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Computer accessories really have to prove their worth these days. However, there’s probably little chance a new device is going to play its way into becoming a part of your already overloaded everyday carry collection. As it turns out, the Desklab Portable 4K Touchscreen Monitor is kind of like that kid in school who constantly raised their hand to answer every teacher question. Because the Desklab has an answer for just about every laptop and smartphone owner’s need in a peripheral device....

So far, it’s unclear whether the culprits were able to access any particularly sensitive information; Twitter has not yet confirmed whether hackers were able to read user’s DMs. Even if they weren’t, the fact that they were able to pose as some of the most famous people and companies in the world — including a former president and a potential future one — sent a chilling message. It’s a matter of national security, so today the FBI confirmed it is investigating the incident....

This then, is the acrostic review of the Pixel 4. What’s that? Well, when the first letter of each paragraph will form its OWN REVIEW BY THE END OF THE PIECE. See if you can unravel our tricky, brain-rending riddle. Good luck, friends, good luck. I think the first thing that struck me about the Pixel 4 is the design. It’s a beautiful looking phone. I’m a big fan of the camera square on the back of the Pixel 4, as it looks so much slicker than the trio of lens holes on the rear of the iPhone 11 Pro range....

Electrify America announced yesterday an agreement with Hyundai to give owners two years of unlimited charging at the company’s stations. That is so long as the sessions don’t last more than 30 minutes a time. The two years of free charging will begin on the date of purchase and apply to both purchases and leases. The 30-minute limit might sound like a restriction, but it’s really not. Electrify America provides DC fast charging, and with a 350-kWh charger the IONIC 5 can charge from 10% to 80% in just 18 minutes....

But we’re not here to talk about the iPhone SE specifically. Instead, we’d like to focus on something its release caused. So, one and all, please pay respects and throw some dirt over the grave of the iPhone Plus. We now live in a Max world, motherfuckers. Okay, this is the point where I tell you what the fuck I’m talking about. When Apple put the iPhone SE on its website, the company removed and stopped selling its iPhone 8 range too....

The IRS is sending another round of letters to known cryptocurrency traders advising them that they’ve filed their taxes incorrectly, CoinDesk reports. In one instance, a taxpayer owed nearly $3,900 for 2017, that’s $3,600 in tax and about another $200 in interest. The letter, seen by CoinDesk, was dated July 29, 2019. This latest round of communication comes just a few weeks after the IRS first sent “educational letters” to cryptocurrency owners to advise them of any tax they might owe....

Construction of the International Space Station (ISS), started in 1998, was completed in 2011. Since that time, the ISS has housed travelers in space from 19 countries. Possessing the only laboratory for long-duration microgravity research, discoveries aboard the orbiting outpost have led to a bevy of new discoveries. Now, its mission could be over as early as 2024, as that is the time agreements between NASA and international partners comes to an end....

According to a press release from D-Wave, the new Advantage system improves on the previous generation’s 2000Q model – which sports a paltry-by-comparison 2,048 qubits – in nearly every conceivable way: Catch up: Understanding quantum computers: The Basics While the system’s new, it’s not the Los Alamos lab’s first D-Wave computer. Irene Qualters, associate laboratory director for simulation and computation at the lab, said her team was excited to work with the new system next year: In 2015, under the direction of the Obama administration, D-Wave and the Los Alamos lab began working together to explore quantum computing technology....

A report from Bloomberg suggests the app was initially launched six months ago and has garnered over 27,000 users. Now, it’s available on the Google Play Store and the App Store in these countries. The app is free to use with a premium tier offering at Rs. 119 ($1.68) – the same as Spotify. I’ve spent a couple of hours with the app, and it clearly isn’t anything like traditional music apps....

Then there are the new security and privacy features that alerts you about the apps that use your location, and those that want to access your Bluetooth. Safari even packs in a few more anti-tracking features that make it difficult for ads to track you across the web. But it’s also buggy — which means you may want to hold back for a couple of days more before embracing the dark side....

The overhaul is all about turning your storage space into a productivity launchpad. I tried out the Windows desktop app to get a taste of it, and I enjoyed being able to do more than just stash and retrieve files from there. Hit the play button below for a tour of the new features and layout. For starters, you can not only preview files and see comments on those that you’ve shared with other Dropbox users, but you can also do things like edit images, and sign PDFs using partner apps in your browser....

What Hofstadter and his team saw was a small deviation in how electrons “scattered”, or bounced, when hitting the hydrogen. This suggested there was more to a nucleus than the dot-like protons and neutrons they had imagined. The experiments that followed around the world at accelerators – machines that propel particles to very high energies – heralded a paradigm shift in our understanding of matter. Yet there is a lot we still don’t know about the atomic nucleus – as well as the “strong force”, one of four fundamental forces of nature, that holds it together....

While my colleagues and friends have raved about the new iPad Pros, I have never liked tablets of that size. The perpetual fear of an 11-inch iPad falling on my face when I’m lying on the bed and reading doesn’t sit well with me. Now the 8.3-inch iPad Mini that weighs in at just under 300g — that sounds like the perfect size for a tablet. I still have my iPad 2 mini, and after thrift shop repairs, I can still use it as a spare reader....

If not, maybe try this more modern joke from 1000AD Britain: “What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before? Answer: A key.” The chances are you could tell these were meant to be funny, but did they make you laugh or smile? Be it ancient or modern-day humor, we all find different things funny – why is this? Is it down to our brains or to the ways that humor works?...

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, in the late 1980s, Nintendo and Sony worked out a deal to create a CD-based add-on to the upcoming Super Nintendo, as well as a hybrid cartridge/disc console that would have been called the “Nintendo Play Station.” Nintendo, however, worked out a more favorable partnership with Phillips, which it revealed at the same Consumer Electronics Show where Sony revealed the Play Station....

According to The Guardian, the country’s government will bring the ban forward to 2030, which means you won’t be able to buy a new petrol or diesel car after that date. An official announcement was expected this week, however, as the UK government deals with a rise in coronavirus cases it’s now expected to come in autumn. It seems that the move is coming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a goal of kick-starting the economy, but pointing it in a greener, more sustainable direction....

Utilizing a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, astronomers find these ribbons are three times hotter than they were eight billion years ago. “Combining the latest data with a state-of-the-art theoretical model, we were able to reveal how the temperature of the Universe evolved, and how it was linked to the formation of the large-scale structure of the Universe,” Ryu Makiya, a research fellow at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), explains....

While the relative contribution of those cities in terms of newly created unicorn companies peaked in 2014, the rest of the US steadily accumulated more VC funding, leading to faster growth of new tech hotspots. All over the continent and the globe, new tech hubs are emerging, each with their own specializations, ecosystems, and unique features for attracting fledgling tech companies. And the pandemic has only escalated this tech ‘decentralization’ further with the prospect of indefinite work-from-home-life allowing tech workers to get away from rising major city prices....

With all the cycling tech on the market — like power meters, heart rate monitors, Zwift, smart trainers — it’s easy to think that you just need to ride more and ride harder to get fitter. But that’s not necessarily the best approach. With all this tech we should actually be training, and recovering, smarter. I say recovering, because that’s specifically what the latest tech I’ve been using for the past few months — the WHOOP band — does....

If you need to edit an image or create a piece of digital media, you already know the Adobe Creative Cloud and its armada of apps is more than ready to jump in and help get the job done. But you might not immediately think of Adobe CC if you need a stock photo for your website or some helpful feedback on your creative projects. But there’s a lot more in the Adobe galaxy than Photoshop....