Garmin's golf watch knows how hard you're swinging

Garmin has today launched a new wearable that carries a lot of the functionality you might expect from a smartwatch, but doubles as a golf tracker to offer useful insights into your game such as course maps and shot-tracking.

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Category: Sports

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Here's how to spy on an endangered condor chick in the wild

With all of the fine entertainment now on TV, you'd think that watching a baby condor go about its business on a remote mountain perch near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in California wouldn't be that captivating. But somehow it is. Thanks to a livestream video from the Cornell Lab Bird Cams Project, you can check up on the little bird with big feet whenever you want and, if you're lucky, you can even see it interact with its parents.

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Category: Biology

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Lenovo doubles down on modular with mid-ranged Moto Z2 Play

Last year Lenovo took one of the boldest and most unique approaches to smartphones to date with the Moto Z series. A regular smartphone in most respects, the phones also added a connector that allows you to snap on modular backplates to customize and accessorize your handset. Today the company announced the 2nd-gen version of the budget Moto Z series, the Moto Z2 Play.

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Category: Mobile Technology

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Customized Cub built to transport surfer and board to the beach

While some surfers might trundle down to the beach in an old VW bus, some prefer a two-wheeled approach. Custom motorbike brand Deus ex Machine is clearly in the latter camp, having recently transformed a 1970s Honda Super Cub into a board-carrying commuter called the Sea Sider.

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From a hobbit house to a secret bunker: The best sheds of 2017

A hobbit house, a Doctor Who-style Tardis, a secret underground bunker, and a flight simulator all feature in the 2017 Cuprinol Shed of the Year. The competition highlights the cream of the British shed scene and this year's finalists are made up of 32 weird, wacky, and ingenious sheds made by passionate hobbyists.

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Concept bikes & cafe racers star at Concorso di Motociclette Villa d’Este 2017

The organizing committee and judges at Concorso di Motociclette Villa d'Este are a breed apart, often conjuring new classes for the elite motorcycle beauty pageant from areas where most concours organizers fear to tread. This year the eccentric category choices all offered an opportunity to celebrate different aspects of transportation heritage.

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World's first commercial CO2 capture plant pipes greenhouse emissions to a greenhouse

Last year, the Paris Agreement saw almost 200 countries pledge to cut greenhouse emissions, in order to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2° C (3.6° F) above pre-industrial levels, before the end of the century. But just curbing the rise in emissions won't be enough – technologies that actively pull more CO2 out of the atmosphere will also be vital. To that end, a new CO2-filtering plant has just opened up near Zurich.

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