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  • Youth smartphone Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite will soon be released outside of China

    Company Xiaomi is preparing to release a youth smartphone Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite outside of China. This was reported by several sources. As expected, the conquest of the international market will start with Taiwan where the smartphone will debut in season sales for singles Day, a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on November 11. Xiaomi has…

  • Created the world’s fastest camera, able to “freeze time”

    When you turn on the laser pointer it seems that the beam appears instantly. However, in reality the photons are “shot” out of it about the same as it happens with the water running from the tap or from a hose, just move the light particles so fast that the human eye is unable to…

  • Magic Leap, BDSM-Bots, and Star Trek: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

    Photo: AP, Illustrations: Gizmodo Staff, Photo: Abacus News (YouTube) If you’re receiving this message, please be advised that Site Gamma-Iota-Zeta has been compromised. Repeat, Site Gamma-Iota-Zeta has been compromised. This is not a drill. Containment failures detected for the following Class V entities: Magic Leap. A toilet paper roll with a Fitbit on it. BDSM-Bot.…

  • The emergence of CPUs to record is cheap and hardy laptops

    October 15, 2007, the company Intel announced the mobile processors Atom. It was planned that chips will be used in devices like the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) — inexpensive laptops designed for education in third world countries. In the end, Intel has contributed to the emergence of such a segment as netbooks. In particular,…

  • DARPA wants to teach artificial intelligence “common sense”

    Funny artificial intelligence. He can identify objects within seconds or fractions of a second, to imitate the human voice and to recommend music, but most of machine “intelligence” lack the basic understanding of everyday objects and actions — in other words, common sense. DARPA teams up with Elenovski Institute for artificial intelligence in Seattle to…

  • Malicious message massively incapacitate the PlayStation 4

    Many PS4 users on Reddit and other social media warning about the message containing a line of characters that cause the console give Sony crash and fail. In some cases, the console is starting to fail so much that users have to reset at the hardware level to return it to normal operation. Such error…

  • NASA will not change the flight schedule of the “Union”, despite the crash of a Russian rocket

    Striking crash is usually reliable Soyuz rocket during a manned mission to the International space station earlier this week that almost ended with the deaths of astronauts, scared space community, however, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said it expects to launch a new crew in December on the “Union” anyway. Answering questions from reporters at the…

  • There May Still Be Hope for NASA’s Sleeping Opportunity Rover

    An artist’s concept of Opportunity on MarsIllustration: NASA It’s been months since NASA engineers have heard from the sleeping Opportunity rover, which powered down after getting caught in a massive dust storm on Mars that obscured its surface from the Sun. But all hope isn’t yet lost, as the space agency said in an update…

  • Employees Protest Microsoft Bid for Huge Military Contract, Saying It Could Cause ‘Human Suffering’

    Microsoft’s French headquarters.Photo: Raphael Satter (AP) Last week, Google dropped its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a massive military cloud computing contract potentially worth up to $10 billion, amid employee backlash and concern the project could violate their “AI principles.” Now an open letter claiming to be from an unspecified number of…

  • Report: There May Be More Criminal Charges Coming in the Theranos Investigation

    Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) The fraud case against the ex-management of crooked blood-testing startup Theranos, former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, is just one component of a larger investigation into the company, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Theranos claimed to have developed a miraculous line of…