Category: English
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Best Chinese smartphone its little brother: a review of Huawei Mate 20 Pro and Huawei Mate 20
Better cameras and powerful processors in Android smartphones in 2018 — in the fight for first place in sales Huawei does not skimp on investments in the stuffing. However, not for our own benefit or to satisfy their ambitions for, and immodest amounts — we have two of the most expensive Chinese smartphone, except melkomyagkie…
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Volvo has found its first client for its unmanned trucks
The Swedish company Volvo signed a contract for the real use of their unmanned trucks from the Norwegian mining company Brønnøy Kalk. Currently, both companies are testing. Full operation of six Autonomous trucks will begin by the end of 2019. Cars will transport extracted mine vacant-Kalk limestone to the port and unload it into the…
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In the United States presented the first electric pickup. And it’s not Tesla
Michigan startup Rivian Automotive, founded by a native of Massachusetts Institute of technology Robert Joseph Stringem in 2009, presented at the motor show in Los Angeles the first electric pickup R1T. The car received four-wheel drive, four motor, one for each wheel, giving him up to 764 horsepower, and can reach a maximum speed of…
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The Google Pixel Slate Is a Brilliant Chrome OS Response to the iPad
Chromebooks aren’t supposed to cost a lot of money. That’s a big reason we like them! They’re always good enough, and they’re always cheap—think under $500. But the Pixel Slate, which carries the newest build of Chrome OS, has made a near perfect case for a pricier chromebook. This tablet, which turns into a laptop…
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‘I’m Pissed That It’s Come to This’: Venmo Reportedly Pulled Features After Fraud ‘Spike’
Photo: AP If you’re wondering why earlier this year Venmo briefly froze instant transactions and nixed its website payments, you can apparently look no further than good old-fashioned fraud. A Wall Street Journal report cites internal documents indicating the PayPal-owned service pulled some of its features when it lost $40 million in the first quarter…
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CDC Says Some Romaine Lettuce Is Now Safe to Eat—but Don’t Break Out the Salad Tongs Yet
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British Cops Are Building an AI That Flags People for Crimes That Haven’t Happened Yet
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Extinct ‘Siberian Unicorns’ Walked the Earth Alongside Modern Humans
Artist’s impression of the “Siberian unicorn,” actually a species of rhino.Illustration: W. S. Van der Merwe Weighing up to 7,700 pounds, Elasmotherium sibiricum—an extinct hairy rhino popularly known as the “Siberian unicorn”—was thought to have disappeared as long as 200,000 years ago. An updated fossil analysis suggests this formidable species was still around some 39,000…
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Expanding Universe Mystery Deepens
The newest Gaia star mapImage: ESA/Gaia An important discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s acceleration has theorists wondering whether we’ve gotten something fundamentally wrong in our understanding of the history of the universe. One currently unexplained cosmological mystery is the “Hubble tension,” where various measurements of the universe’s expansion seem to disagree. As the story…
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Be Warned: Customer Service Agents Can See What You’re Typing in Real Time
Something similar recently happened to HmmDaily’s Tom Scocca. He got a detailed answer from an agent one second after he hit send. Googling led Scocca to a live chat service that offers a feature it calls “real-time typing view” to allow agents to have their “answers prepared before the customer submits his questions.” Another live…