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Source: Joseph Keller / iMore Have you ever thought it was difficult to see text and other visuals on your current iPhone or iPad? While sometimes it's due to our aging eyes, others can also be visually impaired, which means certain things can be a little hard to see. Thankfully, Apple makes its devices very accessible to everyone, and not just the impaired, with a wide variety of Accessibility options. Some of these Accessibility features let you increase contrast and even reduce motion, in case all those animations…

A fearsome 'vampire' predator that lurked in Earth's oceans more than 160 million years ago probably did actually suck its prey, at least in a sense.A new analysis of exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a small cephalopod named Vampyronassa rhodanica, related to modern vampire squids (neither actually vampires, nor squids), reveals the presence of muscular suckers that the beastie likely used for snaring and manipulating prey.  In other words, it was an active predator, hunting the pelagic depths for tasty…

Today's best ViewSonic Elite XG321UG dealsOf all the bleeding edge tech available in today’s gaming monitors, one of the most exclusive is Mini LED. While typical LCD backlights consist of LEDs arrayed at the edge of the panel or a grid of LEDs behind the TFT layer with up to 512 dimming zones, Mini LEDs are tiny light sources that boost peak output and sport as many as 1152 dimming zones. With this many zones, contrast can be much broader, making both SDR and HDR content richer and more dynamic.The downside to Mini LED…

Artist’s impression of a giant galaxy with a high-energy jet. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)Astronomers have just discovered an unknown structure in a galaxy that had been hidden in the “shadows.” They accomplished this by extending the dynamic range of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>ALMA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

Today's best Monoprice Dark Matter 34-inch 42772 dealsNearly every product category in the tech sector has devices that could be considered “entry-level.” For the best gaming monitors, it’s typically a 24 or 25-inch 16:9 flat panel running at 144 Hz with Adaptive-Sync. But what if you want to try a different shape and size, say, an ultra-wide 21:9 curved screen? There’s also an entry-level there, such as a 34-inch panel running at 3440x1440 pixels with 144 Hz and Adaptive-Sync. Perhaps you think that’s a premium…