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  • The app will tell about diseases of the heart and vessels without incisions and injections

    Many people use fitness trackers and other analyzers of physical activity. However, they give only a superficial idea of the work serdechno-vascular system. But what if there was an app that could act like a real diagnostic technique and in some cases replace invasive procedures? Almost sounds like fiction, but nevertheless a similar application was…

  • Facebook promises to become 100 percent green by 2020

    Company Facebook announced that it has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of its data centers by 75 percent and strives by 2020, 100 per cent switch to renewable energy. As noted in the company’s official blog, with this step the company strives to support the efforts of the world community to confront global climate change.…

  • The main supplier of chips AMD refused to support new technologies

    GlobalFoundries, a us company involved in manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuits and is the main producer of the current rulers of Ryzen processors and graphics chips, Radeon AMD announced that it would stop all work associated with the development of a new generation of chips on the basis of a 7-nm process. Moreover, the company said…

  • Dangerously Horny Dolphin Ruins Swimming for French Town 

    Photo: Getty A village on the coast of France has banned swimming in the presence of Zafar, a bottlenose dolphin that has become problematically horny. Roger Lars, the mayor of Landévennec, issued a regulation last week that prohibits people from swimming and diving on the shoreline when Zafar is present, as well as coming within…

  • Instagram Gets Twitter-Style Verification and a Better Way to Secure Your Account

    Image: Instagram/Gizmodo On Tuesday, Instagram will start rolling out some new tools designed to help weed out fake accounts and better inform users. Popular accounts will soon have the option for other users to see more detailed information about them, and everyone’s going to be scrambling to get the coveted check mark of authenticity. Whenever…

  • Store-Bought Chicken Could Be Causing Urinary Tract Infections

    A Brahma chicken, seen at the National Poultry Show in 2016Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) There are plenty of reasons to cook your chicken thoroughly before eating it, including avoiding a nasty stomach bug. But a new study published Tuesday in mBio might offer a new one: It could prevent you getting an urinary tract…

  • Scientists Only Able to Reproduce Results for 13 out of 21 Human Behavior Studies

    Photo: Jamie McDonald (Getty Images) The latest efforts to reproduce scientific findings, this time in the field of social sciences, has produced lukewarm results. If the results in a published study can’t be replicated in subsequent experiments, how can you trust what you read in scientific journals? One international group of researchers is well aware…

  • A Sex Doll ‘Brothel’ Is Opening Up In Toronto Next Month

    Photo: Getty Soon, interested patrons will be able to fuck around with a sex doll in a Toronto shopping mall. As (female) sex dolls become increasingly lifelike, it’s no surprise that companies want to recreate the brothel, replacing the job of human sex workers with the ultra-realistic silicone replicas. Aura Dolls, the company behind the…

  • Despite Everything, You Can Now Buy 3D-Printed Gun Plans Online

    Photo: AP The DEFCAD file repository of 3D-printable gun blueprints is live. There, you can buy the plans to print parts for anything from an AR-15 to the plastic Liberator pistol. Defense Distributed, the controversial organization that wants to enable easier access to firearms, started selling these files on Tuesday morning, despite a day-old court…

  • Intel Rounds Out 8th-Gen With Chips for Super Cheap, Super Thin Laptops

    Close up of a Coffee Lake desktop CPU—also from the 8th generation of Intel processors.Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) It’s been almost a year since Intel first launched its 8th generation of computer processors, and now, finally, it seems to be completing the lineup with a series of CPUs intended for super thin laptops and 2-in-1s.…