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Secretlab, maker of the incredible Secretlab TITAN Evo 2022 gaming chair, has today unveiled a brand new cheaper version that the company says is 20% cheaper than its predecessor while delivering “95% of the same premium experience.” Dubbed the “Secretlab TITAN Evo Lite,” Secretlab says it has retained all of the most important features and ergonomics from the premium version while removing some of the “luxury” features to bring down costs. Full disclosure, the new Secretlab Titan Evo Lite does still cost £389/$449, so…

Google layoffs: The Alphabet-owned company on Tuesday confirmed it is eliminating "a few hundred" positions from its global ad team, amid a push to use artificial intelligence for efficiency and creativity. The job cuts to its "large customer" sales team are intended to result in better support for small and medium size businesses advertising on Google's platform, according to the internet giant.Expansion of small business ad teams at Google was expected by the company to result in increased hiring this year. Google made…

A new analysis of floating “magic islands” found on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may actually be glacier-like snow, a new report says. The islands were initially spotted in 2014 by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft as it observed the orange haze that surrounds Titan.Despite being discovered nearly ten years ago, it has taken almost a decade for scientists to determine a scientific explanation for these particular islands. Sitting in orbit around Saturn, Titan is bigger than the planet Mercury, and the floating…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has sacked the Board of Directors governing Polaris, Union and Keystone Banks. The CBN announced the decision in a statement Wednesday night. The action is expected to have followed the recommendation of the Special Investigator, Jim Obazee, appointed by President Bola Tinubu in July 2023. Mr Obazee was appointed to probe the activities of the CBN and other relevant establishments. The CBN in its statement Wednesday accused the banks of regulatory non-compliance, corporate…

Titan orbits Saturn. Below Titan are the shadows cast by Saturn’s rings. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteScientists have discovered strike-slip faults on the icy moons of our solar system, similar to those seen at the San Andreas fault in California. These faults occur when fault walls slide sideways past each other. New research from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, led by earth and space scientists, has explored and explained the origins of these geological features on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon,…

When it comes to riding e-bikes off-road, fat tires are a simple and easy way to get more comfort out of your ride. Adventure-style electric bikes, such as the Fiido Titan I’ve been testing, let amateur and experienced riders alike enjoy hitting trails and other off-road surfaces without needing thousands of dollars in high-end suspension to enjoy the ride. By adding powerful motors and big batteries, e-bikes like these ensure that the ride is just as capable as it is long-lasting! Check out the…

Most of the time, an obituary makes headlines because of how a person lived. But every now and then, it's because of how they died. That certainly is the case for the five men on the OceanGate Titan submersible, which imploded this past June on its way down to the Titanic.One of them was OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, the designer of the sub. He certainly enjoyed playing the maverick. In 2022 he told me, "I don't know if it was MacArthur, but somebody said, 'You're remembered for the rules you break,' and that's the fact.…

With cinemagoers far and wide getting ready for the first batch of projects on the 2024 movie schedule, MonsterVerse fans are getting ready to welcome Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and its titular titans. But if a new social media post is correct, the climate surrounding this movie is about to become a lot more exciting. That’s because a fan-favorite creature might be coming back to the fold, despite the fact that they should have returned much sooner, as per previous franchise plans.(Image credit: Warner Bros. /…

The Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu to probe the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Jim Obazee, has rejected a request by the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Tunde Lemo, and the two major investors in the bank to delay their appearance before the investigator until the second week of January 2024. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Obazee on 24 December summoned Mr Lemo, Cornelius Vink and Rahul Savara to appear before his team of investigators on Thursday over TTB’s acquisition of Union Bank…

Plastic proliferation Plastic is great. It’s strong, it’s light, and it can be pressed into just about any shape: lawn chairs, bobbleheads, bags, tires, or thread. The problem is there’s too much of it, as Doug Main reported in MIT Technology Review this year. Humans make 430 million tons of plastic a year (significantly more than the weight of all people combined), but only 9% gets recycled. The rest ends up in landfills and, increasingly, in the environment. Not only does the average whale have kilograms of the…