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Food and beverage companies seeking younger consumers eschew marketing the old for inventing the newTaco Bell says it is following the lead of its Gen Z customers and leaning more toward chicken, introducing items like 2023’s Cheesy Chicken Crispanada. Taco Bell Food and beverage companies seeking younger consumers eschew marketing the old for inventing the newTaco Bell says it is following the lead of its Gen Z customers and leaning more toward chicken, introducing items like 2023’s Cheesy Chicken Crispanada. Taco…

Meta Quest 3 VR: What to Expect from the New Device There is no doubt that the Meta Quest is one of the most interesting devices for those who want to work and have fun with virtual reality. The device will have a renewal very soon and it seems that the first data of what the Meta Quest 3 VR will be like that dethroned the device that is now on the market, the first leaks of the Meta Quest 3 VR arrive at the Menlo Park house. They are doing their homework to comply with the improvements that they have proposed…

Sony is expected to launch its next flagship TWS buds soon. There are no official details on the WF-1000XM5, but there are unofficial ones. This generation the focus seems to be on wear comfort and fast charging. The new buds will be lighter at 5.9g, compared to the fairly hefty 7.3g buds of the XM4 generation. They will be physically smaller too, the combination of the two factors should make them much more comfortable. Sony WF-1000XM5 TWS buds in Silver and Black (leaked images) The total…

Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed a new compact and lightweight high-resolution imaging spectrometer for space-based use. The research introduces spectrometers that are a tenth the size and weight of conventional designs and cost less, thus enabling a range of new applications.<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National…

Apple is set to announce its long-rumored Reality Pro headset at WWDC next week and, suddenly, Meta has given a lot of detail about its upcoming Quest 3 headset. As reported by Bloomberg, Mark Gurman got a hands-on look at a prototype of the Meta Quest 3 ahead of its projected release in October later this year. According to Gurman, the headset is getting a pretty big overhaul, especially in the area of mixed reality. It’s also definitely called Quest 3 as previously reported. The third generation of…

Along with its flagship 1 V model, Sony just announced its latest midranger - the Xperia 10 V. It is the world's lightest 5,000 mAh smartphone currently on the market. Sitting at 159 grams, the handset is actually a couple of grams lighter than its predecessor. The Sony Xperia 10 V retains the Snapdragon 695 chipset as well as the 6GB/128GB memory combo of thr Xperia 10 IV. Storage can still be expanded with microSD cards. The 1080p OLED display is still 6.1" in diagonal, but Sony says it's 1.5x…

DuPont has debuted a new version of its famous bulletproof Kevlar fabric called EXO at this year's United States Army Rangers' Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning Georgia. The company says it is the most significant aramid fiber innovation in over 50 years with not only better ballistic protection, but it's also lighter, more flexible, and more heat resistant.Mention Kevlar and it's likely to bring up images of bulletproof vests, but the material has many more applications. Blankets of it protect the International…

DIC with different patterns. Using this patterning technique, the size of the speckles can be easily manipulated, resulting in a pattern scalable from a few tens of nanometers to a few micrometers in speckle size. Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology The automotive industry frequently uses steels containing multiple phases, in particular soft ferrite and hard martensite. These types of steel have complex…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Black and Asian people with darker skin shades can be the subject of prejudice and insults from lighter skin members of their families, new research shows. The first substantive research into this issue in the U.K. found that family members with darker skin were sometimes stigmatized by their…

Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a synthetic textile inspired by polar bear fur, which efficiently conducts light and traps warmth, making it effective in cold environments.A group of engineers from UMass Amherst has created a bilayered fabric that is 30% lighter than cotton yet provides greater warmth.Three engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have successfully completed an 80-year endeavor to create a synthetic textile modeled on polar bear fur. The results of their…