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The budget of the U.S. air force recently became available to all comers, so the ability to compare prices on launches from companies providing such services. It turned out that SpaceX have done great job and their prices differ from the prices of United Launch Alliance (ULA), which is owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.…

The wire stretching from virtual reality headsets to the computer or game console, stopping completely dissolved in the VR-worlds, and imposes tangible restrictions on the user. That is why big players are still young VR market is actively working to improve technology to make their devices as convenient as possible and offline. The first solution…

The national French railway operator SNCF is going to 2023 to Commission an Autonomous high-speed TGV trains, FranceInfo the Agency reports citing official sources. Testing of so-called “train-the drones” is scheduled for 2019, according to the same publication. New French high-speed trains will be equipped with special sensors, which will mark the obstacles on the…

Image: Uber / Adam Clark Estes I’d like to say that I’ve never given Uber money, but that wouldn’t be true. Not exactly. I did give Uber money once, years ago, when I had no other option. The company promptly ripped me off, and I wasn’t surprised. Why not? I worked in the same office…

Bloomberg News and others report that Amazon will buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. In cash! That breaks down to Jeff Bezos and company paying $42 per share for a chain of health food and lifestyle stores. In cash! Here’s a funny Twitter joke about that: Amazon confirmed the Bloomberg report just minutes after…

Image: Shutterstoc Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been born using a new technique requiring three genetic parents. The baby’s mother carried the genes for a fatal nervous system disorder called Leigh syndrome, but Zhang had been able to keep the disease…

Image: Srinayan Puppala/Flickr Who doesn’t love logging on to the good old ‘net on a Friday morning to the headline “Coconut oil ‘as unhealthy as beef fat and butter.’” It’s got everything. Ah, you might think, my favorite health product is as bad as butter! Or you might even say to yourself, those coconut oil-huffing…

Image courtesy of Kate Cummings, Blue Ocean Whale Watch In 2015, whale watchers off the coast of California’s Monterey Bay caught a glimpse of an albino baby Risso dolphin. Now, the all-white flipper has made another appearance and damn is it cute. They grow up so fast! Albinism in animals is incredibly rare since it’s…

Photo: Getty The CIA has had the ability to turn routers and network access points into surveillance devices for years, according to secret documents published by WikiLeaks on Thursday. In the latest installment of its Vault 7 series of leaks, WikiLeaks has disclosed an alleged CIA program known as CherryBlossom. The purpose of the initiative…