Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung's folding Galaxy Z Flip — Samsung's next foldable should be coming this month — Samsung's next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video with the device has just appeared online.
Enlarge / The microtubules inside a cell, here shown in green, are like a race track for viruses. (credit: National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
One of the reasons that I tend to stick to physics is that the subject is actually pretty simple. Any single bit of chemistry is more complicated than all of physics put together. Biology, in all its wonders, simply boggles what little of my mind is left.
With that in mind, the idea of me writing about viruses seems like a bit of a joke. But a cool development that allows researchers to track single viral particles and watch them invade their hapless victims is simply too good to pass up.
Tracking single virus particles is not exactly new. The idea is that you attach some sort of molecule that will glow to the virus. Then, you hit the sample with an exciting laser and look for glowing points of light. Optical microscopes can then track the virus' location with very high precision.
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Enlarge / Some surfaces, like sandpaper, create more friction than others. (credit: Daniel Machado / Flickr)
A cook's reaction to cockroaches in the kitchen is a good approximation of a physicist's reaction to friction: not only is it undesirable, it is hard to get rid of. OK, our analogy falls at a last hurdle: unlike cooks, most physicists don't really want to understand friction.
That said, there are a few strong-stomached physicists who are trying to understand friction. One of the problems they face is that is friction is so… individual. Every experiment is different. Even copies of the same experiment are slightly different. Despite that, one group has now managed to come up with a general model that replicates many of the main features of friction.
Actually, part of that last sentence is a lie. The model focuses on the transition between two different types of friction. I'll get to that in a moment.
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Doubtnut, an India-based startup which wants to teach math and science concepts through short videos, raises $15M Series A led by Tencent, says it has 13M MAU — Doubtnut, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates an app to help students learn and master concepts from math and science using short videos …
Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) wanted supporters to fund his memes—but he may end up paying for them instead. On Monday, King and his campaign for reelection to the House of Representatives received a cease-and-desist letter from the attorneys of Laney Griner, the mother of 2011’s most ubiquitous meme, Success Kid: a baseball-shirted cherub clasping a fistful of sand with a look of utter triumph. King’s campaign had used the famous image of Griner’s son for an ad, emblazoning it with the phrase “FUND OUR MEMES!!!” and superimposing the baby over an image of the US Capitol. As soon as she found out, Griner made it clear she would not stand for it.
She may not have to. Even though the point of a meme is that it gets reused and remixed and reappropriated, and Success Kid in particular has been memed across the world for almost a decade, Griner could have the law on her side. “The question everyone is going to be asking is, can you copyright a meme? But that’s not the right question to ask,” says Derigan Silver, who researches internet law at the University of Denver. “[King] is using the original picture of this kid, which is clearly copyrightable.” To that end, Griner does, in fact, hold the copyright, and she wouldn’t be the first person to try to enforce their copyright of an image-turned-meme. Matt Furie, the artist behind the infamous Pepe the Frog meme, has taken around 75 people and entities to task (or court) for reproducing Pepe’s image without his permission.
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Poco X2 is all set to be launched in India on February 4. Leading up to the launch, the company is revealing its features bit by bit. Poco X2 was recently confirmed to support 27W fast charging technology. Now, the company has posted a new teaser video showing the design of the upcoming smartphone. It indicates that Poco X2 may, in fact, be a Redmi K30.
The latest development comes from Poco India Twitter account that posted a teaser video revealing the phone in purple colour. It showcases a fingerprint scanner built in the power button. Plus, a slight hue of the back cameras can also be noticed. The arrangement and design seems similar to that of Redmi K30. All of this hints that the Redmi K30 may arrive in India as the Poco X2.
Poco has already confirmed that Poco X2 will come with a 120Hz refresh rate and feature a USB Type-C port, 3.5mm audio jack, and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. If it turns out to be a rebranded Redmi K30 4G, then Poco X2 will feature a 6.67-inch full-HD+ display with a 20:9 aspect ratio and dual hole-punch selfie cameras, and it will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset.
On the optics front, Poco X2 is touted to sport a quad rear camera with 64MP main camera, an 8MP shooter and two 2MP sensors. The notch could house 20MP + 2MP selfie shooters.
Poco X2 could pack a 4500mAh battery and have features like NMF and IR blaster
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UK startup Exscientia and a Japanese pharmaceutical firm claim to have created the first human trial-ready drug using AI, which took under a year to develop — An OCD drug created via AI will be tested on humans. — The British startup Exscientia claims it has developed …
WeWork names commercial real estate veteran Sandeep Mathrani as its new CEO; SoftBank's Marcelo Claure will continue as WeWork's executive chairman — Sandeep Mathrani, a senior real estate executive, will take over the operator of shared office space, which was on the brink of financial collapse last year.
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