Beyond the popular reasons, the rise of eSports may be the real cause of declining television ratings for NFL games.

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US-based start-up CentzInc. has vowed to “disrupt” the global gift card industry at the Money 2020 and CoinAgenda trade shows in Las Vegas, giving consumers control of their gift cards by combining all such card balances into a single lump sum that is denominated in digital currency Centz Gold Bucks […]

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A new system could make Braille more affordable and better to use – opening up new possibilities for the blind and partially sighted.

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As part of its calendar Q3 earnings call, BlackBerry announced that is would no longer be manufacturing BlackBerry smartphones. The hardware-focused game was over and the future would be in software. Which makes the timing of today’s launch of the new DTEK60 BlackBerry handset kind of awkward.

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It’s almost Halloween and not only kids, but also scientists, need to have fun. This is a possible explanation of an experiment the MIT Media Lab is currently carrying out, dubbed the Nightmare Machine. Deep learning algorithms are used to turn normal, everyday images, into scary, sinister pictures. Visitors of a […]

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Google continues its aggressive push into making its own hardware.

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Efforts are under way to produce small modular power reactors and shrink nuclear weapons so that they can be used in precise, ‘surgical’ strikes. Proponents see lower costs and more flexible uses; opponents warn of dangers.

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