After just a few months on the market, Animal Crossing: New Horizons became the bestselling game in franchise history. Its relaxing gameplay, charming characters, and adorable graphics appeal to a wide variety of gamers, instantly making fans of anyone…
Managing IT at or beyond the edge of traditional corporate networks has been an important subject for years, especially among businesses that employ remote/branch offices (ROBOs) and mobile workers. But edge computing as a separate entity has gained…
Cryptocurrency has been — and continues to be — a wild ride.
I’m old enough to remember being given a couple of bitcoins when they were worth next to nothing. Needless to say, I don’t have them anymore. Now, with bitcoin and other cryptocurrenc…
Enlarge / Hair from Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull’s scalp lock, from which DNA was extracted for analysis.
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An international team of scientists has confirmed the lineage of a living descendent of the famous Lakota Chief Sitting B…
The Oculus Quest 2: a year old, but maybe more at the center of Facebook’s plans than ever.
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(Pocket-lint) – Personal audio might feel like an absolute given in the modern world, whether you’re streaming music from your phone to a swanky pair of AirPods Pro, or you still use an iPod Touch or any other standalone player.
It’s easy to forg…
From in-person classes at school to remote learning, and from apps to tandem partners, there seems to be no end to tools and approaches that help you learn a new language. One seemingly wild idea is that you can even learn a language by listening to it…
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Big Sur was a landmark release of macOS, in ways both technical and symbolic. It introduced a major new redesign, it was the first version of macOS to run on Apple’s own in-house processors in addition to Intel’s, and it was the firs…
Enlarge / Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants near Baton Rouge, La. ‘Cancer Alley’ is one of the most polluted areas of the US and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,…
Enlarge / Harvard scientists built “Totimorphic” structural materials that can adopt and maintain any possible shape. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University and Tufts University are exploring shapeshifting liquid crystals.
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