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MrBeast: Sykkuno shares thoughts on YouTuber's $1 vs $1B yacht video, calls it 'literally bad'
MrBeast: Sykkuno shares thoughts on YouTuber's $1 vs $1B yacht video, calls it 'literally bad'
Content creator Sykkuno described MrBeast's 14-minute video as 'deranged'
2023-06-18 15:48
Europe’s Manufacturers Are Struggling to Shift Away From Gas
Europe’s Manufacturers Are Struggling to Shift Away From Gas
In Stoke-on-Trent, three hours north of London, traditional English potteries were among the businesses hit hard by soaring
2023-08-01 13:59
Pokémon Sleep: Game where players go to bed rockets up the App Store
Pokémon Sleep: Game where players go to bed rockets up the App Store
Pokémon Sleep, a game in which players go to bed in real life to win, is rocketing up the App Store charts. The app is now sixth in Apple’s charts, suggesting that makers The Pokémon Company may have found a way to replicate some of the success of their previous hit Pokemon Go. To play the game, people download the app onto their iPhone – or use a separate, paid-for accessory that the company says can be used to track sleep as well as make it easier. Once that is done, users mostly play by going to sleep. When they wake up in the morning, they will receive information about their sleep patterns – how long they slept, what kind of sleep that was, and whether players made any noises during the night – and receive rewards of Pokémon that will be caught based on that data. The game has received some negative reviews: on the iOS App Store, one player called it “deeply flawed and predatory”, criticising the fact that tracking sleep with the iPhone app means sleeping with it and leaving the screen on. While players can use the Pokémon Go Plus +, which has been given a confusing name presumably to separate it from the existing Pokémon Go Plus, that costs $60. It also received a critical review in The Verge, which said that while it was “incredibly cute”, it came with some drawbacks, including the fact that it requires players to undertake dull tasks during the day and offered few meaningful ways to actually improve sleep. Nonetheless, the game appears to have proven incredibly successful on the iPhone’s App Store and Android’s Google Play Store, where it has been downloaded millions of times. The game comes amid a growing interest in the benefits of sleep, and the technology that can help promote it. Multiple wearables such as those made by Apple, Garmin and Whoop all track the sleeping habits of their wearers, and other companies have promoted cooling and massaging technologies that are aimed at helping people get more restful sleep.
2023-08-01 01:16
Greenwashing Scrutiny Grows in Australia as Rules Set to Tighten
Greenwashing Scrutiny Grows in Australia as Rules Set to Tighten
Australia’s consumer watchdog has warned companies that using words like “green” and “sustainable” when describing their environmental strategies
2023-07-14 09:00
James Maddison FC 24: How to Complete the Premier League POTM SBC
James Maddison FC 24: How to Complete the Premier League POTM SBC
James Maddison FC 24 Premier League Player of the Month SBC is now live in Ultimate Team for the next 29 days. Here's how to complete the SBC and if it's worth it.
2023-09-24 01:55
Musk's Neuralink to start human trial for brain implant chip
Musk's Neuralink to start human trial for brain implant chip
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday that it has received approval from an independent
2023-09-20 02:50
Elon Musk's Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC
Elon Musk's Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC
Elon Musk's Twitter stock purchases are under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to
2023-10-06 04:16
This Xbox controller rivals the excellent Elite Series 2, and it's $30 off
This Xbox controller rivals the excellent Elite Series 2, and it's $30 off
SAVE $30: As of Sept. 8, the Scuf Instinct Pro Xbox controller (which rivals the
2023-09-09 00:25
Two ancient humans become astronauts after being blasted into space
Two ancient humans become astronauts after being blasted into space
Space travel might be a relatively modern phenomenon, but a pair of ancient human ancestors are getting to experience it too – albeit two million years after their death. The remains of a hominin species called Australopithecus sediba which date back two million years have been blasted into space as part of the Virgin Galactic’s spaceship, VSS Unity. The remains of a 250,000-year-old species named Homo naledi was also included in the craft, which was sent into space on September 8. Bone fragments from the two ancient skeletons were taken into orbit by Professor Lee Berger. They reached a height of around 50,000 feet by the VMS Eve mothership before being separated from the VSS Unity spaceship. Berger said: “The journey of these fossils into space represents humankind’s appreciation of the contribution of all of humanity’s ancestors and our ancient relatives. “Without their invention of technologies such as fire and tools, and their contribution to the evolution of the contemporary human mind, such extraordinary endeavors as spaceflight would not have happened.” Berger’s son, Matthew Berger, who was a part of the discovery of the remains as a child went on to explain the significance of the unusual cargo, saying: “These fossils represent individuals who lived and died hundreds of thousands of years ago, yet were individuals who likely gazed up at the stars in wonder, much as we do,” “I imagine they never could have dreamed while alive of taking such an incredible journey as ambassadors of all of humankind’s ancestors.” Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings
2023-09-13 20:46
Pokimane celebrates 27th birthday with TikTok stars and famed streamers. Who all attended it?
Pokimane celebrates 27th birthday with TikTok stars and famed streamers. Who all attended it?
Here is a sneak peek into Twitch Star Pokimane's party as the Twitch superstar turns 27
2023-05-16 15:54
Odd ‘demon’ particle found inside superconductor may help demystify ‘holy grail’ of physics
Odd ‘demon’ particle found inside superconductor may help demystify ‘holy grail’ of physics
Scientists have finally found a “demon” subatomic particle that was predicted to exist nearly seven decades ago and speculated to play an important role in the behaviours of a range of metals and alloys, including superconductors. Physcist David Pines in 1956 theorised that electrons, which normally have a mass and negative electric charge, can under some conditions combine to form a composite “demon” particle that is massless, neutral and does not interact with light. These theorised interesting properties, however, made these particles elude detection – until now. After a nearly 70-year search for these subatomic entities, researchers, including those from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have finally found signatures of Dr Pines’ “demon” particles in the metal strontium ruthenate. “Demons have been theoretically conjectured for a long time, but experimentalists never studied them. In fact, we weren’t even looking for it. But it turned out we were doing exactly the right thing, and we found it,” study co-author Peter Abbamonte said. Electrons – which are distributed in different energy bands within atoms – are known to lose their individuality in solids with electric interactions making the particles combine to form collective units. With some threshold energy, studies have also shown electrons can form composite particles called plasmons with a new charge and mass. However, the mass is so large that these plasmon particles cannot form with the kind of energies available at room temperature. Revelations on room-temperature semiconductors are considered to be one of the “holy grails” of physics. But Dr Pines theorised that if a solid has electrons in more than one energy band, as many metals do, their respective plasmons may combine in an out-of-phase pattern to form a new plasmon that is massless and neutral – a demon. Since these special particles are massless, he argued they can form with any energy and may exist at all temperatures – leading to speculation that the demons have important effects on the behaviour of some metals with multiple energy bands. “The vast majority of experiments are done with light and measure optical properties, but being electrically neutral means that demons don’t interact with light,” Dr Abbamonte explained. So a completely new experiment was needed to detect them. In the research, scientists were studying the compound strontium ruthenate as it is similar to high-temperature superconductors – a special kind of material where electrical resistance vanishes. For a survey of the metal’s electronic properties, they synthesised high-quality samples of the metal. They then applied a technique to study the metal that uses energy from electrons shot into the metal to directly observe the metal’s features, including plasmons that form. During their observation of the electron interactions, scientists found something unusual – an electronic mode with no mass. “At first, we had no idea what it was. Demons are not in the mainstream. The possibility came up early on, and we basically laughed it off. But, as we started ruling things out, we started to suspect that we had really found the demon,” Ali Husain, another author of the study, said. Researchers then sought to calculate how electrons are distributed across bands inside strontium ruthenate. Predictions by Dr Pines indicate there are specific conditions when “demons” are likely to form, and it remained unknown whether strontium ruthenate would have the particle. “We had to perform a microscopic calculation to clarify what was going on. When we did this, we found a particle consisting of two electron bands oscillating out-of-phase with nearly equal magnitude, just like Pines described,” found Edwin Huang, another author of the study. “Our study confirms a 67-year-old prediction and indicates that demons may be a pervasive feature of multiband metals,” scientists wrote in the study. Read More Superconductor breakthrough could represent ‘biggest physics discovery of a lifetime’ – but scientists urge caution LK-99: Excitement rises over possibly revolutionary ‘miracle material’ – but there is still no good reason to believe it exists Superconductivity: The technology that could change everything if we just knew how it worked ‘Vampire child’ with padlocked ankle unearthed in Polish ‘necropolis’ Two new kinds of mole discovered in mountains of Turkey Scientific discovery casts doubt on our understanding of human evolution
2023-08-11 16:27
Siemens Energy Secures Provisional Guarantees Deal, Reuters Says
Siemens Energy Secures Provisional Guarantees Deal, Reuters Says
Siemens Energy AG has reached a provisional agreement with the German government and main shareholder Siemens AG to
2023-11-10 00:26