Category: English

The Chinese authorities have announced plans to launch a “satellite flare” in 2020. This “artificial Moon” would be eight times brighter than the real moon, and will distribute the twilight glow. Such satellite can cover the surface of the Earth a diameter of 10 to 80 kilometers, the area coverage can be adjusted to within…

In iBasso is sometimes slow to harness, but then speeding, they race with such speed that the majority of competitors only have to swallow the dust in the corners. Having begun its triumphant return with the DX200, they strengthened the position of the DX150, but, of course, everyone was waiting for the younger model of…

A team of scientists from the research Institute of the University of Daytona has created a video, which showed what can happen with the aircraft when it collides with an unmanned aerial vehicle, or simply a drone. The results of the study were presented, along with a video at the academic summit this year. Because…

Image: Apple When Apple launched its new iPhones back in September, the company did a good job of fleshing out its handset lineup with the iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. But still, it felt like new iPhones and Apple Watches were only part of the equation. So to round out the rest of its…

Bottles of e-liquids at a California vape shop.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) The growing appeal of e-cigarettes, particularly among teens, has often been attributed to the assortment of sweet and fruity flavored vaping fluids—flavors that traditional tobacco cigarettes have long been barred from including. But in addition to making vaping more appealing, these flavoring chemicals…

HyperionImage: ESO/L. Calçada & Olga Cucciati et al. Light’s speed limit means that looking into the distance is the same as looking into the past: The farther incoming light travels, the older it is. Out in the distance, scientists have spotted a truly enormous, ancient “proto-supercluster,” dubbed Hyperion, which could help explain how the universe…

Photo: Getty Select self-service checkouts at supermarkets in the UK will “very soon” be equipped with cameras and facial recognition software, according to the Telegraph. They’ll reportedly use tech from British startup Yoti to determine if a shopper is old enough to buy alcohol and cigarettes without forcing them to “register their identity in advance.”…

Photo: Getty Four lobbying groups with ties to the biggest cable and telecom providers in the country have filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont over its measures to preserve net neutrality. The dispute is another front in the growing war between state governments and ISPs in the wake of the FCC’s repeal of…

Photo: Getty Thousands of women in South Korea have protested spycam porn in the region—in which obscured cameras are installed to nonconsensually record women in intimate places—and now police are asking people to put camera protectors on their phones. The Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency has created almost 50,000 camera protectors and are distributing the…