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Screenshot: Kansas City Star “This thing had spared the eye, spared the brain, spared the spinal cord,” Koji Ebersole, director of endovascular neurosurgery at The University of Kansas Health System, told the Star. “But the major concern was the blood vessels in the neck.” Scans showed that the spike had missed major vessels. “You couldn’t…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Just how big is the iPhone Xs Max? Honking huge. Despite having near identical dimensions to the iPhone 8 Plus, the iPhone Xs Max feels a little heavier and does, in fact, have about 4 grams more weight. Yet all that slick stainless steel and the glass back gives it a…

Screenshot: Apple The new iPhones are here, and with them, Apple has once again pushed the price of smartphones even higher—especially the iPhone Xs Max which starts at $1,100 and goes all the way up to a staggering $1,450 if you upgrade to 512GB of storage. But what’s this? There’s a third iPhone, and with…

Photo: Getty This is how it happens when extraterrestrials make contact with Earth. It starts with a newspaper report about suspicious activity at a space research facility—government agents and military vehicles. The local sheriff gets angry and confused. Then the TV news reports feature interviews with locals saying things like, “Nothing really happens here very…

Photo: Chris Hondros (Getty Images) It’s become a heartbreakingly common sight on the internet: People using crowdfunding sites to raise money for their expensive health care, including cancer treatment. But a new report published Wednesday in the BMJ suggests that desperate people are often using this money to pursue dubious, possibly dangerous treatments from unscrupulous…

Photo: Getty A mysterious (hilarious?) bug appeared to temporarily drag down the Amazon customer rating for Bob Woodward’s new book about the Trump administration’s first year in office. On Wednesday, reviews on Amazon for the just-released Woodward book Fear became intermingled, somehow, with reviews for an L. Ron Hubbard novella by the same name. A…

The North American operator Verizon Wireless has announced the imminent launch of the first in the world commercial network of the fifth generation. Work service Verizon 5G Home will start on October 1 until invited to apply for connection. The first cities where will the service will be Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Note…

Figure of the day: 63 000 000 iPhone X sold by Apple. Company Counterpoint has published statistics on sales of smartphones Apple. According to latest report from Counterpoint Market Monitor, total sales of last year’s flagship iPhone X has reached a level of 63 million units by the end of August 2018. To reach this…

Sony Mobile Communications has announced the beginning of sales Xperia XA2 Plus in Russia This is her first smartphone with a larger edge-to-edge screen, previously XA2 Ultra (review) had a standard aspect ratio of 16:9. According to the manufacturer, it is also the first mid-range smartphone line Xperia with the ability to play Hi-Res Audio…