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Images of solar systems showing more than one planet have been recorded twice before in recent years. However, this image marks the first time a pair of giant planets have been seen orbiting around a young, star-like star. “This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution,” said Alexander Bohn, a PhD student at Leiden University in the Netherlands....

Yes, thanks to intrepid internet adventurer Evan Blass, we now have (what appear to be) proper photos of the majority of Microsoft’s new Surface gear. Blass has been accurate with his leaks in the past and with the Microsoft event so close, it’d be a shock if these weren’t legitimate. But, you never know, better people than myself have been duped before. Now that little disclaimer is out the way, let’s actually have a look at these devices....

It’s the company’s first SUV, and while such vehicles don’t usually get called beautiful, this time I’ll call it: the Eletre is a slick-looking machine, which seems like a hell of a package. Feast your eyes: As you can see above, the EV isn’t beautiful in a conventional way. Its design language is rather aggressive with a cab-forward stance, long wheelbase, and short overhangs. Its front also looks like an angry reptile of sorts....

Lyft’s next-gen ebike is a refined and updated version of its previous battery-based models, with a clear focus on accessibility, durability, and safety improvements. The battery has doubled in capacity from 500Wh to 1,000Wh — enough juice, Lyft says, for up to 96 kilometers of range, depending on factors such as the rider’s weight and how many hills the bike climbs. To make it easier to use, there’s no gear shifter....

And I’m not just talking about the massive growth in engaged usership on TikTok and Instagram. LinkedIn, the B2B social network, has also shown a huge spike in both the amount of published content and the volume of engagement with that content, according to data compiled by Transmission. Credit: TransmissionThis opens up opportunities for marketers to enlarge their share of social attention, but only if you pay attention to the changing ways that consumers are using social media....

As with Marshall’s previous wireless speakers, the Uxbridge features a stylish design that mimics the design of a classic guitar amp, albeit in a rather small form just 6.6 inches tall and 5 inches wide. The speakers come in white or black colorways and support both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections, the latter using AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect. You can also use the speakers in multi-room mode using either AirPlay 2 or other Alexa-enabled speakers, although it does not appear you can create stereo pairs....

The smaller variant has a 10th gen quad-core Intel chip while the bigger variant has a surface-branded AMD Ryzen 7 chip with Radeon RX Vega 11 graphics card. The company said the top part of the is made of a single sheet of glass and the keyboard part is made of a single sheet of fabric. The device has a 20 percent larger trackpad so you can move around the interface with ease....

Nothing better than giving your much more powerful foe some nightmares of their own, right? With Azure’s reach growing every day, savvy IT pros are expanding beyond AWS to get familiar with what Azure can do with coursework like The Microsoft Azure 203 Certification Training Course. The instruction is now $29.99, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals. For anyone looking to understand the Azure environment or even build a career as a certified Azure expert, passing and earning accreditation with Microsoft’s own AZ-203 Azure training exam is an absolute must....

It’s rare for CEOs of tech companies to take a stance on political issues, particularly when they aren’t directly affected. Satya Nadella bucked the trend today, as he criticized India’s controversial Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) that excludes Muslim refugees from obtaining citizenship in India (while the privilege is granted to refugees of other persecuted minorities). Talking to BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, at an event in Manhattan yesterday, the India-born CEO said what’s happening in the country is “sad....

But that’s not the housing crisis we’re talking about. The more concerning one is the homelessness problem in California and around the world. However, that’s not a very sexy topic so let’s split the difference. Mighty Buildings is a company that might just be able to directly address both. Mighty Buildings is a startup that just came out of stealth to 3D-print homes. They’re not the first company in the mix and there’s no super-fancy tech gimmick at play here (nobody’s promising you free housing in exchange for your data or some crap like that)....

Officer progression and challenges are free. If you’re a completionist who hasn’t maxed out yet, this delay is good news for you. Especially if you purchased the Battle Pass and haven’t had time to unlock all its goodies. But what if you hadn’t considered the Battle Pass until now? Will you have enough time to get any bang for your buck before Season Two starts? Let’s take a look at the numbers....

The feature is showing up on devices running iOS 14 and above, although users in the iOS 15 beta have the added benefit of trying out the new Spatialize Stereo feature. This allows Spatial Audio to work with stereo content as well as surround. It won’t give you quite the same sense of envelopment, but it should still make it seem like the sound is coming from in front of you like speakers, rather than being stuck in the middle of your noggin....

Dutch traffic bureau VIA looked at registered accidents at intersections that involved cyclists between 2014 and 2021. It found most of the intersection bike crashes in the Netherlands occur at roundabouts. Specifically, 12% of the total bike crashes involved intersections or almost one in eight. Roundabouts are designed to improve traffic flow — particularly for car drivers — by removing stop signs and traffic lights. They reduce the number of conflict points between road users, and the speed of vehicles at intersections....

The partnership between Samsung and AMD was first announced in June of last year, and the Exynos 2200 was actually supposed to launch last week before Samsung ghosted everyone. It’s here now though, and it spells an interesting future for gaming on smartphones — while helping Samsung differentiate its hardware from Qualcomm’s ever-popular Android chips. For those not in the know, RDNA 2 is AMD’s current flagship graphics architecture — the same tech powering the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5....

It’s difficult to understand groups without being able to observe them directly. But advances in technology are changing this. Individual birds can now be fitted with small tracking devices called geolocators which store data from one breeding season to the next. When the bird is recaptured, the data is then downloaded and used to reconstruct the bird’s migratory pathway. Geolocators are useful for tracking the location of individual birds. But they lack the spatial precision to investigate their behavior....

Up front: The NFT market exploded in 2021, bagging artists and celebrities whopping sums for digital tokens that authenticate ownership of collectibles. Berners-Lee hopped on the bandwagon amid signs that the bubble was about to burst. He auctioned off an NFT representing this bundle of items: The original archive of dated and time-stamped files containing the source code A Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) representation of the full code A letter he wrote reflecting upon the code and his process of creating it An animated visualization of the code being written...

All these games will be available to Switch Online members at no extra charge. Plans for the paid subscription service are generally $3.99 a month, but you can save by signing up for three months or a year (the latter brings the cost down to just $1.67 a month). However, if you’re in Europe, you’ll be getting access to these games tomorrow. Here’s the full list of SNES games launching today on Switch Online:...

Greetings gadget fans. This week Plugged In was fed another newsletter (Mad Cow Disease-style) and is feeling… well, weird. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about Apple of late — and for good reason: it’s the master of consistently churning out perfectly capable products. Just look at something like the Apple Watch. It’s an amazing device, but it’s made to be steady, rather than jaw-dropping. There are no wild new features, or crazy designs....

NC Representative Keith Kidwell, together with his colleagues, Reps. Ben Moss of Richmond County, Mark Brody of Union County, and George Cleveland of Onslow County, last week filed House Bill 1049 — one of the country’s most anti-EV bills to date. Titled “Equitable Free Vehicle Fuel Stations,” the proposal wants to remove free charging stations in North Carolina and ban EV charging on government property. That’s unless free gas and diesel fuel stations have “equitable” availability....

That means it recreated the game without first being taught the rules. Instead, the AI mimics a computer game engine to create a new version of the arcade classic. Researchers at GPU giant Nvidia recreated the game by feeding a model they call GameGAN 50,000 Pac–Man episodes. After digesting the sample, it spat out a fully-functioning new version of the game. The system uses generative adversarial networks (GANs), which Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun called “the most interesting idea in the last 10 years in ML....