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A kangaroo, though likely not the one from this story.Photo: Chris Fithall (Flickr) I know very little about Australia, aside from the fact that it’s basically a weirder United States with a feral cat problem. But I’m familiar enough to know that Australian police resuscitating a drowning kangaroo with CPR at the beach is about…

Freya, a Springer Spaniel trained to sniff out the scent of malaria.Image: Medical Detection Dogs New research shows that dogs can be trained to detect the malaria parasite in infected individuals using their keen sense of smell. In 2016, an estimated 445,000 global deaths were attributed to malaria, according to the World Health Organization. The…

Photo: Fabian Bimmer (Associated Press) As the New York Times reported yesterday, IBM is in the process of purchasing Red Hat, one of the largest corporate contributors to the Linux kernel. The news is great if you’ve got stock in either company or a passion to see a cloud computing services challenge Amazon (and Microsoft).…

Photo: Getty Earlier this month, Twitter says, it found a bug that left some tweets publicly searchable by location after users had opted to delete that info with Twitter’s privacy tools. The tweets remained in Twitter’s location-based search results “for up to seven days,” the company said, before it resolved the problem on October 12.…

The famous blazar spotted this summer by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT).Image: NASA Goddard (Flickr) Astronomers have proposed a truly enormous telescope consisting of 200,000 radio receivers around the world, which added together would cover an area the size of Nebraska. They hope to spot incredibly energetic but difficult to detect neutrinos coming from…

Roland Quandt (Quandt Roland), editor of the well-known regular leaks of the German resource WinFuture, through your Twitter account has shared new details about the Snapdragon flagship 8150, which has not yet been officially presented by Qualcomm. We will note, earlier Snapdragon 8150 was rumored under the name Snapdragon 855. However, recently it became known…

Huawei has published in social networks a teaser about the upcoming mobile device called Honor WaterPlay 8. Apparently, we are talking about a smaller version of the tablet WaterPlay Honor, presented last year at the same time with the Honor 7X. Unlike Honor WaterPlay, display new items will get a 10-inch diagonal, 8-inch. Also the…

During the announcement flagship smartphone-slider Mix Xiaomi Mi 3, Xiaomi provocative Chapter, said that the new camera is superior to Huawei P20 Pro. While Huawei P20 Pro continues to top the DXOMark for camera quality. Xiaomi Mi 3 Mix is at the level of the Samsung Galaxy Note and HTC 9 U12+, sharing with them…