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For me, this means finally getting back to the UK without having to go through an expensive quarantine. For you, it could mean something slightly different. But we probably have one thing in common, especially if you’re reading this: we both love stuff. And, specifically, you probably want to find best gear and gadgets for travelers available today. And friends, you’ve come to the right place. To help you out on your journey, I’ve put together a list of essential of the best gear and gadgets for travelers in 2021....

Still, PC makers announced some cool stuff, and our list below showcases some of our favorite PC hardware from the event. Dell XPS 13 Plus The Dell XPS 13 Plus was definitely one of the biggest laptop highlights of CES, albeit in part because of its controversial design. Dell decided it would take the popular XPS 13 and dramatically change the design, most notably with a touch-sensitive strip at the top of the keyboard (reminiscent of Apple’s old Touch Bar, but a lot less customizable), and a new hidden haptic trackpad....

A mobile hotspot can get you out of a lot of jams. As hard as it may be to believe, there really are still places where WiFi remains hard to come by. While that’s an inconvenience if you’re trying to post a picture to Instagram or check on your favorite boutique’s store hours, it can be a lot more than annoying for business professionals, remote workers, or entrepreneurs who need to be connected at all times....

It’ll take about seven months, under the right conditions, for humans to get to Mars. Elon Musk has a plan to get us there, NASA’s all in, and the ESA is exploring its options. There’s just one big problem: it might be a suicide mission. There’s a bunch of reasons why the trip to Mars could be deadly for humans, not the least of which are harmful space radiation, space psychosis, and space atrophy....

Depending on its needs, each company will get up to €17.5 million in grants and/or equity investments. The latter will be made through the EIC Fund, which is now “fully operational” after appointing Luxembourg-based Alter Domus as an external fund manager to streamline the equity payment process and avoid past delays. The selected companies span across 17 EU and EEA nations, with the addition of Israel and the UK. Among them, 17% of startups and SMEs are located in Germany, 14% in the Netherlands, and 12% in France and Spain, respectively....

Nintendo today announced Switch Online+, an expansion plan for its current online subscription that adds a variety of games from both the Nintendo 64 and… the Sega Genesis. I guess Nintendoes what Genesis did? The first batch of N64 games to be included with the plan includes a sweet set of classics: Super Mario 64 Mario Kart 64 Star Fox 64 Yoshi’s Story The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time WinBack: Covert Operations Dr....

First, let’s look at the specifications: Specifications Screen: 6.41-inch FullHD AMOLED at 1080×2340 resolution Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, octa-core, up to 2.84 GHz Memory: 6GB/8GB Rear camera: 48–megapixel sensor with f/1.7 aperture + 8-megapixel depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture Front camera: 16-megapixel with f/2.0 Battery: 3,700mAh Charging: Warp charging at 20W Software: Android 9.0 Pie with OxygenOS Internal storage: 128/256GB UFS 3.0 (that means data read/write operations are twice as fast as the previous generation of storage) Biometric security: Under the display fingerprint sensor, face unlock...

In 2021, it released the $50 budget OnePlus Buds Z and $150 OnePlus Buds Pro with ANC (Active Noise Canceling). This year, the company has cracked a reasonable compromise between those two, with the $99 OnePlus Buds Z2. I’ve been using these wireless buds for the last few weeks, and I can safely say that it’s the best ANC you can get at this price point. Before we talk more about how it compares to other truly wireless earphones in the same class, let’s take a look at its specifications....

The future of work isn’t clear, but what’s certain is that flexible working is here to stay. As well as focussing on purpose, culture, and leadership at ABN AMRO, Transformation Consultant Marit Janssen is also developing the Future of Work project, which explores how the company will continue working post-COVID. During her TNW2020 keynote on ‘Remote Leadership’, Janssen shared some of the best practices from the company and highlighted the fact that the key responsibilities of managing and communicating with your team, but also motivating them and facilitating the collective journey towards the common goal of the company remain the same as they were before, it’s just the context that has changed....

Wolfram’s a household name in the science community. He’s responsible for Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that AskJeeves wished it was, and the creation of a math-based programming language called Wolfram Language used to power the popular Mathematica system and, now, the creation of the Wolfram Physics Project. His contributions go back to his formative years where, by age 14, he’d written three books on the subject of physics. It’s important to understand that Wolfram’s considered a respected scientific mind because his new theory, which is represented as simply “A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics,” come straight out of left field with a pretty wacky approach....

Senators Ron Wyden from Oregan and Senator Steve Daines of Montana led the charge to insert privacy protections into the Patriot Act, which gives law enforcement agencies power for surveillance in order to maintain national security. However, the privacy protection amendment fell short by just one vote, as many senators who may have voted in favor of it didn’t show up. [Read: Using ‘personalized AI’ to end coronavirus lockdown is a stupid, cruel idea] This vote is a setback to the privacy of citizens at multiple levels....

UK company Urban-Air Port opened the world’s first vertiport this week in a partnership with the Supernal, the Urban Air Mobility division of Hyundai. The vertiport is called Air-One and is poised to meet the future demand for autonomous drones and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) passenger vehicles. To be clear, the vertiport is a pop-up demonstration that provides a taste into the experience of a dedicated departure and arrival facility specifically for electric and hydrogen VTOLs....

Exoplanets – worlds around other stars – have long been staples of science fiction but remained mostly inaccessible to scientific investigations. This all changed over the past decade, when NASA’s Kepler and TESS exoplanet hunter space telescopes added thousands of new planets to the previously short tally of alien worlds. We, astrophysicists and exoplanet researchers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and members of NASA’s NExSS exoplanet research coordination network, have long been fascinated by the secrets nearby unexplored planetary systems may hold....

The alternative? Split the difference by creating a comfortable micro-climate around you that doesn’t involve cooling an entire building. The EvaChill EV-500 Personal Air Conditioner accomplishes just that — and right now, you can save $20 on this eco-safe and wallet-friendly summer reliever for just $79. It may not look like a game-changer, but once you crank up this 2019 Red Dot Design Award-winner, you’ll feel its cooling powers in full effect within 10 minutes, dropping the air temperature up to 59 degrees....

Career pivots are happening everywhere right now. With shifting economic fortunes, layoffs, and massive changes in many industries in the wake of COVID-19, it’s only smart to take a look at your current career and decide if your current path is still where you want to be in five years. Or, more ominously, consider if your industry will still have a place for you. With more companies pushing to cloud-based services, streamlining communication and relying more on their tech-driven systems than ever before, a cross-trained IT expert has never been more valuable....

You get the idea. When startups break the news they’ve been acquired, there’s also a tendency to announce they’ll be shutting down their services, like three days later. But more than the same fate, these startups also share the same formulaic announcement posts — and this is precisely what this new AI-powered tool is poking fun at. Meet ThisStartupAcquisitionAnnouncementDoesNotExist — a self-described “acquisition blog post generator” that was fed a diet of over a hundred acquisition posts to learn the art of crafting the perfect startup acquisition announcement....

“Over 52 native languages in Africa have undergone language death and have no native speakers,” said Emmanuel Gabriel, founder of Germany-based OpenBinacle, the creator of OBTranslate, which was launched this month. “OBTranslate can close communication gaps on the continent.” The innovation resulted from an earlier messaging app that was built in 2017 to allow interaction in real-time translation of 26 African languages, but led to inaccurate outputs, Gabriel admitted. Emmanuel Gabriel, OpenBinacle “We were very frustrated about the messaging app, and as a result we didn’t want to come into the market with a bad product,” added Gabriel....

While it probably feels like every TV today is now a smart TV, that’s not actually the case. In fact, there are plenty of TVs who need some real help if you want them to stream anything from popular streaming services to movies to games to even pictures. Thankfully, with the help of an Android box, it’s become incredibly easy to stream your favorite media right to the biggest screen in your home and really enjoy TV or a movie the way it was intended....

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently reported strange activity around the asteroid Bennu — as the asteroid rotates, it is shedding fragments of rock out to space. Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Bennu is constantly bombarded by smaller debris. Some of these impacts drive material off the surface. Other pieces appear to be sheared off the body by uneven heating from the Sun as the asteroid rotates. Most of these pieces fall back onto the surface of the asteroid, but a small percentage of them break free of the weak gravitational field surrounding the body, entering interplanetary space....

Enter JetBrains Mono, a new developer typeface specifically designed for readability and compactness. This way, you can easily parse through code, without the need to scale up the size of the font and without any danger of making each line of code unnecessarily long. [Read: Microsoft’s new font for devs is very aesthetically pleasing (and free)] To make the reading experience even smoother, each character is slightly elongated. The makers of the font also made sure to make each character distinctive to avoid mistaking “1” for an “l” or an “I,” or a “0” for an “o....