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  • Hey, Do We Have Your 10-Year-Old Android Phone? (Update: Oops!)

    Photo: Mario Aguilar (Gizmodo) A few weeks back my coworker Mario Aguilar set about buying the first ever Android phone to commemorate the mobile OS’s 10 year anniversary. He succeeded, and the T-Mobile G1 came with a surprise—a micro SD card with exactly 11 mp3s on it. So the question we’re left with is, hey,…

  • Facebook Is Using New AI Tools to Detect Child Porn and Catch Predators

    Photo: Getty Facebook is using new machine learning tech to flag child exploitation and nudity on the service, the company’s global safety head Antigone Davis announced today. In the last quarter alone, Davis says the new tools helped the company delete “8.7 million pieces of content” that “violated our child nudity or sexual exploitation of…

  • Apple Reportedly Blocked Police iPhone Hacking Tool and Nobody Knows How

    A photo of a GrayKey device provided by security firm MalwareBytes.Photo: Thomas Reed/MalwareBytes Apple’s latest iteration of iOS has reportedly turned the GrayKey hacking device into an expensive doorstop. Law enforcement around the world has taken to using GrayKey to break into locked iPhones but it appears Apple has finally gotten ahead of the device’s…

  • We Now Have a New Drug to Treat the Flu

    Influenza virus particles.Image: F. A. Murphy/CDC (AP) The flu vaccine remains the best proactive way to protect yourself and your loved ones from the influenza virus. But this upcoming flu season, there’ll be a new weapon available against the nasty disease. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration announced their approval of a new antiviral…

  • Report: Russian Researcher Charged With Attempted Murder in Stabbing of Colleague in Antarctica

    The Bellingshausen stationPhoto: Wikimedia user Akulovz (Wikimedia Commons) The Antarctic desolation and cold could be too much for some people—even folks you would think are used to some cold weather. A Russian researcher has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a peer at the Bellingshausen Station on Antarctica’s King George Island. The apparent…

  • Oculus Just Rolled Out Updated Anti-Harassment Tools

    Photo: Getty Facebook is rolling out new anti-harassment tools for its virtual reality platform as it continues to push for more users to plug in. On Wednesday, Facebook-owned Oculus published a blog post announcing new ways to report abuse within the virtual reality platform. Now, Oculus Go and Gear VR users can report harassment from…

  • These Crows Are More Clever Than Non-Human Apes When It Comes to Building Compound Tools

    New Caledonian crow with a stickPhoto: Auguste von Bayern Let’s say there is a hundred dollar bill wedged behind a bookshelf just beyond your reach, and beside the shelf is a set of TinkerToys. Even a toddler could probably snap together a few of the sticks to fish the bill out. But what about an…

  • The most popular color of smartphones in the world

    Analyst firm Strategy Analytics found out what colors prefer smartphone users in the U.S., Eastern Europe, China and India. Black retained the title of the most popular colors of the smartphones internationally. Behind him in second place is silver. The other colors are slowly catching up and the gap between silver and rose gold reduced.…

  • A copy of the “Titanic” went on a heritage trail in 2022

    Australian company Blue Star Line plans in 2022 launching a copy legendary “Titanic” (a copy of the iceberg not included) and send it through the historical route. The Titanic II will run on the route of the original Titanic that sank in 1912. It was originally planned that the first flight from Southampton to new…

  • In Russia created a working prototype of flying unmanned taxi

    In Russia it is developing projects of unmanned air taxis. The prototyping centre of nust “MISIS” “Kinetics” completed Assembly of a functional prototype of the aircraft. This was told to the newspaper “Izvestia”. The prototype created for the Russian project “Bartini”. It is a resident company of SKOLKOVO Technopark, established in 2015. The prototype has…