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  • HTC has reported the worst sales over the past 15 years

    Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC continues to endure. If in June, its sales fell by nearly 68 percent, the company reported the worst sales revenue over the past 15 years. In July HTC revenue amounted to 45.7 million U.S. dollars, which is approximately 77% less than the results of the same quarter last year. In June,…

  • The published system requirements new Call of Duty

    Game developer Treyarch announced the launch of open beta testing of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 this weekend and called the system requirements for the game. It is noted that these requirements are related specifically to the beta version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Thus, the minimum requirements include: 64-bit Windows 7…

  • Samsung announced the list of smartphones that will receive an upgrade to Android 8 Oreo only in 2019

    Samsung announced the list of its smartphones that can still expect to upgrade to the Android operating system 8 Oreo. Note that the stable version of the next OS version, Android 9 Pie, was submitted to Google on Monday evening and had begun to spread the first smartphones. In total, the roadmap of Samsung for…

  • Scientists have discovered a giant wandering planet with a powerful magnetic field

    About 20 light years from Earth is a very strange planetology object with a magnetic field of enormous power. It is more than 200 times bigger than Jupiter and is approximately 16-54 times higher than that of the Earth. Scientists could not understand what they see in reality. Explanations were few. But until now scientists…

  • Mysterious ‘Alien’ Radio Signal: Here’s What You Need to Know

    CHIME’s fast radio burst, in greenGraphic: CHIME/FRB Collaboration This hyped-up burst, called FRB 180725A, arrived at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a large radio telescope in southern British Columbia, at around 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific time on July 25. It lasted for approximately two milliseconds, and had a frequency as low as…

  • Face Recognition Tool Helps Nice Hackers Grab Facebook, Instagram Data Just Like the Bad Guys 

    Photo: Getty Security researchers released a tool this week that lets you collect social media profiles of a massive amount of people using face recognition. While that might sound like a terrible idea, the tool’s creators say it will help security professionals by giving them the same tools as the bad guys. The tool, Social…

  • Lyme Disease Has Spread to Every Part of the U.S.

    A larval blacklegged or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis, the species that spreads Lyme disease in the U.S.Photo: Gary Alpert (CDC) As worrying as new invasive species of parasitic ticks might be, a recent report released by the lab testing company Quest Diagnostics should remind us of the more pressing dangers these eight-legged bugs can cause.…

  • Uber, Lyft Dealt Blow as NYC Council Votes to Cap Licenses for Rideshare Vehicles

    Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) In a stunning blow to companies like Uber and Lyft, the New York City Council today approved a one-year halt on issuing new licenses to rideshare drivers. The yearlong halt will give the council time to survey the current state of ridesharing in the city, and potentially enact minimum pay rules…

  • China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft Capable of Penetrating U.S. Missile Defense Systems

    The launch of China’s first hypersonic weapon aboard a rocket on August 3, 2018.Image: CAAA China claims to have successfully tested a hypersonic aircraft capable of reaching speeds in excess of Mach 6, or 4,563 miles per hour. The cutting-edge vehicle has the potential to penetrate U.S. missile defense systems and be refitted to include…

  • Planet or Star? Either Way, This Rogue Object Is Really Weird

    Artist impression of the object called SIMP0136.Image: Caltech/Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF Various news outlets have been discussing a strange object in space, which may or may not be a planet. New measurements show that what was thought to be a brown dwarf—essentially a “failed star” that is too small to generate nuclear fusion, but too big…