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5 Simple Windows Security Tips You’ve Got No Excuse to Ignore
Screenshot: Gizmodo In the not-too-distant past you would need to get a solid antivirus program installed and configured before you could even hook up Windows to the web, but nowadays life is much easier—Windows comes with its own competent security tool called Windows Defender. You can install a third-party package if you want some extra…
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Flickr Is Going to Delete a Bunch of Photos—Back Up Yours Now
Image: Flickr Flickr is under new ownership and that means new rules. Now it’s time to back up all those photos that you just assumed would be there forever. February 5, 2019 is the day that Flickr will officially begin the mass purge of photos. The company was purchased from Yahoo in April by SmugMug…
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Young Blood Protects Old Rat Livers From Injury
Photo: Shutterstock Despite the current Silicon Valley hype, infusing yourself with the blood of a 16-year-old is probably not going to make you live longer and fix all that ails you. It’s also likely dangerous, because while blood transfusions are necessary for the sick and injured, they also come with side effects. However: the blood…
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Figure of the day: How many trips you have made unmanned Yandex.Taxi?
Figure of the day: 1 000 trips made unmanned Yandex.Taxi. The company Yandex has shared some statistics of the work of an unmanned vehicle Yandex.Taxi. For the first two months of work in Innopolis drone Yandex.A taxi made a thousand trips. Yandex announced the launch of the unmanned taxi in Kazan in the end of…
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Tesla cars will soon be “led” from a smartphone
The head of Tesla Ilon Musk (Elon Musk) said in his Twitter account about the upcoming update for Tesla vehicles. After about 6 weeks it is planned to launch the advanced functions of car Parking Summon. Function Summon allows the car to automatically Park without a driver behind the wheel, including check in and check…
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Uber will pay for the best drivers education
The company Uber has launched a program of incentives for the best drivers of the service — Uber Pro. Under the program, drivers will be able to receive free training — Uber will pay for online courses University of Arizona for the driver or members of his family, as well as other bonuses. I began…
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New QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone is already available in Russia
The company TCL Communication, which now owns the BlackBerry brand, has announced the beginning of sales in Russia smartphone BlackBerry KEY2. BlackBerry KEY2 in the black light with the support of two SIM-cards, 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB flash memory available at a recommended price of 49 990 rubles. The smartphone has a…
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Apple set a new record
Apple reported results for the fourth quarter of 2018 fiscal year, which ended for her on 29 September 2018. Revenue for the quarter amounted to 62.9 billion USD, up 20 percent from a year earlier, and net income per share for the quarter amounted to 2.91 dollar, showing an increase of 41%. International sales accounted…
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NASA lost another space vehicle
While people around the world celebrated Halloween, another spacecraft space Agency NASA quietly “gave up the Ghost”. We are talking about the probe Dawn (“Dawn”). He studied the two largest objects in the asteroid belt of the Solar system. The last two ping 31 October and 1 November, he missed. Not having received signals from…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Captures Stunning View of Asteroid Bennu Ahead of Arrival
Illustration: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona More than two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has beamed back what the space agency is calling a “super-resolution” view of the asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s exciting mission to near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which the spacecraft is set to reach in about a month, to collect and bring…