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When utilized to its full potential, cryptocurrency trading can create life-changing amounts of money, and one 21-year-old has achieved that and has started a podcast to talk about his story.

John Briant, a 21-year-old cryptocurrency trader, has spent multiple years trading cryptocurrency, and during the podcast posted to the "Heinous Pumps" YouTube channel, Briant explains that he has been in the crypto space since 2017 and began investing when he was around 18 years old. Briant has since grown his portfolio into the millions, and throughout, has created a large community of tens of thousands of traders that follow him in his free Discord server and on his personal Twitter account.

During the podcast, Briant discusses his perspective on the market as a whole and says that it's likely that the price of Bitcoin, and alt-coins has not reached its full peak. "People ask me, how I learn and where I learn my sh*t, a lot of it I don't have any specific place, it's just being in the space for as long as I've been in the space you're able to identify and see things that you people cannot. For example, I know that this is not the same feeling that the market had back in 2017 when it was going absolutely berserk and then started tanking."

Hideo Kojima is now living his dreams six years after splitting up with Konami.

Much to the delight of Hideo Kojima, his Kojima Productions company is now branching off into films, TV shows, and music. A new subsidiary has been established in Los Angeles, California that will oversee the production of non-gaming multimedia that ranges from movies, shows, and even soundtracks--basically everything that Hideo Kojima adores.

"Our new division will take the studio into even more areas that present our creative narratives beyond videogames and to open up ways for our fans to communicate and immerse themselves in these spaces," Kojima Productions' Yoshiko Fukuda said about the new studio.

Like Tencent, Epic Games is slowly but surely taking over the gaming world to fuel its metaverse ambitions.

Epic Games just purchased Harmonix, the makers of Rock Band and Dance Central, for an undisclosed sum. Harmonix plans to make new musical events for Fortnite while also supporting existing and current games like Rock Band 4, which is set to release a bunch of new tracks throughout 2022, and its most recent game Fuser. Epic also says that no Harmonix games will be removed from competing storefronts like Steam and older games won't be delisted.

Harmonix is the sixth major acquisition that Epic Games has made in 2021 and follows buyouts like RAD Game Tools, the makers of the games industry's most widely-used compression technology, and portfolio website ArtStation which hosts millions of pieces of art across multiple disciplines.

Brown dwarfs are massive stellar objects that fit in between planets and stars, and one has been identified with a large amount of lithium.

Brown dwarfs are not massive enough to burn hydrogen, which other stars burn, allowing them to shine in the night sky. For this reason, astronomers did not detect brown dwarfs until 1995. Since then, they have been identified in binary systems, and their masses have been determined using Kepler's laws.

The laws are formulae that describe the movement of astronomical bodies subjected to each other's gravity. Some bodies in these systems have been calculated to be massive enough to burn lithium, while their counterparts have been too small to do so.

Using signals broadcasted by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, researchers have developed a way to locate a position on Earth, similar to GPS.

With signals from six satellites, the researchers pinpointed a location within 8 meters of accuracy here on Earth. The researchers did not require any assistance from SpaceX, nor did they have any access to the data any satellites were transmitting, only information relating to the location and trajectory of the satellites. The research team was based out of the University of California-Irvine (UCI) in partnership with the Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal Assured Navigation (CARMEN), a multi-institution transportation center housed at The Ohio State University.

Continuing the early Black Friday sales on Amazon, Sony's range of excellent noise-canceling headphones are now up for grabs for a sizeable discount.

Sony's WH-1000XM4, WF-1000XM4, and WH-XB910N models are available in multiple color options. The WH-1000XM4 is Sony's best over-ear consumer headphones, sporting world-class active noise cancellation, with scalable transparency to choose how much of your surroundings you want to hear.

The WF-1000XM4, as the model name might imply, is the in-ear counterpart to the WH-1000XM4. They share the same brilliant active noise cancellation technology in a different form but with a similar aesthetic design with color choices and accent styling.

In a new study published in Nature, researchers have synthesized a new form of ultrahard carbon glass.

This new form of glass is the hardest known and has the highest thermal conductivity of all glass materials. The properties of a material are a consequence of its arrangement at an atomic level. Carbon atoms can combine in many configurations, separated into two categories: crystalline, forming ordered and repeating lattice structures, or amorphous, which are seemingly more random and disorganized.

The chemical bonds holding the atoms together determine the hardness of any given carbon material, with two-dimensional bonds leading to softer materials like graphite and three-dimensional bonds leading to harder materials like a diamond.

Fitbit is taking advantage of Black Friday sales on Amazon, listing multiple different Fitbit models for discounts of up to 40% off.

The Sense is the most expensive offering, typically $299.95, but has been discounted by 33% to bring it down to $199.95. It includes features missing from the Versa 3, the next most expensive offering, such as an ECG sensor for heart health, a skin temperature sensor, and a sensor to help monitor stress.

Fitbit's Versa 3 forgoes these features but still includes SpO2 measurement capability, GPS, a larger square screen than other models, and everything else you'd expect from a well-rounded fitness tracker.

On November 21st, 2021 (Sol 268 of the Perseverance rover mission), Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, made its 16th successful flight across the planet's surface, titled "Short Hop to the North."

Flight 16 was a 109-second flight, where Ingenuity climbed to 33 feet (10 meters), flew over the "Raised Ridges" at 3 miles per hour (almost 5 kilometers per hour), and landed near the edge of "South Seitah." This journey spanned 380 feet (116 meters) as the craft flew northeast.

Using a Return-to-Earth (RTE) camera oriented southwest, opposite to the flight path, NASA aimed to capture nine color images evenly spaced throughout the flight. Only four black and white photos have currently been posted, with color versions due to come in a later downlink.

NGC 2024, or the Flame Nebula, is a large star-forming region that makes up part of the Orion constellation and resides roughly 1,400 light-years away from Earth.

Besides the Flame Nebula, the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex houses other famous nebulae, including the Horsehead Nebula and Orion Nebula. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) studied the Flame Nebula, looking for protoplanetary disks, or "proplyds." These disks are masses of gas and dust surrounding stars that could eventually grow into a new solar system.

Hubble has confirmed four proplyds within the nebula and four potential proplyds. However, these proplyds are being steadily worn away due to intense radiation from nearby stars. Consequently, these proplyds may never form planets.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been orbiting the Sun since its launch on August 12th, 2018, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Now, it's broken records for the fastest human-made object and the closest distance a spacecraft has come to the Sun. On November 21st, 2021, the probe reached speeds of 364,660 miles per hour (586,864 kilometers per hour), shattering its previous record of 330,000 miles per hour (531,083 kilometers per hour) on April 29th, 2021.

On both occasions, the probe was at the perihelion, the point where it comes closest to the Sun along its orbiting path. The latest close approach is part of the probe's tenth orbit, and it reached the perihelion at 4:25 a.m. EST (8:25 UTC). The distance from the solar surface at this point was 5.3 million miles (8.5 million kilometers), breaking the record for the closest a spacecraft has come to the Sun.

Black Friday is almost here and to get the hype for the deal-madness moving Amazon has announced a slew of early deals on a select range of gaming monitors.

Christmas is around the corner and if you were thinking about upgrading your setup with a new gaming monitor or are in need of a gift for your gamer friend, now might be the time to pick up that monitor. Amazon has slashed prices across a variety of Sceptre monitors, with discounting of up to 22% on 22-inch, 24-inch, 25-inch, and 27-inch displays.

The monitors that are discounted aren't high-end displays, and are great solutions if you were looking to get a low-end to mid-range monitor. In the entirety of this article you will find the list of the best Sceptre monitor deals you can find on Amazon. A personal recommendation would the Sceptre 25" 1920 x 1080p @ 165Hz with 1ms response time for just $179.97.

If you are a gamer, or know of a gamer that is in need of an upgrade, you might want to check out Amazon's early Black Friday deals for Razer products.

Razer is a staple brand in the gaming industry, as the company makes products such a gaming mice, headsets, microphones, mouse pads, keyboards and even cameras. With Christmas around the corner now might be the perfect time to grab that gift for your gamer friend, and Amazon has your back when it comes getting it cheap.

A part of Amazon's Early Black Friday deals, the online retailer has slashed prices across its range of Razer products. Razer headsets such as the BlackShark V2 X are 42% off, the Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse is 60% off and the Basilisk X Hyperspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse is 42% off. Those are just some of the products discounted. Below you will find some of the best deals Amazon has on offer. Happy shopping!

NASA has taken to the official Twitter account for its newest Mars rover to announce that Perseverance has sealed its fifth sample tube.

On November 17, the Perseverance Twitter account revealed that NASA's Mars rover captured its third sample of Martian soil that was loaded with the "greenish mineral olivine". While NASA scientists are able to identify which mineral Perseverance has collected, it's still a mystery how it got there in the first place, as the Tweet reads, "there are several ideas among my science team about how it got there. Hypotheses are flying!".

Now, Perseverance has collected another sample from the same rock, "A rock so nice, I sampled it twice! Just capped and sealed my fifth sample tube, with another piece from this interesting rock". The Perseverance team explains that the rover is doubling up on samples on "high priority targets", which suggests that this rock and others like it are deemed high-priority targets. We will have to wait for an update from NASA about how the greenish mineral got there.

NASA and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope has photographed "The Running Man" and shock waves of colliding gases.

NASA has taken to its blog to explain how the Hubble Space Telescope witnesses a shock wave of colliding gases in a nebula. Hubble snapped the above image of the Running Man Nebula, that's located 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. This image is of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45, and according to NASA, "Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely seen type of nebula that occurs when hot gas ejected by a newborn star collides with the gas and dust around it at hundreds of miles per second, creating bright shock waves".

NASA continues to explain that the blue color seen throughout the image represents ionized oxygen (O II), and purple indicates ionized magnesium (Mg II). The nebula seen in the image is called NGC 1977 and is one of three that comprise The Running Man. NGC 1977 is a reflection nebula, which means it doesn't emit its own light and only reflects light from neighboring stars, much like a "streetlight illuminating fog", according to NASA. If you are interested in learning more about The Running Man, check out this link here.

NASA has taken to its YouTube channel to post a video answering the question, "What's the Difference Between Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors?".

Space can be quite confusing to those that aren't knowledgeable in the terminology used and what names define certain celestial objects. To make it easier for everyone to understand, NASA created an awesome series called "We Asked A NASA Expert", and this series includes answering some of the most popular questions about space in short, quick videos. In this week's episode, NASA scientist Ryan Park explains the differences between asteroids, comets, and meteors.

According to Ryan Park, a NASA near-Earth asteroid expert, an asteroid is primarily rocky, and most of them can be found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids come in a variety of sizes and shapes, and when observing an asteroid through a telescope, it appears as a point of light. Park explains that comets, like asteroids, orbit the Sun but are composed of ice and dust. When a comet gets close to the Sun, its ice and dust contents begin to vaporize, which gives off that iconic "tail" when viewing one through a telescope.

NASA recently launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission on the back of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

For those not updated with the goal of the mission, NASA is attempting to redirect an asteroid by colliding a vending machine-sized spacecraft into a Great Pyramid of Giza-sized asteroid. The space agency is aiming the spacecraft at an asteroid that is orbiting a larger companion asteroid. As previously stated, the goal of the mission is to see if the spacecraft can change the orbit of the asteroid, and with the results, NASA will be able to know if this form of redirection is a possible solution if an asteroid that's on a trajectory with Earth is found.

DART launched on the back of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and overall the launch was a success. SpaceX has taken to its official Twitter account to post three images of the launch, and while the images posted to the Twitter account are low-resolution, the company has uploaded HD versions to its Flickr account. If you are interested in learning more about the DART mission, check out some of the links below.

GPU shipments are a bit funny right now and we all know it, with analyst firm JPR (Jon Peddie Research) posting a new report that details the global GPU market has hit a milestone of 101 million units in Q3 2021 alone.

JPR also notes that GPU shipments increased by 9% year-over-year while discrete GPU numbers inside of PCs is expected to hit 31% over the next 5 years leading up to 3.24 billion GPUs by the end of 2025. AMD had its GPU market share increase by 1.4% in the three-month period, while NVIDIA GPU market share increased by 4.86% in the same quarter.

AMD GPU shipments dropped by a decent chunk, by 11.4% in Q3 2021 while NVIDIA had its GPU shipments increased by 8% for the quarter. The latest numbers have AMD with 17% of the discrete GPU shipment market share, and NVIDIA with 83% of the dGPU shipment market share.

Fortnite's current Chapter 2 feels like it has been going on forever, with developer Epic Games set to unleash Fortnite Chapter 3 in just over a week from now.

The above teaser trailer to Fortnite Chapter 2 and its "The End" event teases the big reveal, where you will be battling The Cube Queen. Remember that Fortnite Chapter 2 has been with us since 2019, so it has been over 2 years in the making for Chapter 3.

We don't know exactly what to expect apart from massive changes with Fortnite Chapter 3, including a new map, with some more details from Epic Games on Fortnite Chapter 3 teased: "'The End' marks the finale of Fortnite Chapter 2. This climatic event will see players take on The Cube Queen in one last stand for the fate of the Island. Squad up with your friends and players around the world to take on the Sideways corruption. The End supports large parties of up to 16 players queued together, so bring the whole squad along. Be sure to log in early - The End playlist will be available in Fortnite 30 minutes prior to the start time for players to jump in".

OnePlus is expected to unveil a new flagship smartphone in the OnePlus 10 Pro, with some new leaked specifications to get excited over.

The new OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone will rock Qualcomm's newly-named-and-still-not-yet-announced Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SoC, along with 12GB of RAM and a 6.7-inch QHD+ display with a slick 120Hz refresh rate. Not only that, but we'll have a large 5000mAh battery and up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

We should see a 48-megapixel main sensor, 50-megapixel ultrawide sensor, and 8-megapixel 3.3x telephoto sensor on the back for cameras on the OnePlus 10 Pro smartphone. For selfies, OnePlus is reportedly deploying a high-end 32-megapixel sensor for those super-sharp selfies.