Apr 26, 2023, 11:00 am EST | 1 min read RenineR/Shutterstock.com Sometimes, you just don’t question things because they’ve always been the norm. Take gas cans, for example. Have you ever noticed that they’re always red? Truly, always red. But why? As it turns out, there is a reason gas cans are red, and it’s...
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Verizon Mobile Protect Customers Now Get Screen Repairs for Free
News @andrew_andrew__ Apr 26, 2023, 10:56 am EST | 1 min read Hannah Stryker / Review Geek Ideally, you should never break or damage your expensive smartphone. But accidents happen. Phone insurance is often the best way to protect your investment, and in a surprise move, Verizon is adding some enticing perks to its Mobile...
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It’s Time to Stop Using Microsoft Edge
Jason Fitzpatrick / How-To Geek Microsoft Edge now leaks the address of every web page you visit straight to Microsoft Bing. This appears to be a bug with one of the many extra features Microsoft has been cramming into Edge over the past few years. We’ve had enough. Microsoft Edge Is Sloppily Leaking Your Browsing...
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You Can Now Use WhatsApp Across Multiple Phones
WhatsApp WhatsApp used to be famously hostile to using multiple devices, as the web version even used to require a permanent connection to your phone to function. That has been slowly changing, though. Now, WhatsApp can finally be used across multiple phones. Since it was launched, WhatsApp could only be tied to one smartphone. Now,...
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Colorado passes farmers’ right to repair law. Why the opposition?
Sitting in front of a hulking red tractor, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Tuesday making Colorado the first state to ensure farmers can fix their own tractors and combining with a “right to repair” law – which compels manufacturers to provide the necessary manuals, tools, parts, and software. Colorado, home to high desert...
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Telescopes image M87’s supermassive black hole and massive jet together for the first time
This GMVA+ALMA image shows M87’s jet and black hole shadow together for the first time, giving scientist’s the context needed to understand where the powerful jet formed. The new observations also revealed that the black hole’s ring, shown in the inset, is 50% larger than scientists previously believed. Credit: R. Lu and E. Ros (GMVA),...
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Exosome formulation developed to deliver antibodies for choroidal neovascularization therapy
image: Regulatory T-cell exosome-based formulation to deliver VEGF antibodies for synergistic therapy in CNV mouse model view more Credit: TIAN Ying and ZHANG Fan Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital and the University of Queensland have developed a new formulation based on regulatory T-cell exosomes...
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Carroll v. Trump: Battery and defamation case comes to trial
Former President Donald Trump’s legal problems could deepen this week with the scheduled opening of a New York trial on allegations he sexually assaulted journalist E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room some 30 years ago. The case involves civil charges, unlike the historic criminal indictment of Mr. Trump earlier this month. The former president...
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‘Always underestimated’: Can McCarthy meet the moment?
Kevin McCarthy strides through the Bakersfield Marriott with a phalanx of security in tow, headed for the ballroom. Tonight, he is the highly anticipated keynote speaker of an annual fundraiser he never could have afforded to attend growing up here. Some guests have come from the fields around town, where the cherry crop is in...
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These community college classes offer two teachers – and a path to success
For students who don’t do well on community college placement tests, the standard practice is to make them take pre-college classes in their weak subject – essentially a repeat of high school. But Washington state has seen success using a different approach: providing two teachers in a classroom, one who focuses on job training and the...