Justin Duino / How-To Geek You probably know that choosing a gaming laptop over a gaming desktop PC means getting less performance, but how big is that gap exactly? The answer is probably not as large as you think. In fact, it may not matter! Absolute Performance: Desktop Wins If you compare the absolute highest-end...
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LEGO Disney Villain Icon Set Gives Love to the Bad Guys
News Two LEGO sets you won’t want to miss. @xguntherc May 7, 2023, 1:13 pm EST | 2 min read LEGO If you’re a fan of LEGO and Disney, you’ll love the two new sets unveiled this week to help celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary. We’re getting a new collection of our favorite characters, along with...
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How to Fix a NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID Privacy Error
Gaurav Shukla / How-To Geek To fix the NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error, you can try reloading the webpage, updating the browser and operating system, clearing the browser cache, and disabling your antivirus. Plus, you can check if any browser extension is interfering. The error message “NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID” is one of the cryptic privacy errors you’re likely to come...
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Microsoft Teams Up with the Guardians of the Galaxy to Promote STEM
News @jdannychadwick May 7, 2023, 12:34 pm EST | 1 min read Microsoft Microsoft’s Zune has been officially dead for over a decade. The company discontinued the MP3 player back in 2012. But it’s coming back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe this weekend with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Microsoft is...
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A new model for the evolution of honey bee brains
The researchers studied honey bees exhibiting different behaviors: foragers, nurse bees, and queens. Honey bees in general have been a key insect model for better understanding learning and memory for more than 100 years. Credit: Hiroki Kohno Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera...
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Fruit fly gut research leads to discovery of new phosphate-storing organelle
Scientists at the Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have discovered something remarkable while studying phosphate transport in fruit fly intestines—a never before seen organelle. Their results are published in the journal Nature, and a News and Views piece in the same journal discusses their findings. Organelles are the structures performing specific...
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Scientists reveal face of 10-foot ‘killer tadpole’ that terrorized Earth long before the dinosaurs
Crassigyrinus scoticus lived 330 million years ago in wetlands of what is now Scotland and North America. (Image credit: Bob Nicholls 2018)By piecing together fragments of an ancient skull, scientists have reconstructed the haunting face of a 330 million-year-old crocodile-like “tadpole” creature, revealing not only what it looked like but also how it may have...
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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as a research discipline. Organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester, it brought together a few dozen of the leading thinkers in AI, computer science,...
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Razor Launches a Faster Electric Bike for Adults
News A different type of nostalgia. @xguntherc May 6, 2023, 2:00 pm EST | 1 min read Razor Razor, which makes those ankle-smashing scooters we’re all familiar with, also makes several ebike models. Joining the smaller Razor Rambler 16 and the brand’s cargo ebike is a brand new moped-style Rambler 20 electric bike for adults....
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Google’s Bard AI Might Invade Your Phone Soon
News Hey Bard, please help me with my math homework. @xguntherc May 6, 2023, 1:13 pm EST | 1 min read Justin Duino / Review Geek It’s only a matter of time before artificial intelligence (AI), or at least a form of it, is everywhere. While Microsoft’s Bing already has AI and ChatGPT built-in, now...