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New Clues Emerge About Doomed Expedition Through the Northwest Passage In 1845, Sir John Franklin led two British Royal Navy ships on an ill-fated expedition through the… Read more Read Previous analyses of the bone, hair, and soft tissue from the recovered bodies, along with oral accounts from indigenous peoples, suggested the crewmen died from…

Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in 2017 Photo: Getty The research arm of Y Combinator plans to begin a study on universal basic income next year in which it will give unconditional cash payments to 3,000 participants. The test is partially intended to see if receiving routine…

Huawei has announced the imminent start of sales of the powerful version of the smartphone Honor Note 10. Recall, the smartphone was first promised by the head of the Honor line “very frightening” products and technologies, over its development, the company worked for two years. Tomorrow Honor Note 10 in the version with 8 GB…

The most sold product Apple was not the iPhone. This is evidenced by research conducted by Ceros with coverage in the last few years. In 2016 the most popular Apple product was the Lightning USB cable because the cables Apple has long been a sore spot and often ground. In 2017 became the leader of…

The developers from UC Berkeley in the US have created a network for those who can’t dance, but wants to impress friends videos of the dances. One algorithm creates a virtual skeleton with a map of poses, and the other two to create the full picture, transferring them to the right person, with realistic facial…

Russia may launch a mobile application that will replace a driver’s license, proof of vehicle registration and insurance. All these documents will be in electronic form provided in the app. This was told Kommersant. First Deputy chief of traffic police Vladimir Shvetsov, said: “Many people now pay for purchases by phone. We want to give…

In Russia in 2020 e-work book will be required. This was told to the newspaper “Vedomosti”. According to the publication, the transition to electronic format was supported by Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov at the meeting on amendments to the labour code. It is planned that electronic documents will be issued to all employees, and…

Image: Gizmodo/Getty The world’s most valuable company and a business run by the richest man in modern history have been engaged in an irritating cold war for years, and they need to knock it off. When I say that Amazon and Apple are engaged in tech’s most annoying feud, I don’t mean it’s the most…

Image: Lupa Jacques Pezet, a fact-checker for Germany-based CORRECTIV, another third-party fact-checker for Facebook, said he has been working on fact-checking a video separate from Facebook’s dashboard—they don’t have that capability yet. The organization identified the video because far-right pages were sharing it. It was also flagged by a Twitter user who tagged Correctiv’s fact-checking…

Company HMD Global, which is now responsible for the release of Nokia’s smartphones, received a trademark PureView. Previously, the brand was bought by Microsoft Nokia. Brand PureView debuted in 2012 and the launch of the Nokia 808 PureView with 41 MP camera at MWC 2012. Subsequently, it went to about a dozen of Lumia smartphones…