The worst thing that you could do when playing an online game is use cheats. Sure, it helps you win the game, but it is unfair for the other players who just want a fair game that they can enjoy. This is why game developers, such as Activision, do their best to keep cheaters away from their game.

Just as millions of players of Call of Duty: Warzone were gearing up for a new season of the popular online multiplayer game, thousands of them were banned because they were allegedly using an app to help them cheat.

On Monday, Activision de-activated the accounts of around 20,000 Warzone players after the company detected a popular cheat, according to people familiar with the matter. 

More details about this news over at Vice.

Thanks, Activision.

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The annual Fat Bear Week of Katmai National Park and Preserve will finally begin this Wednesday, and it is as exciting as the other Fat Bear Weeks that have been held over the years.

This year, people will vote on 12 of the heftiest and hunkiest bears that have traveled to the park’s Brooks River to feast on salmon this summer, including last year’s winner “Number 435,” also known as Holly.

The Fat Bear Week has been an annual event of the park ever since 2014. Ever since then,...

“[The event] has grown beyond my wildest expectations when I first conceived the idea while working as a ranger at Katmai National Park,” Mike Fitz, a former ranger at Katmai National Park and Preserve, said in an email. “I think there are several reasons why people seem to love Fat Bear Week. It’s positive and provides a brief reprieve from the negativity that often dominates our social media feed. It highlights known, identifiable bears at Brooks River, which people can watch every day on the Explore.org bearcams.”

Know more about the event, as well as the bears that reside in the river, over at Gizmodo.

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We should always charge devices from time to time, in order to prolong their life. But what should be the interval? For the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Support says that it’s half a year.

Via tweet, Nintendo Support wrote that if left uncharged for a long period of time, the game console’s internal battery won’t be able to charge and thus will become unable to use. They add, “Please charge it once every six months.”

Nintendo sure does love its customers.

What do you think?

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Tired of drinking boring milk and generic milk candies? If your answer to this question is yes, then you might look forward to this type of food which may be available in the near future: 3D-printed milk food products.

A team at Singapore University of Technology and Design overcame these limitations and figured out how to print milk products at room temperature using a method called cold extrusion. Their magic ink: powdered milk. The stuff you keep in your pantry just in case. The best milk ink, they found, is 70 grams of powdered milk per 100 grams of water.

This discovery could lead to entirely new food concepts. “Given the versatility of the demonstrated method, we envision nutritious and visually appealing foods, with various needs for nutrition and material properties,” the researchers wrote.

Yum!

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From a man boxing with a fly, to two airport baggage handlers clashing against each other, to a jerk pissing on the elevator buttons (and then paying the consequences), Ozzy Man Reviews delivers to us a compilation of the good, the bad, and the ugly stuff documented on CCTV.

Which one is your favorite?

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Of the many things that we should consider as we plan on colonizing other planets and our own Moon, our basic needs — namely, food, water, shelter, and clothing — should be the first thing that we think about. Since the environments on the other planets vary from the environment that we have on Earth, how we meet these needs will surely be different from how we normally do it. This is why,...

For quite a while now, scientists have been developing technologies that explore both the moon and mars. From 3D-printed mars habitats to lunar toilets, news regarding space travel advancements have flooded our streams, having specialist[s] trying to figure out if our species would be able to live and survive in another planet or on our own satellite.

One of the basic needs that we have to meet is shelter. Or rather, the materials that we need to build one.

Concrete is not an option as it requires large amounts of water not found on these places.

Fortunately, there could be an alternative to that material, according to this study published by Javier Fernandez, a scientist at Singapore University of Technology and Design. In this study, he states that “a simple manufacturing technology based on chitin, one of the most ubiquitous organic polymers on earth, could be used to build tools and shelters on Mars.”

Learn more about this over at DesignBoom.

What are your thoughts about this one?

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Paw prints and bird tracks that have been carved in concrete are some of the cute little things that you will see in your life. These prints can be found in roads, sidewalks, and in construction sites. For Carl Mehling, however, they are more than cute; these are moments in time that were immortalized as the concrete dried.

When [he] was a second-grader in Queens, his mom walked him to school past a leaf in the sidewalk. “I regarded it as a fossil, and was scheming about getting a hammer and busting it out,” he says. Now, Mehling is a senior museum specialist in paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York—and he’s still obsessed with the world around his shoes. When he’s in the field looking for fossils, or in the woods hunting for mushrooms, he says, “my eyes are always slammed against the ground.” He started zeroing in on concrete prints a decade or so ago, when a friend was looking to incorporate some into the endpapers of a book. That “flipped my switch,” Mehling says. “I just never stopped.”

And so find and photograph urban fossils he did.

Learn more about his story over at Atlas Obscura.

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When he was walking near his home in Brazil, Igor Venâncio noticed some kids gathered in the street. Upon checking what the commotion was all about, he saw that the kids gathered around a tiny baby marmoset (a type of monkey native to the region), who lay helpless on the ground. The next thing he noticed was the baby’s worried mom, who watched from a branch overhead.

Suspecting that the baby’s mother was hesitant to retrieve her because of the crowd, Venâncio asked the children to give her space. But still, Mom seemed reluctant to approach.

So, Venâncio decided to arrange the reunion himself.

“Acting on instinct, I took the baby to her parent,” Venâncio told The Dodo. “A car or a cat could have passed by, and maybe it wouldn’t have been a happy ending.”

Check out the wholesome clip over at the site.

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Lito has been living all of his life with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He knew that he had to search for a medium with which he could channel his abnormally high levels of concentration, focus, and obsessiveness. And it seems that the 34-year-old artist found that outlet through the Japanese art of kirie (which means “cut paper”).

Earlier this year in January he began experimenting, not with paper, but with leaves.

And the results are nothing short of magnificent.

Check out Lito’s works over at Spoon & Tamago.

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It’s always a heartbreaking moment, for the clothes, at least, when you have to give them to the launderer for him/her to wash them. You might feel the same way, too, and so it is heartwarming to see this laundry bag communicate for them through this ode written on it.

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A paper claiming that there is a black hole on the center of the Earth, and that this black hole is influencing the shape of our DNA, has scientists baffled. What’s amazing is that they only noticed this paper now, when it was published last year.

It's either a brilliant satire on conspiracy theories, or the worst thing to be published in physics, genetics, and chemistry for a long time, possibly ever. Either way, we want to know how it got past peer review.

Last year the Macedonian Journal of Medical Science published a paper under the astonishing title “A Black Hole at the Center of Earth Plays the Role of the Biggest System of Telecommunication for Connecting DNAs, Dark DNAs and Molecules of Water on 4+N- Dimensional Manifold”. If you think the headline is out there, look at the diagrams.

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One theory is that this “paper” is actually random phrases put together as an attempt to test the peer-review standards of journals that might be getting sloppy, something scientists do now and then. Evidence for this comes from the fact that the last author, Torello Lotti, has previously published about the problem of predatory journals.

More details about this crazy study over at IFL Science.

What are your thoughts about this one?

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On September 3, 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming returned to work after spending a vacation in Suffolk with his family. Upon returning to the laboratory, he checked on the culture plates he left there before he went on vacation. (He had inoculated staphylococci on these plates). As he inspected the plates, he noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and, for some reason, the colonies of staphylococci that surrounded the fungus had been destroyed. “That’s funny,” he remarked. He identified the mold as a genus of Penicillium. Little did he know that his discovery would be a big one.

Later, Fleming said: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”

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One does not just capture a sailboat crossing in front of a sunrise. It takes luck and timing. And that’s just what Juan Antonio Sendra had two weeks ago when he was at the Mediterranean Sea.

Additionally, by a lucky coincidence, the background Sun itself appears unusual -- it looks like the Greek letter Omega (Ω). In reality, the Sun remained its circular self -- the Omega illusion was created by sunlight refracting through warm air just above the water.

Thank Helios.

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People who sleep less than six hours are two times more likely to have cognitive impairment in the future. This is what researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine found in their study, which is published in the journal Sleep.

Fernandez-Mendoza and colleagues found that adults who reported insomnia symptoms or chronic insomnia and slept less than six hours in the lab were two times more likely to have cognitive impairment when compared to good sleepers.

They also found that this association was particularly strong for adults with coexisting cardiometabolic conditions and cognitive impairment, which may be an indicator of vascular cognitive impairment—a condition where poor cardiovascular health results in impaired brain function.

This type of study seems to suggest that the brain depends on sleep. “Understanding the connection between sleep deficiency and early cognitive decline could lead to improved treatments for insomnia,” said Michael Twery, the director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and one of the study’s funders.

Learn more about the study over at Neuroscience News.

How much sleep do you get?

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The next time someone tells you that they have something fireproof at their home, correct them and say that it is not really fireproof. Rather, it is only “fire resistant”, as everything containing carbon could combust and catch fire when hot enough.

But what makes a material “fireproof”? Bill Carroll, an adjunct professor at Indiana University Bloomington, explains to us the chemicals that make a material resistant to fire, over at Live Science.

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