Microsoft has finally made the tab syncing feature in Microsoft Edge available to everyone. The said feature, which was only made available for users in its Insider Dev and Canary channels last October, allows a user sync his tabs across devices, making it a handy tool for those who work with multiple devices. While this feature is not unique to Edge, as Google Chrome and Apple Safari already had this feature way before Edge did, this makes Edge a great alternative to those.

Edge’s version of tab syncing works nearly identically to Chrome: sign in to your profile, turn on sync, and bam, you’re done. You can also browse as a guest and add multiple profiles, which is especially useful if you use different email addresses on the same computer, but don’t want the same tabs, or even bookmarks, to show up on different accounts. Each account also opens in a new browser window, just like Chrome.

The new feature also syncs your browsing history across devices—any device, whether that’s Windows, macOS, iOS or Android. Again, that’s just like Chrome, but for anyone who has been getting more worried about their privacy using Chrome, these two big features justify an easy switch to Edge.

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With his partner Margie, local treasure hunter Ross Poulter walks on the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia. This treacherous coast is known for the nearly 700 ships wrecked along its coastline in the mid-18th and early 19th century.

Carrying with them some shovels and a metal detector, the duo survey the land, in search of a legend — the Mahogany Ship. The ship is believed to be a Portuguese caravel that sailed in the 16th century. Poulter has been searching for this ship for 15 years now, and he displays no signs of stopping from his search. But did the Mahogany Ship even exist? Some say that it didn’t.

Know more about the Mahogany Ship over at Atlas Obscura.

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Want some plants at the comfort of your own home without the need to water them to keep them fresh? LEGO has you covered with their botanical collection.

… the new sets include a LEGO flower bouquet and a LEGO bonsai tree. apart from it being absolutely breathtaking, the LEGO botanical collection includes a number of elements made from plant-based plastic, produced using sustainable sourced sugarcane — a move LEGO announced in 2020. 

The flower bouquet set is composed of 756 pieces, while the bonsai tree set has 878.

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Artist Jason Anderson masterfully uses the impasto technique in these works. With each stroke of the brush, the pixelated abstract images of horizons and city centers are created in the various colors in the linen canvas.

“I relish the often frantic nature of mixing and arranging the paint in thick impressionistic daubs and submitting to a process that creates its own detail and form,” the artist says in a statement. “This forces me to be bold and decisive; it also produces a kaleidoscope of shape and tone (reminiscent of stained-glass) which portrays the ever-present movement and energy found in nature.”

Check out Anderson’s works over at Colossal. You might also want to follow his Instagram to see more of his paintings and sketches.

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You know you have the bestest friend in the world when she goes her way to disguise herself in order to watch over you on your first date. Just like your guardian angel, if you believe in those.

Nope. Not creepy at all. And the mustache is clearly not suspicious.

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If you’re someone who regularly travels at least 75 miles from home, then you probably are 7% happier than those who travel less. That was what Chun-Chu Chen found out in his study, which is published in the journal Tourism Analysis.

Chun-Chu (Bamboo) Chen, an assistant professor in the School of Hospitality Business Management at Washington State University, conducted a survey to find out why some individuals travel more frequently than others and whether or not travel and tourism experiences have a prolonged effect on happiness and wellness.

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… participants in the survey who reported regularly traveling at least 75 miles away from home also reported being about 7% happier when asked about their overall well-being than those who reported traveling very rarely or not at all.

“While things like work, family life and friends play a bigger role in overall reports of well-being, the accumulation of travel experiences does appear to have a small yet noticeable effect on self-reported life satisfaction,” Chen said. “It really illustrates the importance of being able to get out of your routine and experience new things.”

Learn more details about this study over at Neuroscience News.

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With the many packages that he has delivered to people at various places, it is without saying that this man is tired. That, and it’s already nighttime.

He’s a pretty tough guy, though. He didn’t even say “ow”. He just looked up, placed the package beside the glass door, and said “UPS” as he went away with his hand on his head.

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It’s been a little over a year ever since NASA engineer Evan Hilgemann was selected to join the team of scientists responsible for the well-being of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Now, Hilgemann shares with us the things he learned during that amount of time. Among the things he shares is the rover driver’s main job, as well as the three modes of the rover. Read Hilgemann’s article over at Medium.com.

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Gazing at the cosmos will always be part of the human experience. In any era, and in any age, there will always be some of us who will be curious at the events happening above us. If you’re one of those people that I’ve described, then it is for certain that you would not want to miss the skywatching events this year. Live Science lists some of these events over at their site. Have a look at the list and check the dates. For now, here’s some of them.

April 16 to 25 — Lyrids meteor shower

May 25 — Total lunar eclipse

June 10 — Annular solar eclipse (also called a “ring of fire”)

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On this side of the human psyche lies “whatever we deem as evil, inferior, or unacceptable”, such as lust, greed, envy, anger and rage. This side is the counterpoint to the persona or the conscious personality. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung calls this the “shadow.”

According to Jungian analyst Aniela Jaffe, the shadow is the "sum of all personal and collective psychic elements which, because of their incompatibility with the chosen conscious attitude, are denied expression in life" (cited in Diamond, p. 96).

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Yet, the shadow, while very real, is not meant to be taken concretely or literally, but rather allegorically. It is not an evil entity existing apart from the person, nor an invading alien force, though it may be felt as such. The shadow is a universal (archetypal) feature of the human psyche for which we bear full responsibility to cope with as creatively as possible.

Because the shadow wreaks havoc and causes suffering to many individuals, it is often described as evil and sinister. However, it is not entirely true, for good things can also come with the shadow. In Jung’s words…

“[the shadow] also displays a number of good qualities, such as normal instincts, appropriate reactions, realistic insights, creative impulses, etc” (cited in Diamond, p. 96).

In other words, the shadow is still an essential part of the self, and the person has to integrate it unto himself.

More about this over at Psychology Today.

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As global warming continues to be a problem for our planet, the permafrost in the Arctic region continues to melt, and with that, more frozen prehistoric animals are uncovered. Just recently, the remains of a baby woolly rhino was discovered in Siberia. Compared to previous woolly rhinos discovered in the region (Arctic Yakutia), this is said to be the best preserved, with all of its limbs and most of its internal organs, including the intestines, still intact.

"The young rhino was between three and four years old and lived separately from its mother when it died, most likely by drowning," palaeontologist Valery Plotnikov from the Russian Academy of Sciences, who made the first description of the find, told The Siberian Times. 

"The gender of the animal is still unknown. We are waiting for the radiocarbon analyses to define when it lived, the most likely range of dates is between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago."

More about this news over at ScienceAlert.

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Whoever made this banner seems to have been short of “A”s when he or she made this one. Either that, or maybe this person really intended this.

I don’t know what the word “hyppy” means, but if I were to make a guess, this word might be related to “hip” or “hype.”

Well, what do you think?

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Scientists at Stanford University have developed this prototype smart toilet that has a system that can scan a person’s butt, specifically the anoderm (the exterior part of the anus), which is said to be unique for every person. The butt scanner, in other words, is similar to a fingerprint scanner. After it scans the anoderm,

the system then uses its under-the-seat mounted camera and sensor array to analyze a person’s urine and excrement for health evaluation and discerning potential concerns.

The system was developed specifically for being able to identify the different members of a household for separate waste analysis and not as a stand-alone biometric identification system, which is probably for the best since the use of analprint scanners would make identifying yourself for access to an office building significantly more awkward.

There are more details about this over at Vice.

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Over the years, space junk has become a growing problem for the Earth’s atmosphere. Of the approximately 6,000 satellites orbiting our planet, about 60 percent of them are now defunct and unused, and this junk presents many hazards to our atmosphere. To address this problem, the Japanese logging and wood processing company, Sumitomo Forestry Co., has teamed up with Kyoto University. Their goal: to design and build wooden satellites. They aim to have working prototypes by 2023.

Both will work together to experiment with different types of wood and test them in extreme environments on Earth, emulating conditions quite similar to those faced by satellites launched into orbit – such as severe changes in temperature and unfiltered exposure to sunlight and radiation.

Kyoto University professor and Japanese astronaut Takao Dai explained to the BBC that wooden satellites held one major advantage over their counterparts made from metal – should they fall out of orbit and burn up upon re-entering the atmosphere, they won't release as many harmful particles and dangerous debris.

"We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth's atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float in the upper atmosphere for many years," he said, also adding that "eventually, it will affect the environment of the Earth."

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New York — Something seems to have happened in the squirrels in Rego Park, Queens. In the past several weeks, some people have reported to WCBS-TV that they were attacked by a squirrel.

Micheline Frederick pointed to a bruise on her wrist where she said the squirrel landed on her and then sank its teeth into her fingers and hand.

“We’re wrestling in the snow and there’s blood everywhere and my fingers getting chewed and it won’t let go,” Frederick said. “Eventually, it just stopped and there I was a big bloody mess.”

A photo Frederick says she took after the attack shows a snowy pathway covered in blood.

“This was an MMA cage match! And I lost!” she added.

It is not clear yet what caused these squirrels to be aggressive.

Well, what do you think?

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