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Best TV streaming service: Compare the top subscription-based video packages
There are two kinds of paid streaming services: video-on-demand, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, and Live TV, such as Sling TV and YouTubeTV. Here's the best of the subscription-based VoD TV packages.
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How supercomputers are identifying Covid-19 therapeutics
Searching 30 terabytes of medical data and over 150 billion records takes seconds for a high-end supercomputer.
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Canada bans mass exports of prescription drugs
The new policy comes in response to a US plan to import drugs from Canada. Why can't the US just fix its own drug price problem?
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Netflix says Queen's Gambit is its most watched limited series
A show about an orphaned chess prodigy living with addiction doesn't exactly have all the hallmarks of a breakout hit, but The Queen's Gambit has been watched by 62 million accounts.
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DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding
Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped researchers for half a century. With its latest AI program, AlphaFold, the company and research laboratory showed it can predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes, a fiendishly complex process that is fundamental to understanding the biological machinery of life.
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U.S. Army banks on developing mindreading tech for future field soldiers
With technology advancing at light-speed these days, the U.S. Army is getting in on the sci-fi action by funding a far-out project to promote neuroscience research with their sights set on creating a mindreading system for soldiers to communicate with each other on the battlefield.
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Apple Watch user credits high heart rate monitoring feature with detecting irregularity
The heart monitoring features of the Apple Watch are again being credited with alerting a user to an undiagnosed condition. As 24 News reports, 25-year-old Zachary Zies was notified by his watch of a high resting heart rate at 210 beats per minute. As the report explains, Zies, a recent graduate of Ohio State University, has battled Friedreich’s ataxia for most of his life and been in a wheelchair since middle school.
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Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal
The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.
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Apple security chief maintains innocence after bribery charges
A grand jury in California's Santa Clara County has indicted Thomas Moyer, Apple's head of global security, for bribery. Moyer is accused of offering 200 iPads to the Santa County Sheriff's office in exchange for concealed carry permits for four Apple employees.
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Scientists develop an 'electronic skin' that can mimic the natural functions of human skin
A material that mimics human skin in? stretchability, strength, and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real-time. Electronic skin, or e-skin, may play an important role in upcoming next-generation personalized medicine, prosthetics, AI, and soft robotics.
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'Jeopardy!' Shares Alex Trebek's Posthumous Thanksgiving Message
In his pre-recorded message, Trebek encouraged everyone to "keep the faith" as they celebrate amid the novel coronavirus pandemic: "We’re going to get through all of this, and we will be a better society because of it."
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Edward Snowden says "war on whistleblowers" trend shows a "criminalization of...
"What we see is an increasing tendency to silence journalists who say things that are in the minority," Edward Snowden said.
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DoorDash settles lawsuit for $2.5M over 'deceptive' tipping practices
The food delivery company allegedly led customers to believe their tips were going to delivery workers when the company was pocketing the money itself.
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AWS: Amazon web outage breaks vacuums and doorbells
Smart-home owners are left without service as an AWS outage breaks device functionality.
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European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’ rules
The EU has just taken a big step toward establishing stronger “right to repair” rules, with the the European Parliament voting overwhelmingly in support of a resolution on a “sustainable single market,” according to iFixit.
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Bitcoin could be on track to $74,000, trader says as cryptocurrency approaches all-time highs
Bitcoin's brightening prospects could take the red-hot cryptocurrency above $74,000 in the year ahead, TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon says.
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Twitter will begin warning you a tweet is misleading even if you're just liking it
It may continue slowing down the spread of misinformation.
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Kuo: iPhone 12 demand strong, new form factor Apple Watch and MacBooks in late 2021
In a report today, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared his view on Apple’s product momentum heading into the holidays. Most importantly to Apple’s bottom line, Kuo sees better than expected demand for iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, apparently offsetting slightly–weaker sell-through of 12 and 12 mini. In terms of new products, Kuo indicates that form factor redesigns are coming to the Apple Watch and the MacBook lineup, in the second half of 2021.
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Your best 5 TV streaming device choices for 2020
Roku is still your best choice, but there are other streaming gadgets out there giving it a run for your money. Here are your best choices.
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Nanobots Will Be Flowing Through Your Body by 2030
According to some futurists, in the next 10 or so years, your blood could be streaming with tiny nanorobots to help keep you from getting sick or even transmit your thoughts to a wireless cloud. They will travel inside of you, on a molecular level, protecting your biological system and ensuring that you'll have a good and long life. The future is closer than you may think.
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We Do Not Have the Internet We Deserve
Nothing that currently exists can compete with fiber. Nothing replicates the future growth fiber networks will deliver, simply because nothing that moves data has the inherent capacity of a fiber wire. It isn’t even close by any technical...
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PS5 stock: Sony says 'absolutely everything is sold' as supply slows to a trickle
Sony has shed some light on PS5 sales performance and has bullishly claimed that “absolutely everything is sold”. Speaking to TASS (a Russian news outlet), Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan revealed that PS5 launch sales are doing phenomenally well, and that increasing supply is now the main focus.
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The Apple TV remote is so awful that cable companies will give you a better one
A redesigned Apple TV remote from Universal Electronics fixes everything that’s wrong with the official version.
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Best streaming service for live TV: Hulu, YouTube TV, more
There are two kinds of paid streaming services: Live TV, such as Sling TV and YouTubeTV, and video-on-demand, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. Here's what to look for in live TV packages.
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Rumor: Apple to drop support for iPhone 6s and original iPhone SE with iOS 15 next year
A new report suggests that Apple is planning to drop support for the iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 6s Plus with next year’s release of iOS 15. This comes after Apple maintained compatibility with all of those devices this year with iOS 14. The report comes from The Verifier, which has a mixed track record when it comes to Apple rumors. With that being said, it did accurately report that the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 would not get updates past iOS 12. It also accurately reported that iOS 14 would support all of the same iPhones as iOS 13.
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The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones
Carrier lock-in was recently prohibited in the UK. If it finally happens here next year too, consumer advocates say the move would give users more flexibility and choice.
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World's biggest computing chip is '10,000 times faster' than a GPU, maker claims
Cerebras Systems has today confirmed that its CS-1 computing system has achieved a new performance milestone, delivering speeds far beyond what existing CPUs and GPUs are able to achieve. The CS-1, which is based on Cerebras’ WSE processor – the world’s largest computer chip, can now claim to be the “fastest AI computer in existence.”
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NASA Releases Stunning Hi-Res Photos of Jupiter’s Swirling Atmosphere
NASA has some truly amazing photos of Jupiter that almost look like Van Gogh paintings.
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Orwell’s nightmare? Facial recognition for animals promises a farmyard revolution.
China’s acts of bovine intervention could help improve agricultural safety and allow the industry to become more self-sufficient.
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Core Slack, Discord technology Electron now supports Apple Silicon
The Electron framework that lets web developers more easily develop cross-platform apps has now been updated to work on the new Apple Silicon M1 Macs. Developers of software such as Slack and Discord, who use Electron to create Mac version, can now update their apps to run on Apple Silicon. The latest release of the Electron frameworks includes a new version that has been optimized for the M1 processor.
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