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A year after the first unsuccessful attempt Norwegian company Offshore Sensing conducted the first ever successful crossing of the Atlantic by using a compact self-contained floating means Sailbuoy Met. The device, resembling a small surfboard with a few solar panels and a rigid sail, was launched from the island of Newfoundland (USA) the staff of…

The development of 3D printing technologies was not going to slow down. Regularly something new is created that simplify life and extend our capabilities. And recently it became known that on one of the enterprises of Rosatom state Corporation created a unique 3D printer is equipped with two lasers and allows you to print simultaneously…

People have some kind of irresistible pull to an accurate definition of time. Expensive brand watches are famous for high-precision mechanisms that provide minimum error. But in science all the same accuracy matters and, as a rule, for the most accurate measurements used in atomic clocks. But there are more exotic variations of the latter.…

Google engineers are going to arrange another reform on the Internet. The Google Chrome browser already eradicates the HTTP Protocol, marking using his sites as unsafe and forcing administrators to move to HTTPS encryption. According to Wired, before the end of the second half of 2019, the company will come up with a replacement for…

Photo: Getty Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop—a “lifestyle brand” peddling pseudoscience in the form of wellness—just settled a lawsuit claiming the stated health benefits of the company’s products weren’t scientifically supported. Specifically, its vaginal eggs. The lawsuit, which was brought on by ten California counties, alleged that Goop’s two vaginal eggs—the Jade Egg and the Rose Quartz…

Image: Getty Sure, smartphones and smartphone apps can waste our time and bring out the worst in people, but they can most definitely also be a force for good: They can educate, inform, and inspire. With that in mind we’ve put together a list of our favorite apps that can teach you something new every…

Vanilla Ice in 2016.Photo: Charles Sykes (Invision/AP) Earlier today, a flight that had left Dubai in the United Arab Emirates landed at JFK International Airport in New York with 549 passengers and crew on board—and was promptly quarantined due to a mysterious ailment spreading throughout the cabin. In the neighborhood of 100 people on board…

Japanese residents line up to buy emergency supplies in Biei town, Hokkaido, after an earthquake struck the region on September 6th local time.Photo: Mika Takeda (AP) A Japanese nuclear power station in Hokkaido is operating on emergency power after the region was hit by a 6.7-magnitude quake in the early hours of Thursday morning, Reuters…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. Lawmakers have sparred over whether a now-reversed change to auto-suggestions on Twitter had unfairly hurt Democrats or Republicans more. Photo: AP At hearing before the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed politicians’ concerns…

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) mSpy, a company that sells software designed to let users spy on their children, partners, or anyone else they want to keep their eye on, left exposed more than two million records “including software purchases and iCloud usernames and authentication tokens of devices running mSky,” TechCrunch reported. mSpy markets its…