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• A tale of ‘trons’: the suffix that tells the story of modern science

  29-12-2019 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s, chances are you’ll remember riding the Gravitron at the local fair or struggling to get past level one of the video game Robotron: 2084 at the arcade downtown. That would be after you got up early to watch five cartoon robots form the defender Voltron on the eponymous TV series, and stayed up late to see Woody Allen’s emergence from the Orgasmatron in Sleeper (1973). Throughout middle school, the cool kids got out their Cel
  
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• TNW’s top 10 best video games of 2019

  29-12-2019 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Well it’s certainly been a long year, hasn’t it? It doesn’t feel like it’s still the same year that gave us Kingdom Hearts 3 and Resident Evil 2 Remake. There have been so. Many. Games. And a lot of them were excellent! Not all of them, but quite a large percentage of them. We’ve really been spoiled this year. And speaking of which, it’s that time of the year again. Time to tally up which games were our favorites of 2019, which ones left the best impression o
  
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• 5 ways AI can make your car journeys less boring — and more safe

  29-12-2019 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Driving long distances without a passenger can be lonely. If you’ve ever done it, you might have wished for a companion to talk to – someone emotionally intelligent who can understand you and help you on the road. The disembodied voice of SatNav helps to fill the monotonous silence, but it can’t hold a conversation or keep you safe. Research on driverless cars is well underway, but less is heard about the work being done to make cars a smart companion for drivers. In the futur
  
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• Today’s your last chance to save 60% on Babbel’s language learning app

  29-12-2019 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Well, if you want to get on board with a lifetime subscription to learning up to 14 languages with a world-renowned language training system like Babbel, you better do it now. We hate to break the news, but this is your last chance at getting the entire Babbel catalog for only $159.
  
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• Please blockchain, prove me wrong and get your shit together in 2020

  29-12-2019 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  I’ve been covering the nascent — and often weird — world of cryptocurrency and blockchain since January 2015. During this time, I’ve seen banks dismiss the digital currency but declare their undying love for its underlying blockchain technology, and more recently open up about plans to possibly launch their own version. I’ve witnessed the wild conspiracy theories, the proofs-of-concept, the crime, the hype — you name it, I’ve seen it, and probably even
  
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• I pimped up my house with these cool LEDs and I’m still a loser

  29-12-2019 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  Something’s been missing in my life lately. Cash? No. I work in media, I’m rich. Power? Sure, I could always use more of that. But that’s not it. Beauty? Fuck no, I’m gorgeous. Yet I still feel like a loser. Because my house lacks a certain… Instagrammableness. (Disclaimer: this review is a piece of satire, but the opinions expressed about the product are still genuine.) It’s a huge problem, really — and it’s been a tremendous blow to m
  
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• These prosthetics designers harness AI to assist India’s amputees

  29-12-2019 03:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  “With amputations being reported on a daily basis, India’s vast rural hinterland is comparable to a warzone,” says Abhit Kumar, who makes practical, affordable prosthetic devices designed to get amputees back into the workforce. More than two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion inhabitants live in low-income rural areas, where accidents resulting in loss of limbs frequently occur from using unsafe agricultural machinery, working on rail and road construction, or as a result of
  
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• Research: DNA pinpoints region in northern Botswana as humanity’s birthplace

  29-12-2019 01:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favored contender – until today. Our new research has used DNA to trace humanity’s earliest footsteps to a prehistoric wetland called Makgadikgadi-Okavango, south of the Great Zambezi River. Our analysis, published in Nature today, shows that the earliest population of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) arose 200,000 years ago in an area that covers parts of modern-day Bots
  
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