Obscure Chinese brand launches laptop that may have a better battery life than the MacBook Pro — Core Ultra 7 totting Megabook T16 Pro has record-breaking 99.9WHr battery, up to 22 hours on a single charge

Obscure Chinese brand launches laptop that may have a better battery life than the MacBook Pro — Core Ultra 7 totting Megabook T16 Pro has record-breaking 99.9WHr battery, up to 22 hours on a single charge

Tecno Mobile, while not widely known outside of China, does have a reputation for making high-quality devices at competitive prices. The company’s new 16 inch Megabook T16 Pro 2024 Ultra laptop, which was first revealed at this year’s MWC 2024, comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor (a fresh release from December 2023), paired … Read more

Wales vs France live: how to watch Six Nations game online, TV streams, kickoff time

Wales vs France live: how to watch Six Nations game online, TV streams, kickoff time

Two years ago, Wales were defending champions and France were on their way to the Grand Slam. Now they’re both just hoping to avoid the wooden spoon. To their credit, Warren Gatland’s young side has shown flashes, which is more than can be said for Les Bleus, who entered the 2024 Six Nations as favourites … Read more

Baby quasars: Growing supermassive black holes

Baby quasars: Growing supermassive black holes

The James Webb Space Telescope makes one of the most unexpected findings within its first year of service: A high number of faint little red dots in the distant Universe could change the way we understand the genesis of supermassive black holes. The research, led by Jorryt Matthee, Assistant Professor in astrophysics at the Institute … Read more

Could the gut give rise to alcohol addiction?

Could the gut give rise to alcohol addiction?

Illustration: Sam Falconer Andrew Day, a molecular microbiologist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, is four years sober. His journey to this point inspires his work, which he hopes might help others who are struggling with alcohol. Nature Outlook: The human microbiome There are many risk factors associated with alcohol-use disorder (AUD), including mental-health conditions … Read more

Overwatch 2 will let you dress your heroes as Cowboy Bebop characters

Overwatch 2 will let you dress your heroes as Cowboy Bebop characters

Ever compared Cassidy to Spike Siegel or gunslinger Ashe to gun-toting Faye Valentine? Write this date down: March 12. That’s when Blizzard is launching Overwatch 2’s collaboration with legendary anime Cowboy Bebop, which will bring five skins based on the show to the game. The trailer released for the collaboration also shows the hacker Sombra … Read more

The 6 best deals in the massive Dell TechFest sale – laptops from $279.99

The 6 best deals in the massive Dell TechFest sale – laptops from 9.99

Dell has launched a massive month-long sale featuring terrific deals across a variety of laptops, PCs, monitors and other computing hardware. Given we rate Dell devices such as the Inspiron and XPS lineup as some of the best laptops you can buy, I’ve focused on those here and picked out six of the best laptop … Read more

Cracking epigenetic inheritance: Biologists discovered the secrets of how gene traits are passed on

Cracking epigenetic inheritance: Biologists discovered the secrets of how gene traits are passed on

A research team led by Professor Yuanliang ZHAI at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) collaborating with Professor Ning GAO and Professor Qing LI from Peking University (PKU), as well as Professor Bik-Kwoon TYE from Cornell University, has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine … Read more

Communication barriers for a Deaf PhD student meant risking burnout

Communication barriers for a Deaf PhD student meant risking burnout

Megan Majocha, a tumour-biology researcher in the laboratory at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, says Deaf researchers shouldn’t have to spend time developing sign language for their science.Credit: NIH Sign language in science The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education … Read more