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The Halloween Sequel Isn’t the Only Decades-Old Scary Story to Get a Reboot This Year, Thanks to the DEA
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Influencer Sued for Allegedly Not Influencing Nearly as Hard as He Was Paid To
Luka Sabbat.Photo: Luca Bruno (AP) Grown-ish actor and reported onetime Kourtney Kardashian suitor Luka Sabbat is facing down a lawsuit from Snap Inc.’s public relations firm, PR Consulting, for allegedly violating the terms of an “influencer” agreement worth $60,000. Influencer is a vague term that basically translates to anyone with a social media presence who…
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FDA Approves New 23andMe Pharmacogenetic Reports, But There Are Some Caveats
Image: 23andMe The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday that it has approved the marketing of 23andMe’s reports on pharmacogenetics, which the genetic-testing company claims are designed to assess whether genetics may affect an individual’s ability to metabolize certain drugs including antidepressants. The company is characterizing the move as the “first authorization of…
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Twitter Tests New Button to See the Latest Tweets First
Photo: Bethany Clarke (Getty) It’s been a week for keeping up with Twitter announcements. Following news of Twitter’s new bot-reporting feature and a report that CEO Jack Dorsey was looking to kill the “like” button, the company announced that it will allow some of its users to disable Twitter’s “best tweets first” feed through a…
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Presented the world’s first foldable smartphone with a flexible display
The Chinese company Rouyu Technology introduced the world’s first foldable smartphone with a flexible screen FlexiPai. Also it is the first smartphone based on yet unannounced top-end Snapdragon processor 8150, formerly known as the Snapdragon 855. FlexiPai is equipped with a 7.8-inch display, dual rear camera 16+20 MP. The thickness of the smartphone is 7.6…
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A vulnerability in Telegram allows you to read someone else’s conversation
In the popular Telegram messenger discovered a new vulnerability. This was told by the resource BleepingComputer, with reference to the student-developer of Nathaniel Dry (Nathaniel Suchy). Desktop application Telegram doesn’t protect your chat history locally and keeps the conversation without encryption in the SQLite database in plain text format. This makes it easy to access…
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Huawei has unveiled a smart watch Honor Watch Magic
Huawei introduced in China its first flagship smart watch under the brand Honor. The model is called Honor Watch Magic. Smart watch equipped with a 1.2-inch round AMOLED display. As claimed by Huawei, is one of the thinnest smart watches on the market. The thickness is 11 mm. Hours are based on two chipsets for…
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Flagship smartphone-the Honor 2 Magic slider with six cameras is presented officially
Huawei press event in China has unveiled its new flagship smartphone in a new form factor slider — Honor Magic 2. He replaces model Honor Magic, released in 2016. Predecessor at the time was positioned as the first smartphone based on artificial intelligence system. Honor Magic 2 advanced much further. He got a brand new…
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CRISPR is it safe 100 percent? Scientists say no, but offer solutions
Genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9 is not only a promising tool for research, but the key to developing new treatments, as we reported a few days ago. But is there a danger in the application of CRISPR? This question was asked and scientists from the University clinic Charite Berlin University and came to the conclusion that…
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An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU
Photo: Getty A number of border control checkpoints in the European Union are about to get increasingly—and unsettlingly—futuristic. In Hungary, Latvia, and Greece, travelers will be given an automated lie-detection test—by an animated AI border agent. The system, called iBorderCtrl, is part of a six-month pilot led by the Hungarian National Police at four different…