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Apple announced the start of sales in Russia of a new mini-computer Mac mini. It was presented on 30 October at an event in new York. This mini PC has not been updated since 2014, been expected that Apple will close the line. But this did not happen. The new Mac mini is based on…

Using the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), which is called Chinese “artificial sun”, the physicists were able to heat plasma to 100 million degrees Celsius (which is 6 times hotter than the core of our star) and reach a heating output of 10 MW. In this experiment, the researchers got the figures, approaching to the…

The modern market presents not only a powerful flagships. Among the users now a high demand for devices with more modest performance and prices. Legendary brand Nokia managed to surprise the audience by announcing designed for the international market, a phone without a camera, whose price is also pleased. However, the phone is designed primarily…

Artist’s impression of the planet and Barnard’s star setting.Illustration: Martin Kornmesser/ESO Scientists have spotted strong evidence of a super-Earth orbiting the second-closest star system to the Sun, according to new research. The evidence consists of a slight repeating change to the light from Barnard’s star, a small star 5.9 light-years away. The data suggests the…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) The standalone tablet is all but dead. It’s been supplanted by 2-in-1s like the Surface Pro, which promises the excellent content consumption powers of a tablet, crossed with the actual productivity of a real laptop. Still, Apple has defiantly continued to make a tablet—both the budget iPad that was refreshed in…

The location of the 19-mile-wide (31 kilometers) impact crater in northwestern Greenland.Image: The Natural History Museum of Denmark An unusually large asteroid crater measuring 19 miles wide has been discovered under a continental ice sheet in Greenland. Roughly the size of Paris, it’s now among the 25 biggest asteroid craters on Earth. An iron-rich asteroid…

Image: padrinan (Pixabay) Heart disease has long been the number one killer in the United States. But a new study out this week is the latest to suggest that it’s only a matter of time before the second leading cause of death—cancer—becomes more commonly fatal for the average person. On the bright side, though, that’s…

Photo: Bryan Menegus (Gizmodo) Long Island City—Hundreds gathered this afternoon at Gordon Triangle, smack dab in the middle of a newly proposed campus for Amazon employees. Ringed by local news crews, a coalition of local politicians led by City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and State Senator Michael Gianaris stated their intent to stop Bezos’s…

Screenshot: DeepMind (YouTube) DeepMind’s health app Streams is being consumed by its sister company, Google, and some privacy advocates see the move as a violation of patient trust. Streams was originally developed by the Alphabet-owned British AI company DeepMind to send data and alerts to doctors and nurses. But the app drew controversy last year…

Evidence of the Armillaria gallica fungus on a scrap of wood.Image: James B. Anderson It’s nicknamed the “humongous fungus”—an unusually large fungal growth belonging to a single genetic individual. An updated analysis of this gigantic fungal beast shows it’s substantially larger and older than scientists initially thought. This single genetic individual, known as C1, belongs…