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1. Update your graphics drivers You won’t want to go into battle, hit the racetrack, or launch into space without having the latest Nvidia graphics drivers or AMD graphics drivers installed on your GPU. It’s one of the most important pre-game checks you can do, and it’s straightforward, too. You may already have an Nvidia or AMD auto-update tool on your system, and you can check by searching for it from the taskbar....

Size To get the right size TV for your room, take the distance from the TV screen to the place where you’ll sit to watch it. Multiply that by .84 and you’ll get a roughly 40-degree viewing angle, which is optimal according to the home theater mad scientists at THX.When the word “class” follows the measurement, it’s actually slightly smaller than the number. So, a 37-inch class TV measures roughly 36....

This story originally featured on Spectrum News. Even as a toddler, Jaymes Lesovoy was violent. He hit and bit his parents, and he tore apart his and his sisters’ toys. At 18 months of age, he was diagnosed with autism. Jaymes’ pediatrician suggested behavioral and speech therapy, but neither approach reined in the boy’s aggression. In 2006, when Jaymes was 2, the doctor prescribed risperidone—an antipsychotic medication that had been approved earlier that year to treat irritability in autistic children aged 5 and older....

This obviously puts a whole lot of strain on the environment—but in a pandemic that is evolving and brewing up new elements every day, now is not the time to slow the roll on protecting people, especially healthcare workers. And in the case of the Omicron strain, more sustainable options like reusable fabric masks may not offer sufficient protection on their own. “It is absolutely vital to provide health workers with the right PPE,” Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said in a release today....

Hussey stands a sturdy 5-foot-10, speaks with a Southern twang, and prides himself on being the only guy the other guys will hug—the papa bear to his fellow cavalry scouts. He worked for 13 years as a grocery-store manager after returning from the Gulf War, and then in 2004 he reenlisted, asking to be a medic because he wanted to help. The second, third and fourth times Hussey was hit, he was riding in vehicles when they were destroyed by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, buried in the road....

The main carbohydrate in agave juice is comprised of inulin-fructooligosaccharides, a complex form of fructose. There are two methods of processing, one using enzymes and one using hydrolysis, which are used to split the naturally occurring complex sugar in simple fructose and dextrose. Hydrolysis is commonly considered to be more efficient and to produce a more refined product. Once the juice has been processed, it is then reduced to a syrupy consistency....

With her furry blonde ears and toasted-marshmallow coat, Holly has amassed a cult following. Tales of her devotion as a mother spread wide and far after she successfully reared her injured offspring to adulthood. She then went on to adopt an abandoned cub in 2015—a behavior rarely seen among brown bears. Now, Holly is back in the public eye, this time for her impressive transformation before Fat Bear Week. The contest, which first launched in 2015 and runs through early October, is like a condensed version of March Madness for the wildlife crowd; it lets the public throw their weight behind their favorite bear, and helps to promote the National Park Service’s conservation efforts....

It goes under a couple of different names—neck gaiter, neckwarmer, or perhaps “multifunctional headwear.” You may even hear references to trademarked products made by Original Buff SA, one of the main brands that makes these articles of clothing. Whatever you call it, this garment is a tube of elastic fabric that you can wear in lots of different ways. These versatile accessories come in a variety of materials, thicknesses, and sizes....

Mobo Triton Pro 3-Wheel Recumbent Bike $217.37 (Was $533.44) Snagging a deal doesn’t have to be boring. Take this fun, bright orange Mobo Triton Pro 3-Wheel Recumbent Bike, down to $217.37 from $533.44—that’s 59% off. You get to cosplay as famous recumbent bike user Squidward Tentacles from SpongeBob SquarePants, and you can get some cardio sans stress and your back and knees. Even better, no balance is needed to use....

What the heck was the Cow? Astronomers have spent that last six months trying to find an answer, and, as reported in a new study published Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal, it looks like we now have a much better idea of what exactly this mysterious phenomenon was. The problem is that it’s still pretty much a mystery. The Cow was what’s called a transient astronomical event, where an object or phenomenon exhibits an extremely short duration (anywhere from seconds to years, which sounds broad—but in cosmic terms, pretty much anything less than several million years is a blink of an eye)....

Researchers gathered samples from eight coprolites (preserved feces) taken from caves around northern Mexico and the southwestern US. Each was between 1,000 and 2,000 years old. They then moved their samples to the lab for DNA analysis and dating. To ensure no new bacteria would contaminate the paleofeces (that’s archeological speak for fossilized human dung), the scientists donned “clean suits” and sterilized gear to extract DNA from each coprolite and sequence the genomes present in the poop....

While correlation never automatically equals causation, a new study suggests these two trends may be more related to one another than we thought. Findings published in the journal Environment International show that the key ingredient of some common antidepressants can induce genetic mutations in E. coli that increase antibiotic resistance, fueling worries that increased and unregulated use of antidepressants could exacerbate the rise of superbugs. “We knew that antibiotics as well as other antimicrobials such as triclosan, and even metals, could select for antibiotic resistance,” says Patrick McNamara, an environmental engineer at Marquette University who wasn’t involved in the study....

If you’re using the iPad almost exclusively as a tablet, this may not seem like the biggest deal. After all, wasn’t the point that you’re not supposed to have to use a mouse? But, for truly replacing a laptop, this is a leap. Last year, the company introduced some basic mouse compatibility as part of its accessibility features, but it was only designed for specific use cases. With iPadOS 13....

The brain dates back to the Copper age, which ran approximately 5,500 to 6,500 years ago in Eastern Europe and the Near East. Archeologists discovered the brain, believed to be that of a young girl, while excavating for relics in the past two years inside and outside of Armenia’s 600-square-meter Areni-1 cave across the border from Iran. Scientists also found an extensive array of other artifacts, including some that showed evidence of a winemaking enterprise, which suggested that significant cultural developments happened during the Copper age outside of southern Iraq, Areshian said....

Click to launch the photo gallery. To be fair, at least half of our pseudoscience features focused on debunking these practices instead of supporting them. After American spiritualists elevated ouija boards from harmless parlor games to supernatural communication devices, one inventor created a typewriter-ouija board hybrid to that forced the operator to punch blank keys instead of moving a triangle over painted letters. Granted, the ouija board typewriter didn’t prove or disprove the involvement of spirits, but it did prevent swindlers from consciously moving the triangle while pretending they were possessed....

“It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me,” O’Keeffe said of the Pedernal, which she painted from her studio on the red earthed Ghost Ranch. “God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.” Unfortunately, God (or, in this case, metal soaps) also taketh away. O’Keeffe’s “Pedernal, 1941”—a sweeping vista of pinks, greens, and yellows creeping up the canvas to the mountain’s darkened summit—is experiencing a peculiar kind of decay....

HL Tau, sometimes called HL Tauri, is located 450 light years away in the constellation Taurus. The star has been the subject of numerous studies, and researchers had already discovered at least one embryonic planet in orbit around the star, but they hadn’t actually been able to observe its planetary formation first-hand. They knew that there was a disc of dust and other pre-planetary material surrounding the star, and they even were able to observe the magnetic field of the disc....

John H. Krystal (affil. Yale University or Medicine), Biological Psychiatry’s editor, noted after the study’s release that important questions remain, saying “we don’t know how to account for the resilience of some stressed people exposed to severe sustained stress or the vulnerability of some people to relatively mild stress… The better that we understand the underlying molecular mechanisms that link stress to illness, the more likely we are to make progress in answering these important questions....