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An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 11:01 Pacific Standard Time Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CaliforniaPhoto: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jim Araos/Released But Americans seem unlikely to give this latest test much thought anyway. There’s plenty of other stuff to worry…

Photo: Getty A lot of interesting ballot measures were taken up by voters on Tuesday but none of them were more curious than Florida’s Amendment 9. The successful ballot item actually amends Florida’s constitution to ban offshore drilling and vaping in indoor workplaces. But why were those two things bundled together? As you may be…

General aesthetics divide the remaining speakers into two camps. Most of them are somehow round and capable of blasting sound from all sides. However, the JBL Clip 3 and the Bose SoundLink Micro have this hockey puck design that means sound is only projected in one direction. So those got eliminated, too. While we really…

A Goffin cockatoo making a tool.Photo: Goffin Lab, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Cockatoos have once again demonstrated that birds have surprisingly advanced toolmaking abilities—particularly when delicious cashews are involved. Just last month, one team found that New Caledonian crows, the well-known toolmakers, could build tools from multiple components in order to extend their reach.…

Surprise! Apple decided to go with USB-C charging for its latest batch of iPad Pros, which means… well, what exactly does it mean? Whether you’re putting down some cash for one of the new Apple slates or you’ve already got a USB-C device in your life, here’s how the emerging technology works and exactly what…

“The Poison Squad” volunteers. Photo: FDA If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what it seemed. The level of vile, often toxic contamination in basic consumer products was almost unimaginable to modern folk raised under the auspices…

At the conference for developers SDC 2018 Samsung Electronics showed not only a folding smartphone with a flexible display Infinity Flex. Also presented were developments to the more traditional flagship smartphones — bezrabotnyi screens Infinity, U, Infinity-V, Infinity-O and New Infinity. Note that while the Korean manufacturer kept and not released smartphones with cutouts, “eyebrows”…

Messenger Facebook Messenger will soon be the long-awaited ability to delete sent messages. This is stated in a note to the latest update of the iOS app. To delete a sent message can be very long — within 10 minutes, but sometimes this is enough to prevent a tragedy or simply the correction of typos.…

Samsung Electronics has launched a new promotion for buyers of its flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 9. When you purchase a smartphone they’ll get a microSD memory card, 512 GB capacity. Thus, users can increase the memory of your device up to 1 TB. The promotion is valid from 7 to 21 November, when buying in…

Xiaomi company started sending out email messages about the imminent release of the second generation gaming smartphone Black Shark outside of China. International debut of Xiaomi smartphone Black Shark Helo is scheduled for November 9, 2018. Recall that in late October, Xiaomi started selling the Black Shark Helo in the native Chinese market. Xiaomi Black…