It looks like viruses are not only targeting smartphones and computers, but also TVs as well. Samsung just recently recommended owners of their latest TVs to run regular virus scans. 

The Samsung Support USA Twitter account posted a video on how to activate the check via a sub-menu, which requires a lot of button presses from your remote control.

It suggested users should carry out the process "every few weeks" to "prevent malicious software attacks".

BBC News asked Samsung whether any specific threat had prompted the warning.

The company responded that it had been "posted for customers' education".

The said tweet, however, was deleted at around the same time it was posted.

In a separate statement given to the BBC on 18 June, Samsung added: "Samsung takes security very seriously and our products and services are designed with security in mind.

"Yesterday we shared information about one of the preventative security features on our Smart TVs, in order to show consumers proactive steps they can take on their device.

Although Samsung’s tweet had good intentions, one security adviser stated that it was “pointless advice” , and cyber-security specialists said that the public “would be unlikely to go to the trouble” of scanning their TVs.

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Just in case you missed how to virus check your Samsung TV before the tweet was deleted pic.twitter.com/bJctBQo8F6

— Leo Kelion (@LeoKelion) June 17, 2019

We’ve seen some stone alphabets collected by a Belgium designer. Meanwhile, 36 Days of Type have their own alphabet gimmick as well with their 90s TOYpography.

Get ready as we take a nostalgic trip to the past with these toys, and let us learn the alphabet once again. And this time, A is not for “apple”; A is for Ants in the Pants.

Some of the toys featured are the ViewMaster, Q*bert, X-Men, and Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda.

Check out the rest of the alphabet over at Noah Camp.

Can you guess what the other letters represent?

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Are you a corgi? Are you a corgi owner? Are you just someone who adores doggos? This might just be paradise for you.

Last June 15, the 2019 Corgi Con Summer Edition (which is the 5th Summer Corgi Con) was held at the Ocean Beach of Northern California. Over a thousand corgis came, along with their owners. Dog lovers also came to the convention.

At the event, both humans and canines can participate in activities, including a group picture, corgi races, corgi "ninja warrior" (an obstacle course, similar to "American Ninja Warrior"), and of course, a corgi costume contest.

See the corgi-eous photos over at Insider.

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Are Saturn’s rings much younger than Saturn itself? How were these rings formed? These are just some of the questions that may have been answered or shed light upon as the spacecraft Cassini executed its Grand Finale at the planet Saturn.

In its final year [2017], Cassini plunged where no spacecraft had plunged before, down in the space between Saturn and its rings. Again and again it dove, for a total of 22 orbits. In the data collecting during those breakneck dives, astronomers have just found new information about the way tiny moons sculpt and carve those rings.

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"It's like turning the power up one more notch on what we could see in the rings. Everyone just got a clearer view of what's going on," said Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker of JPL-NASA. "Getting that extra resolution answered many questions, but so many tantalising ones remain."

They reveal the delicate straw-like textures and clumps within the rings, and patterns produced by the movement of the shepherd moons, such as Daphnis. Scientists have also compiled new maps of the colours, temperatures, and chemistry of the rings.

Dive in the story over at Science Alert.

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Driving can be a stressful activity. Uncontrollable situations on the road can even stress you more and make you explode with anger and frustration. Even the calmest people in the world can fall into road rage.

Being a recipient of road range is a very terrifying experience. John Stanley, CEO and founder of MOD Worldwide, narrates his first experience.

“My mother is one of the best people on the planet. She also happens to be a very bad driver. She inadvertently cut someone off and got in front of her so she couldn’t move forward and was shouting obscenities at my mother. That was my first experience as a recipient of road rage.”

Stanley is aware that road rage happens because of the lack of communication between drivers. With this in mind, he and his team at MOD created RoadWayve.

“RoadWayve is created to connect unknown drivers in mere seconds to make driving safer.”

What is this device anyway? And what can it do?

Designed to mount on the rear windshield of your car and powered either via the RoadWayve remote (that sits on your dashboard), Wayvemote, or your smartphone, RoadWayve can communicate messages to drivers around you. May it be: asking to merge into their lane, or apologizing for cutting them off. You can also thank drivers for letting you overtake them, or ask them to turn down their high-beam headlights, and the RoadWayve app even lets you add custom messages (works best for situation-specific messages or messages in local languages)

Could this be the solution for safer roads? What do you think?

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🦅 Whoa! A bald eagle was spotted swimming to shore in Wolfeboro. Amazing! https://t.co/udTkenOeNS

📹: Tyler Blake / u local (upload here: https://t.co/bqKBGSxerF) pic.twitter.com/7jP9YnlRjP

— WMUR TV (@WMUR9) June 10, 2019

It looks like the bald eagle’s not only good at hunting and soaring through the skies — it’s also good at swimming. This rare footage of a bald eagle swimming was shot by a construction worker named Tyler Blake.

“Just to see how uncanny it is, for it to be, like, a human doing the breaststroke, it's just amazing,” Blake told WMUR.

“I ran down to the docks and I saw an eagle flapping in the water,' he said. 'I’m, like, "Wow!" I wasn’t sure if it was hurt or something.”

However, Jim Watson, a researcher from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, states that swimming eagles are not surprising at all. They usually grab fish off the surface and keep their wings dried before flying again to the sky.

"It may have gone as planned, they just got a bigger fish and said, 'I'm going to stick with this, I can make it to shore and so it's a good deal,' " Watson said.

They may also swim when "their feathers get soaked and they can't fly away."

Still, for people who don’t know much about eagles like me and Tyler, this is a delightful and surprising sight to see.

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A cheeseburger from a region might share similarities on another region. Pizza, however, is a different story. Like dialects, pizzas have different variations depending on which region you are.

With that in mind, a question comes to mind: where can we find the greatest pizza in all of America?

The Takeout goes out of their way and documents the different types of pizzas that can be found in the U.S from New York, the Tri-state region, Los Angeles, Detroit, California, up to Chicago.

Do you agree with their best pizza?

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“Terminus!” announced the unnamed Parisian driver, irked at his passengers who refused to move up to make room for a man on a wheelchair. “Everybody down!” the driver ordered the passengers. The wheelchair user was François Le Berre, a man with multiple sclerosis.

“No-one wanted to move despite the access ramp,” Le Berre told Huffington Post.

The story was posted via Facebook on Oct. 19 of last year. After a few days, the story was re-shared on Twitter and it went viral.

“Everyone did it, but some people did grumble a bit,” Le Berre said.

According to Le Berre, the driver then told the passengers, “Everyone might need a wheelchair one day.”

After all the passengers alighted from the bus, the driver came to Le Berre and said, “You can go up and the others, you wait for the next one!”

And so, Le Berre and his companion had all the bus to themselves as the driver drove off.

But what of the bus driver? Was he fired? Thankfully, he wasn’t. RATP, the operator of Paris’s public transit system stated that “an agent does not get fired when acting on behalf of travelers.”

(Image Credit: François Le Berre/ Facebook)

Tens of thousands of red sided garter snakes appear here Narcisse, Manitoba on spring season. It is their annual mating ritual that draws thousands of people to visit the Canadian province.

The area around Narcisse is so attractive to snakes for the same reasons many farmers abandoned it decades ago: Its thin topsoil sits on top of limestone that water has gradually eroded underground, creating a network of small caves that can be entered through sinkholes.

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“It is likely the biggest concentration of snakes in the world,” said Prof. Robert T. Mason, a professor of integrative biology at Oregon State University, who has come to Narcisse every spring since 1982.

“It’s amazing to me how many people want to see these snakes,” he said. “They are perfect ambassadors for the reptile world.”

Scientists, including Professor Mason, often do their research at smaller snake pit areas on private land. But Manitoba’s wildlife service has established a park around what it prefers to call snake dens — not “snake pits” — that are the winter home of an estimated 70,000 of the creatures.

Did you just read 70,000 snakes? Yes, you just did.

More details of this hissing story over at The New York Times.

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This photo taken on Greenland shows the bitter truth that we all have to face: the ice on Earth is melting, and it’s melting fast. (Greenland is home to the second largest ice sheet on the planet, which makes this photo even sadder.) Climate researcher Steffen M. Olsen wrote on his Twitter account:

Communities in #Greenland rely on the sea ice for transport, hunting and fishing. Extreme events, here flooding of the ice by abrupt onset of surface melt call for an incresed [sic] predictive capacity in the Arctic…

Mark Kaufman of Mashable tells us the story behind the photo:

Olsen, along with local hunters, had to sled across the flooded ice to retrieve vulnerable weather and ocean monitoring equipment. Their sled dogs splashed through the icy water.

The adventurous sledding took place in the middle of an inlet called Inglefield Bredning, located in northwestern Greenland. Sea ice beneath the pooled water is still some 4 feet (1.2 meters) thick, though Olsen tweeted that his team is dependent upon indigenous knowledge of the dodgy terrain to safely navigate. 

Temperatures have spiked in Greenland this week, resulting in melting not just of sea ice, but of ice across the surface of nearly half the giant island. Greenland has had big melting episodes before, but this one certainly falls into the category of extreme.

Knowing this, and knowing that it is nearly impossible to do anything about it, may perhaps be one of the saddest things in life.

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This is a sculpture titled “High-Seven”, created by Sakura Hanafusa. The sculpture depicts seven cats, with their right front paws high up in the air, inviting you to high-five them. Sakura made this as her graduation project from art university in 2016. She wrote on Twitter that she not only wanted to make a piece to be looked and enjoyed; she wanted a piece that would be fun interacting with.

Each cat is carved individually from camphor wood and oil painted, and in an interview with Yahoo News, Hanafusa says she modeled the individual expressions of 6 of the cats after a [sic] her family cats, and 1 after a friend's.

What are your thoughts?

(Image Credit: Sakura Hanafusa)

This is the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), a carnivorous plant known for chowing down insects. But it seems that they don’t only chow down on insects. Apparently, they also eat vertebrates such as baby salamanders.

According to the study authors, this is the first research showing that carnivorous pitcher plants, also known as turtle socks, make vertebrates a regular part of their diets.

"This crazy discovery of previously unknown carnivory of a plant upon a vertebrate happened in a relatively well-studied area on relatively well-studied plants and animals," study co-author Alex Smith, an associate biology professor at Ontario's University of Guelph, told Live Science in an email. "I hope and imagine that one day the general public's interpretive pamphlet for the bog will say, 'Stay on the boardwalk and watch your children — here be plants that eat vertebrates!"

How do these plants catch their prey? Find out over at Live Science.

(Image Credit: Patrick D. Moldowan/Algonquin Wildlife Research Station)

Next time you’re going to drive while under the influence of alcohol, be like this woman. Yes, you’ve heard it correctly. This woman just avoided DUI charges “because her vehicle of choice was a toy truck.” Although, the police would instead charge her of public intoxication.

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This student cafe is a unique program of the Mezi Community School in Whati, Northwest Territories, Canada. There, students are taught how to bake cookies, brew coffee, and create tasty cappuccinos and lattes. The cafe is overseen by Jessica Barber, a high school and junior high teacher.

"They certainly are more energetic when they come to school, especially my senior high boys. They're very motivated by the coffee. So it's something that's new for them and it's kind of novel."

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Barber said beyond making making drinks, the café teaches students other skills they can use outside the classroom like food handling and business skills.

"I saw that the life skills [were] lacking and that there was a need for it," she said on starting the café. 

Currently, there isn't a formal coffee shop in Whati, but some people operate businesses out of their homes.

"It would be really great for especially the youth right now if they could establish their own business and become entrepreneurs," Barber said. 

Learning, indeed, does not end inside the classroom.

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"It looked like a steak knife that was sticking out of his head," Erin Weaver told CNN affiliate KTRK.

In her six years living in the neighborhood where alligators are frequently present, Erin stated that she has never seen one of these gators attack, and is unsure why someone would do this to one of these alligators.

"I feel that somebody did this on purpose." 

A Texas wildlife agency is expected to check out the gator next week, but until then, Weaver and her neighbors are acting as its advocates.

More details of this news on CNN.

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