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Photo: Getty He may be the most beleaguered and mistrusted CEO of any major tech company, but if an enormous new profile of Mark Zuckerberg makes one thing clear, he’s not as dumb as Twitter’s CEO. If you need catching up on the trials and tribulations of Zuck, the New Yorker has a 14,000-word profile…

Fluoxetine pills. Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) A common antidepressant, sold under the brand name Prozac, could be helping some bacteria build resistance to antibiotics, suggests a new study from Australia. The study, published in Environment International, found that fluoxetine was capable of inducing antibiotic resistance in laboratory strains of Escherichia coli. Fluoxetine is a…

PhD student Lucas Manuelli poses with a Kuka robot arm, which uses a neural net to learn about new objects.Image: Tom Buehler/CSAIL Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a different story when new objects are thrown into the mix. To overcome this frustrating inflexibility,…

Photo: Getty A man is suing a cryonics firm for allegedly not respecting his late father’s wishes—or contract—to have his entire body cryogenically preserved. Instead, the firm severed and stored the man’s head, sending his cremated remains to his son. The firm in question is Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the first and largest business of…

A DNA fragment is cut under UV light for DNA sequencing.Image: AP An appeals court has upheld a 2017 decision recognizing scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as the true inventors of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system. The decision likely signifies the end of a bitter legal dispute that began four years ago.…

Photo: Getty Elon Musk started the day with some much-needed good news after Space X pulled off an early morning satellite launch without any troubles. The good news didn’t last long because on Monday afternoon security researchers went public with claims that Tesla’s keyless entry system is vulnerable to a spoofing hack that could give…

In the network appeared live pictures of upcoming smartphones Xiaomi Redmi Note and Mi 6 8 Youth, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. In the case of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 6, at photos hit the screens already on offer in the online store Aliexpress. They show edge-to-edge design of 6.18-inch display with a…

Known test smartphones jerryrigeverything once tested smartphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro (review). It is relatively inexpensive frameless smartphone with aluminum back panel and dual camera. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla glass that survived an attempt to scratch him, as well as plastic inserts top and bottom. The usual keys, coins and other…

As expected, today, the Chinese company Oppo is the beginning of the Russian sales of its flagship smartphone the Find X. He received, indeed, frameless design without compromise decisions like a cut-out screen in iPhone style X or an extended lower edge. In the official online store Oppo Find X available in red and blue…

Chinese billionaire Jack MA (Jack Ma), the head of the giant retailer Alibaba Group, will leave the management of the company. This event will occur a year later on 10 September 2019, just as the twentieth anniversary of the company. For 54-year-old Jack MA place will be Daniel Zhang (Daniel Zhang), now occupies the post…