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Octopuses are doomed to be orphans from a very young age. After a female octopus lays her eggs, she stops eating and begins self-mutilating, tearing off her skin and biting off the tips of her tentacles.  By the time a young octopus wriggles out of its egg, its mother is already dead. A few months later, its father will die, too.The short and grim life of the octopus has long fascinated scientists. In 1944, researchers hypothesized that mating was somehow hitting a molecular "self-destruct" button within the sea…

Quordle 108 answer for May 12, 2022: Today’s Quordle will shock everyone, But not because it’s difficult. Today’s puzzle is quite easy and you should not feel any pain while doing it! However, it is better to be safe than sorry. Check these Quordle hints and clues to ensure you get the Quordle answer. Quordle 108 answer for May 12, 2022: It is not a normal occurrence when we can use the word ‘easy’ and ‘Quordle’ in the same sentence. But strangely, that’s what…

Danny Boyle has finally revealed what his unwanted Bond film would have consisted of.He was due to direct Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007, before Boyle parted ways with the project due to creative differences with the Broccoli estate.Boyle previously told The Independent: “We just fell out about the way the script was going. I think that obviously, being as they are, they want it their way and normally a director would accept that and go along with it. “But I have this relationship with my writer that’s quite intense,…

Android tablets have long languished behind the most successful product in the segment – the iPad. One of the most prominent reasons why Android tablets don’t stand a chance against iPads is because of the bad app optimization and UI elements. The devices are mostly blown-up versions of Android phones. But not anymore. Google is rethinking the UI and adding new features that will make Android tablets more competitive with their Apple counterpart. The Android tablet segment is reaching 270 million active users and…

“Apple will drop the ports altogether before even considering switching to USB-C on the iPhone lineup” — this running joke in the tech circle might end next year. The unreal is about to happen. According to the reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple might give us a USB Type-C port on the iPhone 15 in 2023. In a pair of tweets, Kuo said that his latest survey indicates that Apple will drop the Lightning port in favor of the USB-C port. As The Verge points out, the “survey” could include component manufacturers, from…

More than 20 years after introducing the original iPod, Apple is retiring the product line. On Tuesday, Apple announced in a post on its website that the seventh-generation iPod touch is the last iPod. Apple will continue selling iPod touch models while supplies last on Apple.com, in Apple Store locations, and at Apple Authorized Resellers. The iPod is dead According to Apple, “the spirit of the iPod lives on” across its other products. Everyone now carries their music with them everywhere they go on their…

Sunspots aren't the only speckles decorating the dynamic face of our Sun. Solar physicists have made a close study of tiny, fleeting speckles of brightness that emerge and fade in less than a minute on average, in regions where loops of plasma rise from the solar surface.  They're named 'solar dots'. The fleeting phenomenon, analysis has revealed, is likely the result of magnetic shenanigans – which wouldn't be hugely surprising, given that magnetic field changes play a huge role in all sorts of wacky solar phenomena. …

We already have quantum computers of a sort, but at the moment they're not practical or reliable or large-scale enough to fully realize the massive potential of the technology.  To get closer to that end goal, scientists are working towards what they say could be the ideal building block for a quantum computer.These building blocks are called qubits. Unlike classical computer bits, which store either 1 or 0 at any one time, these qubits can exist in a simultaneous 0 and 1 state, much like the famous Schrödinger thought…

While flagship smartphones seem to get most of the attention, the mid-range market has made huge strides over the past couple of years, thanks to advances in technology and better support for long-term software updates. After spending a few weeks with the new Samsung Galaxy A53 5G, it is clear I could continue to fully function with a mid-range phone and save hundreds of dollars over what I spend now on flagships.Samsung's recent public…

Three big tech companies are finally making a push for passwordless sign-in options. Apple, Google, and Microsoft all plan to roll out FIDO passkey technology in 2022. The three companies announced the push earlier today. Big tech wants to bring passwordless sign-in to the masses this year Image source: FIDO Alliance “In a joint effort to make the web more secure and usable for all, Apple, Google and Microsoft today announced plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the…