Are you new to Slack and want to learn how to get the most out of this collaboration tool? You’re at the right place. There are many Slack tips and tricks that you can learn to make working with this tool easier and more productive. From editing your sent messages to forwarding your work emails […]
Category Archives: Technology
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That’s far above normal levels for this part of the year and comes on top of the surge of emissions from the massive fires across the American West in 2020. California fires alone produced more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide last year, which was already enough to more than cancel out the broader […]
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In March 2020, when the WHO declared a pandemic, the public sequence database GISAID held 524 covid sequences. Over the next month scientists uploaded 6,000 more. By the end of May, the total was over 35,000. (In contrast, global scientists added 40,000 flu sequences to GISAID in all of 2019.) “Without a name, forget about […]
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If you regularly use Google Sheets and ever need to sum values together based on some condition in specific cells, then you’ll need to know how to use the SUMIF function in Google Sheets. The ability to sum data with this function isn’t limited to just two values. You can sum an entire range. And […]
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When you next buy a new car or a new car infotainment system, you may have to choose between Apple’s CarPlay or Android’s Android Auto. Of course, which one you can use depends on whether you have an iPhone or an Android phone. Since many in-car infotainment systems now support both, your next phone purchase […]
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60 Films to Stream From the Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection is a curated series of films released on Blu-ray and DVD (formerly on LaserDisc). You can think of it as a list of movies you’d probably watch in film school. Criterion says, “All we ask is that each film in the collection be an […]
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NASA’s InSight robotic lander has just given us our first look deep inside a planet other than Earth. More than two years after its launch, seismic data that InSight collected has given researchers hints into how Mars was formed, how it has evolved over 4.6 billion years, and how it differs from Earth. A set of three new studies, published in Science this week, suggests that Mars has a […]
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A Roku Stick is one of the most cost-effective ways to stream content to your TV, but it isn’t the easiest tool with which to watch Twitch. While Roku once had an official Twitch channel, it no longer does, and the unofficial channel has also been removed. If you want to watch Twitch on Roku, […]
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“More than 600,000 people have been told to isolate by the NHS covid-19 app across the week of July 8 in England and Wales,” she says, “but that’s only a little more than double the number of new positive cases in the same period. While we had concerns about the justification for the contact tracing […]
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In the last few months Baker’s team has been working with biologists who were previously stuck trying to figure out the shape of proteins they were studying. “There’s a lot of pretty cool biological research that’s been really sped up,” he says. A public database containing hundreds of thousands of ready-made protein shapes should be […]