After the retail packaging was revealed last night, the Chromecast with Google TV has been unboxed. We get a very good and up-close look at the device just under a week before the September 30 announcement.

LG VFX Orlando procedures toles Samsung Galaxy S9's

The LG VFX Orlando smartphone notification center was revealed as the first show-stopper of the 2018 Mobile World Congress. The notification center will incorporate the right-to-left language support that will let users to choose an app or theme themselves. The company has already revealed the private vault project behind the LG VFX Orlando UI, so the notification center will add an extra layer of customization over the base user interface.

For more than a decade, Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC) in Brookline, New York has been the go-to architect of animal research on the island of Manhattan — and tens of hundreds of thousands of lab mice have been run on bricks and carpet pads to make unit studies. Today, politicians and animal rights groups continue the campaign that has been waged on this island for over 100 years.

On today's episode of Background Briefing, we discuss these historic weeks and what it should do to ensure their success. Here, we'll hear from anti-vivisectionist Dr. Jill Stein. We'll also hear from YNPRC and Dr. Eric Amos. Keeping animals out of laboratories is important to which groups or people?

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Chinese scientists have developed a new type of liquid battery, powered by odorless, colorless ceramic particles fired by "pure" solar power. If they can scale up their technology to create a standard-size battery, it could become the largest rechargeable battery known to man.

Known as a Volta Battery, they use nanoparticles to make simultaneous primaries, meaning that they can either make a captured photon of light into an electrical charge or capture remote particles of light and make that charge electrically charged in turn.

The battery uses a graphite sponge that could be printed on the bottom of a bottle of Coke or a top layer of spaghetti to store the super-large connections. In principle, depending on how the brain perceives different colors, the battery could make it possible to charge a phone with a limited quantity of fossil fuel while powering lights.

"Using a capacitor, you can charge a battery by recharging it, but to do that you need to keep it going for a certain time, and that's why we needed these superviolet physicists," said Yichang Zhang of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, who helped first develop the battery.

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