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Photo: Raul Marrero (Gizmodo) I’m sick of buying iPhones. For the past decade, I’ve been buying them and loving them and breaking them and losing them and replacing them and, when September comes along, upgrading them. Last year, it cost me over $1,200 to get an iPhone X, and against my better judgment, I’m very…

29 Sep 1842, inventor William Henson has published a draft of an airplane with a steam engine. A patent application for this invention, he registered back in March of the same year. Unfortunately, information on the construction of the first in aviation history model airplane remained very small. The project was called “Aerial steam carriage”…

In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, revealed some interesting details about the upcoming smartphones Xiaomi, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. According to a source, smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 and Mi Mix LEX will be equipped by the special button to launch branded digital assistant Xiao AI. One click on this…

In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed high quality images of upcoming smartphone Nokia 9, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. As expected, Nokia 9 will receive a rear camera with five lenses with unusual layout, like the drum of a revolver. For rendering, however, the smartphone is shown on the…

The Taiwanese hacker (in the good sense of the word) Chang Chi-Yun (Chang Chi-yuan) said that the hacked page of the head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg during a live broadcast there on Facebook. The event is scheduled for Sunday, September 30, at 3:00 in San Francisco or 13:00 Moscow time. Hacker the twenty-four year-old has…

Information about prices for the upcoming Intel Core i9-9900K and Core i7-9700K ahead of time appeared in the catalogue of the Silicon Lottery. The resource has published a new page for processors Coffee Lake-R (Refresh), which should be out as Intel Core ninth generation, and open showing also the prices on the processors. Soon the…

In the past year astronomers have discovered an object that came to us with the other stars. For many eras and millennia in our humble Solar system was definitely a lot of interstellar visitors, but this was the first that we found. Moimoi is a thin, cigar-shaped comet that could come from almost anywhere from…

Blue Origin, the aerospace company created by the founder Amazon.com Jeff Bezosa, won the contract to supply engines for a massive rocket Vulcan, which makes the United Launch Alliance. Although Blue Origin is considered the most suitable candidate for this contract for months, this victory was an important milestone for the aerospace company in Seattle…

If the cars could be powered only on solar energy batteries, all drivers would have been happy. Unfortunately, at the moment this type of food is difficult to implement, because the car is impossible to install the large solar panels, and their engines require a large amount of energy. However, powered by solar energy can…

The company HiBy, known primarily as the developer of music player for iOS and Android, and secondly as the author of the firmware for about half the emerging market players decided that it was time to take their place in the market, “iron”, and released two players: the more expensive and large R6 and smaller,…