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The ISSImage: NASA A tiny pressure leak has been detected on the Russian side of the International Space Station. It sounds alarming, but flight controllers say the astronauts aren’t in any immediate danger. When the six astronauts aboard the ISS woke up at the usual time this morning, they were greeted with some rather disquieting…

Artist concept of a black hole eating a starIllustration: NASA JPL/Caltech What happens when a dead star meets a black hole? The answer appears to be a brief zombie awakening, according to a new paper. Let me explain. A team of scientists was interested in how white dwarfs—small, dense objects thought to form when bigger…

Photo: Getty Last month, Mark Zuckerberg defended Holocaust deniers, stating in an interview that he doesn’t “think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong,” and in turn, Facebook shouldn’t take down the dangerously false content. On Wednesday, the platform did, however, temporarily remove a post advocating for Holocaust education from the Anne Frank Center. “These numbers…

Image: Apple We’ll finally know what those new iPhones are called on September 12, according to CNET. The invitation CNET received doesn’t specify what products will be announced or when said products would ship. Instead, it asks invitees to “gather round”—a joke about the impressively circular Steve Jobs Theater that the event will be held…

A brain scan of someone with multiple sclerosisImage: Govind Bhagavatheeshwaran (National Institutes of Health) New research funded by the National Institutes of Health suggests an experimental drug can slow down the brain damage caused by a form of multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable neurological disorder that eats away at the protective coating of our nervous…

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Along with anything related to smart speakers and voice assistant integration, one of the biggest gold rushes in tech is the rapidly expanding smarthome market. And with companies both new and old trying to find a way in, there’s a lot of a confusion among consumer about which brands are legit.…

Those laser cut holes aren’t just for decoration.Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) On the new Yoga C930 (the “C” stands for convertible), Lenovo has bravely ditched the company’s signature watchband hinge and replaced it with a hinge that has a speaker built right into it. And I have to admit that at first, it seemed like…

Apple sent invitations to journalists at his next press event. It is scheduled for 12 September 2018 and will be held in the theatre named after Steve jobs (Steve Jobs Theater) in the new Apple campus. At the event, is expected to announce next-generation smartphones, iPhone 9, iPhone X and X Plus. Also, Apple may…

The opening of the exhibition IFA 2018, which will be held from 31 August to 5 September in Berlin, Sony introduced a novelty in the popular line of earphones 1000X. Model WH-1000XM3 got a new noise-cancelling HD processor QN1. According to the manufacturer, the new CPU can not only suppress the traffic noise at the…