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Second Case of Rat Hepatitis in a Human Reported in Hong Kong
Image: AP A 70-year-old Hong Kong woman has contracted the rat-specific version of Hepatitis E, signifying only the second time the disease has been documented in humans. Health officials in China are now scrambling to understand the implications of this disturbing new development. The patient, a retiree from Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin district, was…
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CDC Convenes Task Force to Investigate Rare Illness Paralyzing Kids Across the Country
Enterovirus D68, a cousin of the polio virus, is suspected of causing acute flaccid myelitis. Image: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Yiting Zhang (CDC) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking things up a notch to investigate a mysterious polio-like disease that’s paralyzing young children. Earlier this week, the agency announced it would form a…
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How NASA Plans to Keep Its Newest Mars Lander From Crashing to Pieces
Simulation of InSight approaching MarsIllustration: NASA/JPL NASA’s newest Martian lander is slated to do groundbreaking geologic research on the Red Planet. But first, it has to touch down this coming Monday. And landing on Mars is no easy feat. Despite a string of recent NASA successes, the overall success rate for Martian landings is around…
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How to Make Siri Less Garbage by Linking It to Google Assistant
It’s a truth universally known: Google Assistant is better than SiriPhoto: Getty Images Hey Siri, how do I make you suck less? Turns out the answer is to link it to Google Assistant. A new update to Google Assistant for iOS adds support for Siri Shortcuts, so you can actually get some decent voice assistant…
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iPhone Dual SIM Support Is Reportedly Coming to Verizon in December
The iPhone XR.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) Apple’s freshly launched iPhone XR and iPhone XS lines have hardware support for dual SIM configurations, but the rollout of the feature has been a bit delayed (or in the case of AT&T, rolled back) due to issues with carriers that have not been totally sorted out yet.…
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The Germans introduced the robot for cleaning toilets
In Japan, the exhibition Robot World Summit 2018. One of the in the course of its novelties is the German robot to wash toilets. It was created by a team of engineers from the University of Koblenz-Landau. As the basis for a robot platform was used TIAGo from PAL Robotics. The robot is equipped with…
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China has replaced the most popular smartphone manufacturer
Analytical company Counterpoint has summed up the results of the third quarter of the smartphone market in China. Leader in sales of smartphones was the company Vivo. Her delivery made 21,6 million units of smartphones with a market share of 19.9%, representing an increase compared to the same quarter a year ago to 2%. Oppo…
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Figure of the day: How many devices were infected through games from Google Play?
Figure of the day: 560 000 devices contracted through the game from Google Play. Online application store Google Play has experienced one of the largest attacks in history. Security experts found the shop 13 fake games that bring when installed on a mobile device malicious code. The total number of installations of these games exceeded…
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NVIDIA gives free Battlefield V for the purchase of the GeForce RTX
NVIDIA has launched a campaign of unprecedented generosity — she gives out free Battlefield V. However, it will have to buy a graphics card GeForce RTX. When purchasing RTX 2080 GeForce Ti, GeForce GeForce RTX or RTX 2080 2070 in the participating stores, users will receive a free Battlefield V. the Campaign will last until…
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Disclosed appearance of the front part of the flagship Samsung Galaxy S10
In the network appeared pictures of the protective glass and films of the flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy series S10, which is set to release next year. They shared a fairly well-known Chinese insider under the nickname Ice Universe to your Twitter account. Photos shed light on the mystery of the design of the smartphone. As…