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Best overall: SteelSeries Arctis 5Best wired: HyperX Cloud AlphaBest wireless: SteelSeries Arctis 1 WirelessBest Bluetooth: Logitech G435 Lightspeed Bluetooth WirelessBest value: HyperX Cloud StingerBest for Xbox: Xbox Wireless HeadsetBest for PlayStation: Sony Pulse 3D WirelessBest for PCs: Logitech G433 How we picked the best gaming headsets under $100 To pick the best gaming headsets under $100, we leveraged our collective audio expertise at PopSci, as well as professional reviews and consumer impressions from across the internet....

Best overall: Cuda SS Ice PickBest for climbing: Petzl Glacier Ice PickBest for backpacking trips: Rhino USA Folding Survival Shovel and PickBest for bartenders: Barfame Wood Ice PickBest for home: Fortune Candy Ice ChipperBest budget: Norpro Ice Pick Best ice picks: Reviews & Recommendations Best overall: Cuda SS Ice Pick The SS option from Cuda sports a simple and sturdy construction with a durable stainless steel finish to prevent corrosion during use....

The bad news is your traditional wallet likely won’t do the trick. The good news is there’s no reason to constantly worry about someone skimming your information without you even realizing it. RFID blocking wallets are very common now and work by creating a virtual shield for your RFID cards. Think of the best RFID wallets as a force field. Best for minimalists: Buffway SlimBest zippered: TravelamboBest hard-sided: The RidgeBest design: FossilBest for passports: ZoppenMost anti-theft protection: PacSafe Z50...

Here are some of the best short-scale electric guitars currently available. Best overall: Fender Mustang The Fender Mustang is an iconic short-scale guitar that’s just been reissued in Fender’s new Player series of instruments. It’s a pleasure to play. Cherished and popularized throughout history by many industry players including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, this updated Mustang is a fitting homage to the original at an affordable price point. Its scale length is 24 inches and it’s fitted with a C-shaped maple neck and a 9....

Best overall: Arturia PigmentsBest free synth VST: Surge XTBest for beginners: Roland Cloud Juno-106Best for pros: Spectrasonics OmnisphereBest analog: u-he DivaBest wavetable: Xfer Records SerumBest loop-based/best sampler/best ROMpler: Native Instruments Kontakt 6 What is a VST? Put simply, a VST is a plugin instrument, audio effect, or MIDI effect that you can load into a separate application, usually a DAW (see below). The term VST can be used in the broad sense to refer to all music plugins in general (and this is how we’re using it primarily in this list) or, confusingly, a specific format of music plugin....

Magenn says that it’s air-based turbine system will surpass all the other wild airborne wind-power schemes out there in terms of cost, efficiency and more. The advantage over ground or sea-based turbines is that the blimps, floating at high altitudes, should be able to tap into stronger, more consistent breezes. Depending upon the size of the model, it should produce between 10 kilowatts and several megawatts of power. Of course, that’s assuming that it works....

This flight restriction has something to do with “space flight operations,” and it will divert air traffic away from an area of Texas that just so happens to coincide with Blue Origin’s test area. The restriction is to take place between 8 am and 4 pm Eastern on Friday and Saturday this week. And although the company hopes to avoid making a spectacle, they can’t keep all of their activities quiet–especially when something goes wrong, like in the September 2011 explosion of an unmanned Blue Origin spaceship....

Even non-administrators can benefit from PowerShell if their goal is to optimize their workflow. If you’re in charge of a certain network, you can use it to manage a large number of files at once and manage new users with absolute ease. PowerShell is worth learning, and with the 2022 Windows PowerShell Certification Bundle, you’ll receive expert instruction on how to use it to your advantage with over 15 hours of training....

In 1992, scientist Temple Grandin noted that both people and animals seem to relax when experiencing “deep pressure touch,” citing numerous studies and her own work with a so-called squeeze machine. Later studies found that a constant external force around our bodies stimulates the release of neurotransmitters such as oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine, making us feel calm and happy. And it doesn’t matter what provides that pressure, the result is still the same....

Caring for the sick and wounded is an essential part of human evolution. To tend to a critically injured person requires communities to develop medicinal knowledge and have spare resources to devote to their recovery. Human and Neanderthal skeletons both show evidence of healed traumatic injuries going back tens of thousands of years, and some anthropologists argue that the ability to provide medical care allowed hominids to spread across the planet....

But it is unlikely for a patient to hear that word from a doctor. “It’s very rare for us as cancer doctors to tell the patient, ‘You are cured.’ Right now the most that we can tell our patient is that they are in remission,” says Jason Aboudi Mouabbi, an assistant professor of general oncology and breast medical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Remission is when all signs and symptoms of cancer are completely gone, according to the National Cancer Institute; the cancer cells aren’t detectable by scans, exams, bloodwork, and other testing....

Stretching is good for your muscles—no newsflash there. Research shows that an active warmup before a workout prepares them for the intense activity, and a static cool down (you remember those circle-up and stretch exercises from elementary school?) helps the body relax and recover. But is it possible to overstretch? We’ve all had that moment: You stand up or lean back to stretch, and, all of a sudden, extreme pain hits....

Some brands focus more on the potency and quality of ingredients than others, which makes for a much more effective and valuable product. Before you make a decision on which oil to buy, it’s important to review the ingredients, the brand, and the quality assurance that comes with your product. Luckily, we know exactly what to look for, so we’ve created a list for you. This list will look at 15 of the top competitors in the CBD space for CBD oil....

The Edge, in its most basic form, is a 10.1-inch tablet with the specs of a mid-level gaming machine. At its cheapest, that’s an Intel Core i5 processor, Nvidia GT640M LE GPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 64GB SSD, all for $999. Bump that to $1,299 and you’ll double the SSD’s storage and the RAM, and replace the i5 with an i7 processor. That’s powerful enough to run Dishonored and Dirt Showdown with tough settings, smoothly....

Let’s take a look at ACTUV, short for “ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel,” throughout its development from concept to reality.

_ Click to launch the photo gallery_ Chengdu Tianfu District Great City will connect via mass transit to Chengdu, a megalopolis of 14 million in southwest China. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture says its planned city will use 48 percent less energy and 58 percent less water than a conventional city with the same population. It’s designed to be self-sustaining and environmentally conscious, using waste summer heat to provide winter heating....

Wanshan will test technologies like autonomous steering and obstacle avoidance, which are already seen on swarming robot boats developed by Chinese universities and defense contractors. In addition to testing out unmanned technologies, Wanshan will be instrumental in developing that tech’s standards and certifications. The test site will partner with the Zhuhai municipal government, China Classification Society (CCS), and, notably, the Wuhan University of Technology, which is home to much cutting-edge Chinese naval research, including electromagnetic technologies and aircraft carriers....

While the 70,000-ton Type 001A is based heavily on the Soviet-designed Liaoning, it features improvements like a modernized island structure with newer AESA radars, and it will carry about 24-30 J-15 fighters (a handful more than the Liaoning) and up to 16 helicopters for search and rescue, airborne early warning, anti-submarine warfare, and transportation missions. Internal improvements could include increased maintenance and storage facilities for fuel and ammunition. Once in service, the Type 001A would both increase the number of carrier qualified pilots, and double its carrier aviation striking power....

One of the main focuses of the 2022 IPCC report is exactly that: maladaptation. Back in 2014, the IPCC defined maladaptation as “actions that may lead to increased risk of adverse climate-related outcomes, increased vulnerability to climate change, or diminished welfare, now or in the future.” But to really understand the practice, we first need to understand adaptation—and why we so desperately need it. As the climate changes at an increasingly quicker rate, people are becoming more vulnerable to risks like flooding and extreme heat, says Luna Khirfan, an associate professor in the school of planning at Canada’s University of Waterloo....

The US continues to see a decline in daily COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, but multiple variants at home and abroad are a source of concern on the path to normality. Looking ahead, new routes of administering vaccines could be on the way. Here are the latest pandemic updates. Herd immunity is likely out of reach for the US The phrase “herd immunity” has long been thrown around during the pandemic, a glimmering, idealistic term for when a high enough percentage of a population is immune to provide protection for the community as a whole....