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Image: Sinemia MoviePass broke the mold on theater subscription services and broke itself in the process, but the whole idea itself is not dead. Sinemia is carrying on with more modest deals, and it’s now offering weekday-only subscription plans that start at $4 per month. Before MoviePass emerged from obscurity last year with a $15…

Photo: Getty The next VP to leave Microsoft is the current head of Cortana, Javier Soltero, according to multiple reports. The departure is part of an ongoing internal shakeup at Microsoft that has seen execs including 20-year vet Terry Myerson leave the company. Soltero joined Microsoft at the end of 2014 when the company bought…

Screenshot: The New York Times Rather than watch the pendulum swing to the beat of your racing heart, might I suggest taking a deep breath and looking at these soothing needley GIFs instead? They are extremely low-stakes, will not induce a panic attack, and bear no consequence on our crumbling democracy. Your browser does not…

A U.S. copy of the standard kilogram.Photo: National Institute of Standards and Technology (Wikimedia Commons) The future of mass depends on a conference vote next week. A long-discussed resolution for next week’s General Conference on Weights and Measures would toss out the international prototype of the kilogram—a hunk of platinum and iridium in Paris that…

Graphic: Wikimedia, Pixabay A probe of U.S. Navy sailors accused of distributing and using LSD is expanding. At least two men who worked in the nuclear reactor department on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier are reportedly facing a court-martial, and at least 12 others are said to be under investigation over the psychedelic drug.…

New wireless earphone Apple AirPods 2 appeared in the database of the organization Bluetooth SIG (Bluetooth Special Interest Group), which they were certified. New headphones will connect to other devices via the Bluetooth standard 5.0. It is also expected that AirPods 2 will receive an advanced chip to operate the voice assistant Siri, including completely…

6 Nov 1935 the American inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong patented the technology, which later formed the basis for FM radio. He single-handedly described the principles of frequency modulation, which in the era of dominance of AM radio (amplitude modulation) was not taken seriously. Armstrong went to his invention sequentially, in 1918 he invented the superheterodyne…

In the network appeared new details about its forthcoming flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S10, which has not yet been officially presented by the manufacturer. At this time, information was discovered by developers in the beta firmware version 9.0 Android Pie for the Galaxy Note 9. In the new night theme has an animated demonstration,…

The British company Planet Computers, specializing in gadgets with a hardware keyboard for typing, presented unusual smartphone the Cosmo Communicator and has launched a campaign to raise funds for him on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. It is made in the form factor of the legendary Nokia communicators. Latest this Communicator can be considered a Nokia E90…

The Russian government has introduced new rules for the identification of users of instant messengers. The resolution of the new rules, already signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Initially about the new rules announced by the newspaper “Izvestia”, now the document is already published on the official portal of legal information. The rules will come…