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This supermassive black hole flung out matter at 134 million mph: 'On a scale almost too big to imagine'

Supermassive black holes are notoriously messy eaters, but the behemoth at the heart of spiral galaxy NGC 3783 really takes the cake — and then flings it out into space at a fifth the speed of light. Astronomers recently spotted a gale of hot, charged particles erupting from this black hole in the aftermath of a powerful X-ray flare that occurred just a few hours earlier. As one of the…
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Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button

After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch brand, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instead offers a way to record…
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An adventure photographer planned this amazing shot for eight months. A surprise aurora made the image even more epic. Ice caves, a pilot’s view, and more top the best Northern Lights photos of 2025

When glacier guide and photographer Tori Harp first spotted the circular ice cave, she spent eight months monitoring the ice as it formed, envisioning a shot of an ice climber framed by the cave with the New Zealand stars in the background. But when the photographer finally…
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32K video editing is now a thing... but what on earth does that mean in reality?

When I read that DaVinci Resolve now supports 32K video editing, I genuinely wondered if I’d fallen and landed on my head.  Because let’s get real: we’re talking about a picture that’s 32,000 pixels across. Over half a billion pixels per frame. This, in an industry still wrestling with 4K delivery, where 8K remains a curiosity reserved for tech demos and the occasional…
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The electric crossover that could help save Nissan: meet the all-new NX8 

After images of an the new mid-sized electric crossover were leaked by the Chinese MIIT, Nissan pulled the wraps off its all-new NX8 – and it looks so good, I’m wondering if it couldn’t spearhead the brand’s American turnaround. Nissan has had a rough go of it in the US, if not, well – everywhere of late. And while we may all have our own ideas about what Nissan needs to do to turn…
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