Marijuana compound removes toxic Alzheimer’s protein from the brain

An active compound in marijuana called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to promote the removal of toxic clumps of amyloid beta protein in the brain, which are thought to kickstart the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The finding supports the results of previous studies that found evidence of the protective effects of cannabinoids, including THC, on…

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How To Make A Dark Souls of VR

“The Dark Souls of X” is such a common cliche that there’s an entire Twitter account dedicated to mocking it. The phrase is usually an unnecessary substitute for saying a game is hard: Super Hexagon is the Dark Souls of mobile games, Super Meat Boy is theDark Souls of platformers, Homefront: The Revolution is the Dark…

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Optical Illusions Will Make You Question Everything

Be prepared to question everything around you and all that you hold dear. These five optical illusions  – including one that features an upside-down Tom Cruise and another with a color-shifting puppy in a plant pot – will play with your perception and mess with your mind.

Video: The magical automatic breakfast machine

A 69-year-old retired airplane pilot named Peter Browne has created the most lovable mechanical contraption this side of Short Circuit. Built with pal Mervyn Huggett, who I have to imagine was birthed whole cloth for an abandoned J.K. Rowling novel, the machine prepares the three core parts of a morning meal: the protein (an egg),…

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The 12 video games you should try this year

“Mirror’s Edge Catalyst” EA There are hundreds of first-person games. 99% of those games are shooters, where your first-person view is that of a gun, maybe a hand, and a wide array of enemies with which to employ said gun on. It’s a formula that’s been done to death, but “Mirror’s Edge” pushes back on it…

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Maserati : Tesla Model S vs Ghibli comparison

The Maserati dealership of Kirkland marketed a page listing several comparisons between its vehicles and competing models. One of the top comparisons was of a Maserati Ghibli versus a Tesla Model S and the organisation had to take it down yesterday after Tesla fans claimed the automaker was lying about the performance of the vehicles…

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Video: 200W homemade laser bazooka

This YouTuber goes by the name of styropyro, and after scrolling through the videos on his channel, it won’t take you long to figure out why. This guy is absolutely obsessed with lasers, basing a vast majority of his inventions around them, including a laser tornado lamp, a drone with a laser and even a…

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Why Time Really Moves Forward And Not Backwards?

The professor, Joan Vaccaro from the Griffith University proposed an idea that why there is a variation between past and future. She evaluated that the principles of physics don’t differentiate between space and time. But as we don’t face time in the same way as space, something must make time different. Her study is published…

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Facebook Wants to Turn All of Us Into Fundraisers

The strange and terrible thing about that ALS ice-bucket challenge is that it ended years ago, and yet we are still feeling its effects. Facebook was inspired by its viral success to create a feature that lets all of us fundraise for charity without ever leaving the site. Let’s get the big question out of…

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iOS 10 jailbreak team makes key breakthrough

With every iOS update, Apple makes it harder for hackers to jailbreak its software — but it seems there’s still plenty of work to be done. At the Mobile Security Conference (MOSEC) in Shanghai today, Chinese jailbreak team Pangu revealed it already has Cydia running under iOS 10. We’re still waiting for an iOS 9.3.2…

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How To Make Your Own Ghost Phone

This ‘ghost phone’ screen can be seen using only smart glasses How would you like your smartphone to be read only by you through a set of glasses. If somebody else views it, he/she could see just a blank screen but you can see all the Apps through smart glasses. Is this possible? Yes it…

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