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Picture Of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize

Picture Of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize! .

This strontium atom is emitting light after being excited by a laser, and it’s the winner of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) photography award. The EPSRC announced the winners of its fifth annual contest yesterday. Winning photographer David Nadlinger, graduate student at the University of Oxford, was just excited to be able to show off his research.     “It’s…

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Rocket League Comes To Life Thanks To Hot Wheels PlaySet

Rocket League Comes To Life Thanks To Hot Wheels PlaySet!

With Rocket League having already arrived on the Nintendo Switch, Psyonix and Mattel have teamed up to create the second most portable version of the game. The Hot Wheels Rocket League RC Rivals set brings Rocket League into the real world with a pair of tiny RC cars you use to knock a giant ball into your opponent’s net. In lieu of dedicated remotes, the RC Rivals set uses a free accompanying…

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Watch This Sphere Of Matches Profusely Torch Thanks To YouTube User

Watch This Sphere Of Matches Profusely Torch Thanks To YouTube User!

      Have you ever wondered what a sphere made out of matches looks like when it’s set on fire? Neither have I. But now you don’t have to. Over the course of months, YouTuber All Is Art turned 42,000 matches into a large sphere, then set it ablaze. I guess he put it right next to a million trees just for some added suspense. Does…

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Community Driven Portable Jump-Starter Claims To Be The Most Powerful Ever Made

Community Driven Portable Jump-Starter Claims To Be The Most Powerful Ever Made!

There are few things more frustrating than jumping into your car, turning the key, and not having the engine turn over. This is especially true during the winter months when cold weather can drain your battery leaving you stranded far from help. But a portable jump starter that just launched on Indiegogo promises to take the stress out of these situations by delivering a compact and powerful…

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Amazon Said To Be Making Its Own AI Chip For Faster Alexa Performance

Amazon Said To Be Making Its Own AI Chip For Faster Alexa Performance!

A dedicated chip would allow Alexa to perform speech recognition without contacting the almighty cloud. Amazon Alexa is undoubtedly one of the leaders in the virtual assistant space, and while I’ve never found it to be slow on devices like the Echo, a new report suggests that it may get even faster thanks to a new AI chipset. According to The Information, Amazon is in the process of building a…

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Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Put UK And US Government Machines To Work

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Put UK And US Government Machines To Work!

Over the weekend, a little piece of malware was hard at work mining cryptocurrency on government computers. Security researcher Scott Helme first noticed the malware, which he believes was running on more than 4,000 sites, including the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk) and the website for the American court system (uscourts.gov). The malware leveraged the victims’ devices to…

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Government Websites Fall Prey To Cryptocurrency Mining Hijack

Government Websites Fall Prey To Cryptocurrency Mining Hijack!

It’s not just private companies’ websites falling victim to cryptocurrency mining hijacks. Security consultant Scott Helme and the Register have discovered that intruders compromised over 4,200 sites with Coinhive’s notorious Monero miner, many of them government websites from around the world. This includes the US court info system, the UK’s National Health Service and Australian legislatures,…

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Xiaomi Deletes Twitter Poll After Its Own MIUI Loses To Android One

Xiaomi devices consistently offer great hardware at low prices, but the company’s MIUI skin isn’t everyone’s favorite. So when the Android One-powered Mi A1 debuted, it was met with heaps of praise. A couple of days ago, Xiaomi ran a poll on Twitter asking its followers whether they preferred MIUI or Android One. But due to a result deemed unsatisfactory by Xiaomi, the poll has mysteriously…

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Watch Elon Musk Become Star Struck By His Falcon Heavy Launch

Watch Elon Musk Become Star Struck By His Falcon Heavy Launch!

If you think you were excited watching SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch, here’s how Elon Musk handled it. On Saturday, National Geographic shared an exclusive clip of the SpaceX CEO taking in Tuesday’s launch. “Holy flying fuck, that thing took off,” Musk said as the Falcon Heavy rose from its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. The clip shows the CEO running outside to watch the rocket his…

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Learn How To Invest In Bitcoin And Cryptocurrencies For Just $29!

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency has been widely covered in the news lately, but still many have no idea what exactly cryptocurrency is or whether or not it’s even a real thing. If you fall into that camp, now’s a great time to get in on Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies right when prices have taken a dip after reaching a record high, and it’s still relatively low when you consider other trading…

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LG Rumored To Launch An Upgraded V30S With An AI Camera Feature

LG Rumored To Launch An Upgraded V30S With An AI Camera Feature!

LG may be launching a new smartphone called the V30s, an upgraded version of its V30 flagship at Mobile World Congress this year, according to a report in ETNews (viaPhoneRadar). The V30s will purportedly share the same design as the original V30, but with a new AI-powered camera feature described as similar to Google Lens or Bixby Vision on the Pixel 2 and Samsung Galaxy S8, respectively. LG’s…

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Report Names Bandai Namco As The Developer Behind ‘Metroid Prime 4’

Report Names Bandai Namco As The Developer Behind ‘Metroid Prime 4’!

Nintendo shocked and delighted Samus Aran fans back at E3 2017 with the announcement of Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch, but shortly afterward, the company revealed that longtime Metroid Prime developer Retro Studios would not be working on the project. According to a new report, that job is being handled by Bandai Namco instead. Eurogamer reported early Friday morning that Bandai Namco…

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Disney Releases Details Of Upcoming Streaming Service

Disney Releases Details Of Upcoming Streaming Service!

In November, Disney announced that it would be launching its own streaming service, and as a result it would be pulling most of its content from Netflix. While the service isn’t slated to launch until fall 2019, the company has finally started to talk about the type of content we can expect to see on the service, Deadline reports. The streaming service’s content catalog is being planned and built…

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‘Monster Hunter World’ Is Capcom’s Fastest-Selling Game Of All Time

‘Monster Hunter World’ Is Capcom’s Fastest-Selling Game Of All Time!

Monster Hunter World has had a successful first few weeks, to say the least. The game managed to overtake PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds as the top-selling game on the Xbox One store, and it has already shipped 6 million units. That isn’t just impressive for publisher Capcom: It’s the fastest pace for any game in the company’s history. It isn’t clear how many of those 6 million units have been…

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Amazon Takes On UPS And FedEx With Its Own Delivery Service

Amazon Takes On UPS And FedEx With Its Own Delivery Service!

Amazon is taking on UPS and FedEx. As per a report from the Wall Street Journal, the online retailer is launching a delivery service for businesses called “Shipping with Amazon,” or more concisely, SWA. The new offering will involve Amazon retrieving packages directly from businesses and shipping them to their customers, which of course puts SWA in direct competition with existing delivery…

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YouTube Cuts All Ads From Logan Pauls Videos

YouTube Cuts All Ads From Logan Pauls Videos!

YouTube star Logan Paul is in hot water again with YouTube, following his suspension from the service’s Preferred Ad program for posting a video of a suicide victim in Japan. YouTube has temporarily suspended all ads on his channels, cutting off revenue estimated between $40,000 to $600,000 per month. On Twitter, YouTube Creators cited his “recent pattern of behavior,” as reason for the…

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Facebook Confirms Test Of A Downvote Button

Facebook Confirms Test Of A Downvote Button!

How can Facebook promote meaningful interaction between users? By letting them downvote inappropriate comments to hide them. Facebook is now testing a downvote button on a limited set of public Page post comment reels, the company confirms to TechCrunch. But what Facebook does with signals about problematic comments could raise new questions about censorship, and its role as a news editor and…

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