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Enlarge / Does he look happy or sad to you? (credit: US Fish and Wildlife) As social creatures, we subconsciously match moods with those around us—and not just when a cranky supervisor darkens your day (Editor’s Note: Is it something I said?). The scientific term for the spread of feelings is “emotional contagion,” a term …

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That’s a good-looking vine, alright Star Trek fans briefly turned into Internet archaeologists today after CBS posted, then quickly took down, the first trailer for Star Trek: Picard. Earlier this morning, Entertainment Weekly appeared to have taken down a story about the reveal, but luckily for everyone else the trailer still showed up in Google results as “Star …

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Enlarge (credit: Valentina Palladino) Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of deals to share. Memorial Day hasn’t arrived yet, but the holiday deals are already in full swing. Before you get out of town for the long weekend, you can snag big sales on some of our favorite Windows laptops from the …

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Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich Lawson) The final weekend in May marks the unofficial start of summer (at least at the Orbiting HQ, where our season simulator is aligned with the Northern Hemisphere). It’s a time for farmers’ markets, parades, and cookouts, if you’re into those sorts of things. But who would want to spend …

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Enlarge / Little. Yellow. Different. Remember microconsoles? Years before “the streaming era” that Sony now says is upon us, there was a period there where the conventional wisdom was that traditional consoles were dead and lower-priced microconsoles were the wave of the future. In that time, upstarts like Ouya and established brands like Sony, Nvidia, …

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Enlarge / A view of the exit of The Boring Company’s test tunnel in Hawthorne. (credit: The Boring Company) On Wednesday, the board of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) voted to grant The Boring Company—Elon Musk’s private tunneling venture—a $48.6 million contract to build a two-mile Loop at the expanding Las Vegas …

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