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Mitsubishi has released a new LED light panel that mimics the three-dimensional appearance and light output of a skylight.

The idea was first announced in 2018. But this February, more specifics came to light (as spotted by Gizmodo) with a name, sale date, and a price tag. The Misola system will come out in October 2020, and will go for between $6,200 and $6,800, depending on whether it’s programmed manually or automatically. 

The panel achieves the appearance of a skylight in two ways. First, it uses the precisely pixelated LED output to make the blue color and light output mimic the color and directional light of the sky.  Read more…

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Netflix just released its latest Environmental Social Governance (ESG) report and it reveals the company’s energy use has almost doubled.

As Variety reports, the latest Netflix ESG shows total energy consumption has increased by 84 percent compared to 2018. Netflix explains that its energy use is monitored in two forms. The first is the energy used to run the Netflix operation, and the second is the energy used to stream content across a global network to each subscriber.

For 2018, Netflix’s operations used 51,000 megawatt hours where as serving content used 194,000 megawatt hours, for a total of 245,000 megawatt hours. Last year, operations energy usage increased to 94,000 megawatt hours while serving content required 357,000 megawatt hours, for a total of 451,000 megawatt hours. Read more…

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Here’s a cultural mashup you did not see coming: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and the seminal Backstreet Boys hit “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).”

A video showing a group of young supporters in New Hampshire serenading the former vice president graced the internet on Sunday. The group is busting out a rendition of “Everybody” that basically replaces the lyrics in the chorus with “Joe Biiiiiden / yeaaaah” over and over.  The parody concludes with an enthusiastic, “Biden’s back / Alright!” 

Judging by the look on Biden’s face, it seems like the candidate might not be intimately familiar with the 1997 smash. He does seem to appreciate the effort from the young folks, saying “They’re good” and smiling widely.  Read more…

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This year Mashable is celebrating the season of love with Horny on Main, an exploration of the many ways that thirsting for sex affects our lives.  

Every app eventually becomes a dating app.

With Twitter and Instagram users sliding into each others’ DMs, and Facebook trying to jack Tinder’s swag, it certainly appears that way. Even sites like Next Door, a social network site for neighborhoods, get in on the action with thirsty posts from users looking for dates (or, let’s be real, hookups).

Is TikTok any different?

“Users aren’t going on there to swipe left and right to match with someone,” Andrew Selepak, PhD, a media professor at the University of Florida and director of the graduate program in social media there, told Mashable. “But it doesn’t mean that people are not meeting on there, or starting relationships from virtual meetings over social media,” he continued. Like Twitter and Instagram, TikTok is the latest iteration of the “slide into DMs”-type of online dating.  Read more…

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Now, THIS is how you dodge a dicey question. 

While Taika Waititi gave backstage interviews after accepting his Academy Award for best adapted screenplay Sunday, he busted out a rant about an extremely relatable irk rather than weigh in on a question regarding the contentious negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the producers’ association.

A reporter asked Waititi about the needs “writers should be asking for” in negotiations, to which Waititi gave an about-face answer on the terribleness of… Apple keyboards.

“Apple needs to fix those keyboards,” Waititi said. “They are impossible to write on.” Read more…

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Olivia Colman reminded the world that she does comedy just as well as she does drama while presenting the award for Best Actor. Read more…

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