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Russian Poisoning Suspects Say They’re Sports Nutrition Businessmen, Hope the ‘Real Perpetrators’ Are Caught [Updated]
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Spotify Finally Raises Its Frustrating Limit on Offline Downloads
Screenshot: Spotify Spotify has finally addressed what is, for many users, the biggest problem with its service. On Wednesday, it lifted the number of songs that users are allowed to download for offline listening. Last night something weird happened to me. I was sleepily listening to music, and adding some albums to my Spotify library,…
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Master & Dynamic’s New Truly Wireless Earbuds Thump
HeadphonesMaster & Dynamic MW07 HeadphonesMaster & Dynamic MW07 MW07 What is it? Truly wireless earbuds Cost $300 Like Exceptionally good sound quality No lilke Bad battery life, big price It’s not the look that impressed me most about the new Master & Dynamic earbuds. The audio quality is terrific for something so small. I’ve tried…
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Plan to Build a Genetic Noah’s Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species
Image: Make it Kenya/Flickr An international consortium involving over 50 institutions has announced an ambitious project to assemble high-quality genome sequences of all 66,000 vertebrate species on Earth, including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. With an estimated total cost of $600 million dollars, it’s a project of biblical proportions. It’s called the Vertebrate…
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Apple iPhone Xs: The Complete Rundown
One year after the release of the iPhone X, Apple has returned in 2018 to completely revamp its entire phone lineup with multiple new handsets based on last year’s $1,000 flagship: So say hello to the iPhone Xs. But that’s not all, because this year, Apple’s flagship has a super-sized sibling in the new iPhone…
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Humans Lived in Madagascar 6,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Madagascar as seen from space. Image: NASA/Time Kopra An analysis of butchered animal bones suggests humans had somehow ventured to Madagascar by at least 10,000 years ago, which is 6,000 years earlier than previous evidence suggested. This means humans likely played a key role in the extinction of the island’s large animals. Humans lived on…
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Apple iPhone XR: The Cheaper iPhone That Might Be a Better Deal
Graphic: Gizmodo (Apple) Apple’s iPhone XR is real. All that speculation about a new, “cheap” iPhone can finally come to an end. The device, and its perplexing name, got an official reveal on stage today at Apple’s fall product event. The iPhone XR will cost you at least $749—so long as you don’t mind the compromises…
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Weird Tooth Phone Wins Millions in Pentagon Funding
Image: Sonitus A new communication device that is supposed to go inside military service members’ heads gives us a hint at the sort of technology a new Defense Department accelerator program is funding. Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter created the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) in 2015 with the mission of helping the military…
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When You Can Get All the Shit Apple Just Announced
Image: Apple Apple’s keynote came and went today, confirming the rumors that we’ve got three new iPhones and two new Apple Watches on the way. But just because Apple made it official doesn’t mean that everything will be available right away. Here’s a rundown of when everything is actually going to land in people’s hands,…
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Report: National Guard Wants to Fly MQ-9 Reaper Drones at the U.S.-Mexico Border
A MQ-9 Reaper drone being flown during exercises at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, 2015.Photo: Isaac Brekken (Getty Images) The U.S. government wants to deploy MQ-9 Reaper drones to the border with Mexico as part of the Donald Trump administration’s ongoing and completely unnecessary militarization of the region, TYT Network reported on Wednesday. Yes,…