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A banner graphic from the now-deleted website of World Patent Marketing, charged by the FTC with bilking inventors out of millions since 2014 (Google Cache) According to the FTC, World Patent Marketing didn’t actually secure any licensing or manufacturing agreements for its customers. In fact, the FTC notes in its complaint that virtually no one…

Photosystem II splitting water. The blue circles are water, purple is manganese, green is calcium, red is oxygen. The netting is electrons and the blue lines are protons that serve as scaffolding.Illustration: Jan Kern/Berkeley Lab An experiment using intense laser pulses has allowed scientists to watch plants produce oxygen from water part of photosynthesis in…

Photo: John Bazemore (AP) The contentious and still unresolved Georgia gubernatorial election has led to a variety of claims of unfair play on the part of GOP candidate and current Secretary of State Brian Kemp, including a voter suppression lawsuit and reports of voting machine technical malfunctions. Today, a handful of social media pundits and…

Huawei will release an update soon shell EMUI 9.0 for multiple smartphones. This was told by Richard Yu (Richard Yu), head of the consumer division of Huawei, in his Weibo account. Shell EMUI 9.0 is based on latest version of the Android operating system 9.0 Pie. Open beta testing of the interface began on 17…

Fire smartphones when you use unofficial chargers from third-party manufacturers are not uncommon. New event refers to another category of user is known to social news site Reddit said on the lit-up iPhone X from the original Apple battery charger. According to the source, his sister left the smartphone at night on his bed. As…

Huawei introduced in China a new model of laptop MateBook. Laptop Huawei MateBook 13 is compact and advanced characteristics. Huawei MateBook 13 is equipped with a 13.3-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 2160 x 1440 pixels and an aspect ratio of 3:2, Intel Whiskey Lake-U (i5 or Core i7 8265U-8565U), optional NVIDIA GeForce graphics MX150,…

Figure of the day: 55% the Russians use the same passwords for different accounts. Anti-virus company Avast conducted a study on password security in Russia. Statistics were disappointing on the background of regularly occurring leaks usernames and passwords of users of various services. According to Avast, complex passwords bother only 10% of Russians. 55% use…

On 7 November 2002, Microsoft released a special version of Windows XP for tablet PCs. We need, however, to imagine that at the time the tablets were different. Very different! Heavy, thick, noisy fans and very poor battery life—, the gadget could barely work out from the battery three to four hours, and the main…

While Tesla promotes its electric cars and truck, the company Nikola Motors is trying to conquer the market with its electro-hydrogen analogues. In 2016, she presented trucks Nikola Nikola One and Two, able to pull a trailer with a heavy load over long distances. They are intended for the U.S. market, but the company also…

The international Space Station (ISS) is currently the only facility where you can conduct various experiments and perform the long missions stay in weightlessness. This is one of the most ambitious projects of this kind. But very soon China may launch another station in space. And the layout of this station has recently been shown…