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If there’s one big problem with smart home tech, it’s that you need so many different apps to control devices from different manufacturers. Theoretically, the introduction of Matter will help a lot with this, but the new smart home protocol is still a way off. The easy solution is to stick with one manufacturer and use just one app to manage all your devices. And if you’re planning to buy any smart security cameras or a doorbell, then it’s well worth taking a look at what EZVIZ has to offer. It’s tempting to play…

The late 1960s and early 70s was a fecund time for US cinema, but not every revolutionary film from that period has achieved the hallowed status of a Mean Streets or a Badlands. One, at least, has been lost for almost half a century. Emerging out of San Francisco’s countercultural Haight-Ashbury scene, Luminous Procuress is an enigmatic, transgressive and gleefully queer journey to the divine state of enlightenment lurking just beyond the carnal. And you can’t say that about The Godfather.Steven Arnold’s first and only…

You know where I’m going with this. If you follow the smartphone industry and know about Samsung’s recent mid-range offerings, you probably already realize that for some time, buying a Galaxy flagship has almost become a waste of money. Well, for most people, that is. The reason is simple: Samsung’s mid-range phones these days offer many of the same features as its flagship devices. From high refresh rate AMOLED displays and stereo speakers for an amazing content consumption experience to mostly excellent performance for…

Many people will experience a concussion at some point during their life – whether that's from contact sport, or just an unfortunate fall. But even a 'mild' version of this injury can cause long term health impacts for a portion of those who experience it.  A new study from a team of researchers across New Zealand has found that up to eight years later, adults who had experienced a mild concussion reported more ongoing symptoms, depression, and problems with work than those who never had one.This is not to say that all…

You’ve probably never heard of the game Yume Nikki (literally Dream Diary), an indie psychological horror game made with an early version of RPGMaker. It was developed all the way back in 2004 as freeware. Unlike most RPGMaker titles, this game does not follow a typical RPG formula — it has no true plot, minimal dialogue, and unclear, meandering gameplay. Frankly, it’s pretty scary, but not in a jumpscare or serial killer kind of way. You’ll experience elements like blood, weapons, and the occasional chase, but this is…

You’ve probably heard of many diseases and health problems that befall humanoids, but there are some strange syndromes out there that you probably aren’t familiar with. How many of these unusual medical conditions have you heard of?Exploding head syndrome is a strange sleep disorder where people hear a loud noise or explosion in their head.Exploding Head SyndromeImagine what it would be like to be sleeping soundly, only to be jolted out of a dead sleep by the sound of an explosion tearing through your head? No, you…

The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly what it is or how it formed in the Sun’s atmosphere. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI TeamPowerful eruptions, breathtaking views across the solar poles, and a strange solar ‘hedgehog’ are among the incredible haul of spectacular images, movies, and data returned by Solar Orbiter from its first close approach to the Sun. Although the analysis of the new dataset has only…

A total lunar eclipse is an incredible sight. As Earth passes between the Moon and the Sun, its shadow slips across the face of our satellite so only long, red wavelengths – sunlight refracted by Earth's atmosphere – can slip through, tinting the usually pale Moon blood-red.  That's when we see it from here, on our planet. But from space, the view is very different – and now we can see what that looks like, thanks to the asteroid probe Lucy, led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), launched in October 2021.At the…

By Chandra X-ray Observatory May 15, 2022This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the latest image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Using a radar-like scan, the sonification begins at the 12 o’clock position and sweeps clockwise. Changes in the volume represent the differences in brightness the EHT observed around the event horizon of Sgr A*. The material that is closer to the <span…

What about outside the EU? The GDPR, the EU’s data protection regulation, is the bloc’s most famous tech export, and it has been copied everywhere from California to India.  The approach to AI the EU has taken, which targets the riskiest AI, is one that most developed countries agree on. If Europeans can create a coherent way to regulate the technology, it could work as a template for other countries hoping to do so too.  “US companies, in their compliance with the EU AI Act, will also end up raising their standards…