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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Android 9 Pie has been out for a month, and while the addition of things like digital wellness controls and handy app actions have made Google’s mobile OS friendlier to use, I can’t help but think one of Android 9's most glaring omissions is the lack of an OS-wide dark mode.…

Artist’s impression of the jet emitted by the neutron star collision.Illustration: James Josephides (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Last year brought a monumental observation of the cosmos: the light and simultaneous gravitational waves from a pair of colliding neutron stars over 130 million light-years from Earth. But mysteries about this event remained—like why the radiation…

Dame Jocelyn Bell BurnellPhoto: Silicon Republic (Wikimedia Commons) Accomplished astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has won a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize for her discovery of pulsars 50 years ago and continued leadership in science. Bell Burnell has lived an accomplished life. Though best known for her discovery, she has become a leader in the field,…

Photo: iRobot It’s a clever idea that we’ve seen before and will see again, because in order to keep robot vacuums small enough to squeeze into tight spaces and clean under furniture, there simply isn’t any room to make their onboard dust bins any larger. Until these machines are able to autonomously dump their dirt…

In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, I found an interesting video. It shows the new Lenovo smartphone with a sliding mechanism for the camera. More precisely, the screen moves relative to the main module housing and provides access to the camera. This smartphone is markedly different from the Oppo Find X, which…

Huawei announced the imminent start of sales in Russia tablet MediaPad T5. This is an inexpensive model with a larger screen. The tablet is equipped with 10.1-inch IPS Full HD display (1920 x 1200 pixels) with an aspect ratio of 16:10, the cameras 5 and 2 MP, OCTA core processor HiSilicon Kirin 659, 2 or…

Latvian designer Benjamin Gaskin (Benjamin Geskin), known for the organization of the leaks published through your Twitter account interesting video. The video shows a working prototype of Android-smartphone can be folded in half. The smartphone uses a flexible screen from the Chinese company BOE Display. 5,99-inch display has got a resolution of Full HD. The…

The company Yandex has announced its new service — Yandex.Services. It is designed for search professionals to solve various household problems, from repairing a washing machine before the haircut dogs. At the moment, the service will accept applications from artists and professionals. When you collect enough, it will open for customers. However, on the website…

Samsung Electronics announced the launch of Russia’s service remittances Samsung Pay. It allows owners of Samsung smartphones to transfer money from card to card by phone number. Service users can make transfers to cards of Russian banks in roubles with application Samsung Pay. The operation of debiting/crediting of funds on the cards Visa and Mastercard…

Modern smartphones offer the user a lot of opportunities, but also expose personal data like passwords and credit card numbers at risk of being stolen. Of course, there are many options to protect your device from antivirus programs to embedded systems passwords. And, as it turned out, quite easy to crack using regular speaker and…