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Ensuring road safety is an extremely important task. And, by and large, in the regulation of the situation on the roads has not changed over the past half century. Traffic lights, marking traffic signs Yes — that, in fact, the entire list of tools for orientation on the road. But the technology has long stepped…

Two decades ago a group of researchers from the medical center Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston and is a teaching hospital for Harvard medical school, found in the brain the nerve cells, which, according to scientists, моглb to be a kind of “switches” which transforms brain in sleep mode. And only recently, this hypothesis was…

The company Virgin Galactic aimed at the market of space tourism services, is getting closer to its cherished goal. In a recent interview with CNBC, the CEO, British billionaire Richard Branson said that Virgin Galactic is “very close to the first sub-orbital flight.” According to Brunson, the market for tourist flights there is a great…

Taylor Swift performs at Gillette Stadium on Thursday, July 26, 2018 in Foxborough, MassachusettsPhoto: AP Pop star Taylor Swift endorsed two Democrats this week in a surprise Instagram post that upset many Trump supporters who assumed she was a secret Republican. And Swift’s endorsements are having a real impact. According to Vote.org, the number of…

Image: Getty Images/CSA-Printstock No matter how careful you are, problems tend to crop up on Windows and macOS anyway—from little annoyances you can’t get rid of to full-blown system-wide issues that make it hard to use your computer normally. We’ve got some good news for you though: You can find plenty of free apps to…

Screenshot: Abacus News (YouTube) It all started with a mystery: Why would a fitness tracker detect a beating heart on a roll of toilet paper? As Chinese tech site Abacus reports, toilet paper is having a bit of a viral moment in China after fitness tracker owners discovered the Xiaomi Mi Band 3 would display…

Just a day after Facebook announced its virtually feature-less Portal smart display, Google debuted one of its most loaded IoT devices ever. The first Google Home with a display is available for pre-order starting at $150. Despite privacy concerns and a general pointlessness, almost 27 percent of U.S. households have brought a smart assistant device…

Image: Google And it’s naturally a touch display with support for the $100 Pixelbook Pen. While the Pixelbook, and other touch Chrome OS devices like Samsung’s Chromebook Pro have never had fast enough pen response to match a Surface or iPad, the Pixel Slate, in our initial time with it, seemed to suffer no lag.…

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.Image: NASA Jupiter’s moon Europa, with its subsurface ocean, may have what it takes to foster alien life. A mission to this icy moon is on the wishlist of many astronomers, but new research suggests it won’t be easy to land spacecraft there: Its surface seems to be littered with icy spikes,…