What’s so great? — A cute book, but not nearly as good as Deborah Blum’s The Poisoner’s Handbook. Diana Gitig – Mar 13, 2022 11:35 am UTC Neil Bradbury is a physiology professor whose first book, A Taste for Poison, uses tales of poisons and poisoners as a means to explain physiological processes by describing how …
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Swipe right for the truth — Tinder, other apps give activists a way to share what’s really happening in Ukraine. Morgan Meaker, wired.com – Mar 13, 2022 10:43 am UTC Nikolai Vinokurov | Getty Images René has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine. The 34-year-old lives more than 1,000 km away in Nuremberg, …
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Boys will be boys — Hit series shows no sign of pulling back on its bloody outrageousness. Jennifer Ouellette – Mar 12, 2022 10:51 pm UTC Prime Video’s hit series The Boys returns for a third season on June 3. Prime Video unveiled a new red-band teaser for the third season of its hit series …
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Pokemon Goes Away — Developer Niantic goes further than game industry peers by fully blocking access. Kyle Orland – Mar 11, 2022 4:44 pm UTC Russian players will soon not be able to join in scenes like this. PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Pokemon Go developer Niantic has become the latest company to answer Ukraine’s call to cut …
Razer Ah, college. A time of true enlightenment. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re heading into your final year, you’re going to need a good laptop for college research and writing papers. But with so many different brands and confusing model numbers out there, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Don’t worry, we’re here to …
StackCommerce If you conduct business online, chances are good that you market your company on a growing number of social media channels. Which is great for building an audience, but not so great when it comes to simplicity. Looking for an easy solution? Then you need to try Linkypage. Linkypage provides a simple but effective way …
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Microsoft has never been shy about asking its customers for money — the $9.99 per month price for Microsoft 365 Family is proof of that. But you need to pay more, far more, than that to use Microsoft’s new video editing app, Clipchamp, in the way you’d expect. Clipchamp is being added to the stable …
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Garmin When it comes to smartwatches, most people think of big brands like Apple or Samsung. However, there’s a whole world of alternative smartwatches out there and we’ve found one at a good price. Amazon is selling the Garmin Venu for $175 (50% off). That’s about $75 cheaper than the Galaxy Watch 4 right now …
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Rob Schultz / IDG One of the best advances in earbuds has been the outright elimination of cables in true wireless earbuds—or at least, the minimization of them to just a short one in other wireless earbuds. Another is good active noise cancelling, which makes wireless earbuds incredibly useful for travel. Apple’s AirPods are probably …
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This is an incredibly well done and hypnotic stop-motion animation by Tomohiro Okazaki featuring every conceivable play on matches. And as if the creativity wasn’t impressive enough on its own, it plays back at 60fps. The stop-motion video I made for my high school art class played back at two frames per second so 60 …
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