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CloseA Chinese woman has claimed that her Apple iPhone 12 Pro fell from the 26th floor of a building and yet was not destroyed.The woman said that the smartphone slipped from her pocket while spreading her quilt on the balcony of the 26th floor of an apartment complex, reports Gizmochina.This incident joins a growing collection of stories related to the iPhone.The falling smartphone was inserted into a platform made of foam on the second floor of the building.Read AlsoWhen the woman asked for assistance, a staff member…

A Chinese woman accidentally dropped her Apple iPhone 12 Pro and found it totally unharmed, says a report by Gizmochina. As per the report, the woman lives in Ningde, Fujian Province. She claims that her iPhone 12 Pro phone accidentally slipped from her pocket while spreading her quilt…

While we know much of the plastic waste we generate winds up in bodies of water, what happens to it from there is still a large unknown. A new study documenting the accumulation of microplastic particles on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea has shed some new light on the issue, with the authors coming to the striking conclusion that concentrations of this material on the floor of the Med has tripled since 2000.In recent years, we’ve seen scientists start to uncover some useful insights around how plastic behaves in the…

Sonos has announced the latest addition to its SYMFONISK line of smart lights and speakers today. The new SYMFONISK Floor Lamp is exactly what it sounds like — a floor-standing version of the already popular table lamp.The new lamp, which can also receive AirPlay 2 streams from iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TV devices, can be used with various compatible lamp shades to help create the perfect look for your home or office. But the real beauty is the fact it has a speaker built-in.A musical lampThat speaker carries the…

IKEA announced its latest Sonos collaboration today, a Symfonisk speaker that doubles as a floor lamp. The lamp/speaker combo will launch in January in IKEA stores and online. The floor lamp’s $260 price makes it the most expensive speaker in the Symfonisk lineup. Current models range between $120 for a bookshelf speaker (with less than stellar audio) and $250 for musical wall art. And your investment in the floor lamp could creep even higher if you want something other than the included bamboo shade, as alternative…

Ikea and Sonos are continuing their collaboration with a new floor lamp speaker available in January 2023. It will be added to their popular, and affordable, Symfonisk lineup of Sonos-powered Wi-Fi speakers. The Swedish furniture icon and American wireless home speaker maker began their partnership in 2019 with the original Symfonisk table lamp speaker, and have since added to the range with a bookshelf speaker, a picture frame speaker, and even a second generation of the table lamp last year, all aimed towards the…

The red dots indicate large sand deposits going back about 1,060 years. The yellow dots are estimated dates from radiocarbon dating of small shells. Credit: Tyler Winkler If you look back at the history of Atlantic hurricanes since the late 1800s, it might seem hurricane frequency is on the rise. The year 2020 had the most tropical…

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo-IIS) Measuring the position and topography of the Earth's crust is critical for understanding earthquake risk. Now, researchers led by the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have developed a novel method for monitoring the position of the seafloor with a drone-based observation device that could revolutionize oceanographic observation.…

Scientists found that people danced more when very deep bass frequencies — too low to hear — were played.Scientists turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study to find out how different aspects of music influence the body. Researchers introduced levels of bass over speakers that were too low to hear and monitored the crowd’s movements. The scientists found that people danced 11.8 percent more when the very low-frequency bass was present. The study was published on November 7 in the journal Current Biology.“I’m…

One the largest pieces of NASA’s fallen space shuttle Challenger has been discovered on the ocean floor by a TV documentary team searching for a downed World War II aircraft. The artifact, which today remains where it was found by the crew filming The History Channel’s new series “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters,” was positively identified by NASA based upon the item’s modern construction and presence of 8-inch (20 centimeters) square thermal protection (heat shield) tiles. The segment of Challenger was found in…