A person walks around fallen tree branches and power lines in Monkland Village after freezing rain hit Quebec and Ontario in Montreal, Canada. Hundreds of thousands of homes in eastern Canada remained without power Friday, two days after an ice storm killed three people and caused widespread property damage, particularly in Montreal. About 400,000 homes...
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A Wandering Mind is Part of Our Evolution
Mindfulness is such a buzzword. We all want it, but our ability to attain it is fleeting. We fear life is passing us by, and as the world moves faster and faster, living in the present moment seems more difficult. But while mindfulness is the key to happiness, mind wandering is the key to our...
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Astronomers develop new AI software to sharpen photos from ground-based telescopes
While we’re big fans of Earth’s atmosphere for keeping us alive, it does hamper our ability to take crystal-clear images of deep space. That’s why Emma Alexander of Northwestern University in Illinois and Tianao Li of Tsinghua University in Beijing have developed new AI-powered software that can sharpen such images. Earth’s atmosphere often blurs images...
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Dwarf star is surrounded by massive ‘double ring’ that hints at a Saturn-size exoplanet
Observations of a distant red dwarf star indicate that it is surrounded by not one but two massive rings of gas and dust, with tantalizing hints that it is orbited by a Saturn-size planet. The red dwarf, known as 2MASS J04124068+2438157, is located around 485 light-years from Earth and has a diameter similar to that...
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NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission revealed how battered space rock Dimorphos formed
Home News Science & Astronomy This high-resolution view of the asteroid Dimorphos was created by combining the final 10 full-frame images obtained by the NASA DART probe’s Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO) and layering the higher-resolution images on top of the lower-resolution ones. Dimorphos is oriented so that its north pole...
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Geology experts find evidence of dual mass extinctions 260 million years ago
An international team of researchers discovered evidence that a mass extinction 260 million years ago was actually two events separated by 3 million years. Scientists say both likely were caused by volcanic eruptions. Credit: Margaret Weiner/UC Marketing + Brand Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible....
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Grab a Fire TV Stick 4K Max for Just $35 Today
Amazon sells a lot of streaming devices, but the company’s best stick-sized player right now is the Fire TV Stick 4K Max. Now it’s on sale for $35, a discount of 36% from the original price. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a compact streaming player for your TV, designed to use the TV’s...
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Tesla Employees Caught Sharing Private Videos From Customer Vehicles
News @jdannychadwick Apr 7, 2023, 11:20 am EST | 1 min read Hannah Stryker / Review Geek Tesla employees have shared numerous private videos recorded by customer vehicle cameras in a company chat room, according to a report from Reuters. The alleged privacy violations took place between 2019 and 2022. Reuters reports it obtained this...
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You’re Not Alone: Windows 11 Is Randomly Opening File Explorer
You’re just sitting there browsing the web, watching video, or playing a game, and suddenly a File Explorer window opens right in front of you. Before you think you’re losing it or a hacker is messing around with your computer, read this. What’s the Deal with Windows 11 Opening File Explorer? Microsoft released the Windows...
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How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device)
Jason Montoya / How-To Geek Download the server application from Plex’s website, install it, then follow the setup process to add media to your library. Next, download Plex clients for your TV, mobile device, or use DLNA/UPnP streaming to stream over your local network. Plex Media Server is a user-friendly way to store and stream your...