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What Kim's Watching January 24, 2020
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Inside video game development and the countryâs No. 1 ranked college program
Video games aren't just a pastime anymore. Game sales hit nearly $150 billion last year, and the biggest Esports events paid out more than $211 million in prize money in 2019. In short, the industry is massive and it's only getting bigger. Meet Michael Zyda, a professor who built the country's No. 1 ranked video game program at the University of Southern California. Kim and Michael chat about the industry and what's coming next.
Facebook, YouTube and Instagram have a drug problem
If you know where to look, the things you can find for sale on social media sites is shocking. Add illegal drugs to the list. Drug dealers are aggressively marketing steroids and other drugs on sites like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter â and we canât trust Big Tech to move fast enough to stop it.
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The largest river on earth is in the sky
When you think of big rivers, the first ones to pop into your mind are probably the Nile or maybe the Amazon or Mississippi. Well, it turns out the biggest river in the world actually runs through the air, not the ground.
VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of Atoms
Everything we see and touch are all made out of tiny things called atoms. While that's probably common knowledge, what's not so common is truly understanding just how small they are. Someone can explain 5,000,000 atoms can fit onto the tip of a pin, but it's still hard to visualize. Thatâs why this incredible VFX artist makes things a little easier to understand.
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Smartphone deep clean: Step-by-step guide to clean your phone inside and out
One of the best parts of getting a new phone is how fresh, shiny and new it is â inside and out. The screen is scratch-free, your storage is blissfully empty and it runs like a dream. But before long, it loses its luster. Even if your phone is relatively new, it probably still needs a good cleaning. Over just a short period of time, things like cookies, location services and ad networks could start causing problems behind the scenes. They could even pose privacy and security risks.
The impossible size of deep time
Our brains are not programmed to picture overly-large images. I mean, you can imagine what 20 marbles looks like but you canât accurately picture a million. Well, we have the same problem when it comes to time. Itâs hard for us to fathom what a million or even a billion years is like. But one scientist tries to explain in a way we can all understand.
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