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via The N List The standard “anyone could do that” response to abstract art generally falls apart when the person who says it tries their hand at making something …

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via The N List Apple has updated its HomeKit accessory list with the latest information on which smart home devices will support the latest HomeKit features introduced alongside iOS 13.2, namely HomeKit Secure Video and HomeKit routers.<p>The changes were first spotted by HomeKit Hero. Apple first announced its new …

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via The N List I hate to say it, but my back probably spends the majority of the day in a not-so-good posture. From slouching at my desk to being sprawled out on my …

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via The N List Porsche's CEO makes some fascinating revelations about his customers and their phones. Among which appears to be a big threat to Apple.<p>The iPhone 11 …

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via The N List In the 1850s, when he was in his early 20s, John Beasley Greene packed up his equipment and headed to Egypt. From Alexandria, the young photographer …

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via The N List In this excerpt from her book Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention, the first American woman to walk in space tells what it was …

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via The N List A new smart lock with a unique approach has been announced today called Level Lock. The clever invisible design means it works with your existing (traditional) deadbolt and keys to bring Apple HomeKit functionality to any door without changing the look of your existing hardware. Beyond Siri and the …

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via The N List Find out what you listened to the most this year with just a few taps.

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via The N List What did a meal taste like nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia? Pretty good, according to a team of international scholars that has deciphered and is re-creating what are considered to be the world's oldest-known culinary recipes.<p>The recipes were inscribed on ancient Babylonian tablets that …

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via The N List Fusing augmented reality with the physical space, Fologram seeks to facilitate the construction of complex designs (for example, parametric designs …

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via The N List In an interview with ArabLit this year, critic Hend Saeed asked Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi about what his Western readers might lose in translation. "Dealing with the Western reader isn't easy if we take into consideration what they don't know about us, by which I mean the Kuwaiti culture in …

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via The N List Most of our food is moved across great distances—and through many different forms of transit—before it reaches our plates.<p>My team at the University of Illinois just developed the first high-resolution map of the U.S. food supply chain.<p>Our map is a comprehensive snapshot of all food flows between …

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via The N List Months after this summer's brief but brutal fried chicken sandwich battle, rivals are diligently plotting to win the longer war.<p>Popeyes, which sparked the latest fight with its spicy chicken sandwich in August, is scrambling to bring back the viral sensation "as soon as possible." Chick-fil-A is …

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via The N List (MILAN) — Italian authorities evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction.<p>Three experts defused the 500-pound American bomb during a three-hour operation that also forced 60,000 people to stay in their …

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via The N List MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction.<p>Three experts defused the 500-pound American bomb during a three-hour operation that also forced 60,000 people to stay in their …

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via The N List Now that he’s back in the relative safety of the United States after his fence-mending trip to China, here’s hoping that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver used all that time he spent in the air reading up on the airlines rather than merely reading their soft-focus inflight magazines.<p>If he did, he would …

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via The N List PFAS chemicals have been identified in synthetic turf, according to lab tests performed on several samples of the artificial grass that were shared …