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  • Ninth Child Dies at New Jersey Nursing Home Facing Adenovirus Outbreak

    A Wanaque, New Jersey rehabilitation facility experiencing an outbreak of adenovirus.Photo: Julio Cortez (AP) Officials have confirmed the ninth death of a child at a New Jersey nursing home in the last week alone, with at least eight of the fatalities being confirmed as the result of adenoviruses, CNN reported on Sunday. According to CNN,…

  • Memory of the future: how does a SSD?

    The flash memory is of particular interest. When the traditional hard drives store information on several magnetic platters (platter), where an actuator with a reading head receives information from a rotating disk, SSD the information is stored using a NAND flash. Initially this technology was only available for use on the wire, but SSD manufacturers…

  • Twitter Apologizes for Failing to Remove Tweets That May Have Been Sent by Cesar Sayoc

    Photo: Andrew Burton (Getty) A Twitter account apparently belonging to Cesar Sayoc, Jr.—who has been charged with sending explosive devices to several prominent Democrats and CNN—had a history of threatening behavior on the site and was previously reported by at least one Twitter user to no avail. The social media platform is now apologizing despite…

  • First Private Chinese Attempt to Launch Satellite Into Orbit Suffers Unspecified Failure

    The Zhuque-1 rocket takes off in China, moments before it suffers an unspecified technical failure.Screenshot: SciNews (YouTube) The craft that would have been the first private Chinese rocket to deliver a satellite into orbit around the Earth failed on Saturday, the Guardian reported, with something going wrong with the Landspace Zhuque-1's third-stage deployment. It’s not…

  • Campbell Soup Co. Executive Is Out After Tweeting George Soros Conspiracy Theory

    Photo: J. David Ake (AP) A Campbell Soup Company executive who tweeted about conspiracy theories involving former hedge fund manager George Soros is no longer with the company, a spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo. Campbell’s vice president of government affairs Kelly Johnston tweeted Monday that Soros’ Open Society Foundations was providing aid to a migrant caravan…

  • Far-Right Site Gab Ditched by Cloud Host Joyent, Suspended by Stripe Amid Synagogue Massacre

    Police rapid response teams arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27.Photo: Jeff Swensen (Getty Images) Gab, the self-declared free speech platform that has welcomed countless neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and various other far-right bigots, had its PayPal accounts terminated on Saturday after authorities named anti-Semite…

  • Scientists from Stanford have figured out how to get from carbon dioxide in the hydrocarbon fuel

    Emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the last several decades has greatly crippled the ecology of our planet. That is why more and more developments in the field of creation of means to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. But the gas contains in its composition carbon, which in theory can be used to create…

  • MIT launches online project, where anyone will be able to manage a real person

    Experiments that put scientists, not always are monotonous, boring and uninteresting to the public. Sometimes it is quite the opposite. For example, researchers from the Media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next week plan to launch an unprecedented project in which anyone can participate in the management of a living person. In the…

  • The Chinese plant will allow robots to create their own kind

    Factories manufacturing robots are in many countries. The intention to launch a project to create a combat mechanisms in 2017, said even members of the Russian Foundation for advanced research. Anyway, leader in the production of robotics remains China. Local companies produce robots not only for your country but for sale to the organizations from…

  • A strange cloud on Mars was water vapor, not eruption

    The day before yesterday we wrote about the strange cloud that appeared above the surface of the red planet, reminiscent of a train. The mysterious photo was published by the European space Agency, it took the Orbiter Mars Express. The train was thrown 20 km of the volcano. Of course, he immediately attracted the attention…