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The AirPods Pro 2 are not cheap. Coming in at $250 puts them squarely in the ‘expensive’ bracket, and it makes them a more premium option than many other in-ear wireless earbuds that you can find. In the ever-pertinent words of Jedi master Qui-Gon Jin, however, there is always a bigger fish.Apple doesn’t make the most expensive in-ear buds. Neither does Bang & Olufsen – but it does make buds that are more expensive than the AirPods Pro 2. What has Bang & Olufsen done with the extra budget? A lot, it turns out. A…

The detection of a highly compact galaxy that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang and displayed an impressive rate of star formation is the latest example of how the James Webb Space Telescope is reshaping our understanding of the early universe.Scientists said the galaxy, dating to 13.3 billion years ago, has a diameter of approximately 100 light-years - about 1,000 times smaller than the Milky Way - but forms new stars at a rate very similar to that of our much-larger present-day galaxy. A light-year is the…

While family owners can sometimes be bad for business, they can also be beneficial in many ways. Credit: Shutterstock When it comes to turning corporate social responsibility (CSR) into profit, research shows family businesses have the advantage. CSR is a form of self-regulation where businesses make concerted efforts to be socially and ethically accountable to themselves, their stakeholders and the public.…

Our universe started with a bang that blasted everything into existence. But what happened next is a mystery. Scientists think that before atoms formed—or even the protons and neutrons they’re made of—there was probably a hot, soupy mix of two elementary particles called quarks and gluons, churning through space as a plasma. And because no one was around to observe the first moments of the cosmos, a coalition of researchers is trying to re-run history.Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National…

Toshiba Corp's auction was supposed to ignite a race for top-dollar bids among global private equity firms. Instead, it brought months of uncertainty and a solitary, scaled-back offer from the company's business partners in Japan. The $15 billion bid, led by domestic buyout firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) and accepted by Toshiba's board last week, could finally end years of exhausting battles with activist shareholders that sparked management reshuffles and strategy reversals. Less certain is whether the deal can…

There’s a long-standing tradition in the arts, whether it’s literature, film, music, or all pop culture in general: every once in a while, someone comes along and proclaims a genre irrevocably dead. The jury’s been out on cyberpunk for decades.I’m a woman writer of color from India, something that sits completely at odds with all the canonical cyberpunk I’ve ever read, and I’m here to tell you why the genre has never been more alive.A Crash Course on CyberpunkFor those unfamiliar with the genre, cyberpunk is…

Northern powerhouse Nia Archives taught herself to produce aged 17, after she left home. The past few years have seen her at the cliff face of the youthful drum’n’bass revival, winning plaudits and racking up awards for her party-starting DJ sets and emotional writing. Like her previous EPs, this latest release showcases Archives’ versatility, demonstrating how jungle lends itself to updates as varied as Brazilian party music, jazzy side notes and lo-fi introspection.Already a hit, the joyous, hectic banger Baianá samples…

When we think of the Big Bang, we think loud, hot, and bright. But was it followed by a colder, darker shadow?Five-sixths of the universe seems to be made up of a mysterious substance called “dark matter.” Until now, physicists have assumed dark matter was created in the same flash of heat that jump-started the universe. But dark matter lives in a kind of parallel, shadow world, barely interacting with the regular matter that makes up everything we can see, feel, and observe. Maybe it was created in a kind of “shadow” Big…

The Big Bang may have not been alone. The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang that flooded our universe with dark matter particles. And we may be able to detect it.In the standard cosmological picture the early universe was a very exotic place. Perhaps the most momentous thing to happen in our cosmos was the event of inflation, which at very early times after the Big Bang sent our universe into a period of extremely rapid expansion.When inflation ended,…

As the demand for artificial intelligence increases, new cryptocurrency, and blockchain-based projects are creating solutions that combine the benefits of artificial intelligence with the power of blockchain technology and the goodness of cryptocurrencies.  Two such players are SingularityNRT and Fetch AI. The two projects gained massive traction since the beginning of the year, making a great profit for investors. However, the two coins are facing massive competition from the social trading platform TMS Network (TMSN),…