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Flames rise up from the Rodeo/Chediski fire near Cibecue, Arizona on June 28, 2002.Photo: Getty An Arizona border patrol agent started a wildfire during a “gender reveal” party involving a firearm and explosives, likely making it the most expensive such celebration in the history of the ridiculous ritual. Dennis Dickey was off-duty when he celebrated…

A server farm at the CERN Computer/Data Center in Switzerland. Photo: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) This weekend, a prominent Italian physicist, Alessandro Strumia, lectured fledging women scientists at CERN about the dangers of gender equality and “cultural Marxism” within science, argued that women can’t be as good at physics as men, and complained that the…

Apple has posted a new ad dedicated to the iPhone XS iPhone XS Max. The video draws attention to the advantages of large screen smartphones. In the story, the users withdraw their iPhone cats, cookies, children, dogs, and even themselves, and then are surprised to see the sudden growth of these objects in reality. The…

Company HMD Global has announced the beginning of sales of smartphone Nokia 5.1 Plus in Russia. The smartphone is international version of Nokia X5, made its debut in China this summer. Unlike the Nokia X5, as a software platform used pure version of Android 8.1 Oreo — Android One, is the original shell for the…

Figure of the day: 90 000 000 accounts affected major vulnerability in Facebook. Company Facebook released information on the recent hacking attack that spanned about 50 million social network accounts. Hackers used a vulnerability in the function “View as”, which allows people to see your page exactly as it appears to others. Hackers have managed…

OnePlus continues to tease fans of the upcoming smartphone OnePlus 6T, which has not yet been officially submitted. The company has published in his Twitter account a couple small rollers, hinting at the features of the product. One of the rollers is quite straightforward indicates a built-in under-screen fingerprint scanner. The other shows a fully…

Samsung may move production of smartphones secondary and primary level in China. Reported KoreaHerald Korean newspaper, citing local sources. One of the top managers of the Korean manufacturer was visited by the Chinese Wintech, which is engaged in the manufacturing of Xiaomi smartphones. The company discussed the possibility of the production of Samsung smartphones in…

“If aliens landed from outer space and spoke a language that violates universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn their language as teaching English or Swahili. We are by nature designed for English, Chinese and other languages people. But we are not conceived for an ideal learning languages that violate universal grammar.”…

Transmission of brain signal from one person to another has long been described in various works of fiction and, as often happens, technology was quite feasible. Because for a long time already invented sensors for recording brain activity. And if the signal can be captured, then transfer it makes no difficulties. However, the main difficulty…