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Huawei unveiled budget smartphone Honor 8C. He replaces model 7C Honor, released in Russia in may. Huawei Honor 8C is equipped with a 6.26-inch display with a resolution of HD+ (720 x 1520 pixels) and an aspect ratio of 18:9, fingerprint scanner main camera 13+2 MP, 8 megapixel front camera. The hardware basis became eight-core…

We humans are proud of their abilities to adapt, but bacteria have always been a step ahead in this game, stretching for billions of years. Our microbial brothers quietly exist in the most unpleasant for the existence of environments, from deep-sea vents to Antarctic lakes. Some of the stronger germs survive even in the upper…

Humanoid robots like Atlas from Boston Dynamics can jump over obstacles, and a robotic dog SpotMini no problem marching up the stairs. Unfortunately, it is beyond the control of a ladder on which to climb using not only legs but also arms. While robots Boston Dynamics this seems like a daunting task, researchers from Kyoto…

Today at 11:40 (hereinafter specified Moscow time) from the Baikonur cosmodrome launched spacecraft “Soyuz-MS-10” with the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG”. The ship was heading to the International space station, and the team consisted of 2 people — Russian Alexey Ovchinin and American nick Hague. According to available information, the separation of the third stage and bringing…

To date, the main methods of creating realistic animation of virtual creatures are skeletal animation and the infamous Motion Capture (mocap). However, experts are constantly in search of new lower quality, but cheaper ways. And, quite possibly, this may help the neural network. One of them recently trained to recognize the movements of people and…

Image: Samsung After a fair amount of hype and even more leaks, Samsung’s Galaxy A9 finally got announced today in Malaysia. While it’s unclear if the Galaxy A9 will ever see an official release stateside, Samsung’s world-first phone with four rear cams could be a preview of what’s to come on the Galaxy S10 next…

Image: Twitter Twitter has made a subtle, but not insignificant change to the way it counts emoji in its 280-character limit. Moving forward, all of its natively supported emoji will count as two characters. Previously, adding skin tone and gender modifiers to an emoji unintentionally penalized users and many likely didn’t even realize it. In…

Huawei has published a teaser video showing the slider mechanism of the frameless smartphone Honor Magic 2. Huawei has already shown the smartphone in late August, the IFA exhibition in 2018, but then the details were not disclosed. The smartphone comes to replace the original Honor Magic, released in December 2016. It is completely frameless…

Company HMD Global introduced a new smartphone Nokia 3.1 Plus. According to the manufacturer, this is the most affordable smartphone with dual camera in the line of devices under the Nokia brand. Nokia Plus 3.1 is equipped with a 6-inch screen with a resolution of HD+ and the ratio of 18:9, dual main camera 13+5…

The company Razer unveiled the Razer Phone 2. This is the second generation gaming smartphone from a reputable manufacturer of gaming peripherals. Razer Phone 2 received the updated hardware platform, the possibility of wireless charging, protection from water and dust level IP67, branded, custom lighting for Chroma Razer logo on the back. The smartphone is…