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We finally know what turned on the lights at the beginning of time

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We finally know what brought light to the dark and formless void of the early universe. According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that sprang to life and cleared the haze of cloudy hydrogen that filled … Read more

I turned off my PC when the “do not turn off” icon appeared in five different games to see what would happen and boy was this an annoying experiment

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We’ve all seen it. The small spinning symbol that warns players of impatient actions to disable. “Do not turn off your system when this symbol is displayed,” is the message you often see when starting up a game (or some other version of these words). The implication is clear. Saving is delicate and if you interrupt this invisible ritual, the data written to a folder deep in the bowels of your PC becomes corrupted, destroyed, exiled. You will lose all your progress, all your precious swords and achievements.

But is this true? How likely is it that you… Real suffer a catastrophic loss of shotgun shells? To find out, I decided to spend a very annoying afternoon turning my gaming rig off and on again during multiple games. Was this a good idea? Don’t know. I’m a gamer, not an ideas guy.

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To protect America from erroneous scientific speculation, Thomas Jefferson turned to the elk

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A print of Cervus alces in the 19th century zoological print collection titled “Iconographia Zoologica.” (Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam via Wikimedia Commons) Part of an ongoing weekly series about Alaskan history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaskan history or an idea for a future article? Fill … Read more

Despite a rocky start, ROG Ally turned portable PCs into real competition with Steam Deck

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ROG Ally celebrates its 1-year anniversary today, June 13, 2024. Below, we look back at how it overcame its launch problems to become a viable Steam Deck competitor, and a sign of just how open the portable PC market can be. Considering how much the portable gaming PC market has exploded since Valve launched the … Read more

UK GDP stagnated in April, as a result of the fallout from the claims the economy has turned around – business

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Introduction: It’s UK GDP Day Good morning, and welcome to our in-depth coverage of business, financial markets and the global economy. Rishi Sunak’s claim that “the economy has turned a corner” is about to be put to the test. New gross domestic product data, due at 7am, will show how the UK economy performed in … Read more

‘One day I woke up and saw two strangers in my house. That’s why I turned to cocaine

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Waking up from a nap to find masked burglars with knives in your living room sounds nothing short of a nightmare. But it’s a horrifying experience that Kieran Jones has endured – one that has sent the father-of-two into a downward spiral of drug addiction. The 44-year-old, from Wigan, had fallen asleep on his sofa … Read more

Media exec rents home for $1.8 million to musician who turned it into Airbnb

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By Martha Williams for Dailymail.Com 05:55 May 24, 2024, updated 2:11 PM May 24, 2024 A Netflix executive made the mistake of renting her $1.8 million Los Angeles home to a musician who then illegally turned it into an Airbnb and stopped paying the rent. Nikeeta Sriram, 31, works as a commercial strategy and growth … Read more