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After Soyuz Failure, Space Is Now Weirdly Inaccessible to Astronauts
The Soyuz rocket carrying U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin.Image: AP All crewed launches have been suspended by Russia’s space agency following yesterday’s Soyuz rocket failure. That’s a problem, because much of the world relies on Russian rockets to get both cargo and people into space. Consequently, we’re now facing the very…
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AI Still Sucks at Optical Illusions, So at Least We Have That Going for Us
Haters will say it’s a GIFPhoto: Michael McCauslin (Flickr) Optical illusions take advantage of shortcomings in the visual system. Certain special designs can trick our brain as it’s trying to process the information that’s coming in. Learning more about what can trick our minds would help us learn more about the human mind itself. That’s…
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Don’t Sell Vaping Fluid With Viagra, FDA Fumes
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This Is a Brain Taken Over by Alzheimer’s
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How to Do Everything But Delete Your Facebook Profile
Photo: Getty In the immediate aftermath of today’s news that hackers had access to the personal information of about 30 million Facebook users, I got a notification on the top of my own Facebook Timeline. “Update on Security Incident,” it read. Yeah, I was one of the unlucky 30-or-so million. This prompted some rage-deleting. The…
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Widespread Cable, Internet, and Radio Outages Follow Hurricane Michael’s Path of Destruction
Photos: Hurricane Michael's Historic Rampage Hurricane Michael roared into the heart of Florida’s Panhandle on Wednesday as a historic storm.… Read more Read The good news, per the FCC, is all 911 calls in the disaster area are now being successfully re-routed. But some are still down. Currently, eight call centers are unable to receive…
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Red Alert and other strategy Command&Conquer will get a remastered version
A series of games Command & Conquer expect a wave of re-releases. This was said on Reddit, Electronic Arts producer Jim Vesella (Jim Vessella). Vasella at the time worked on the creation of Command & Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3. Not so long ago the company announced a mobile game Command & Conquer: Rivals,…
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Figure of the day: How many Apple mobile devices already running iOS 12?
Figure of the day: 53% Apple mobile devices already running iOS 12. Apple has published on its official website for developers statistics on the prevalence of versions of the mobile platform iOS. As of October 10, 2018 53% of Apple mobile devices, which went online-the App store running iOS 12. Note that Apple has begun…
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In the savings Bank there will be points of delivery of orders online stores
In Sberbank there may be points of issue of orders online stores. This was told to the edition “Kommersant”, citing a source in the market. In several branches of Sberbank are already working postomaty PickPoint. Now the Bank plans to attract online retailers to organise additional points of delivery of orders. It is planned that…
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Apple earned on the application 2 times more than Google
According to the statistics service SensorTower, Apple got through the online App store is almost two times more than Google from the Google Play Store. The income from the App Store in the third quarter of 2018, totaled $ 12 billion is 23.3% higher compared to the result of year ago and 94% more than…