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Why does the Pixel 9 Pro Fold look so much like the OnePlus Open?

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Google is all set to launch its new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and more and more leaks are confirming that this new device will look almost exactly the same as last year’s OnePlus Open. This edition of 9to5Google Weekender is part of the relaunched 9to5Google newsletter, which highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary … Read more

Beloved Manchester restaurant closes weeks after ‘battle’ to stay open

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A popular Manchester restaurant beloved for its plant-based take on junk food has announced it is closing. Wholesome Junkies, a vegan eatery located under an archway near Victoria Train Station, has closed with immediate effect. Founder Chelsea Campbell announced the news on Instagram last night, saying it was “one of the hardest posts” she’s “ever … Read more

Spooky free-to-play open worlder Once Human is out today and the developers have some crash and performance tips

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From Zenless Zone Zero to The First Descendant, we seem to be experiencing a free-to-play explosion. Despair, all you time-strapped adults, as your carefully crafted lack of pocket money offers no protection against the onslaught of games that want a piece of your evening or weekend. Today’s big release, Once Human, does at least include a giant school bus on monster legs, along with a less exciting but customizable bus that only has wheels. In this open-world survival shooter, you are a “Meta-Human” making your way through a landscape tainted by Stardust, which has warped the landscape and slowly drives you insane.

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New forms of photons open doors to advanced optical technologies

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Multiple photonic orbitals emerge within a photonic crystal superlattice. Credit: Physical assessment B (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.235141 Researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have gained important insights into photons, the elementary particles that make up light. They ‘behave’ in an astonishingly greater variety than electrons that surround atoms, while also being much easier … Read more

Boiling rocks from the Earth’s crust tore open an ocean in Mongolia 410 million years ago

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More than 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from the Earth’s mantle caused the crust in Mongolia to split apart, creating an ocean that lasted for 115 million years. The geologic history of this ocean could help researchers understand Wilson cycles, or the process by which supercontinents break apart and reassemble. These … Read more

CERN ATLAS experiment releases 65 TB of open data for research

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Open Data at the ATLAS Experiment. Credit: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has made two years of scientific data available to the public for research purposes. The data include recordings of proton-proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a collision energy of 13 TeV. This is the first time ATLAS has … Read more

Hollywood giant unveils plans to make Britain’s only theme park open 365 days a year

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A HOLLYWOOD giant has unveiled plans for a theme park open every day of the year and possibly even getting its own little train. The venue will be the first of its kind to open in Britain and will boost the economy by as much as £50 billion. A Hollywood giant has unveiled plans for … Read more

CNBC Daily Open: S&P 500 briefly crosses 5,500, closes lower

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on January 22, 2024 in New York City. Michael M Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open updates investors with everything they need to know, … Read more

Two open access publishers accused of excessive self-citation

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Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock Two major academic publishers of open access research – that is, free to read outside a paywall – have been accused of excessively citing articles previously published in their own journals. A study published in May before peer review on the preprint server SocArXiv suggests that high self-citation rates may have increased … Read more

‘Finally’: Plans unveiled for five major brands to open in the former BHS store

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Proposals submitted by Frasers Group show what the former building would look like internally and externally if it were fully taken over by five of the group’s largest retail brands. The Ipswich branch of BHS was one of the chain’s flagship stores and has been in its current location since the late 1990s following its … Read more