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  • Forget Insta360 X5, Amazon Is Selling X4 360° Camera at a Loss for Prime Day

    Forget Insta360 X5, Amazon Is Selling X4 360° Camera at a Loss for Prime Day

    The Insta360 X5 may have just launched at $549, the popularity of last generation’s Insta360 X4 shows no signs of slowing down – and it’s more affordable than ever now.

    This Prime Day, the X4 model has hit an all-time low through a $75 coupon that reduces the overall price to just $349, down from $499. This is the best deal that has ever been offered on the X4, and it is now the best choice for anyone who wants to record 360° video on a budget over the new model. Interestingly, this offer is open to all shoppers and not just Prime members.

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    8K Resolution

    The Insta360 camera records immersive 360° footage at a stunning 8K resolution which is an upgrade for any user who wants to record every angle with incredible detail. It also records at 5.7K60fps for action sequences that are even smoother and the Active HDR mode ensures your video is colorful and color-accurate even in challenging light or high-speed situations.

    Don’t stress about attempting to frame your shots perfectly in the moment: just shoot, then reframe your video later using the AI-powered Insta360 app. Having this freedom means you can concentrate on enjoying your experience knowing that you can achieve the perfect shot later. The signature Invisible Selfie Stick effect is another standout feature, and proivides your videos with a distinctive third-person viewpoint that appears to be shot using a drone or a pro crew.

    The X4 isn’t limited to 360° video: It can double as a wide-angle action camera, shooting 4K at 60fps or ultra-wide 170° 4K30fps video. That makes it ideal for everything from action sports to travel vlogging. Thanks to FlowState Stabilization and 360° Horizon Lock, your video is smooth and level even in the middle of intense motion or rough handling.

    The rugged build is designed to survive bumps, drops and harsh environments with newly enhanced removable lens guards that are easy to install and remove. The camera is waterproof to 33 feet (10 meters) without a dive case and can function in temperatures as low as -4ºF (-20ºC) so it’s ready for any adventure. And for the ultimate thrill seekers, the X4 is capable of going as deep as 164 feet (60 meters) with the Invisible Dive Case.

    Battery life is remarkable with the new 2290mAh battery lasting up to 135 minutes of recording on a single charge which is a 67% increase from the previous X3 model. With fast charging support, you’ll spend less time waiting and more time recording. The incredibly bright 2.5-inch Gorilla Glass touchscreen is both rugged and simple to use, and gives you full control of your settings and playback,.

    If you’re looking for the best 360° camera deal this Prime Day, the Insta360 X4 at $349 is simply unbeatable.

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  • 10 best weapons to use in Death Stranding 2 | Esports News

    10 best weapons to use in Death Stranding 2 | Esports News

    In Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, survival is about more than just connecting the world; it’s about defending yourself across brutal terrain, haunting BT zones, and chaotic enemy ambushes. Whether you’re fighting monsters, machines, or humans, the right weapon can mean the difference between a smooth delivery and a game over. Here’s a breakdown of the 10 best weapons you’ll want in your loadout.

    1. Anti-BT Handgun

    This blood-powered sidearm is your best friend in early BT encounters. It’s compact, quick to draw, and effective when things get too close for comfort. Don’t underestimate its power, especially when upgraded with hematic rounds.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmeU8NpS2c

    2. Blood Grenade v2

    More damage, tighter radius, and less waste. These grenades are crafted from Sam’s blood, and version 2 delivers serious punishment to BTs. If you hear the eerie whispers of a BT nearby—pull the pin and aim fast.

    3. Bola Gun Mk III

    It started as a non-lethal tool, but the third-gen Bola Gun is a beast. It now delivers an EMP shock to immobilize mechs, while still binding human enemies. In close-combat stealth missions, nothing works better.

    4. Strand Blade

    A spectral melee weapon made for silent takedowns. The Strand Blade lets you dispatch BTs with a single, stealthy slash—and it also works on humans if things get personal. It’s sleek, deadly, and practically silent.

    5. LW Shotgun [Multi-Purpose] Lv2

    Think of this as your panic button. Whether you’re storming a mule camp or a mech shows up uninvited, this shotgun is raw destruction. Paired with a grenade launcher, it wipes out anything stupid enough to get too close.

    6. SL-LW Assault Rifle [Silenced] Lv2

    Versatile, silent, and devastating—this is your go-to for everything. It’s got multi-mode fire, a suppressor, and even a grenade launcher. It handles both stealth kills and firefights with equal finesse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJZTtQN2Ng

    7. Tranq Sniper Rifle [SL Model]

    If you like playing the long game, this is your tool. Take out helmets, guards, or scouts from afar without triggering alarms. Perfect for clearing enemy camps quietly before slipping in to loot.

    8. Ghost Bombs

    A mysterious new addition in DS2, Ghost Bombs temporarily trap BTs in a voidspace. It’s not about damage—it’s about time. Buy yourself a few seconds, reposition, or make a clean getaway.

    9. Sticky Gun v2

    Originally used for cargo recovery, this upgraded version works wonders in combat. Yank guns out of enemy hands or even pull shields off mechs. Tactical, fun, and wildly underrated.

    10. Blood Boomerang

    It’s flashy, effective, and insanely satisfying. Infused with your own blood, this returning weapon does double duty: stealth kills for BTs and staggering impact against humans. Style points included.No single weapon will save you in Death Stranding 2. Always carry a mix based on the mission and enemy type. And keep your blood bags full—trust us, you’ll need them.


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  • Lucy Provides Full View of Main-Belt Asteroid Donaldjohanson

    Lucy Provides Full View of Main-Belt Asteroid Donaldjohanson

    NASA’s Lucy mission continues to analyze images collected during the spacecraft’s April 20, 2025 encounter with the carbonaceous asteroid Donaldjohanson.

    Donaldjohanson as seen by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft from a range of about 2,700 km (1,700 miles), about 3.2 minutes before closest approach on April 20, 2025. The illumination conditions, with the Sun almost behind Lucy, greatly reduce the contrast of topographic details. Image credit: NASA / Goddard / SwRI / Johns Hopkins APL.

    Donaldjohanson is located in the inner regions of Solar System’s main asteroid belt.

    This asteroid was first discovered on March 2, 1981, by the American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory.

    On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a close flyby of Donaldjohanson, coming within 960 km (600 miles) of its surface.

    The encounter confirmed that the asteroid is an elongated contact binary — an object formed when two smaller bodies collide.

    However, members of the Lucy team were surprised by the odd shape of the narrow neck connecting the two lobes, which looks like two nested ice cream cones.

    A stereo image pair combining the last complete approach image (right) with a slightly clipped image taken 72 seconds later (left). For a three-dimensional view of the asteroid’s structure, cross your eyes while focusing on the image. Image credit: NASA / Goddard / SwRI / Johns Hopkins APL / Brian May / Claudia Manzoni.

    A stereo image pair combining the last complete approach image (right) with a slightly clipped image taken 72 seconds later (left). For a three-dimensional view of the asteroid’s structure, cross your eyes while focusing on the image. Image credit: NASA / Goddard / SwRI / Johns Hopkins APL / Brian May / Claudia Manzoni.

    “The newly-released images were taken by the spacecraft’s L’LORRI imager a few minutes before its closest approach,” the researchers wrote in a statement.

    “This successful dress rehearsal gives the team high confidence that both the spacecraft and our team are well prepared for the main events: the upcoming encounters with the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.”

    “The spacecraft itself is now in a relatively quiet cruise period as it continues traveling through the main asteroid belt.”

    “Lucy is heading away from the Sun at more than 50,000 km per hour (30,000 mph).”

    “We will keep monitoring the spacecraft as it moves toward the cooler and dimmer outer Solar System.”

    “Once Lucy reaches the Trojan asteroids, it will conduct four encounters, observing at least six asteroids — including two satellites discovered by our team — in less than 15 months.”

    “The first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027.”

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  • Planetary Science at NASA – NASA Science

    Planetary Science at NASA – NASA Science

    Exploring our solar system to understand its origins and evolution.

    At NASA, uncovering the mysteries of our solar system’s origins and evolution – including the search for signs of habitability on other words – drives our planetary science missions.

    Through robotic exploration of other planets and small bodies, our instruments and observations are able to peel back the layers of history to discover the foundations of our solar system and understand the processes of evolution that led us to the current formation.

    This knowledge also informs our observations of exoplanets and distant galaxies in NASA’s astrophysics studies. And, observing the movement of small bodies such as asteroids is crucial to enabling our planetary defense against potential impacts (note: none is currently of concern).

    The direction of NASA planetary science comes primarily from the scientific community in large reports produced very 10 years by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). These decadal surveys look at key science questions and how data from NASA missions past, current, and future can help answer them. The current decadal survey is “Origins, Worlds, and Life: Planetary Science and Astrobiology in the Next Decade, 2023-2032.”

    Additional mission guidance is provided by executive branch priorities and congressional appropriations.

    artist's rendering of the Europa Clipper spacecraft with Europa and Jupiter in the background

    Europa Clipper

    NASA’s first mission to conduct a detailed science investigation of Jupiter’s moon Europa, it will search for signs of habitability in the vast, salty ocean that lies beneath Europa’s icy crust. (Launched October 2024)

    Psyche

    The Psyche spacecraft is traveling to the main asteroid belt to study a unique, metal-rich asteroid of the same name, which may be the partial core of a planetesimal. (Launched October 2023)

    image of the Lucy spacecraft flying by an asteroid

    Lucy

    On its way to the Trojan asteroids that orbit the Sun with Jupiter, Lucy already has made extraordinary asteroid encounters in the main asteroid belt with Dinkinesh and Donaldjohanson. (Launched October 2021)

    NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” which has features that may bear on the question of whether the Red Planet was long ago home to microscopic life, is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.

    Perseverance Rover

    Perseverance studies the geology of Mars and seeks signs of microbial life, while it collects samples of rock and surface material in and around Jezero Crater. Its companion helicopter Ingenuity was the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet. (Launched July 2020)

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  • Overcoming the Traps that Prevent Growth in Uncertain Times

    Overcoming the Traps that Prevent Growth in Uncertain Times

    An executive’s guide on developing a momentum-building game plan when the future is foggy. by Rachel DuRose

    July 7, 2025

    Today, with uncertainty a seemingly permanent condition, executives need to weave adaptability, resilience, and clarity into their operating plans. The best executives will implement strategies that don’t just sustain their businesses; they enable growth.


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  • Research Challenges Male Dominance in Primates

    Research Challenges Male Dominance in Primates

    While knowledge of the female dominance spectrum among certain primate species dates back to the 1960s, research precisely quantifying the degree of one gender’s dominance over the other was lacking. A team of scientists collected data from 253 populations representing 121 primate species in order to study confrontations between males and females. It also analysed the contexts in which one or the other tend to dominate.

    Scientists then tested five evolutionary hypotheses to better understand these power relations. Females tend to dominate in species [3] where they have strong control over their reproduction. Their dominance is also more frequent in societies marked by strong competition among females, or when gender confrontation involves fewer risks for smaller members. Conversely, male dominance is especially present in species [4] where they have clear physical superiority over females.

    These results show that there is no single model for explaining power relations in primate societies, thereby offering new avenues for grasping the evolution of gender roles in early human societies.

    1 – In lemurs, females often dominate. In baboons and chimpanzees, males occupy the top of the hierarchy. In other species such as bonobos and many South American monkeys, the situation is more balanced, with females winning, on average, 40 to 80% of intersexual conflicts, depending on the population.

    2 – Working at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (CNRS/IRD/University of Montpellier).

    3 – This refers to monogamous, arboreal species in which males and females are of similar size.

    4 – This refers to polygynous, terrestrial species and/or those living in groups.

    /Public Release. This material from the originating organization/author(s) might be of the point-in-time nature, and edited for clarity, style and length. Mirage.News does not take institutional positions or sides, and all views, positions, and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s).View in full here.

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  • Yemen strongly pounds Israel with missiles and drones

    Yemen strongly pounds Israel with missiles and drones

    TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s aggression against Yemen prompts a surprisingly widespread retaliation.

    Spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that Yemen’s missile and drone units carried out a joint, high-level military operation using eleven missiles and drones.

    Saree confirmed that all missiles and drones successfully reached their intended targets, while enemy interception systems failed to stop them.

    He added that the missile and drone forces targeted the power station “in the occupied Ashkelon” area with a hypersonic ballistic missile.

    Additionally, they struck the Port of “Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat)” with eight drones.

    The operation also included targeting Ben Gurion Airport with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile, and the Port of Ashdod with another hypersonic missile.

    Following this operation and for the second consecutive day, Yemeni missile and UAV forces targeted a ship which belonged to a company “that violated the entry ban to the ports of occupied Palestine, with two unmanned boats, five ballistic and cruise missiles, and three drones.”

    According to Saree, the ship (Magic Seas) sustained a direct hit, water leaked into it, and it is now at risk of sinking.

    “Our forces allowed the crew to safely disembark,” he noted.

    “The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not hesitate to use appropriate force to prevent any ship belonging to companies that deal with the Zionist enemy and violate the ban on access to the ports of occupied Palestine.”

    “The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not hesitate to use appropriate force to prevent any ship belonging to companies that deal with the Zionist enemy and violate the ban on access to the ports of occupied Palestine.”

    Saree warned, “Our operations will continue to target the depth of the Israeli entity in occupied Palestine, as well as to prevent Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas and to disrupt Umm al-Rashrash port (Eilat), until the aggression against Gaza stops and the blockade is lifted.”

    In yet another operation earlier on Monday, the Israeli military reported detecting two missiles launched from Yemen, triggering sirens in multiple regions. Alarms were also heard around the Dead Sea and to its west.

    The occupation regime’s Home Front Command confirmed the launch, and its military stated: “We attempted to intercept two missiles launched from Yemen, and we are currently reviewing the results.”

    According to the flight tracking website FlightRadar, departures and arrivals at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv were temporarily suspended following the missile launches from Yemen.

    Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarallah movement reaffirmed its continued missile strikes and issued a stark warning: “Anyone who attacks Gaza and Yemen will not sleep.”

    Nassreddin Amer, a senior Ansarallah official stated that the Israeli regime’s aggression has not, and will not, succeed in halting Yemen’s strikes deep into the occupied territories.

    He emphasized that “not a single ship will pass through the operational zone of our armed forces.”

    “Zionists should head to shelters, those who assault Gaza and Yemen will know no rest.”

    In a post on social media, Amer declared: “Zionists should head to shelters, those who assault Gaza and Yemen will know no rest.”

    He added, “Gaza is not alone, and Yemen will not remain silent in the face of injustice,” stressing that Yemen’s support for Gaza will continue until the genocide ends and the blockade is lifted.

    The escalation came just hours after Israeli occupation regime targeted several Yemeni ports, including the key port of Hodeidah. The attacks consisted of approximately 20 air raids, struck Hodeidah as well as the ports of As-Salif and Ras Issa, in addition to a power station in Ras Kathib.

    The Yemeni Air Force responded forcefully to the assault. Saree declared that Yemen’s air defenses effectively repelled the aggression, forcing a significant portion of the attacking aircraft to retreat.

    He said the defense relied on a large salvo of domestically produced surface-to-air missiles, causing severe confusion among Israeli pilots and command centers.

    Military sources told regional media that Yemeni air defenses thwarted much of the occupation regime’s attack during the first wave of missile launches, forcing ten enemy warplanes to flee before they could complete their missions.

    The sources added that the regime’s aircraft withdrew from Hodeidah’s airspace after being intercepted and were unable to penetrate further into Yemeni territory.

    Reports indicate that the aerial confrontation between the Yemeni Air Force and the Israeli occupation regime’s jets lasted for over 30 minutes over the Red Sea.

    Israeli regime media reported that one of the targets was the Galaxy Leader, a ship seized by Yemeni forces two years ago. They said dozens of bombs were dropped on Yemen during the assault. The same ports had reportedly been targeted three times previously.

    However, Saree emphasized that Yemen successfully countered the Israeli occupation regime’s aggression and thwarted its objectives, stating, “We forced the enemy to leave the airspace using domestically manufactured surface-to-air missiles.”

    “Our air defense succeeded in confronting the Zionist aggression against our country and thwarting its plan to target several Yemeni cities.”

    He added, “Our air defense succeeded in confronting the Zionist aggression against our country and thwarting its plan to target several Yemeni cities.”

    This, he said, was achieved “by forcing a number of combat formations participating in the aggression to leave the airspace, preventing them from launching raids.”

    The defensive measures were carried out with several locally manufactured surface-to-air missiles.

    “The criminal enemy will realize that the aggression against  beloved Yemen will cost it dearly and will only push the Yemenis toward greater steadfastness and perseverance, and to more supportive operations for the oppressed Palestinian people,” a government statement read.

    “We are fully prepared for a sustained and prolonged confrontation, to confront hostile warplanes, and to counter attempts to break the naval blockade imposed by our armed forces on the enemy, in triumphing for our people in Gaza,” the statement added.

    On Sunday, Ansarallah leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi reiterated Yemen’s unwavering commitment to Palestine. He declared that supporting the Palestinian cause is a non-negotiable stance and affirmed Yemen’s alignment with the Axis of Resistance in confronting the “U.S.-Israeli project” in the region.

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  • Patterns of US citizenship status vs. diet quality among adults of African descent | BMC Nutrition

    Patterns of US citizenship status vs. diet quality among adults of African descent | BMC Nutrition

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