This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Just four West African countries are the foundation of an industry worth more than $100 billion. In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of seeds. Once harvested, these humble
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Of all the planet-warming greenhouse gases human activity releases into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide is the most significant emission. As such, experts have suggested that, in addition to drastically lowering our fossil fuel use, we should actively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. What’s known as carbon capture technology, however, is usually expensive and/or
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There are controllers you can get for $60—your stock, no-frills Xbox and PS5 devices—or there are the “performance” controllers that cost $200. SCUF is known as a company that does the latter. They make high-end devices for players who want to imagine themselves going pro. But what about a $100 controller, like SCUF’s new Valor
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The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the the earth’s confines causes many physiological changes that affect an astronaut’s health. Here is an explanation of some of the effects on human health caused by space travel. Why is
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In a head-turning announcement earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled a new quantum chip called Majorana 1. According to its press release, it consists of four qubits made of a “new state of matter”. Qubit is short for ‘quantum bit’, the fundamental unit of operations in a quantum computer, similar to classical bits in conventional computers.
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This week marks the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Nickelodeon’s action-fantasy anime that became one of the network’s biggest shows back in the day. And what better way to celebrate a momentous occasion than to finally reveal a new show—Seven Havens, a 2D series with a two-season greenlight and involvement from franchise co-creators Michael DiMartino and
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Even as time is running out to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of “eliminating” TB by 2025, the Health Ministry appears to be moving at glacial speed and is largely disinterested. A report submitted by the Health Technology Assessment of India (HTAIn) committee in February 2024 on two indigenously developed solutions to screen people
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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti are some of the most in-demand GPUs today, but if you think they’ll help you play your Steam account’s back catalog at blistering FPS, you may be better sticking with your old RTX 30- or 40-series. Nvidia dropped its hardware-accelerated physics system support for some of the
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FILE PHOTO: On February 11, Bengaluru-based Adarsh Developers filed a complaint against AWS, claiming that years’ worth of data was lost. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: On February 11, Bengaluru-based Adarsh Developers filed a complaint against Amazon Web Services (AWS), claiming that years’ worth of company and customer data hosted on AWS was
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Apple is scrapping its most advanced security encryption feature for cloud data in Britain, the company said on Friday, an unprecedented response to government demands for access to user data. The change affects a feature called Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which extends end-to-end encryption across a wide range of cloud data. Apple said it is
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