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A U.S. copy of the standard kilogram.Photo: National Institute of Standards and Technology (Wikimedia Commons) The future of mass depends on a conference vote next week. A long-discussed resolution for next week’s General Conference on Weights and Measures would toss out the international prototype of the kilogram—a hunk of platinum and iridium in Paris that…

Graphic: Wikimedia, Pixabay A probe of U.S. Navy sailors accused of distributing and using LSD is expanding. At least two men who worked in the nuclear reactor department on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier are reportedly facing a court-martial, and at least 12 others are said to be under investigation over the psychedelic drug.…

New wireless earphone Apple AirPods 2 appeared in the database of the organization Bluetooth SIG (Bluetooth Special Interest Group), which they were certified. New headphones will connect to other devices via the Bluetooth standard 5.0. It is also expected that AirPods 2 will receive an advanced chip to operate the voice assistant Siri, including completely…

6 Nov 1935 the American inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong patented the technology, which later formed the basis for FM radio. He single-handedly described the principles of frequency modulation, which in the era of dominance of AM radio (amplitude modulation) was not taken seriously. Armstrong went to his invention sequentially, in 1918 he invented the superheterodyne…

In the network appeared new details about its forthcoming flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S10, which has not yet been officially presented by the manufacturer. At this time, information was discovered by developers in the beta firmware version 9.0 Android Pie for the Galaxy Note 9. In the new night theme has an animated demonstration,…

The British company Planet Computers, specializing in gadgets with a hardware keyboard for typing, presented unusual smartphone the Cosmo Communicator and has launched a campaign to raise funds for him on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. It is made in the form factor of the legendary Nokia communicators. Latest this Communicator can be considered a Nokia E90…

The Russian government has introduced new rules for the identification of users of instant messengers. The resolution of the new rules, already signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Initially about the new rules announced by the newspaper “Izvestia”, now the document is already published on the official portal of legal information. The rules will come…

Perhaps, almost any person at least a little familiar with the science on the question “what is DNA?” answered “in the form of two spirals”. And this statement until the last moment was a fact, an axiom not requiring proof. However, recently a group of researchers from Australia have discovered an entirely new form of…

Despite the development of various systems for the protection of Bank transfers and plastic cards, the fraud with the good old ATMs still brings of the different dishonest individuals very sizeable income. And quite an interesting method of dealing with criminals decided to use one of the Japanese companies. One of the divisions of Corporation…

It may seem that lately, VPN services have become very much, but in fact their number has increased slightly — just a need for gaining access to the particular site has increased dramatically. Besides, in order to use the same Spotify, Pandora and Hulu need a VPN. But the use of VPN services to open…