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The M3 MacBook Air is a fantastic laptop (we said so in our review) that's easily worth picking up for the majority of Mac users who don't need the power or significant heft of the MacBook Pro lineup.And yet, as with prior models of Apple laptops that featured the M2 chip, the MacBook Air is getting pretty hot. How hot, you ask? Well, 114 degrees Celsius.That comes via the team at Max Tech, testing whether the fanless design can keep up with the power of the M3. After all, no fan in the chassis means quieter running and…

We all reach a point in our lives when we have to choose a specific career path, and many of those paths start with getting a certain degree. Unfortunately, not all educational degrees are equally useful when looking for a job in our society.But is a piece of paper you get early in your life and the public opinion of your education choice something that dictates how the rest of your life goes? Well, as people on this Reddit thread revealed by sharing what they do in life despite getting a ‘useless’ degree, it certainly…

Samsung Display has unveiled a cutting-edge OLED display named “In&Out Flip” that can fold 360 degrees, signaling a new era for foldable phones with innovative form factors. The display panel is designed to redefine the user experience by enabling both inward and outward folding. This groundbreaking technology showcased ahead of Samsung’s main CES 2024 presentation, allows the same screen to serve as a large inner display and a cover display, offering flexibility and versatility. Built around the popular designs of…

Credit: Copernicus, Climate Change Service In September, the world passed 1.5°C of warming. Two months later, we hit 2°C of warming. It's fair to wonder what is going on. What we're seeing is not runaway climate change. These are daily spikes, not the long-term pattern we would need to say the world is now 2 degrees hotter than it…

As weird, bad, and awkward as The Star Wars Holiday Special is to watch, apparently, it was just as terrible to film. That’s evident from an exclusive excerpt io9 has acquired from the new book A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened by Steve Kozak.Spoilers of the Week | June 3rdKozak is the co-director of a documentary by the same name but chose to expand on it with the written word. The 288-page result is set for release on November 15 (pre-order a copy here), but what follows is a…

Shallow waters off south Florida topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8C) for several hours on Monday, potentially setting a new world record with temperatures more commonly associated with hot tubs.​The readings were taken from a single buoy in Manatee Bay, about 38 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of Miami, at a depth of five feet (1.5 meters).A peak temperature of 101.1F was recorded at 6:00 pm, but it remained above 100F for about four hours, official data showed.Jeff Masters, a meteorologist and former government…

The game theoretical framework. The structure of a social network evolves following simple rules of a game. (a) At each step of the game, the individuals forming part of the network (like the red woman in the picture) have to decide whether to stay with the neighborhood formed by their actual friends or to change to another neighborhood formed by potential new friends. The current and new neighborhoods may overlap (in our picture, the blue man and the…

Almost half (45%) of recruiters on the site search for candidates based on specific skills, according to LinkedIn. In the tech industry, a worker can be self-taught or can complete a list of online courses and certifications to land themselves a job.And the fast-changing nature of the tech industry means companies are always looking for highly skilled and specialized workers to take on hard-to-fill positions. Last year, companies like Apple, IBM, Google, and Meta announced they would hire candidates without college…

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University, Sweden, argue that the world is heading towards a temperature increase of 2.5–3 degrees Celsius, beyond the 2-degree target of the Paris Agreement, due to the slow phasing out of coal power. The study indicates that global warming can still be limited to 2 degrees if countries, especially major coal users like China and India, expedite the coal phase-out process, but the researchers’ realistic scenarios suggest this is unlikely due to insufficient…

At 7, Clovis Hung was bored with second grade.“I wanted more of a challenge,” he said.In 2019, his mother, Song Choi, pulled him out of second grade and began homeschooling him. A year later, when he was 9, he also enrolled in Fullerton College.“My husband and two daughters said I was crazy,” said Choi, who’s worked as a tutor for more than 20 years. “But I trust my instinct. I know he is a very unique child because he’s very curious and intelligent.”With his mom at his side, Clovis attended classes. At one point, he…