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The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC.Photo: AP The trial of two men who allegedly made $20 million in an insider trading scheme involving hackers who stole corporate press releases before they were public began in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Reuters reported, with prosecutors telling jurors they had “electronic communications, trading records and testimony from…

In response to the request of the U.S. Congress after the April scandal with Cambridge Analytica, company Facebook revealed all its ways of collecting information about users of the social network. This required to make the document of 222 pages. He describes different ways of collecting data from those which we knew as that we…

Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. This time we will talk about the conference Apple, the first Russian reusable launch vehicle. Pleasant viewing! #news high technology 247 | Conference…

A time when many people will be replaced by robots in their jobs, closer. But while such decisions cause surprise and interest. The coffee shop Cafe Barista X will make two drinks per minute. The thing is that he’s not human. Automated conveyors is ready to accept and release orders in the coffee shop, San…

The new system enables “full control over the target by transferring the rigid head pose, facial expression and eye motion with a high level of photorealism.” Here, a source actor (the input) is used to manipulate a portrait video of a target actor (the output). Image: H. Kim et al., 2018 But it’s more than…

Photo: Christopher M. McHugh The question of who owns the moon is at the center of a new lawsuit filed against NASA by a woman who wants to keep a vial of lunar dust gifted to her by astronaut Neil Armstrong. The woman, Laura Murray Cicco, filed a lawsuit against the space agency last week…

Photo: 8BitDo Playing classic 8-bit side scrollers with a touchscreen is awful, so 8BitDo’s releasing an updated version of its tiny, keychain-sized Zero gamepad with support for the Nintendo Switch, and motion controls, so it should be easier to be perpetually prepared for any retro gaming emergency. The original Zero gamepad featured a directional pad,…

Photo: Alexander Koerner (Getty Images) Like many Instagram users, I often scroll through my feed wondering why I’m not receiving more options to buy shit. Thankfully, Facebook’s constantly growing photo sharing app is looking out for me, the person whose endless appetite for special offers is instantly whetted by shaky cell phone footage. Today, Instagram…

Illustration: geralt (Pixabay) In recent years, psychedelic party drugs such as LSD and MDMA have been studied by scientists for their potential ability to treat mental health problems like depression and anxiety—often in microdoses much smaller than the what a person would take to trip. But while the research into these drugs is promising, there’s…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) A post by DigiTimes that’s making the rounds cites unnamed “sources at analog IC vendors” who say that Apple could be moving the iPhone and iPad to USB-C by 2019. That move would spell the gradual demise of Apple’s proprietary Lightning port, which was introduced in 2012 and has been the…