Enlarge / Can you spot the urinal design with the optimal splash-reducing angle? It’s the one second from right. (credit: Mia Shi/University of Waterloo) Scientists at the University of Waterloo have determined the optimal design for a splash-free urinal: a tall, slender porcelain structure with curves reminiscent of a nautilus shell, playfully dubbed the “Nauti-loo.”…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Electric vehicles have never been more popular. Just about every automaker is in the midst of an electrification effort, spurred on by impending government regulations around the world aimed at reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. But is the movement having an effect? Here in the US, plug-in vehicles are selling…
Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies has partnered with Coursera to offer a new pathway to degree completion for adult learners.Read More
Ring’s Video Doorbell is $40 off for Cyber Monday. Ring We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Ring’s Video Doorbell is one of the most well-known smart home security gadgets around, and you can save $40 if you pick one up on Amazon…
Amazon has discounted the AirPods Pro 2 by $50 for Black Friday. Apple We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Newer Apple products rarely go on sale, so the fact that the Apple AirPods Pro (2nd generation) got a big discount for Black…
An artist’s approximation of a nuclear power plant model made in Minecraft. Planet Minecraft Nuclear fusion and Minecraft may have more in common than all the countless hours you can invest in them. As MIT Technology Review reported over the weekend, the artificial intelligence non-profit OpenAI recently built the world’s most advanced Minecraft-playing bot by…
Legal trouble may be brewing for Microsoft in the European Union where an assessment by a working group of German data protection regulators that’s spent around two years looking into a swathe of privacy concerns attached to its cloud-based 365 productivity products — including by engaging directly with the tech giant to try to get…
You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and yet that’s pretty much what gamers are stuck with when they control their virtual avatars with their keyboards. U.K. startup Peratech wants to change that with a…
Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, just received an update that the company claims will help to identify more “low quality” fact checks — meaning, the notes written by Twitter users that are appended to tweets to provide further clarification and context. As a result, more of the contributors who write these unhelpful annotations will…
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