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Acer Nitro V 15A budget gaming laptop with reasonable specs for its price.A budget gaming laptop with an Intel Core i7 and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4050 with good build quality overall; however, it skimps on a few quality-of-life aspects that really hamper enjoyment over the long term. Starting at $850 (reviewed at $1,000)ConsBattery life Cheap feeling trackpad The HP Spectre Fold: One Device, Three Modes, All MehIf there’s one thing in the gaming laptop space that doesn’t get enough attention, it’s the sub-$1,000 category.…

WWDC 2023 is just a few weeks away, but Apple is already dropping incredible software news with the advent of not one but two massive iPad apps. There are rumblings of a new set of Beats Studio Pro headphones that will finally replace the aging Beats Studio 3 headphones, and two big new Apple TV Plus shows have made headlines for very different reasons. Here's your roundup of Apple news for the week!Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro come to iPad(Image credit: Apple)At any of the WWDC events in the last 10 years, Logic Pro and…

via Warner Bros. It’s only fair that both sides of the superhero divide end up taking criticism for substandard CGI, even if the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s consistently disappointing digital creations are at least in part due to the effects wizards being overworked and underpaid, but The Flash has swooped in at just the right moment to take the heat away from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Despite being one of the most tortured comic book adaptations to come along in a long while, the hype train for the…

KYIV, Ukraine —  Russia’s war on Ukraine has entered its second year, with a universal realization that the world is witnessing a long, protracted conflict, the deadliest in Europe since World War II, in which Moscow and Kyiv are hoping against long odds for a decisive breakthrough in 2023. “This has become a grinding war of attrition,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a recent meeting of member countries’ defense ministers. And wars of attrition tend to end badly, with overwhelmingly deadly tolls.A year…

Coffee Data ScienceDiving deep into how a sifting grinds coffeeIn my many explorations into sifting, I did not consider that the sifter itself could be modifying the coffee grounds. The act of sifting could modify a coffee particle as the grounds are rubbing back and forth. To better understand these theoretical implications, I collected some data.My aim was two folds:Does sifting grind coffee?Does sifting fundamentally change the particle shape?First, I used the Fellow Shimmy to remove less than 300um. Then I sifted the…

The Tampa Bay area has all the hallmarks of hurricane vulnerability: a large urban population, extensive coastal development and a network of easily flooded rivers. The only thing missing has been a hurricane. But with Hurricane Ian bringing Category 4 winds, 10 feet of storm surge and up to 25 inches of rain, experts are warning about massive and lasting damage to Florida’s second-most populous metro area. “There will be catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said…