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Photo: gentle07 (Pixabay) It’s long been suspected that hand dryers, especially those quick-drying ones that blast hot air known as jet dryers, are actually way worse at keeping our hands and bathrooms free of disease-causing germs. Worryingly, they could even be spreading illness in hospital bathrooms, new research suggests.  Researchers in the UK, France, and…

Screenshot: Tor Project At long last, the Tor Project is releasing an official web browser for Android users. The new Android app is available now as an alpha release in Google’s Play Store and on the experimental releases section of the Project’s download page. Even if you don’t use the Tor Browser to browse the…

These are candlesPhoto: Getty A woman in Connecticut was severely injured earlier this week after mistaking a quarter stick of dynamite for a candlestick. Officials said the woman’s residence lost power during a storm on Thursday night, ABC 7 reported. The family wasn’t able to buy emergency lights because Home Depot was closed, but according…

The skull and antlers of the extinct Great Elk pulled from a lake in Northern Ireland.Image: Ardboe Gallery A pair of lucky Northern Irish fishermen pulled in this skull with enormous antlers, measuring a whopping six feet in length. The extraordinary specimen belonged to the extinct Great Elk, which hasn’t been seen in Ireland for…

Image: Bru-nO (Pixabay) People who use dietary supplements containing an ingredient called higenamine are playing with fire, suggests a new study. There’s often no telling just how much higenamine is packed into a single pill, it found, meaning people could be dosing themselves with dangerously high levels of the plant-based stimulant. The researchers behind the…

Photo: Getty When President Trump first tossed out the idea of starting a trade war with China, there was a serious chance those taxes would impact the prices of gadgets back at home. And wouldn’t you know it, after seeing an outline of products that would be hit by the government’s 25 percent tax on…

Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr Employees at one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies are being urged by their bosses to sign a petition opposing net neutrality legislation passed one week ago by the California legislature. In an email Thursday to employees at Frontier Communications—a leading provider of internet, TV, and phone services in 29 states—West Region…

Following operators MTS, Beeline and MegaFon, unlimited Internet offered and Tele2. The option is called “a lot of the Internet.” It is available for users of tariffs “My line+”, “My online ultra and Sorcery”. Option is different for different regions. For example, in Moscow it will cost 200 rubles per month, St. Petersburg — 150…

Microsoft decided to give interested persons an opportunity to extend support for the Windows 7 operating system. This version of the OS will cease to receive security updates on 14 January 2020. Corporate users can pay extra to get extended security updates Windows 7 ESU until January 2023. Microsoft is going to charge you for…

Team social network Odnoklassniki announced the launch of the features of the paid broadcasts. Partners of the social network can create a broadcast with pay-per-view. In the future the service will appear in the interface of Classmates for all content producers. The first new service will start to use the Kontinental hockey League: in the…