Category: Science and Technology

Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that e-cigarette startups like Juul have 60 days to prove they can keep their devices out of the hands of kids, or their products might be taken off the market. But a new report shows that despite this high-profile crackdown, the FDA isn’t doing enough when it comes to another part of the vaping market: copycats.

Two years ago, the FDA new rules in place that essentially banned new e-cig companies from entering the market unless they went through an extensive review process. According to a new Reuters report, however, in the years since, more than a dozen vaping devices have started selling with little consequence.

These include both large tobacco companies like British…

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Six years ago, on a cold November day, I was forced to make the most difficult decision a video game had ever presented me with. I was playing the fifth and final episode of The Walking Dead’s debut season, and though I had long predicted how things would play out, it didn’t make it any easier when the moment arrived. A beloved character was beginning to turn into an undead monster, and he wanted me to kill him. All I had to do was press a button — but I labored over the decision, unsure about how actually killing someone, even someone about the become a zombie, would affect me. Eventually, I pulled the trigger, but it wasn’t easy. Six years later, I still think about it.

This was the power of Telltale’s unique and distinct take on…

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After a search in Taiwan, the controversial 3D-printed gun maker Cody Wilson has been returned to the United States and is out on bond as he faces charges alleging that he sexually assaulted a minor.

Last week, authorities in Texas announced that Wilson was charged after allegedly paying a 16-year-old for sex. At the time of the announcement, Wilson was in Taiwan, but he was quickly apprehended and returned to the United States.

According to local media, Wilson posted a $150,000 bond in Texas and is out of jail, ahead of his case being transferred to a different county. Reporters captured video of Wilson exiting the courthouse yesterday.

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The first batch of Indian-built GLCs will arrive in the US next month.

One from Sony, one from Sennheiser, both Cheapskate exclusives!

About every five seconds we close our eyes and blink to moisten them. During this brief moment no light falls on our retina yet it is not constantly dark and we continue to observe a stable picture of our environment. The brain seems to remember the percepts that have just happened. Scientists have now identified a brain area that plays a crucial role in perceptual memory.

Bioscience engineers already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now researchers have developed a roadmap, as it were, for industrial cellulose gasoline.

The sites may be different but tourists are the same, suggests English photographer Laurence Stephens.

Target Malaria hopes to eradicate Africa’s malaria-carrying mosquitoes. But when manipulating the fate of a species, moving slowly is a virtue.

While human genetic mutations are involved in a small number of Parkinson’s disease (PD) cases, the vast majority of cases are of unknown environmental causes, prompting enormous interest in identifying environmental risk factors involved.