‘Beat Saber’ now has an official song designed to keep you fit
Beat Saber is widely considered a good option for exercise in VR between the frantic arm waving, crouches and dodges, and Beat Games wants to capitalize on that.
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Day: April 12, 2020
Light-emitting silicon overcomes a major obstacle to denser, faster chips
Light-emitting silicon overcomes a major obstacle to denser, faster chips
The push for ever-smaller chips has been running into more and more obstacles, including the very limits of silicon — while optical connections would allow for denser, speedier processors by eliminating heat and energy issues, silicon is lousy at emitting light. Or rather, it was.
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Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Model 3 has an in-cabin camera
Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Model 3 has an in-cabin camera
Tesla’s Model 3 has shipped from the start with a camera pointing at the cabin, but it has gone unused ever since. What’s it for? You won’t have to wonder much longer. Elon Musk has confirmed that the camera is there to support Tesla’s eventual robo-taxi plans.
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Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Model 3 has an in-cabin camera
Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Model 3 has an in-cabin camera
Tesla’s Model 3 has shipped from the start with a camera pointing at the cabin, but it has gone unused ever since. What’s it for? You won’t have to wonder much longer. Elon Musk has confirmed that the camera is there to support Tesla’s eventual robo-taxi plans.
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Google Pixel 4 drops to $449 at Best Buy
Google Pixel 4 drops to $449 at Best Buy
Google’s Pixel 4 is already seeing the kind of steep discounts you’d normally expect toward the end of a smartphone’s lifecycle. Best Buy is selling the flagship phone for $450 with same-day activation, or a sizeable $350 off the usual price.
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Apple shares more details of how COVID-19 contact tracing will work
Apple shares more details of how COVID-19 contact tracing will work
Apple and Google shared a fair amount about their COVID-19 contact tracing plans with their joint announcement, but they still left some gaps. However, Apple has been willing to fill in a few of the blanks in a follow-up with The Verge.
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Remembering Freeman Dyson
Remembering Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson was incapable of speaking a dull sentence. For more than 60 years, he was one of the world’s most accomplished living mathematical physicists, and in his later decades he earned a literary reputation as one of the few great scientists who wrote as clearly as he thought.
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Remembering Freeman Dyson
Remembering Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson was incapable of speaking a dull sentence. For more than 60 years, he was one of the world’s most accomplished living mathematical physicists, and in his later decades he earned a literary reputation as one of the few great scientists who wrote as clearly as he thought.
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Instagram Live streams are now viewable on the web
Instagram Live streams are now viewable on the web
Now that you’re likely staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, you might not be as inclined to watch live Instagram feeds on your phone… and now, you don’t have to. Users (including Engadget) have noticed that Instagram Live streams recently became viewable on the web.
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Apple, Google reportedly team with UK’s NHS on COVID-19 tracing app
Apple, Google reportedly team with UK’s NHS on COVID-19 tracing app
Apple and Google have said they’re working together on COVID-19 contact tracing, and that might just include collaboration with specific healthcare providers.
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What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
If you have seen the documentary Free Solo, you will be familiar with Alex Honnold. He ascends without protective equipment of any kind in treacherous landscapes where, above about 15 meters, any slip is generally lethal.
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What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
If you have seen the documentary Free Solo, you will be familiar with Alex Honnold. He ascends without protective equipment of any kind in treacherous landscapes where, above about 15 meters, any slip is generally lethal.
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LG’s curvy premium phone will be called ‘Velvet’
LG’s curvy premium phone will be called ‘Velvet’
LG isn’t just hoping that a brand new design language will woo you to its next smartphone — it thinks the name will, too. The company has revealed that its curved-edge premium phone will be named Velvet to convey its “smoothness and premium softness.
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This is when you’ll unlock each rank riding skills in Shadowlands — including flight
This is when you’ll unlock each rank riding skills in Shadowlands — including flight
One of the biggest questions that arose when Blizzard announced the leveling squish in Shadowlands was “How is flying going to work?” And now that the Shadowlands alpha is out, we finally have an answer.
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YouTube’s website is now more tablet-friendly
YouTube’s website is now more tablet-friendly
Now that more tablets can view desktop-quality websites, YouTube has tweaked its web version to match. The streaming site has updated its web interface to better support large touchscreen devices, such as iPads, Android tablets and Chrome OS machines.
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After Math: Look at all this free stuff
After Math: Look at all this free stuff
As Americans hunker down to see how the coronavirus quarantine plays out (so far, not great) some households now grapple with a secondary pandemic: boredom.
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Best Buy’s one-day sale knocks as much as $1,500 off the 15-inch MacBook Pro
Best Buy’s one-day sale knocks as much as $1,500 off the 15-inch MacBook Pro
Best Buy is hosting a one-day sale on tech, including big discounts on a few different models of the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro, which Apple no longer sells. Just to make sure it gets mentioned right up front, this model doesn’t have the improved keyboard found in the new 16-inch model.
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Best Buy’s one-day sale knocks as much as $1,500 off the 15-inch MacBook Pro
Best Buy’s one-day sale knocks as much as $1,500 off the 15-inch MacBook Pro
Best Buy is hosting a one-day sale on tech, including big discounts on a few different models of the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro, which Apple no longer sells. Just to make sure it gets mentioned right up front, this model doesn’t have the improved keyboard found in the new 16-inch model.
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Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Whillans [Video]
Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Whillans [Video]
Have you ever wondered what the subglacial lakes of Antarctica look like? I have. In this video, a team of American scientists led by Dr. John Priscu of Montana State University and including Dr.
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Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Whillans [Video]
Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Whillans [Video]
Have you ever wondered what the subglacial lakes of Antarctica look like? I have. In this video, a team of American scientists led by Dr. John Priscu of Montana State University and including Dr.
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