San Antonio’s Office of Innovation, which plans to bridge the digital divide with smart technology and infrastructure
The Office of Innovation in San Antonio, Texas, is working to advance technology and infrastructure. Created in 2007, the office…
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Covid-19 news: Cases surge in Seychelles despite high vaccination rate
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan ,…
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Job listing suggests the new Fable game will be using the ForzaTech engine
In context: Turn 10 Studios is apparently looking to reinforce its team with a new software engineer to work on…
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TeamGroup builds “ultra-durable” NVMe SSDs designed for Chia mining
In context: Seeing as there are graphics cards designed specifically for mining cryptocurrency, the inevitable has happened: a company has…
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New Miniature Trap-Jaw Ant Ant Species Discovered – Named in Recognition of Gender Diversity
A view of the head of Strumigenys ayersthey. A newly discovered miniature trap jaw ant from the evergreen tropical forests…
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Biologists discover a trigger for cell extrusion
A C. elegans embryo (green) extrudes a cell (magenta cell at center of image) during embryonic development. Credit: Vivek Dwivedi…
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Dogecoin is now the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap
In brief: Dogecoin, the red-hot cryptocurrency that started life as more of a joke than anything else, is now the…
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Netflix’s Mark Millar plans to build a streaming superhero universe starting with ‘Jupiter’s Legacy,’ after inspiring some of Marvel’s biggest stories
“Jupiter’s Legacy,” Netflix’s first Millarworld series since buying the comic company in 2017, debuts Friday. Millarworld’s president Mark Millar talked…
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The Most Common Chromebook Problems, and How to Fix Them | Digital Trends
Chromebooks are great alternatives to MacBooks and Windows 10 laptops, but they aren’t perfect. Any laptop computer is bound to…
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Hands-On With A WiSA Wireless 5.1 Home Theater System | Digital Trends
Simon Cohen / Digital Trends The key to a great home movie experience — beyond finding yourself an awesome TV…
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Arrival and Uber are co-developing an electric car for ride-hailing drivers
Recap: In an effort to become fully electric by 2025 in the UK and by 2030 in Europe and North…
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New Allergy Guidelines for Schools Recommend Against Food Bans
Staff should be trained on food allergies and have epinephrine available to treat anaphylaxis. Schools and child care centers should…
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MIT’s “Programmable Matter” Technique: A Zap of Light Switches Objects’ Colors and Patterns
A new system uses UV light projected onto objects coated with light-activated dye to alter the reflective properties of the…
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