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Your laptop’s keyboard is 20,000 times dirtier than your toilet seat. To keep a clean workspace and make sure you’re not spreading germs, you’ll probably want to clean your keyboard from time to time. Here’s what you can do, using everyday household supplies.

Keep your keys germ-free and looking brand-new If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge According to research done by IT company CBT Nuggets, your laptops keyboard could carry 20,000 times more bacteria than your toilet seat. And with so much of your work, school, socializing, and entertainment now taking place online, youre probably using your laptop more than ever. Whether youre struggling with crumbs, dust, fingerprints, pet hair, or sticky residue, you should be able to clean your keys with materials you already have lying around. And if you share a device with other members of your household, you can prevent the spread of germs as well. Itll just take a few minutes out of your day, and your...

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The president’s daughter defended Operation Warp Speed, saying that Pfizer’s vaccine was a participant in the administration’s program.

After a doctor claimed that Pfizer did not participate in Operation Warp Speed, the Trump's administration's vaccine program, Ivanka Trump fired back over Twitter to argue otherwise. "Wrong," Ivanka wrote. "Pfizer didn't take Fed $ for research but entered into an agreement w/ Trump Admin this JULY on logistics & to receive $1.95 Billion for +100 M doses of their vaccines, when approved, for the [American] people." She shared a link to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release from July 22, when the government agency announced an agreement with Pfizer "for large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States following the vaccine's successful manufacture and approval." In response to the tweet by Lind...

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Brewers reliever Devin Williams, who confounded the league with his untouchable changeup this year, was named NL Rookie of the Year,

Reliever Devin Williams of the Brewers has been named NL Rookie of the Year. Other finalists for the award were Phillies 3B Alec Bohm and Padres 2B Jake Cronenworth. They finished tied for second. Williams allowed just one run in 27 innings in the shortened season and struck out 53% of the batters he faced, the highest percentage in MLB history by a pitcher with at least 20 innings pitched. His changeup was arguably the most dominant pitch in all of baseball in 2020. Opponents batted 2-for-62 (.032) against it, the lowest opponent average on a single pitch this season (min. 50 plate appearances against).

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There’s a renaissance underway in structural battery research.

235 with 110 posters participating Elon Musk made a lot of promises during Teslas Battery Day last September. Soon, he said, the company would have a car that runs on batteries with pure silicon anodes to boost their performance and reduced cobalt in the cathodes to lower their price. Its battery pack will be integrated into the chassis so that it provides mechanical support in addition to energy, a design that Musk claimed will reduce the cars weight by 10 percent and improve its mileage by even more. He hailed Teslas structural battery as a revolution in engineeringbut for some battery researchers, Musks future looked a lot like the past. Hes essentially doing something that we did 10 years ago, says Emile Greenhalgh, a materials scientist at Imperial College London and the engineering...

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Tropical Storm Eta, the lingering former hurricane that hit Central America last week, made landfall in Cuba and is expected to move onto Florida Sunday.

Tropical Storm Eta, the lingering former hurricane that hit Central America last week, made landfall in Cuba and is expected to move into Florida on Sunday. Eta had been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical depression, but restrengthened to a tropical storm on Saturday. The storm is expected to cause dangerous storm surge and flash flooding as it passes over Cuba and the Florida Keys. The Florida coastline is under hurricane watch from Deerfield Beach to Bonita Beach, according to the National Weather Service. The storm hit about 60 miles outside of Canagua, Cuba, on Sunday morning and was moving northeast at about 12 miles per hour. Eta poses the risk of life-threatening flash flooding in Cuba along with storm surge that could raise water levels by 2 to 4 feet, the NWS said Sunday...

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As Election Day came and went and we still didn’t know who was going to win the presidency, many of us ended up glued to our devices seeking the latest news. Many Americans likely spent more time doomscrolling through their Twitter feeds and other apps than t…

It seems everyone was doomscrolling and/or gleefreshing for election results Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images As Election Day came and went and we still didnt know who was going to win the presidency, many of us ended up glued to our devices last week moreso than usual seeking the latest news. Whether it was the obsession with MSNBCs Steve Kornacki and his map wizardry or the constant updates about how many votes were left to count in Pennsylvania or Georgia, Americans likely spent more time doomscrolling through their Twitter feeds and other apps than they normally do. Depending on who your preferred candidate was, by Saturday morning when the networks called the election for Joe Biden your doomscrolling may have turned into gleefreshing the newly-coined term for m...

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If you ask me, Google Photos is Mountain View’s best piece of software since Gmail. It offers offers useful organization and editing features that tend to be easier and more effective than those on other apps. But according to a report by XDA, which dug into …

If you ask me, Google Photos is Mountain Views best piece of software since Gmail. It offers offers useful organization and editing features that tend to be easier and more effective than those on other apps. But according to a report by XDA, which dug into the code of the apps latest update, Google is planning on keeping some of its best upcoming features behind a paywall. Namely, a Google One subscription. XDAs report notes that Photos v5.18 includes four strings of code pointing to the change: As a Google One member, you get access to extra editing featuresGet extra editing features with a Google One membershipUnlock this feature and more with a Google One membershipUnlock more editing features and {storage_amount} of storage with a Google One membershipSo its pretty clear that Google

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china China’s newest five year plan has a target of reaching moderate developed nation per capita income levels by 2035. Spain has a per capita income level of $26,000 now and Italy has a per capita income level of $30,000. Those … China’s President Xi has committed to make China Carbon neutral by 2060. China’s top university, Tsinghua, has published an energy plan to reach that goal. The plan would be increase nuclear energy by nearly 5 times from today’s level and … China’s State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) has officially launched the CAP1400 reactor design. the 1500 MWe design is a larger version of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor. The plan is for many of these nuclear reactors to be built in China … Zheng Mingguang, Chief Engineer, SPIC said that nuclear energy in China is stil...

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The news about artificial intelligence is mostly dominated by sensational stories such as the ominous threat of deepfakes, deep learning algorithms that create fake blogs, AI bots that create their own language, and generative adversarial networks that create…

The news about artificial intelligence is mostly dominated by sensational stories such as the ominous threat of deepfakes, deep learning algorithms that create fake blogs, AI bots that create their own language, and generative adversarial networks that create realistic portraits of non-existent people. But the practical use of AI algorithms is much farther behind than the hype caused by the media. From peer-reviewed breakthrough research presented at mainstream AI conferences to PR-style videos created by large tech companies and well-funded research labs, only a trickle of the innovation we see in the field makes it into real business processes and applications. And the organizations that are putting AI to good use are those who understand the powers and limits of todays technology and ...

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An intergovernmental report urges countries to put more comprehensive preventive measures into place if they want to avoid future pandemics.

A new intergovernmental report has argued that the frequency and severity of pandemics will increase unless authorities worldwide put policies in place to lower the risk. The new report has argued that preemptive global action is necessary to avoid more frequent and severe pandemics. The authors behind the report, which the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) produced, identify the current drivers of pandemic emergence and also make concrete policy suggestions for how to minimize pandemic risk. Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused profound hardship globally. As well as disrupting economies and social...

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