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In-depth analysis on Valorant's Guarded Regions

This post is not meant to be an attack towards Riot Games’ Vanguard or Microsoft’s Windows, they have done an excellent job with their products and will continue to do so for the coming years, the content of this post is gathered solely by me, and I am not tied to any game hack publisher or entities. I have no intention of harming any company’s product, and everything here is constructed for educational purposes. In the cutthroat world of online gaming, there is no greater threat to the sanctit

Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

Earlier this year, Nintendo helped popularize the microSD Express standard by requiring it for the new Switch 2 console. Created in 2019, the specification had languished in relative obscurity for years because the cheap, plentiful non-Express microSD cards were generally fast enough for the things that people were using them for, and because most hardware didn't support microSD Express cards in the first place. However, Nintendo's console needed performance closer to that of an internal SSD to

Anker’s 3-in-1 Qi2 charging station has returned to its Prime Day low

If you’ve ever juggled a phone, a smartwatch, and a pair of wireless earbuds, you know the struggle of keeping them all charged. Rather than go through the process of charging them one by one, a quality charging station can help you manage the chaos and reduce cable clutter. The Anker MagGo Wireless Charging Station is a solid option for keeping your devices charged, and it’s currently matching its all-time low of $62.99 ($27 off) at Amazon and Anker’s online storefront — the same price drop we

Apple Watch Series 11: Three new features coming next month

A new wave of Apple Watch models is launching soon. Apple Watch Ultra 3 will rightfully get a lot of attention, but there’s a new Apple Watch Series 11 coming too—here are the rumored new features. #1: Upgraded S11 SiP Where the iPhone uses A-class chips like A18, and Macs and iPads often use M-class like M4, the Apple Watch has an S-class SiP (“System in Package”). Last year, Apple Watch Series 10 debuted a new S10 SiP. While Apple doesn’t always have new SiPs ready annually, recent leaks in

Millions at Extreme Risk as Wet-Bulb Heat Smothers the U.S. This Weekend

Summer may be winding down, but oppressive heat and humidity will smother much of the Eastern U.S. this weekend. By Sunday, August 17, 38 million Americans will face “major” risk of heat stress, with another 7 million at “extreme” risk, according to the National Weather Service. The forecast calls for the highest temperature anomalies to spread from the Central Plains to the Midwest this weekend, with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s and low 100s Fahrenheit (mid-to-upper 30s Celsius), the N

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway offloads more AAPL shares

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has again scaled back its stake in Apple. In a regulatory filing this week, Berkshire disclosed that it sold 20 million shares of Apple during the June quarter. Nonetheless, Apple remains the conglomerate’s largest holding at 280 million shares, valued at over $64 billion. Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016. At its peak in 2023, Berkshire Hathaway owned over 915 million shares of Apple, accounting for over 50% of the firm’s holdings. Buffett has trimm

MasterClass memberships are 40 percent off right now

MasterClass promises online learning with instructors who are the very best in their fields, and an annual subscription is currently 40 percent off across all tiers. Subscribers to MasterClass will have access to over 200 classes taught by iconic authors, chefs, athletes and leaders representing a diverse collection of skill sets and backgrounds. You could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Keller. If you're trying to impress at your next

Dead EV Batteries Are Hoarding a Shocking Amount of Useful Lithium

The lithium batteries we deem unfit for use in electric vehicles might still contain copious amounts of usable, pure lithium we could retrieve and reuse—a potentially consistent, bountiful supply we’re just not trying hard enough to tap into, a new study suggests. In a study published August 14 in the Journal of Environmental Management, researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia argue that tapping into the leftover lithium in used batteries could fuel a pragmatic, sustainable alt

New Bitcoin Purchases by the U.S. Government Still on the Table, Bessent Says

Bitcoin recently hit an all-time high of $124,400 and is up 93% from over a year ago. But fans of the cryptocurrency think it can go even higher, and those folks experienced a rollercoaster of emotions on Thursday after Scott Bessent gave conflicting signals about what the U.S. government had planned for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Initially, Bessent disappointed Bitcoin fans Thursday morning when he said the U.S. government’s so-called strategic Bitcoin reserve, first announced by

Blood pressures rise as the FDA cracks down on this wearable’s flagship feature

WHOOP TL;DR The FDA has scrutinized Whoop for a new wellness monitoring feature that has not been certified. The FDA considers the Whoop MG (Medical Grade) a medical device and should remove the Blood Pressure Insights feature until approved. Whoop claims the product is not for medical use and will not disable the feature. Wellness wearable maker Whoop, specifically one of its latest fitness bands, has drawn the ire of the FDA after it debuted a feature not approved or certified by the autho

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount 57 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman & Krystina Shveda • @zsk Technology editor & BBC reporter Share Save Getty Images Data centres, like this one Google is building in Hertfordshire, are becoming a more familiar sight across the UK. The number of data centres in the UK is set to increase by almost a fifth, according to figures shared with BBC News. Data centres are giant warehouses full of powerful computers used to run digital servic

Blurry rendering of games on Mac

Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game on a MacBook display – your game is probably rendering wrong unless you’ve adjusted your settings. If you’re a developer building a full screen game in AppKit (or Catalyst) – Apple’s APIs have some issues you need to be aware of. When most games start – they ask the system what resolutions are available for the current display and pick the best one. A M

Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry

Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game on a MacBook display – your game is probably rendering wrong unless you’ve adjusted your settings. If you’re a developer building a full screen game in AppKit (or Catalyst) – Apple’s APIs have some issues you need to be aware of. When most games start – they ask the system what resolutions are available for the current display and pick the best one. A M

The 10 Best Movies Peacock Has to Offer

Peacock deserves its flowers. The platform may not be mentioned as much in the ongoing streaming conversation -- heavy-hitters like Netflix, Disney Plus and Prime Video seem to have things on lock in that sense. That said, the NBC Universal-owned streamer is jam-packed with must-watch movies of all types. And I think this is something more people should be talking about. Universal Pictures has a stellar reputation for releasing box office hits and Oscar-winning movies. It's been doing this for

500 days of math

I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy. I wrote about my experience after 100 days here. TL;DR: I am still very impressed by the Math Academy system and highly recommend it, but you get out of it what you put in. My consistency has been exceptional, but my volume has been frequently low, which has had a cascading impact on my progress. To help, I spent January and February building a habit app to help improve my volume along with some other changes in how I handl

How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere

Most people would recognize the device in the image above, although they probably wouldn't know it by its formal name: the Crookes radiometer. As its name implies, placing the radiometer in light produces a measurable change: the blades start spinning. Unfortunately, many people misunderstand the physics of its operation (which we'll return to shortly). The actual forces that drive the blades to spin, called photophoresis, can act on a variety of structures as long as they're placed in a suffic

Computing’s Top 30: Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao

On a typical mobile device today, financial and medical apps nestled up next to everything from karaoke playlists to time-killing games like Fruit Ninja. How to secure data that matters in this diverse digital buffet is a challenge for many researchers. For Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao, it’s a challenge that fuels his life’s work and also led to an award-winning project. That project—which earned ACM MobiSys 2023’s Best Artifact Award—demonstrated that making systems less complex can actually enhance m

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion on their bet on CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI models have fallen behind the state-of-the-art, and its business hasn’t scaled like its competitors. Now, the company is bringing in a veteran research leader to revamp its AI ef

NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem

Ai2 has been awarded $75 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $77 million from NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project with the NSF and NVIDIA to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery. The partnership supports the NSF Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure project, Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI). Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Noah A. Smith, Senior Director of NLP Rese

How to Find Out If Microplastics Are Actually Destroying Our Health

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

500 Days of Math

I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy. I wrote about my experience after 100 days here. TL;DR: I am still very impressed by the Math Academy system and highly recommend it, but you get out of it what you put in. My consistency has been exceptional, but my volume has been frequently low, which has had a cascading impact on my progress. To help, I spent January and February building a habit app to help improve my volume along with some other changes in how I handl

Your Smartwatch's Sleep Tracker May Be Sleeping on the Job

If sleep is important to you -- and it should be -- you might want to think twice before you put a lot of stock in the latest stress charts from your fitness wearable. A recent study from the Netherlands' Leiden University, published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, has found that when smartwatches and similar devices record readings on stress, fatigue or sleep, they're frequently getting it wrong. Researchers studied 800 young adults using the same Garmin Vivosmart 4 sma

Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API

Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This could change soon. With Deep Research in Gemini, you can search about pretty much anything, including scholars, existing research papers, and more. Google describes Deep Research as an agentic Research Assistant that can browse up to hundreds of websites on your behalf, think through its findings, and create insightful multi-page reports in minutes.

CoreWeave tanks 20% after posting wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

Amazon Is Expanding Same-Day Grocery Delivery to Over 2000 Cities

Amazon wants people to shop for eggs, milk, and other fresh groceries on its online shop. The e-commerce giant announced on Wednesday that same-day delivery for perishable grocery items, including meat and seafood, is now available in more than 1,000 cities, including Phoenix, Orlando, Raleigh, and Milwaukee. It plans to expand the service even further to over 2,300 U.S. cities by the end of the year and even more towns in 2026. “We’re continuously innovating to make grocery shopping simpler,

CoreWeave stock slumps 20% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

New Study Shows Smartwatch Stress Sensors Have No Idea What They're Doing

You might want to think twice before you put a lot of stock in the latest stress charts from your fitness wearable. A recent study from the Netherlands' Leiden University, published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, has found that when smartwatches and similar devices record readings on stress, fatigue or sleep, they're frequently getting it wrong. Researchers studied 800 young adults using the same Garmin Vivosmart 4 smartwatch model. They compared the data the smartwatch

How Stock Options Work

How Stock Options Work Employee stock-option programs are typically authorized by a company's board of directors (and have historically been approved by the shareholders) and give the company discretion to award options to employees equal to a certain percentage of the company's shares outstanding. Options give employees the right to buy a certain number of their company's shares at a fixed price for a certain period of time, usually 10 years. That price, usually the market price of the