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Tiny Gecko Makes ‘a Bazillion’ Phone Calls From Inside Hawaiian Animal Hospital
A gold dust day gecko in Kihei, Hawaii.Photo: Samantha Levang (Flickr) Sometimes, technical problems are just a bug. Other times, it’s a lizard. Earlier this week, the director of a seal hospital in Hawaii says she was deluged with a more than a dozen mysterious calls to her cell phone. When she picked up, however,…
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Democrats Drop ‘Internet Bill of Rights’ to Entice Voters Sick of Facebook’s Crap
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The Machines That Will Fight the Social Media Wars of Tomorrow
Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Shutterstock) The internet has entered into a new era, forcing us to second-guess virtually everything we see, hear, and read. In their new book, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, P. W. Singer and Emerson Brooking explore the disturbing ways in which the internet is transforming news, politics, and the nature…
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Ukraine Found the Perfect Use for the Radioactive Land of Chernobyl
Chernobyl reactor number four, covered with the sarcophagus. Image: AP Chernobyl is producing power again—though not the kind that triggered a nuclear meltdown 32 years ago. Ukraine is now turning to solar power, and in the process, making good use of land that won’t be habitable to humans for another 24,000 years. A modest one-megawatt…
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Smartphone Wileyfox Spark X can be bought cheaper 5,5 thousand roubles
British brand Wileyfox announced the release in Russia ultrabudgetary smartphone Wileyfox Spark X. compared to previous representatives of the line Spark, a smartphone equipped with a larger display with a diagonal of 5.5 inches and battery capacity of 3000 mAh. The display resolution is HD (1280 x 720 pixels). The smartphone also got the camera…
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Appeared official images of the new flagship Huawei Mate 20
Roland Quandt (Quandt Roland), editor of the well-known regular leaks of the German resource WinFuture has shared a press render of upcoming smartphone Huawei Mate 20, while not officially presented by the manufacturer. The images show a smartphone with edge-to-edge design and small keyhole, which does not provide for a system of facial recognition as…
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ASUS released gaming notebooks ROG Zephyrus, SCAR TUF and Strix Gaming at a price of 70 thousand rubles
Company ASUS has presented in Moscow new gaming notebooks ROG Zephyrus’S, ROG Strix TUF and GL704 FX505 with 705. Laptop ROG Zephyrus’S GX531 (model GX531) is positioned as the world’s thinnest gaming laptop Intel Core i7-8750H, equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max. hull Thickness Zephyrus’s is from 14,95 to 15.75 mm, 12% thinner than…
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Samsung gives Galaxy Note the 9 best players in Fortnite
Samsung arranged a new unusual advertising campaign to promote its new flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 9. The best players in Fortnite parcels, stylized game boxes, with free smartphone Galaxy Note 9. In addition to the smartphone in a huge parcel there were also posters, hats and other game-related items. Lucky people who received free Galaxy…
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Apple introduced the lock on laptops to protect it from “unofficial” repair
Apple has implemented new proprietary software to diagnose MacBook Pro and iMac Pro. The services should use it during repairs, or the device becomes inoperative. This follows from an internal document received by MacRumors and Motherboard resources. It’s all in the chip T2 with Apple’s Secure Enclave, which provides an extra level of protection. If…
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Saturn devouring his own ring. Coming to the planet will soon disappear
Worked on the orbit of Saturn almost 20 years NASA space probe “Cassini” even in the last moments of his life did not cease to transmit to Earth the amazing facts about the gas giant. After analyzing another portion of the information collected, the scientists found that the inner rings of the planet, those that…