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Porting DirectX 12 games to Windows 7

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Agitator!!

Microsoft has posted a blog about porting DirectX 12 games to Windows 7. To better support game developers at larger scales, we are publishing the following resources to allow game developers to run their DirectX 12 games on Windows 7. Please post technical question or feedback to our Discord channel at http://discord.gg/directx. For more links,…

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Ohio Students Create Aggressive Brain Cancer Cure

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Agitator!!

At the University of Findlay, pharmacy students are developing an oral compound that targets glioblastomas, the most aggressive form of cancer occurring in the brain. Using chemistry, physiology and pharmacology, they are researching an efficient way to direct medication to the brain. If successful, this kind of medication could remove the need for risky medical…

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A way to control invasive spotted lanternfly?

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Agitator!!

If you are in an area overrun with Spotted Lanternflys, you know what a menace they can be. Now there may be a way to control them. The research, published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, involved two naturally occurring fungi – Batkoa major and Beauveria bassiana – found in soil in…

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How to stop voice assistants from prying on you

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Agitator!!

Hey Siri, Google and Alexa — enough with the snooping already! Unfortunately, consumers are trading privacy for convenience. And it’s our job, if we’re uncomfortable with the practice, to delete the recordings and change our settings to stop the snooping. Because by default, the companies are set to monitor, leaving it to us to have…

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You can’t nuke a hurricane

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Agitator!!

An unnamed source said President Trump asked if it was possible to nuke a hurricane. Here’s why it’s not possible While tradewinds would quickly move nuclear radiation to coastlines, which could devastate these environments, the central flaw of the idea is that a nuclear bomb, or a conventional weapon, simply wouldn’t create enough energy to…

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Facebook to allow users to view what data other sites share

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Agitator!!

Facebook will soon roll out a feature allowing users to review data third-party apps and websites share with the social network. On Tuesday, Facebook unveiled the tool, called Off-Facebook Activity. The feature provides a summary of the data third-party apps and sites share with Facebook. Users will have the option to clear that information from…

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Zeppelins for shipping

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Agitator!!

The proposed airships would move cargo more efficiently than oceangoing freighters — and produce far less pollution. As proposed in a recent scientific paper, the new airships would be 10 times bigger than the 800-foot Hindenburg — more than five times as long as the Empire State Building is tall — and soar high in…

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Is fluoride in water toxic to babies’ brains?

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Agitator!!

Controversial use of Fluoride is back in the news. The study by Canadian researchers, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, found that pregnant women who drank more fluoridated water had children with lower intelligence scores at ages 3 and 4. An increase of a milligram of fluoride per day – the amount in about five cups…

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Social media giants are launching ‘lite’ apps

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Agitator!!

Companies like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and even LinkedIn have pushed out “lite” versions of their platforms recently. Users in the developing world typically use basic mobile phones, instead of larger or more advanced devices. That poses a problem amid increasingly advanced apps. Aside from taking up space in devices, full versions of apps have…

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New type of electrolyte

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Agitator!!

A new type of electrolyte could enhance supercapacitor performance. Supercapacitors, electrical devices that store and release energy, need a layer of electrolyte — an electrically conductive material that can be solid, liquid, or somewhere in between. Now, researchers at MIT and several other institutions have developed a novel class of liquids that may open up…

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