How to Choose the Right Sportsbook Over the past few years, the number of licensed online bookmakers has increased significantly. This has created a high level of competition for the sports betting market. As everyone knows, a competitive market usually benefits the customers. With that said, it has also become …
Read More »Nvidia-powered Max-Q Laptops Target Thin and Light Gaming
Most gaming laptops are very obviously gaming laptops thanks to their substantial girth and weight. After all, it takes a lot of cooling to keep a high-power GPU running in such a small case. Nvidia is looking to change that with the Max-Q technology it announced at Computex in Taipei. By optimizing …
Read More »Qualcomm Inks Deal to Build Snapdragon 835 PCs With HP, Lenovo, Asus
At Computex, Qualcomm announced it would build Windows 10 systems with major traditional PC OEMs. That’s a major step forward for the company, which flirted with building mobile PCs during the Windows 8 era when Windows RT (née Windows on ARM) was in development. The bulk of that market, such …
Read More »Nest Cam IQ Can Recognize Familiar Faces With its 4K Sensor
Google’s Nest subsidiary got its start with a smart thermostat, but the acquisition of Dropcam in 2014 helped it break into the burgeoning home security camera market. Nest has released a few cameras since then, but they haven’t been dramatically different than the cameras Dropcam was making. With the announcement …
Read More »Olympic Sprinter Tori Bowie’s 20-Minute Hotel Workout
Photo: Pond5 You probably recognize Tori Bowie from her podium finishes at the Rio Olympics last year. As the anchor for the gold medal-winning 4×100-meter relay run team — scoring the second fastest time in history along with English Gardner, Allyson Felix and Tianna Bartoletta — she quickly earned worldwide …
Read More »8 Ombre Smoothie Recipes You’ll Want to ‘Gram STAT
The unicorn food movement doesn’t show signs of slowing down. One healthy (and even more delicious!) way to get your rainbow fix at home: ombre smoothies. While blue majik has been the driving force behind this foodie trend, it’s hard to get a hold of the sapphire-hued powder. Instead, these …
Read More »Earth’s Earliest Primates Lived in Treetops, Paleontologists Say
Earth’s earliest primates were tree dwellers, according to a team of paleontologists led by Dr. Stephen Chester, an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Skeleton composite of Torrejonia wilsoni: most elements of the composite skeleton are in ventral view, but some elements are oriented differently to …
Read More »Modified Version of Vancomycin Could Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
A team of researchers at the Scripps Research Institute has structurally modified vancomycin to make an already-powerful version of the antibiotic even more potent. This digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic image depicts Enterococcus faecalis. Image credit: Pete Wardell / CDC. The original form of vancomycin is an ideal starting place for …
Read More »High-Silica ‘Halos’ Found in Gale Crater Shed Light on Wet Ancient Mars
Fracture-associated ‘halos’ of lighter-toned bedrock have been found on the lower north slope of Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp) in Gale crater, Mars, indicating that the Red Planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed. Pale zones called ‘halos’ border bedrock fractures visible in this 2015 image (colorized) from the …
Read More »Partnering with Urban Us, BMW MINI’s Urban-X reboots its urban tech incubator program
In the year since Urban-X launched as a partnership between BMW’s “MINIi” brand and the hardware accelerator HAX, the incubator has backed 17 new startups and learned several lessons, according to Micah Kotch, the managing director of the incubator for Mini. One of those lessons involved switching partners, because the firm is …
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