WFH didn’t just mean working from home. For those with the drive, it also stood for home workouts. Many companies boomed as they got used to many of us moving our workouts and workouts from the gym to the living room / guest room / that corner of the bedroom. Now the pendulum is swinging back as some gyms are trying to reopen, and we’re going back to the squat rack that didn’t quite fit in our tiny studio apartment. But that won’t stop fitness companies from introducing new gear combinations with tech tricks in the hopes that you’re ready to upgrade your gear.
Adjustable dumbbells from NordicTrack Can be connected to any third-party Amazon Alexa-enabled device to quickly adjust weight from 5 to 50 pounds (in 5 pound increments) with just your voice. Unfortunately, the voice assistant will not persuade you to do a few more repetitions.
There’s a subscription training service for the $ 429 dumbbells – available now – but thankfully not required.
– Mat Smith
Another spoiler minefield.
Sony
Horizon Forbidden West is one of the most anticipated games for PS5. But a little over a month before the action RPG arrives on February 18th, it appears that an unfinished version of the game has leaked. It’s another problem for Sony. Months before The Last of Us Part II was released, a large chunk of the game, including cutscenes with major story spoilers, was leaked online.
NASA had previously confirmed the presence of the substance remotely.
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China’s Chang’e-5 Lunar Module has found water on the lunar surface. This is the first time that on-site scientists have found evidence of the substance on Earth’s satellite. Chinese researchers claim the lander detected signs of water molecules or hydroxyl, a close chemical relative of H2O.
Chinese scientists believe that most of the molecules got to the moon through a process called solar wind implantation. Charged particles from the sun drove hydrogen atoms to the surface of the moon, where they later combined with oxygen to form water and hydroxyl. The study builds on the results NASA published in 2018 when they used an airborne infrared telescope to find evidence of water on the moon’s sunlit surfaces.
To catch a snorlax.
The LAPD fired two police officers for ignoring a robbery on April 15, 2017, and decided to play Pokémon Go instead. Instead of answering a call requesting backup for a theft at Macy’s in Crenshaw Mall, officers reportedly spent the next 20 minutes driving around catching a snorlax.
Lozano and Mitchell denied playing Pokémon Go and insisted they were just “having a chat” about the game, but the camera in the car revealed they were discussing the heist and ignoring it. Another officer also saw the cruiser leave the area after the call.
It will start on January 31st.
The Associated Press (AP) will begin selling its “award-winning contemporary and historical photojournalism” as non-fungible tokens on January 31st. The news agency has partnered with blockchain technology provider Xooa to develop a marketplace for its NFTs that will debut with an initial collection to be released after it opens.
AP’s first collection includes digitally enhanced Pulitzer Prize-winning images from categories such as space, climate, and war. Each contains the image’s original metadata, which indicates the location, time and date of the shot, as well as the photographer’s equipment and settings for the shot.
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