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Deciding what to watch is one of the biggest challenges of binge watching. Maybe you just finished watching the entire Stargate series and want to explore a new genre. Chris Roberts’ book Ultimate Binge-Watching Guide gives you spoiler-free introductions and recommendations based on your current faves. If you are more of a film buff, Leonard Maltin’s movie guides are incredible. Andrew Rea—whose YouTube cooking channel, Binging with Babish, has nearly 4 million subscribers—wrote a book of movie-themed recipes for dishes to pair with your night watching 1990s rom-coms....

Over the next two weeks, you can save 20 percent on Eufy’s RoboVac 30. I’ve been messing around with one of their other models and love it. This upgraded version is super thin (2.85 inches high) and has welcome features like increased suction power and boundary strips that keep the vacuum out of areas with breakables. It can clean for 100 minutes on a single charge, allows you to steer and set cleaning schedules from the remote, and automatically returns to the charging base when it’s finishing cleaning....

In 2009, the annual Pwn2Own cybersecurity competition provided hackers with a shot at cracking smartphones. They failed. In September, the event offered phones as targets again. This time, contestants seized control of them, successfully exploiting vulnerabilities in the two most popular operating systems, iOS and Android. For the most part, smartphones have escaped the viruses and botnets that have plagued desktop computers for decades. That luck may not hold out in 2013....

The BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition makes space to celebrate those ultra-close, ultra-detailed, or ultra-rare candids every year. Chosen by the editors of the journal BioMed Central Ecology and Evolution, the winners and runner-ups consist of scientists from all around the world. The 2022 submissions fell into four categories: research in action, life closeup, biodiversity under threat, and relationships in nature. The overall winner (seen above) was taken in the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru by evolutionary biologist and expert photographer Roberto García-Roa....

To buy real Instagram followers is fairly easy, you can make a payment to the website and you will have your following within a few days. The issue arises when you search for these websites, as not all of them are very trustworthy. You need websites that have been tried and tested by many so that you know your money will be invested in a good way. Don’t go worrying now, we’ve got your back on this one....

Today, save 30 percent on the Traeger Renegade Pro pellet grill and smoker—now $524. It has a 380-square-inch cooking area, doesn’t use gas or charcoal to cook, and has a pellet hopper that can hold 18 pounds of pellets. The 109-pound grill is 50 inches high, 39 inches wide, and 27 inches deep. It features porcelain grill grates that are fairly simple to clean, wheels so it’s not a pain to move, and an easy-to-dump pellet chamber....

When you find yourself in a somewhat unfamiliar place, you most likely load up an app like Google Maps or Apple Maps to see what’s around—but those aren’t your only options. You can tap into social media platforms to see what users around you are posting, as well as what the locals have said about the place you’re in. All you need is the right app and knowing what to search for....

That’s where brewing apps come in handy: they do a lot of the calculations so you can focus on designing and scaling your recipes. These tools will also guide you through all of the timing on brew day, making them especially helpful if you’re a beginner. Creating a recipe is easy—just add the ingredients (fermantables, hops, and any other additions), and the size of your batch. The app will automatically make all the calculations for you, including the amount of water you have to add, for example....

If you don’t know where to begin, here are 5 mini-applications to get you going. I use them regularly to block distractions, get my news, and even make memes. To get started open the Shortcuts app on your Mac—you can find it by searching with Spotlight or in the Applications folder. Then, start a new shortcut by hitting the plus sign to the left of the search bar. Shortcut your way to some focus time I use this particular shortcut all the time—it turns off all notifications and closes every app except the ones you need for work, so you can avoid all distractions....

“Today, food and software are very big, but very separate pieces of our lives,” says Hod Lipson, a 3D-printing pioneer at Columbia University. “There is a lot of potential in combining them.” Before long, printers might be a staple in every modern kitchen, like the microwave, or the stove before it. Here are six ways they could transform your plate. —Kjeld van Bommel, scientist at TNO, a non-profit research organization...

Facebook, the social media platform that 30% (by one estimate) of the world uses, might still be called Facebook, but the parent company, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus and a number of mysterious unrevealed projects, could be given a new moniker. “These kinds of name changes have always been a part of the technology landscape,” says linguist Anthony Shore, founder of naming company Operative Words. “Anytime companies outgrow and diversify from where they were, it makes it likely that they will have to change their original name, or the name of their holding company....

Hand grips It doesn’t take long in your CrossFit career to have consistently wrecked hands. As soon as you start learning kipping pull ups and toes to bar—even if you’re still terrible at them—all that friction puts your callus production into overdrive. Somehow it takes much longer to admit that you really need grips, so take that decision out of your loved one’s ripped-up hands and get them these. Bear KompleX’s leather grips come in multiple colors and sizes, plus you have the option of picking one or two-finger holes (sneak a peek at the giftee’s hands and take note of where the calluses are to figure it out—if there’s one by their index finger, get the three-hole)....

Scientists say the find could be the vital missing link in mammoth evolution. At present little is known about the intermediate stage of mammoth history. The steppe mammoth, which came after the southern mammoth and before the woolly mammoth, represents this transitional stage. Because of the lack of steppe mammoth skeletons — only a handful exist and rarely come with an intact skull — there have been big debates about the evolution of these hairy creatures....

Mercury encapsulated in glass tubes has been reliably reading temperatures since the early 18th century. Modern instruments use various methods to make checkups simpler, more accurate, and a lot less likely to poison you when they break. Here’s how they work. 

You can read the full study over at BMJ.

In a paper published in Nature Communications an international team of researchers examined some of the first results from the Chang’e 3 mission. The moon rocks examined by Yutu were relatively young compared to the rocks analyzed by previous missions, including the crewed American Apollo missions and the un-crewed Soviet Luna missions back in the 1970’s. The rocks examined by Yutu were a mere 2.96 billion years old as opposed to the 3-4 billion year old rocks found on the Apollo missions....

When astronomers look close to stars in distant solar systems, they rarely see signs of Venuses or Earths. Rather, the garden-variety inner planet seems to fall somewhere between a rocky dwarf and a gassy giant. Researchers dubbed these omnipresent worlds “mini-Neptunes,” assuming them to be scaled-down versions of our solar system’s ice giants. With no local version to study, the nature of mini-Neptunes has remained mysterious. But their thick atmospheres push down with punishing pressures that led many researchers to suspect these worlds of being little more than barren balls of hydrogen and helium....