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ScienceHealthHealth Officials in China Report First Human Case of H10N3 Bird Flu
On Tuesday, health officials in China reported the first known human case of a particular strain of avian influenza called H10N3. The victim, a 41-year-old man residing in Jiangsu, was hospitalized in late April and diagnosed with the virus on May 28. Officials said that the man has since recovered and would be leaving the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsBrilliant Battery Adapter Lets You Power Small Devices Over USB
If sacrificing the portability of a small device is outweighed by the inconvenience of having to feed it a constant supply of replaceable batteries, a clever adapter has popped up on Kickstarter that converts a battery-powered device to USB power, and it’s as easy to use as popping in a fresh pair of AAs. It’s … Continued
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io9TelevisionUpdates From Thor: Love and Thunder, Indiana Jones 5, and More
There’s new reports of some sneaky spies coming to Marvel’s Secret Invasion. Get a look at Paramount’s latest Spongebob spinoff. Loki teases more chaos and costume changes than you can shake a dagger at. Plus, Disney+ Moon Knight set pictures. Spoilers get! Thor: Love and Thunder During a recent interview with news.com.au, Sam Neill stated he’s “completely … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsWhy Your Windows PC Needs a Keyboard and Mouse Upgrade
Maybe you’ve always used the keyboard and mouse that came with your computer and had a very happy life with them—if it’s not broken, why fix it? But if you’re wondering what all the fuss is about with the more expensive versions of these essential peripherals, we’re here to explain why some users spend a … Continued
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Tech NewsWorld’s Largest Beef and Pork Supplier Hit by Cyber Attack
JB Foods, the world’s largest beef and pork processor, was hit by a cyber attack on Sunday that’s incapacitated systems in the U.S., Canada, and Australia according to a new report from Bloomberg News. The global food giant hasn’t shared what kind of cyberattack it’s been hit with, but large global operations like this are … Continued
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ScienceHealthBritish and Indian Variants Renamed ‘Alpha’ and ‘Delta’ Under New WHO Covid-19 Guidance
The so-called British and Indian variants of covid-19 have gotten name changes under new guidance released by the World Health Organization on Monday. The British variant will now be called “Alpha” and the mutant variant first identified in India will be called “Delta” as the WHO tries to stop stigmatization of regions that were the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsAlienware’s New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet
It’s been a few years since the last time Alienware’s laptops got a big revamp, but with its new X-Series laptops, Alienware has managed to cram top-tier components into its thinnest systems yet. Sporting its new Legend 2.0 design language, the new x15 and x17 will get a range of 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia … Continued
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Tech NewsAMD’s New RX 6000M GPUs Are Here to Pick a Fight with Nvidia
Previously, AMD didn’t really have mobile graphics cards that could properly take on Nvidia’s line of RTX 30-series laptop GPUs, but that changes today with the introduction of AMD’s new line of Radeon RX 6000M mobile GPUs. Based on AMD’s latest RDNA 2 architecture, the new RX 6000M line is comprised of three new mobile … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsWatch Xiaomi Break Its Records and Charge a Phone in 8 Minutes
If you, like me, have ever desperately plugged your charger into any outlet available for even a few minutes to prevent your phone from dying, then you will also be impressed with Xiaomi’s new charging technology. The company claims that its new chargers, dubbed HyperCharge, have broken the global records for wired and wireless charging. … Continued
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Tech NewsAcer Says Global Chip Shortage Will Bottleneck Laptop Production Until at Least 2022
Facing an ongoing global chip shortage, Acer, one of the world’s leading laptop makers, warns that production will remain bottlenecked until at least the first or second quarter of next year. In an interview with Guardian Australia published on Monday, Acer’s co-chief operating officer Tiffany Huang said that on any given day, the company “can … Continued
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Tech NewsUber’s Prices and Wait Times Are Up Because There Aren’t Enough Drivers to Go Around
If you’ve used an app to call a cab in the past few weeks only to find a smoking crater where your bank account used to be, you’re not imaging things: Prices on ride-hailing apps are surging as the coronavirus pandemic recedes, and companies like Uber and Lyft acknowledge that a shortage of drivers is … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaInstagram to Change Stories Algorithm After Staff Raised Concerns About Reach of Pro-Palestinian Content
Instagram is making a change to its algorithm after employees raised concerns over the reach of pro-Palestinian content in light of the recent deadly confrontation between Israel and Palestine. A Financial Times report published on Sunday states that the change will affect original and reposted content in Instagram’s Stories section, which is displayed at the … Continued
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io9Watch a Bloody Awesome Berserk Tribute In Castlevania‘s Final Season Come Together
Castlevania’s final season, even if it takes a little while to get going, delivers some of the best action the series ever got to take a crack of the Belmont family whip at. But while we might be drawn to the high stakes spectacle of the series’ finale for gory glitz and glamour, early on … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsX-Men’s Brood Are What Brood X Nightmares Are Made Of
People’s longstanding fear of swarming insects like cicadas is enshrined in our pop culture. For years we’ve reimagined bugs as everything from larger-than-life creatures poised to take over the planet to hyper-intelligent mimics hellbent on supplanting humanity. Now, with millions of the United States’ Brood X cicadas digging their way out of the ground, it’s … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeScientists Link Nearly 40% of Heat-Related Deaths to Human-Induced Climate Change
New research is quantifying the rate at which intense summer heat brought on by human-induced climate change is killing humans around the world. More than one-third of all heat-related deaths from 1991 to 2018 are attributable to human-caused climate change, according to alarming new research published in Nature Climate Change. It’s a sobering reminder of … Continued
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Tech NewsTwitter May Start Labeling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are
Twitter is one of many social media companies that’s struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years. Its latest attempt to move the needle looks to be a tiered warning label system that changes based on how wrong you are, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. So far, there … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Gary Gygax’s Saga of Old Town
First, Gary Gygax created Dungeons & Dragons. Then, he created the fantasy world of Oerth and its greatest city, Greyhawk. Then, he set his mind to writing a D&D novel set in Greyhawk—the tale of Gord, a young street urchin who rises from poverty and imprisonment to become one of the greatest thieves on the … Continued
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Tech NewsSony’s Tiny New Speaker Is a Great Travel Buddy
Listen, the criteria for portable Bluetooth speakers are not complicated. They’ve got to be easy to carry, sound decent, and not get trashed if you have butterfingers or get caught in the rain. The Sony SRS-XB13 ticks off all these boxes, but it isn’t the best we’ve ever tested. You’ll have to make some compromises, … Continued
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io9TelevisionChristopher Eccleston’s Doctor Who Return Is a Solid Vehicle for a New Side of the Ninth Doctor
Despite the fact that his first audio drama in the role has been out for a few weeks now, it still feels kind of shocking to live in a world where Christopher Eccleston is back in the proverbial leather jacket as Doctor Who’s Ninth Doctor. But we indeed are, and it’s mostly fascinating: if only … Continued
