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TL;DR: The Samsung 55-inch 4K UHD HDR QLED TV is on sale for £899 on Currys PC World, saving you £400 on list price.

The gaming market is huge, and it therefore comes as no surprise that brands are designing products to tap into this.

Samsung knows the score, and has made its 55-inch 4K UHD HDR QLED TV with lightning-fast reactions thanks to game enhancer technology. This mode minimises the time between pressing a button on your controller and the resulting action on screen. That means you’re able to shoot, dodge, accelerate, or brake exactly when you want to. 

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Artificial intelligence should be regulated. 

This is the stance of Alphabet (parent company of Google) CEO Sundar Pichai, expressed in the form of an op-ed article in the Financial Times Monday. 

Pichai calls AI “one of the most promising new technologies,” but also highlights possible risks stemming from careless use of AI, naming a few historical examples in which breakthrough new tech brought with it new issues. 

“History is full of examples of how technology’s virtues aren’t guaranteed,” he wrote. “The internet made it possible to connect with anyone and get information from anywhere, but also easier for misinformation to spread.” Read more…

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You may not have realised it, but for a brief time a few days ago, you were no longer inhabiting the Earth. You were actually inhabiting a giant, rapidly spinning sandwich.

It all started when 19-year-old Etienne Naude, who’s currently studying at New Zealand’s University of Auckland, took to Reddit to make a rather unusual request in the r/Spain sub.

“I am wanting to make a thing called an earth sandwich,” Naude wrote, before describing exactly what this would entail: “2 people at opposite parts of the world place pieces of bread at the exact opposite ends of the globe.”

It may have seemed like a slightly odd request to some, but Reddit was more than happy to answer the call. Read more…

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More proof that you’re never too small to make a difference: Six-year-old Owen Colley from Hingham, Massachusetts, is making clay koalas to help animals affected by the Australian bushfires, and has already raised over $240,000 Australian dollars. 

Owen’s mother Caitlin told CNN her son had been upset when he learnt of Australia’s bushfires, and particularly their impact upon the country’s wildlife. Owen’s father Simon grew up in Sydney, and he himself spent a few months there as a toddler, so he felt “a pull to Australia.”

The news of the crisis thus prompted the kindergarten student to draw a picture of Australia’s native animals in the rain. “It was really the first time Owen had made a wish for something other than LEGO or something other than himself,” Colley said. Read more…

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It’s been almost 50 years since the first openly gay sitcom character appeared on All In The Family in 1971, but Apple isn’t waiting for the big anniversary to drop its epic docuseries Visible: Out On Television. It boasts an incredible lineup of talking heads — entertainment icons and queer trailblazers ranging from Billy Porter and Rachel Maddow to Lena Waithe, Indya Moore, Asia Kate Dillon, Anderson Cooper, and even Oprah. 

The five-episode series promises to span early censorship and taboos, how TV documented historical moments like Stonewall and the AIDS epidemic, the iconic LGBTQ characters and personalities beamed into people’s living rooms all over the world, Soap and Queer As Folk and Pose and I’m not crying already, you are. Read more…

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What if a car, but on the moon? 

The designers for Lexus and Toyota went beyond Earth to cook up concept ideas for out of this world rides. But instead of an all-electric autonomous vehicle with drone helpers like the LF-30 concept car released in 2019, the design team came up with moon cars.

Lexus calls it “moon mobility concepts” but let’s be real: These ideas are for riding around the moon like a boss. Seven space vehicle concepts were dreamed up and a selected design featured in Document Journal, an art and culture magazine. 

The selection? A concept called “Zero Gravity” that looks like a futuristic motorcycle that can go 310 mph and handle the bumps of the moon’s surface, no problem. Read more…

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More like Egg-On-Your-Facebook, amirite?

Facebook is striking an apologetic tone after Burmese text posted on the website showed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s name as “Mr. Shithole” in an English translation. The social network is blaming the error on a tech foul-up.

“We fixed a technical issue that caused incorrect translations from Burmese to English on Facebook. This should not have happened and we are taking steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. We sincerely apologise for the offence this has caused,” a statement provided to The Guardian reads.

The UK paper goes on to note that Google’s own translation feature doesn’t show the same error. Though it turns out there is an explanation for how exactly this happened. Read more…

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There’s the Lime app, the Lyft app, the Uber app for Jump scooters, then there’s Bird. And don’t forget about Spin, Scoot, or Skip, each with its own smartphone app to unlock, rent, and ride a two-wheeled electric scooterScooter Map arrived in 2019 with all that scooter data aggregated. In One. Single. Place. Thank you.

But developer Victor Pontis’ creation is facing scrutiny from bigger scooter companies. The latest issue comes from scooter operator Lime, The San Francisco-based company recently sent another cease and desist letter to Scooter Map, which pulls Lime scooter data like location and battery level onto its app.  Read more…

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been a proponent of exercise since she founded the Let’s Move public health initiative in 2010, but these days she’s encouraging people to stay active in a different way. 

Obama posted a list of her favorite workout songs to Twitter complete with nine songs for cooling down, and the list contains songs from Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino, Bruno Mars, Nipsey Hussle, and more. 

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Beyoncé’s anticipated new line of Ivy Park X Adidas athletic wear has already sold out, but that didn’t stop British grocery chain Sainsbury’s from having some fun with the Beyhive when the first promotional images emerged online. 

Ivy Park’s new color scheme is burgundy and orange, which happens to be the same color as the uniforms worn by Sainsbury’s employees. The official Sainbury’s twitter account tweeted out an image marked with the hashtag #SainsBey, and from there all bets were off. 

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