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10 Weird Star Wars Facts You Probably Never Knew About

With the three Skywalker trilogies over and done with for now, what better than to celebrate the made-up Star Wars holiday than to re-examine some weird facts we all glossed over. Here's 10 strange (and some downright freaky) facts you probably didn't know about to celebrate. More »
    




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Marley Spoon's V2food Plant-Based Meals Review

Over the past few years plant-based meat has become increasingly popular. Thanks to the popularity of brands such as Impossible, we;re now seeing increasingly more vegan-friendly meat alternatives in the supermarkets and even being sold by fast food chains. Meal kit delivery service Marley Spoon has even begun offering plant-based options, using v2food mince. This is what they taste like. More »
    




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Lockdown warning: Tory MP Baker 'gravely concerned' at coronavirus economic damage



THE CORONAVIRUS lockdown is now causing serious damage to the UK's economy, Tory MP Steve Baker has warned - stressing he was now "gravely concerned" at the situation




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Mervyn King's brutal analysis of banking sector exposed in blow to coronavirus recovery



MERVYN KING, the former governor of the Bank of England, once issued a brutal analysis of the global banking system and argued for its reinvention, it can be revealed as the Government fine-tunes its economic response to the coronavirus pandemic.




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Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho backed to complete bargain signing



Tottenham will need to be creative in the transfer market this summer.




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Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole

At the centre of our galaxy, six strange clouds that look like dust and gas orbit a black hole so closely that if they were really just clouds they should have been sucked in by now




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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

Every day on Pluto, nitrogen puffs out the icy world’s heart-shaped plain into the atmosphere, and every night it refreezes, creating winds unlike any we’ve seen before




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Rocket start-up Astra tries back-to-back launches to win $12 million

A space flight start-up called Astra is about to attempt to launch two small rockets into orbit over a few weeks to win $12 million from the US military




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We still don't understand a basic fact about the universe

Our measurements of the Hubble constant can't seem to come up with a consistent answer. What we learn next may alter our view of the cosmos, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein




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We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down




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How Joe Biden Can Defeat Trump From His Basement

If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.




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Obama, Biden WH Meeting Key to Anti-Trump Operation

In light of the newly declassified documents, it is clear that understanding what happened in that January 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the corrupt operation against the Trump administration.




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In Flynn Case, Barr Again Takes Aim at Mueller Inquiry

The Justice Department's move was the latest example of the attorney general's effort to chisel away at the special counsel investigation and emphasize an alternate narrative.




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Video Friday: This Wearable Robotic Tail Will Improve Your Balance

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Video Friday: AlienGo Quadruped Robot Can Now Do Backflips

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Swappable Flying Batteries Keep Drones Aloft Almost Forever

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone





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Let’s Build Robots That Are as Smart as Babies

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed



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Natural Language Processing Dates Back to Kabbalist Mystics

Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language



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This MIT Robot Wants to Use Your Reflexes to Walk and Balance

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you




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Boba Fett Might Just Jetpack in to Meet Baby Yoda on The Mandalorian Season 2

Temuera Morrison is appearing on the next season of the show.




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Tyra Banks Admits Some America’s Next Top Model Moments Were Over the Line

Hindsight is 20/20, even if you’re smizing.




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Bacteria encode secret messages

Undercover E. coli act as updated invisible ink.




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Spies to use Twitter as crystal ball

US intelligence agency aims to forecast unrest by reading the runes of social media.




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Pokemon GO Friends List 'Failed to get friends list' error is back



Failed to get friends list and several more Pokemon GO friends list errors are once again impacting players on iOS and Android.




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Pokemon GO Johto Throwback Challenge 2020 Tasks, Rewards & Ho-Oh with Earthquake



New Pokemon Go Throwback challenges start today for the Johto region. Here's a recap of all field research tasks and rewards on offer for the next seven days.




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GTA 6 release date: Rockstar debate splits opinion of gaming's trusted insiders



A public disagreement between a trusted games journalist and the GTA community is showing Rockstar just how eager people are for a GTA 6 announcement




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RPGCast – Episode 245: “Mass Effect Football Manager 2013”

This week we figure out BioWare’s next title. Then we settle the great question of Persona 4 vs. Nocturne. Finally, we give our list of...




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RPGCast – Episode 250: “Feedback Festivus”

In this very special episode of the RPGCast, there’s a Christmas miracle! That’s right, we come up with a useful idea for the Wii U...




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RPGCast – Episode 270: “We’re Back!”

Hear about the RPGamer wedding of the decade, the honeymoon, oh and some show called E3. Manny and Scott join Anna Marie and Chris as...




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RPGCast – Episode 284: “Feedback Frenzy”

From realism in Final Fantasy games to the sordid history of Pokémon patches, we get all sorts of feedback this week. And then we play...




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RPGCast – Episode 333: “BACON”

On this morning’s podcast we have BACON! Er…excuse me. I mean to say that we learn about Nintend-BACON! Ok, fine, let’s get this out of...




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RPGCast – Episode 369: “Feedback Fills Us With Determination”

Some people answer some questions. Chris tries to give us a Just Cause for why he attached that cow to that helicopter. Alice gets Fruity...




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RPGCast – Episode 373: “Banned from Punching”

Anna Marie gets bribed. Chris gets a new MMO to play. Alice exchanges spaceships for duneships. Alex gets isometric. Jonathan learns how to fly.




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RPGCast – Episode 383: “Eorzean Ambassadors”

Alice has returned, has delivered missiles, and has many stories of Final Fantasy inspired cafés. Anna Marie is still busting Ba’als. Jonathan has begun a...




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RPGCast – Episode 402: “Bait And Switch”

While Nintendo tries to own the news cycle this week, we have a bigger story. There is apparently a non Final Fantasy character in World...




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RPGCast – Episode 445: “FFVII For The GBA”

I’ll spare you the puns and just describe the show. We all want to play SMT and Dragon Quest games, but no one wants to...




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RPGCast – Episode 448: “Hannibal Crossing”

Xenosaga Chronicles 2 is here. Did you get a switch just for it? Chris and Alex talk through their experiences. Johnathan, meanwhile, has been delving...




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RPGCast – Episode 449: “Bread Shaped Bag”

Chris struggles with grains. Anna Marie goes on a month long Final Fantasy journey. Pascal enjoys being called “commander.” Kelley is underwhelmed by her ‘mon....




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RPGCast – Episode 481: “Hairy Man-Back Makes Me Hungry”

Things go off the rail before we get to the meat of the show. But we pull it together to discuss what we've been playing, too many Compile Heart games, and a potential dungeon crawling disaster.




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RPGCast – Episode 492: “Roving Bands Of Nursenaries”

It’s a cozy foursome on the RPGCast this week. Discussing the highs and lows of their now playing. But in the end, we are left wondering, what the heck is a “nursenary?”




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RPGCast – Episode 514: “Holy **** a 12-slot bag!!!”

What’s old is new again as we deep dive into WoW Classic and how the heck did we even get onto this topic again? News from TGS, what games you’re playing in September, and even more releases coming in the second half of the month, please pity our reviewers.




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RPG Cast – Episode 536: “When We Get Back to Work We’re Building a Box Fort”

Guest star Sam Watcher joins us, and that means this week's podcast is officially explicit! Between the occasion cuss bomb, we discuss Animal Crossing and Chris' poor decision making, Alex's dive into Persona 5 Royal, and exactly why Kelley needs to finish FF7: Crisis Core in the near future. Anna Marie and Peter round out the 'cast crew this week as we dive into the weekly headlines along with your feedback.




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Ducklings spotted jumping off fifth floor balcony in Glasgow

A family of ducklings were spotted jumping off a flat in Glasgow as they left their nest for the first time.




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Splashing out in Paris: Balenciaga floods venue for fashion show

Waters lap perilously close to audience as grand capes and latex trench coats are modelled

How to make the fashion industry engage with the climate crisis? Flood the venue, and submerge the front row.

Arriving at the Balenciaga show in Paris on Sunday morning, the audience found themselves entering at the periphery of what looked like a sports stadium, with banks of flip-up plastic seats around a central oval. In pitch blackness, it was hard to tell exactly, but attendants were on hand with torches, and strict instructions not to proceed beyond the third row.

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'Terrible twos' not inevitable: With engaged parenting, happy babies can become happy toddlers

Parents should not feel pressured to make their young children undertake structured learning or achieve specific tasks, particularly during lockdown. A new study of children under the age of two has found that parents who take a more flexible approach to their child's learning can - for children who were easy babies - minimize behavioral problems during toddlerhood.




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Bat 'super immunity' may explain how bats carry coronaviruses, study finds

Researchers have uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick -- research that could shed light on how coronaviruses make the jump to humans and other animals.




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Obesity is linked to gut microbiota disturbance, but not among statin-treated individuals

Scientists set out to investigate a potential role of the gut microbiota in the development of cardio-metabolic diseases. They ended up identifying the common cholesterol-lowering drug statins as a potential microbiota-modulating therapeutic.




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Cholesterol lowering drugs linked to improved gut bacteria composition in obese people

Obese Europeans who are treated with cholesterol lowering drugs have not only lower values of blood LDL cholesterol and markers of inflammation but in addition a more healthy gut bacteria profile than those obese who are not prescribed statins.