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Photo: Getty Last week, a report from Bloomberg made some wildly egregious allegations about Apple and Amazon, claiming they were among a number of victims of a Chinese surveillance operation. Both tech companies quickly and fiercely refuted the claims in the report, and now yet another strongly-worded denial is available to read in full. Apple…

Graphic showing the location of Voyagers 1 and 2Graphic: NASA/JPL-CalTech Six years ago, the Voyager 1 spacecraft informed scientists that it had become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. Now, Voyager 2 has begun to return signs that its own exit from the Solar System could be coming soon. Two of Voyager 2's…

Illustration: Thor_Deichmann (Pixabay) A group of scientists believe they’ve uncovered at least some of the genetic risk factors that can contribute to a common health concern among men: erectile dysfunction. Their findings, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have possibly identified a specific place in our genome linked to the distressing…

Screenshot: Verizon The first rule of 2018 is to greet any accusation of foul play with an assertion of exactly the opposite. Verizon has certainly gotten the memo. In August, the company was criticized for throttling the “unlimited” data plan of firefighters battling record-setting blazes in California and now it has a slick new ad…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O 2018 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 8, 2018 in Mountain View, California.Photo: Getty Following a report Monday alleging that Google kept secret a data breach potentially impacting hundreds of thousands of Google+ users, the company is offering only a meager defense of…

Huawei has started selling the most powerful variation of the smartphone Honor 8X Max. This mid-level model with a huge edge-to-edge display with a keyhole, dual camera and capacious battery. Until version Honor 8X Max with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 660, 6 GB of RAM and 64 internal flash memory became available in China at…

A group of French developers have created a strange project called MobiLimb. He is now at the prototype stage. The idea MobiLimb that the smartphone is added a robotic “finger”. A “limb” can be connected to any Android smartphone with micro USB port. He will be able to provide a more “personal” force feedback —…

After the release of the new game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey it showed up a nasty problem — it refuses to start properly on some systems. As it turned out, the game requires a CPU with support for AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) — extension of the command system for the x86 microprocessors from Intel and AMD…

In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed new images of the upcoming smartphone Huawei Mate 20, while not officially presented by the manufacturer. High-quality renders of the Huawei Mate 20 in a transparent case to show the main features of the design of the smartphone. Interestingly, the cutout rendering of the screen…

In July there were reports that Microsoft is working on a mysterious folding Surface under the code name Andromeda. Now he’s found evidence of the existence of such a device. The developers found the mention of the gadget in the linguistic set (language pack) for Andromeda OS, which appeared in the online Microsoft store. This…