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Gordon finds a dark purpose for MSI's App Player at Computex 2018: Play mobile games virtually on your PC, and crush the suckers playing on their stupid phones. Alaina unboxes and tears down NZXT's gorgeous Fallout-inspired H700 Nuka-Cola case with help from Gordon and Adam. Stay tuned for our live build and giveaway next Monday, November 12th at 10 a.m. Pacific Time!

Cooler Master, a global leader in designing and manufacturing innovative gaming peripherals and computer components, today announces the addition to its audio line with two new gaming headsets, the MH751 and MH752. Cooler Master Announces MH751 and MH752, Aimed at Midrange Price Points The MH751 headset offers high quality sound and a comfortable fit through its light weight yet durable and flexible construction. Leatherette ear cushions provide good sound isolation and a comfortable fit during extended gaming sessions. Its 40mm neodymium drivers provide full, well-balanced sound, while the removable mic keeps communication crystal clear. “We wanted to create a headset with a focus on audio quality, mic quality, and comfort. The MH751 and MH752 are a result of this vision. Both are light weight and can be worn hours on end providing unparalleled sound for all types of use.” Bryant Nguyen, Peripheral General Manager The MH752 gaming headset features premium quality sound through 40mm neodymium drivers and included USB DAC with virtual 7.1 surround sound providing users the positional awareness needed to hear footsteps during gameplay. This lightweight headset harbors the same unpreceded comfort as the MH751. Users can further customize the MH752 through its easy to use software suite. Both headsets come with a removable cable along with a smart lock system. They feature swivel design ear cups and include a velvet carrying pouch for easy storage and travel making both models ready to take on-the-go. The MH751 and MH752 are multi-platform compatible; choose between 3.5mm jack and USB to connect to PCs, consoles and mobile devices. The headset faces stiff competition with Kingston’s well respected HyperX Cloud, as well as companies like Astro, Turtle Beach and others.

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Jeep’s all-new Wrangler retains its boxy shape, albeit with a fresh grille and rear lights, plus a slightly wider and longer body. It also comes with boosted off-road credentials, thanks to stronger front and rear axles, bigger skid plates and larger brakes on all models. A toolkit with each car will let owners remove the doors and fold down the windscreen. UK buyers will have a choice of two engines: a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol turbo with 200bhp and 400Nm, and a 2.2 diesel delivering 197bhp and 450Nm.

In January 2009, photographer Derrick Santini was offered a magazine shoot with an unknown US singer. "I'd never heard of Lady Gaga when the job came up," he tells BBC News. "Of course, two months later, everyone knew her." At the time she posed for the portraits, Gaga was on the brink of releasing her debut single Just Dance - which became the first of several monster hits. Santini, who has also photographed Adele, Mary J Blige and Idris Elba, was commissioned to shoot Gaga for The Sun's recently launched Fabulous magazine. "Everything was slightly exaggerated with her," Santini recalls. "We pumped up the colours, we went for this very poppy background, these obviously quite full-on outfits." "She knew what she wanted, she was really a pro, it was clear, she was so on her image and what she was doing all the time, there was no messing about." The images documented how Gaga uses fashion, art and performance to express radically different identities. Nearly 10 years on, they are being used as part of a new exhibition about body dysmorphia - a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. Gaga is certainly an icon of fashion and glamour - but she has spoken openly about her struggles with bulimia and anorexia in the past. "I wasn't aware of her issues back then," says Santini, "or maybe body dysmorphia as a term wasn't around so much then. "She's had her issues with it, and I think it's kind of like the general thing about identity, we are all self-conscious, we are all documenting ourselves all the time. "And so this incredible introspection of ourselves is going on, so in a way it's morphing in the mind - what you think you look like, how you think you appear, that's the crux of body dysmorphia." Santini's images of Gaga, some of which haven't been seen before, form part of Identity - a new exhibition at London's Zebra One Gallery. Works from 10 artists have been selected for the show, all of them exploring themes relating to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The gallery's owner, Gabrielle Du Plooy, came up with the idea for the exhibition earlier this year, and began approaching artists whose work she felt fitted with the theme of the show.

Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than three decades, the country's education ministry says. In the fiscal year 2016/7 up to March, 250 children from elementary to high school age were recorded as having taken their own lives. The number is five more than last year, and the highest it has been since 1986. Concerns the children had reported included family problems, worrying about their futures and bullying. But schools said the reasons behind about 140 of the deaths are unknown as the students did not leave a note. Most of those who took their lives were of high school age, where Japanese students typically study until they are aged 18. A report released by Japan's Cabinet Office in 2015 looked at child suicide data in the country from 1972-2013, which recognised a massive peak at the start of the annual school year on 1 September. Japan had one of the highest suicide rates in 2015 but since preventative measures were introduced, the figures have dropped, according to World Health Organization. Overall suicides across Japan fell to about 21,000 in 2017, police say, down from a peak of about 34,500 in 2003. Why does Japan have such a high suicide rate? However, child suicide rates remain relatively high - making it the leading cause of death among young people in the country. "The number of suicides of students have stayed high, and that is an alarming issue which should be tackled," education ministry official Noriaki Kitazaki said as the latest figures were released. If you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations which offer advice and support, click here. In the UK you can call for free, at any time, to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. In Japan you can get help here.

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The never-ending fight against bacteria has taken a turn in humanity's favor with the announcement of a tool that could give the upper hand in drug research. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has produced alarming headlines in recent years, with the prospect of commonly prescribed treatments becoming obsolete setting off alarm bells in the medical establishment. More efficient ways of testing replacements are desperately needed, and a team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has just found one. In their paper, published in ACS Sensors, the scientists look at a microbial structure called biofilms -- bacterial cells that band together into a slimy matrix. These are advantageous for bacteria, even giving resistance to conventional antibiotics. With properties like these, biofilms can be hazardous when they contaminate environments and industries; everything from tainting food production to clogging sewage treatment pipes. Biofilms can also become lethal if they make their way into medical facilities. Understanding how biofilms are formed is key to finding ways to defeat them, and this study brought together OIST scientists from backgrounds in biotechnology, nanoengineering and software programming to tackle it. The team focused on biofilm assembly kinetics -- the biochemical reactions that allow bacteria to produce their linked matrix structure. Gathering intelligence on how these reactions function can tell a lot about what drugs and chemicals can be used to counteract them. No tools were available to the team that would allow them to monitor biofilm growth with the frequency they needed to have a clear understanding of it. So, they modified an existing tool to their own design. Dr. Nikhil Bhalla, working in OIST's Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit led by Prof. Amy Shen took to the nanoscale to find a solution: "We created little chips with tiny structures for E. coli to grow on," he said. "They are covered in mushroom shaped nano-structures with a stem of silicon dioxide and a cap of gold." Now all the team had to do was find some bacteria to work with. Reaching out to OIST's Structural Cellular Biology Unit, the team were helped by Dr Bill Söderström, who supplied stocks of E. coli on the surface of nanomushroom chips for the team to study. When these nanomushrooms are subject to a targeted beam of light, they absorb it by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR). By measuring the difference between light wavelengths entering and exiting the chip, the scientists could make observations of the bacteria growing around the mushroom structures without disturbing their test subjects and affecting their results. "This is the first time we have used this sensing technique to study bacterial cells," said Dr. Riccardo Funari, the team's resident biotechnologist, "but the problem we found was we couldn't monitor it in real time." Getting a constant stream of data from their LSPR setup was possible, but required a whole new set of software to make it functional. Fortunately, research technician Kang-yu Chu was on hand to lend his programming expertise to the problem. "We made an automatic measuring program with instant analysis based on existing software, which let us process the data with one click. It greatly reduced the manual work involved and let us correct any problems with the experiment as they happen," said Kang-yu. Now these three disciplines have combined to make a benchtop tool that can be used in virtually any laboratory, and there are plans to miniaturize the technology into a portable device that could be used in a huge array of biosensing applications. "Studies on clinically relevant microorganisms are coming next," said Dr. Funari, "and we're really excited about the applications. This could be a great tool for testing future drugs on lots of different kinds of bacteria." For now at least, humans are taking the lead in the bacterial battle. Story Source: Materials provided by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.

Intel has come a long way with their mainstream processor platform. The platform has largely seen stagnation in terms of core and thread count over many generations since the first Core series CPU that launched back in 2010 but last year brought a big change to the CPU giant. What seemed to be a generational core clock bump has now turned into a generational core count bump while keeping the clock speed improvements. The Coffee Lake-S 8th Generation family, was the first big core count jump on the mainstream 300 series platform. It was an opportunity for Intel to show that they don’t only hold the IPC or clock speed advantage on the mainstream segment but they can also offer good multi-threading CPU performance. While the jump to 6 cores and 12 threads was great, the competition was offering up to 8 cores and 16 threads on their mainstream platform Intel is now unleashing their own 8 core parts with their new 9th Generation lineup, also known as the Coffee Lake Refresh. The interesting part is that while there is the famous Core i7 SKU with 8 cores, they are also launching their first mainstream Core i9 part with 8 cores. Both parts are very interesting in their own right and the price to performance difference is something which gamers have been looking forward to, especially when Intel is terming the Core i9 SKU as the best gaming processor on the planet, which is something I’d extensively be looking into in the performance benchmarks. At the same time as the CPUs launched, motherboard partners of Intel also released a wide range of Z390 chipset based products. These products range from budget to mainstream and go all the way to the high-end tier, offering diverse designs and features, aimed at overclockers, gamers and both. Today, I will be taking a look a the flagship arrival in ASRock’s latest motherboard portfolio, the Z390 Phantom Gaming 9. The Phantom Gaming lineup was first introduced when ASRock launched their AMD based Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards but this gaming oriented lineup will now be replacing their iconic FATAL1TY brand. This high-end motherboard retails for $268.99 US and I am really interested in finding out how it performs next to the Z390 Taichi Ultimate which I reviewed a while back

Price: From £30k (est) On sale: December Kia’s new e-Niro has one standout figure: 301.That’s the number of miles of electric range it can return from a single charge. As with its sister car, the Hyundai Kona Electric, the e-Niro will be sold with a choice of battery sizes – a 39.2kWh pack with 193 miles of range, and the higher-capacity 64kWh version delivering that magic 301 miles.

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