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NASA’s InSight Lander Strikes a Confident Pose for Its First Martian Selfie
The first InSight selfie on Mars.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech In the very first selfie taken by InSight, the NASA probe looks ready and rarin’ to go. This wonderful mosaic, which consists of 11 individual photos, shows the entire probe as it’s sitting pretty on the Martian surface. The photos were captured by the Instrument Deployment Camera on…
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Intel Just Gave Us a Glimpse of the Near Future of CPUs
This year’s Intel i9-9900K. It goes fast.Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Intel’s had a rough year, with major departures, security disasters, dwindling sales compared to its competitor, and the general appearance of a company trailing the competition technologically speaking. But in the twilight days of 2018 Intel’s laid out a plan of action to remind us…
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Samsung Now ‘Re-Evaluating’ That Controversial Collab With the Fake Supreme
Remember two days ago when Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8s in China and trotted out the CEOs of the fake Supreme brand to announce a collaboration for future products? After much backlash from fans who love paying a premium for branded tchotchkes, Samsung wants you to know that it’s possibly, maybe, considering not pursuing that partnership…
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How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users
Photo: Getty Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real identities to their clients, and vice versa, and I was trying to figure out how. A sex worker using the pseudonym Leila told me she had gone to great lengths to hide her…
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Amazon’s DVR for Over-the-Air TV Is Surprisingly Great
Home entertainment Amazon Fire TV Recast Home entertainment Amazon Fire TV Recast Amazon Fire TV Recast What is it? A DVR for over-the-air TV Cost $230 – $280 Like Extremely simple to use No like Only records content from an antenna For someone who spends a lot of time with set-top boxes, the Recast sort…
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Eye Worms, Octopuses on MDMA, and More: The Strangest Science Stories of 2018
Photo: Getty Year In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year. Truly, 2018 has been a year filled with news that made us look blankly ahead and utter ‘wat’ into the void, frozen in confusion, every day. But there were a…
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Xiaomi flagship state employees will receive a 48-megapixel camera and a leaky display
In the network appeared the details about upcoming flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi budget Redmi series. The details were shared by the Chinese resource My Drivers, citing industrial sources.
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Huawei has unveiled a 48-megapixel camera phone
Huawei today held a special event in Hong Kong, where they held a preliminary announcement of the smartphone Honor View 20. The manufacturer positions the novelty as the world’s first smartphone with a display full of holes, into which is embedded the camera.
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In Russia will be punished for changing IMEI in cell phones
In Russia may soon introduce fines for a fake IMEI codes. About this informed the newspaper “Vedomosti”.
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Yandex named the most popular smartphones in Russia
The Yandex company, after Google and Apple, started to summarize the year 2018. She published the most popular topics in search queries to Yandex for 2018. Rating “theme for the year” is composed automatically, it contains themes that for years has caused users of the Yandex, the greatest surge of interest.