The Sub-$200 Cobra 490i Radar Detector Gave Me Plenty of Warning—But Comes With Some Trade-Offs
If you can deal with some false alerts and a basic display, this delivers great value for the price.

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If you can deal with some false alerts and a basic display, this delivers great value for the price.

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Our tests showed this blower's battery lasted longer than some of the competition.

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AI won’t just mimic human thought. It could access a “universal” source that exists all around us, he says.

Mechanical keys, RGB lighting, and a full-split layout make it a winner.

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The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, the Great Galveston Hurricane claimed as many as 12,000 lives.

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Many of the solidi were struck in Anatolia, thousands of miles east. No known crisis explains the burial.

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Although organs broadly age at different times and at different rates, your body undergoes rapid “biphasic” aging in your late 30s and late 50s.

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Trackers no bigger than a breath mint are telling us where birds are really going.

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Scientists say 15,000-year-old engravings prove humans reached the Emerald Isle far earlier than thought via a lost land bridge.

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The false door inside was meant for the soul to enter and leave the afterlife at will.

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A life without pain seems miraculous. But denying this hallmark of human existence could come with its own set of challenges.

This cordless blower’s controllable power makes quick work of heavy leaf cleanup.

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These vacs are rechargeable, come with multiple attachments, and can also blow air for detailed cleaning.

Go big, for big leaf blowing jobs.

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Holy manuscripts preserved the genome of a plague that wiped out up to 90% of Europe’s historical sheep herds.

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The stone carving could be thousands of years old, possibly from the Bronze Age.
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A portable scanner allowed scientists to decipher messages no human has seen in four millennia.

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A continental mash-up some 750 to 550 million years ago was likely essential for complex life to emerge during the Cambrian Explosion.

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Bronze Age China couldn’t smelt iron, making the Sanxingdui relic a truly celestial oddity.

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He invented a science, spied in the Balkans, and smuggled guns. Then history erased his name.

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