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RedMagic Astra Gaming Tablet launches globally, starts from €469/$469
RedMagic’s Tablet 3 Pro launched in China last month, and it’s now ready to take on global markets. Now called the RedMagic Astra Gaming Tablet, this is every bit the compact tablet beast that its Chinese counterpart is.
The tablet is built around a 9.06-inch display with uniform 4.9mm bezels. The panel is outstanding – 1504x2400px 16:10 aspect LTPO OLED unit with a max refresh rate of 165Hz, HDR, PWM dimming, and a peak brightness of 1,600 nits.
The Astra Gaming Tablet has stereo speakers and dual haptic drivers for true media and gaming immersion!
RedMagic Astra Gaming TabletThe Astra Gaming Tablet has the premier Android SoC in the Snapdragon 8 Elite with advanced cooling leading heat away from the chip that uses actual liquid metal, a large vapor chamber and an active cooling fan. RedMagic says all of those advancements combine for an 8°C temperature reduction.
Snapdragon 8 Elite and both active and passive coolingInside is an 8,200mAh battery with support for 80W charging and a claimed 0%-50% in just 20 minutes. The USB-C port is a USB 3.2 Gen 2 and can drive external displays up to 8K at 60Hz. Dropping the resolution to 4K enables refresh rates up to 144Hz.
The RedMagic Astra Gaming Tablet comes in two colors – Black (12/256GB, 16/512GB, 24GB/1TB), and Silver (12/256GB, 16/512GB) – and will begin selling on July 16 at a MSRP of $499/€499/£439.
However, there’s an Early Bird Voucher between July 10 and July 15, which slashes the base price to $469/€469/£409. Early Bird buyers will get a complimentary pair of RedMagic gaming finger sleeves and the 80W charger (which doesn’t come as standard in the box).
The Astra Gaming Tablet is coming to North America, Europe, the UK, Asia Pacific, and the Gulf Cooperation countries.
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Bob Vylan rejects criticism, says group targeted for speaking on Gaza at Glastonbury
LONDON — Rap-punk duo Bob Vylan on Tuesday rejected claims of antisemitism over onstage comments at the Glastonbury Festival that triggered a police investigation and sparked criticism from politicians, the BBC and festival organizers.
The band said in a statement that it was being “targeted for speaking up” about the war in Gaza.
Police are investigating whether a crime was committed when frontman Bob Vylan led the audience in chants of “Death to the IDF” — the Israel Defense Forces — during the band’s set at the festival in southwest England on Saturday.
The British government called the chants “appalling hate speech” and the BBC said it regretted livestreaming the “antisemitic sentiments.” U.S. authorities revoked the musicians’ visas.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has inflamed tensions around the world, triggering pro-Palestinian protests in many capitals and on college campuses. Israel and some supporters have described the protests as antisemitic, while critics say Israel uses such descriptions to silence opponents.
In a statement on Instagram, Bob Vylan said: “We are not for the death of jews, arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. … A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.”
Alleging that “we are a distraction from the story,” the duo added: “We are being targeted for speaking up.”
The BBC is under pressure to explain why it did not cut the feed of the performance after the anti-IDF chants. Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said “the airing of vile Jew-hatred” by the BBC was a moment of “national shame.”
“It should trouble all decent people that now, one need only couch their outright incitement to violence and hatred as edgy political commentary, for ordinary people to not only fail to see it for what it is, but also to cheer it, chant it and celebrate it,” he wrote on X.
Avon and Somerset Police said it is investigating Bob Vylan’s performance, along with that by Irish-language hip-hop trio Kneecap, whose pro-Palestinian stance has also attracted controversy. Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been charged under Britain’s Terrorism Act with supporting a proscribed organization for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag at a concert in London last year.
Since the war began in October 2023 with a Hamas attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, Israel has killed more than 56,000 people in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
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Muqam, KP Governor express concern over governance, security, corruption in KP
Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs, Gilgit Baltistan and State and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Provincial President Engineer Amir Muqam and Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi here on Tuesday discussed the prevailing political situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
During the meeting, both leaders expressed deep concern over the lack of good governance, worsening law and order, and what they termed as record-breaking corruption under the current provincial administration.They described the present provincial government as highly detrimental to the interests of the province.
The two leaders also consulted on the Supreme Court’s recent verdict on reserved seats and its implications for the political landscape in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Issues related to Kashmir, the situation in the merged tribal districts, and the misuse of federal funds allocated for these areas by the provincial government were also discussed.
The leaders condemned what they called the provincial administration’s misappropriation of these funds and emphasized the need to address the growing concerns of the people in the merged districts.
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Herschel and Lego Collaborate on Tote Bag and Backpack Collection
Herschel Supply and Lego teamed on a new, limited-edition collection that merges visual creativity with practicality. The Herschel x Lego Collection debuts on Tuesday and will be available on Herschel’s official website and select retailers.
The collaborative collection features a series of four custom-designed Lego prints for totes, backpacks and more. With an emphasis on creativity and use of color, the prints pop against Herschel’s durable bags, adding a splash of vibrance to the popular and practical accessories.
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“This collab with Lego was natural for me, I’ve been building with those bricks since I was a kid. It’s where I first started messing around with ideas and creating just for the fun of it,” said Jamie Cormack, cofounder of Herschel Supply.
“That same energy is what we try to bring to Herschel — making stuff that sparks curiosity. So, working with Lego just felt right. It’s fun, it’s creative, it doesn’t take itself too seriously — exactly how we like it,” Cormack said.
Herschel collaborates with Lego.
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Designs from the limited-edition collection include Abstract Brick, featuring pops of red, yellow and blue, and the interactive Scavenger Hunt Meadow, which showcases softer tones and floral inspiration. Fan-favorite Herschel designs featured as part of the Lego collection include the Little America backpack, the Heritage backpack and more styles.
Along with the limited-edition collection, Herschel celebrates the collaboration and collection by teaming up with Legoland Parks, offering a limited-time giveaway for a family trip to the winner’s nearest Legoland location. The giveaway runs until Aug. 31. Participants can enter online via Herschel’s official website.
Herschel Supply debuts new, limited-edition collection in collaboration with Lego.
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Herschel expanded their collaborative endeavors over the course of the last few years. Prior to this recent, limited-edition collection with Lego, Herschel partnered with Prince on a tennis-inspired capsule in June 2022.
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Can kids identify unprocessed fruit as healthier than an ultra-processed sugar-sweetened beverage? Functional versus self-reported nutrition knowledge and dietary intake among youth from six countries: findings from the International Food Policy Study | BMC Nutrition
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Environmental Factor – July 2025: Health data collection after disasters made possible by NIH-NSF partnership
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), is supporting research to bolster the collection of time-sensitive health data in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Beryl, the Los Angeles wildfires, and other natural disasters.
The research projects are part of a larger effort by two NIH-NSF-supported research centers to understand how extreme weather affects human health, creates complex exposures to environmental hazards, and impacts access to health care and other vital services.
UCLA graduate students prepare a fixed-wing drone in Altadena, Calif. The RAPID Facility helps research teams deploy quickly to set up monitoring equipment, collect environmental samples, and survey affected populations following a disaster. (Photo courtesy of the RAPID Facility) “This collaborative effort helps fill a long-standing gap by initiating timely health studies and capturing critical health data that may otherwise be lost,” said Aubrey Miller, M.D., Senior Medical Advisor and Director of the NIH Disaster Research Response Program.
He added that disaster research has historically focused on the effectiveness of emergency responses rather than the immediate and long-term health consequences of disasters on our communities.
Supporting quick-response research
Peek says the NIH-NSF awards support the next generation of researchers and early-career scientists who are examining the link between disasters and health. (Photo courtesy of Lori Peek) The Natural Hazards Center (NHC) at the University of Colorado Boulder is one of two centers working with researchers across the U.S. on this effort. The NHC has supported rapid disaster response research on socio-behavioral impacts through its Quick Response Research Award Program for 40 years. However, the NIH-NSF partnership has provided funding to enable the center to support projects focused on the different health outcomes of these events.
“These awards are transformative,” said Lori Peek, Ph.D., director of the NHC. “We can now explore new frontiers in health and disaster research that have the potential to improve disaster response and future preparedness in immediate and life-saving ways.”
Through this effort, the NHC has provided more than $450,000 in awards to support 12 novel time-sensitive studies following disaster events between 2023 and 2025. A sample of the research projects, and the universities conducting them, follows.
- Assessing community impacts and early warnings in Nebraska tornadoes University of Nebraska Medical Center
- California wildfire smoke events: life course risk perceptions and mental health impacts
New York University - Impacts of flooding on opioid use disorder in western Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University - Longitudinal evaluation of wildfire impacts on a cohort of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)/University of Southern California - Mental health of community volunteers in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene
Appalachian State University - Transit riders’ health risks during the Los Angeles wildfires
UCLA/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Texas A&M University/California Polytechnic State University/University of Washington/Utah State University
Learn more about all projects funded under the NHC’s special call for health outcomes and disaster research by visiting this website.
Supporting rapid-research technology to understand exposures
The NIH-NSF partnership is also providing funding to the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance (RAPID) Facility at the University of Washington to enable health researchers across the U.S. to have timely access, training, and support to critical instruments for collecting information on exposures. The RAPID Facility provides researchers with uncrewed aircraft systems or drones, hyperspectral and multispectral cameras, and street view imaging to help researchers capture time-sensitive health data in response to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and other disasters.
The RAPID Facility recently played a critical role in supporting researchers studying the health effects of the Los Angeles wildfires. By providing cutting-edge technology, the RAPID Facility supported immediate, post-fire analysis to improve understanding of wildfire behavior and human exposures. The data collected could be used to conduct long-term health studies and robust environmental exposure assessments.
(Samantha Ebersold is a communications specialist in the NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison.)
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Next-gen blood test could make NHS screening programme viable
Real-world study demonstrates next-gen EpiSwitch PSE blood test safely reduces unnecessary biopsies by up to 79% while accurately detecting prostate cancer.
A real-world study published high-impact journal Cancers demonstrates the transformative potential of a next-generation prostate cancer blood test developed in the UK to accurately detect more cases of early prostate cancer, while potentially drastically reducing the cost needed to implement a UK-wide screening program.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the UK, yet there is no national screening program due to traditional testing relying on an initial prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which is not an accurate indicator of prostate cancer by itself.
Approximately 3 in 4 men with a high PSA level do not have cancer, according to Prostate Cancer Research. As a result, many healthy men undergo unnecessary medical scans, invasive procedures, and, in some cases, even overtreatment, leading to significant anxiety and burden for patients, while also straining healthcare resources.
Dr. Garrett Pohlman, MD, Urologist at Kearney Urology Center and lead author of the study said: “The results we have seen by integrating EpiSwitch PSE have been transformative. These findings show that a routine blood test can enable us to safely avoid biopsies in up to a staggering 79% of patients with an elevated PSA without compromising diagnosis. This is a major advancement that helps our patients benefit from reduced anxiety and the avoidance of unnecessary, costly medical procedures.”
By integrating EpiSwitch PSE into clinical practice, the healthcare system could achieve significant savings. The study found that among 187 patients, the PSE test potentially avoided 97 unnecessary prostate biopsies and 95 MRIs in this group alone.
This translates into an estimated cost saving of over 170,000 GBP (230,000 USD), or almost 1,000 GBP per patient, accounting for reduced subsequent procedures, MRI scans, and occasional downstream complications due to risks from prostate biopsies. Fewer MRI scans also reduce the need for substantial government investment in additional imaging infrastructure.
When expanded to the national level, the health-economic impact of incorporating PSE into a screening workflow could be substantial according to the study. In the US, the authors estimates that PSE has the potential to conservatively help avoid up to 593,000 prostate biopsies per year, with the economic benefit approaching 2 billion USD annually.
Oliver Kemp, MBE, Chief Executive Officer of UK charity Prostate Cancer Research, said: “This study shows how smarter testing can save millions while improving care for patients. Reducing unnecessary biopsies and scans means less stress for men and more capacity in the system.”
The innovation behind EpiSwitch PSE originates from a British company, Oxford BioDynamics (OBD), in collaboration with leading researchers and clinicians at the Imperial NHS Trust, Imperial College London, and the University of East Anglia.
Dr. Alexandre Akoulitchev, MA, PhD, FRSM, Chief Scientific Officer at Oxford BioDynamics, said: “This study builds on our earlier robust clinical validation work which demonstrated the application of EpiSwitch PSE as a precise, minimally invasive test that empowers clinicians and patients with clarity, reduced patient risk, and improved outcomes, while easing the pressure on the diagnostic pathway.”
Given these health and economic outcomes, Oxford BioDynamics says that EpiSwitch PSE is poised to ‘set a new standard’ and streamline prostate cancer diagnosis and management strategies in the US, where it is routinely reimbursed by Medicare, and the UK, where it is currently widely available to private patients and reimbursed by Bupa Health Insurance.
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Researchers uncover how bacteria hijack tick cells to survive and spread
Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack cellular processes in ticks to ensure their survival and spread to new hosts, including humans.
Based in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the team found that the bacteria can manipulate a protein known as ATF6, which helps cells detect and respond to infection, to support its own growth and survival inside the tick. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could serve as a launching point for developing methods to eliminate the bacteria in ticks before they are transmitted to humans and other animals.
Most research has looked at how these bacteria interact with humans and animals and not how they survive and spread in ticks. What we have found could open the door to targeting these pathogens in ticks, before they are ever a threat to people.”
Kaylee Vosbigian, doctoral student and lead author on the study
Vosbigian and her advisor, Dana Shaw, the corresponding author of the study and an associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, focused their research on Ixodes scapularis, also known as the blacklegged tick, which is responsible for spreading both Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agents of anaplasmosis and Lyme disease. Both diseases are becoming increasingly common and can cause serious illness in humans and animals.
The team discovered that when ATF6 is activated in tick cells, it triggers the production of stomatin, a protein that helps move cholesterol through cells as part of a normal cellular processes. The bacteria exploit this process against their tick hosts, using the cholesterol –which they need to grow and build their own cell membranes but cannot produce themselves – to support their own survival and success.
“Stomatin plays a variety of roles in the cell, but one of its key functions is helping shuttle cholesterol to different areas,” Vosbigian said. “The bacteria take advantage of this, essentially stealing the cholesterol they need to survive.”
When the researchers blocked the production of stomatin, restricting the availability of cholesterol, bacterial growth is significantly reduced. The researchers believe this shows targeting the ATF6-stomatin pathway could lead to new methods for interrupting the disease cycle in ticks before transmission occurs.
As part of the study, Vosbigian also developed a new research tool called ArthroQuest, a free, web-based platform hosted by WSU that allows scientists to search the genomes of ticks, mosquitoes, lice, sand flies, mites, fleas and other arthropod vectors for transcription factor binding sites – genetic switches like ATF6 that control gene activity.
“There aren’t many tools out there for studying gene regulation in arthropods,” Vosbigian said. “Most are built for humans or model species like fruit flies, which are genetically very different from ticks.”
Using ArthroQuest, the team found that ATF6-regulated control of stomatin appears to be prevalent in blood-feeding arthropods. Since the hijacking of cholesterol and other lipids is common among arthropod-borne pathogens, the researchers suspect many may also exploit ATF6.
“We know many other vector-borne pathogens, like Borrelia burgdorferi and the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium, rely on cholesterol and other lipids from their hosts,” Shaw said. “So, the fact that this ATF6-stomatin pathway exists in other arthropods could be relevant to a wide range of disease systems.”
The research was supported in part by a National Institutes of Health R01 grant and a College of Veterinary Medicine intramural seed grant.
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Washington State University
Journal reference:
Vosbigian, K. A., et al. (2025). ATF6 enables pathogen infection in ticks by inducing stomatin and altering cholesterol dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501045122.
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July 1, 2004: The Cassini-Huygens mission makes it to Saturn – Astronomy Magazine
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