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Digital facial reconstruction of John Bellingham, the only person to have successfully assassinated a British Prime Minister, which he did in 1812. Image: Queen Mary Forensic Museum One of the most intriguing items on display at the Queen Mary Pathology Museum—the skull belonging to British assassin John Bellingham—has been used to create a digital reconstruction…

Artist’s depiction of Lisowiciz bojani.Illustration: Karolina Suchan-Okulska It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this oversized herbivore is rocking the paleontological world—and changing what we know of evolutionary history. The incredible creature, named Lisowicia bojani, was a dicynodont—a distant cousin of mammals. Remarkably, it…

This is… not my computer. This is a clean computer. Photo: Getty I consider myself a pretty clean and tidy person. You would not believe this to be true, however, if you looked at my laptop. It is disgusting. There’s that saying that goes something like, the floor is so clean you can eat off…

Artist’s conception of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket during launch. Image: SpaceX The first flight test of an unpiloted SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has been scheduled for January, NASA announced yesterday. The test marks an important milestone for the United States, which hasn’t been able to independently deliver astronauts to…

Image: Pixabay China’s “social credit” system—the one straight out of a dystopian Black Mirror episode—is getting closer to becoming a reality. The lifelong social ranking system is set to be adopted in Beijing in 2021, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, with residents to be judged on data based on their social standing by the end of 2020.…

The company ZTE announced the launch of pre-orders in Russia for the fancy mobile — collapsible ZTE Axon M with two screens. Recall, ZTE Axon M came out as the exclusive U.S. operator AT&T in November 2017 January 2018 appeared in China, and in the spring in Europe. Now he has reached and Russia. ZTE…

The Indonesian subsidiary of ASUS has posted a render with a slice of the smartphone upcoming smartphone ZenFone Max Pro (M2). The image shows not only the neck of the display with the front camera and other sensors, but the triple main camera on the rear panel. ASUS previously said that the announcement is scheduled…

Next year may increase the prices of mobile and wired Internet, the majority of Russian Internet operators. About this informed the newspaper “Vedomosti”, citing a survey of resource Telecom Daily among the hundreds of managers of ISPs operating in major cities of Russia. The survey was conducted among mobile operators, and large and small Internet…

SquareTrade company, which is engaged in warranty service and repair of electronics, has published the results of a study on the most frequent breakdowns smartphones and prices for repairs in the United States. 66% of cases, the repair falls on various faults in the display, including 29% at the broken screens and 27% scratched screens.…

HTC has released an official statement refuting “failure” from release a flagship smartphone in 2019. We will remind, last week in the Internet appeared the message that in 2019 the HTC has no plans to release a flagship smartphone HTC HTC U13 or U13, which replaced the HTC U12+ (review), submitted in may 2018. Instead,…