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These are the best Android smartphones [Late 2021]

November 24, 2021
The end of the year is often a great time to buy a new smartphone as holiday discounts abound. If you’re looking to get a new device, here are some of the best Android phones we’d recommend in late 2021. Table of contents Best overall: Google Pixel 6 Well-rounded and on sale: Samsung Galaxy S21 Best for battery life: Google Pixel 5a Best overall: Google Pixel 6 The almost no-brainer in…
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Hands-on with the Nikon Z 40mm F2

November 24, 2021
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hands-on with the Nikon Z 40mm F2 The Nikon Nikkor Z 40mm F2 is one of a pair of compact, lightweight and affordable prime lenses for the mirrorless Z-mount system (the other being the Z 28mm F2.8 which was announced recently). At only 170 g (~6…
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Resident Evil 4 VR is getting its Mercenaries mode

November 23, 2021
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Oculus announced today that Resident Evil 4 VR is…
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Enthusiast Gaming pays $45M for League of Legends fan community U.GG

November 23, 2021
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Enthusiast Gaming is paying $45 million to acquire the League of Legends fan community U.GG. Toroto-based Enthusiast Gaming, publicly traded on Nasdaq, has acquired Outplayed…
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Melon and NFL team up and launch Roblox metaverse experience

November 23, 2021
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Melon announced today that it is launching a new…
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Epic Games acquires Rock Band maker Harmonix

November 23, 2021
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Epic Games has acquired Rock Band and Dance Central…
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The World’s Largest Digital Camera is Almost Ready to Shoot the Stars

November 23, 2021
The world’s largest digital camera with a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels is being prepared for installation atop a Chilean mountain where it will scan the sky to help scientists gain knowledge about the Milky Way, dark matter, and other phenomena. Work on the giant camera, named “The Legacy Survey of Space and Time” (LSST), has been underway for several years now; the team of researchers…
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NASA Has Revived Hubble’s Most Heavily Used Camera

November 23, 2021
NASA is making significant progress on reviving the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in safe mode since early November after the synchronization of messages that control its instruments were becoming lost. Hubble was brought offline on October 25 after NASA…
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Macro Photos Reveal the Hidden Beauty of Seeds

November 23, 2021
Macro photography provides a window into details of the world that often escape (or are invisible to) the naked eye. Photographer Levon Biss used close-up photos to capture the incredible diversity of embryonic plant in his project The Hidden Beauty of Seeds and Fruits. …
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AI-powered voice transcription startup Verbit secures $250M

November 23, 2021
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Verbit, a startup developing an AI-powered transcription platform, today announced that it secured $250 million, bringing its total capital raised to $550 million. The round — a series E, made up of a $150 million primary investment and $100 million…
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