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We know that blasting tunes at volume, working in excessively noisy environments, and even gaming can damage our hearing, but how exactly does this happen?Scientists now have a better idea about that, and have also discovered a potential way to prevent it.A team from the University of Pittsburgh used tests on mice to establish that loud noises were linked to spikes in zinc levels in the inner ear, both in terms of quantity and how widely it was spread. It's that spread of zinc that appears to harm ear cells and disrupt…

Over the last few months, a number of cities have taken actions against Royal Enfield motorcycle riders with illegal modified silencers, setting an example for other cities and states of the country. Recently, Pune’s traffic police launched a rigorous campaign targeting modified motorcycle silencers. In the most recent crackdown, authorities seized a total of 571 illegal loud and polluting silencers and then crushed them with a road roller to warn other people of these illegal modifications. The authorities have also…

In portraying the long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the Netflix biopic Nyad, Annette Bening makes a believable, detailed portrait out of an unbelievable, frankly bananas story. In 1978, when she was 28, Nyad attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida, a 54-hour-plus journey through waters riddled with jellyfish, the sting of which was so strong it was like being electrocuted. She was forced to abort, having completed 76 miles, only some of them in a straight line.Thirty-two years later, Nyad started training for a second…

One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into an “interrogator.” This device fires a laser through the cable and analyzes the light that bounces back. It can pick up tiny perturbations in that light caused by seismic activity or even loud sounds, like from a passing ambulance. It’s a newfangled technique known as distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS.Because DAS can track…

Metal: Hellsinger has revealed that a song from its upcoming DLC is performed by Trivium lead singer Matt Heafy. This will be Heafy’s second contribution to Metal: Hellsinger, with his first contribution, ‘This Devastation’, in the base game along with songs from Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy), Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) and Serj Tankian (System of a Down). The teaser for Heafy’s new song is an extremely heavy affair, featuring his trademark vocals and a melodic riff. It’s titled ‘Goodbye My Morning Star’ and will be…

Among the many Digital Wellbeing features in One UI are three monitors that can show users how much screen time they had while driving and walking and how long they've listened to their headphones at loud volumes. Samsung made some changes to these monitoring features in One UI 6.0, and here they are. First, it's worth noting that the “Screen time while walking” monitor has returned to Galaxy phones running One UI 6.0. This monitor used to be a part of the Digital Wellbeing toolset but was removed by an update earlier…

Lil Uzi Vert, who had been surprised Tuesday by their inclusion in the Rolling Loud California lineup, has been removed as a headliner and replaced by the joint set comprising rapper Future and producer Metro Boomin, who now join the weekend festival’s other headliners, Nicki Minaj and Post Malone.Future and Metro Boomin were added to the lineup Wednesday, according to a statement from Rolling Loud, unceremoniously replacing Lil Uzi Vert as the March 2024 hip-hop festival’s Sunday headliner.The move came after the “XO…

Lil Uzi Vert previously disavowed ever agreeing to perform at the fest despite being listed as a headliner Rolling Loud next year will not feature previously announced headliner Lil Uzi Vert — the rapper, who uses they/them pronouns, said on Tuesday that they don’t even “understand why name is on” the poster — so the festival’s organizers have added Metro Boomin and Future instead. The two hip-hop artists will release an album, billed to Future x Metro Boomin, before the fest, according to a tweet…

Analogue has announced that the next in their line-up of limited edition Analogue Pocket colors. This time, they’re revisiting the rainbow of Game Boy consoles. Even Game Boy Light. When the Game Boy was first released in 1989, it came in one color, and that was grey. In 1995, they released the “Play It Loud” line-up of colors. They came in red, green, blue, yellow, black and clear. When the Game Boy Pocket came out in 1996, it came in similar colors, plus a few more, such as pink. This run of Analogue Pockets comes…

The festival announced earlier Tuesday that the Just Wanna Rock rapper would headline Rolling Loud California next March Lil Uzi Vert took to Instagram on Tuesday to dispute that they agreed to play Rolling Loud California’s March festival, just hours after the event had announced the “Just Wanna Rock” rapper as one of the festival’s three headliners. “I never said I was doing rolling loud,” Uzi, who uses they/them pronouns, wrote in an Instagram story. Don’t understand why my name is on…