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Lenovo’s Lunar Lake laptops have a new “Aura.”

Good news: Lenovo’s 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Carbon and 15-inch Yoga Slim 7i now have Intel Lunar Lake chips alongside 2.8K OLED screens and twin Thunderbolt 4 ports. Lenovo says the 2.16-pound Carbon is its lightest ever.

Weird news: They’re both now “Aura Edition” laptops, which apparently means software like focus modes, posture alerts, and “Smart Share” — tap an iPhone or Android to your laptop to share photos.

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At $749, Lenovo’s ThinkBook 16 is the cheapest Qualcomm Copilot Plus PC yet.

It features Qualcomm’s new budget 8-core chip underneath a 16-inch 2K 60Hz, 300-nit IPS display — with “up to” 32GB RAM and 1TB storage. It does come standard with an big 84Wh battery.

Lenovo’s other new Qualcomm is the $850 IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1. It has a brighter 14-inch 400-nit OLED display, but a smaller 57Wh battery and only one USB-C.

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Wild weather is costing billions of dollars and putting the future of insurance in doubt
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Lenovo’s new AMD laptops are skipping the US and Canada — save this one.

The ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, which launched as a Snapdragon laptop, will get a $1,699 AMD Zen 5 variant in October with an undisclosed Ryzen AI Pro chip.

North America won’t get: €699 IdeaPad Slim 5 with AMD Ryzen 7000; €1699 Yoga Pro 7 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 and a 14.5-inch 600-nit OLED; €999 ThinkBook 16 Gen7+ with Ryzen AI 9 365.

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Someone shot and killed an extremely rare California condor near McPhee Reservoir in southwestern Colorado this spring

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When Higgs bosons are produced together with bottom quarks and decays to leptons, it is possible to isolate (and measure) only the interaction of the Higgs boson with those quarks, so entangle it from strong force effects. This paper tries, but no significant Higgs boson signal yet. We can already constrain some couplings, tho💪 arxiv.org/abs/2408.01344


Greek consumers face higher milk and egg prices than Sweden and Germany, despite lower wages thepressproject.gr/greek-consu…



Sony’s latest headphones are built for audio engineers and creators.

On the opposite end of its mass market noise-canceling headphones, Sony still routinely releases models designed to accurately reflect creative intent in studio environments. The new $249.99 MDR-M1 has an “exclusively developed driver unit that achieves ultra-wideband playback of 5Hz – 80kHz,” a detachable cable, easily replaceable ear cushions, and a “well-balanced and uncolored frequency response.”

The WH-1000XM5, by comparison, are quite colored.

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Hostage killings and new demands cast doubt in White House that Hamas wants a deal (Barak Ravid/Axios)

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Hostage families press Biden admin to make a deal with Hamas that doesn't include Israel (NBC News)

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Is Your Google Scholar Profile Looking A Bit Empty? Need To Bulk Up Your Citations? Simple – Buy Some - techdirt.com/2024/09/04/is-you… simple, really... #academicpublishing




⚖️ Scanning and lending copyrighted books to humans is not fair use, but scanning them for machines to mulch entire libraries into LLMs and use them to produce fake-news and profit for mega-corporations: no problem! 🙈🙊🙉
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Every day, the salivary glands of an average adult produce between 500 and 1,500 milliliters of saliva to aid digestion and preserve oral health. In addition to enzymes, hormones, antibodies, inflammatory mediators, food debris and microorganisms, saliva has been found to contain traces of DNA and RNA or proteins from tumors.

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