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Flames Engulf Brazil’s National Museum, Destroying Massive Cultural and Scientific Collection
Flames stretch high into the air above Brazil’s National Museum.Photo: Buda Mendes (Getty Images) Items in the building included Latin America’s most extensive Egyptian collection, pre-Columbian artifacts, the oldest human remains ever discovered in the Americas (“Luzia”), dinosaur bones, extensive biology exhibits, and a massive scientific library. Here’s a few other things that were stored…
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A Google Engineer Discovered a Vulnerability Letting Him Take Control of Keycard-Controlled Doors
Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) A Google engineer discovered a vulnerability in the third-party system controlling access to doors across its campus in Sunnyvale, California, and took the opportunity to prove that he could bypass any RFID keycard-operated lock in the facility, Forbes reported on Monday. According to Forbes, employee David Tomaschik discovered that Software…
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Valve released free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Valve has released a free version of one of the most popular games on Steam — Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Version Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Free Edition allows you to play for free but with restrictions. The free edition offers a single game with bots on different maps without a network connection, as well as watching other…
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In Russia opened pre-order the iPhone XS
Russian manufacturer of luxury smartphones Caviar, known for his extravagant versions of iPhone, has introduced a range of modifications to the iPhone XS. Yes, that’s right, the announcement of these iPhone has not yet taken place. Apple has scheduled a presentation on September 12. However, Caviar is already taking pre-orders for iPhone iPhone XS and…
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Created by folding into a tube smartphone
The team from Queen’s University in Kingston presented his own vision of the smartphone future. MagicScroll shows a prototype of a new type of mobile device. He demonstrated at IFA 2018, which runs from August 31 to September 5 in Berlin. MagicScroll prozrachno the name alludes to the similarity with the “magic scroll”. 7.5-inch flexible…
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Declassified specifications of LG ThinQ V40 with five cameras
In the network appeared new details about the upcoming smartphone LG V40, which has not yet been officially submitted. Information shared relevant resource AndroidPit. Smartphone LG V40 executed in frameless design with cutout screen in the style of iPhone X and boasts five camera modules — double front and triple core. The fingerprint scanner located…
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Android Pie 9.0 installed in less than 0.1% of Android devices
Google has updated its statistics on the prevalence of various versions of the Android operating system on the official site for Android developers Developers. Figures for the week ended 31 August 2018. The latest 9.0 version of the Android Pie while in the rating were not included because the statistics do not count Google OS…
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Is it possible to transplant human organs pigs? Time to find out
Every day around the world people die. Die waiting for organs for transplantation. They just don’t have enough donors — the demand is too great. Xenotransplantation — the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from animal to human — can help us meet this demand for organs. Scientists from the University of Alabama at…
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Created a material that can rebuild itself
No matter how strong and durable a material it is in any case subject to wear. And it would be great to create a substance that could rearrange its internal structure and change it in the manner of “smart” materials from a science fiction movie. And, it seems that something like this managed to create…
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A new blood test will help to know about the risk of cancer recurrence
Despite the fact that many types of cancer very well to care, very often the threat of the disease returning in the form of relapses, to identify and predict which is not always easy. However, medicine is not in place and was recently presented a new method of analyzing blood, which will allow oncologists to…