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Photo: Getty The voting records of some 14.8 million Texas residents were left exposed online and eventually got discovered by a data breach hunter overseas, according to TechCrunch. Much of the leaked information is public record and can be accessed by anyone willing to pay for it, but the files also include a wealth of…

Red points are detected firesImage: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS “Pretty much wherever you have vegetated surface, you have fire. I don’t particularly think this is a crazy, out-of-the-ordinary year for the globe,” said Christine Wiedinmyer, associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a…

Screenshot: Google+ Despite the irrefutable success of Google’s flagship social media network, a great tragedy has befallen Google+, because this weekend, Google France says it is shutting down its own page on Google+ for good. Luckily, francophones looking for updates on Google France will still have the option of getting news and announcements via Google…

25 August 1973 made the first MRI scanner. A device that allows you to explore the structure of the object layer by layer, repeatedly prospecive it in different directions. Tomography is of great importance for medicine, since some of the disease is possible to diagnose only with her. Magnetic resonance imaging provides good contrast between…

Intel is quite rapid responded to the unfolding scandal concerning the updated license agreement, which, in fact, forbade the publication of the results of performance tests of its processors. Seeing the indignation of the users, Intel has once again changed the license for the upgraded firmware of the processors. In the new version of the…

Analytical platform Statista, specialized on the online statistics, has published an interesting study on the preferences of PC gamers. As it turned out, Advanced Micro Devices continues to lose popularity in the gaming market and NVIDIA has almost taken its place. Among Steam users in July 2018, only 13.9% use PCs with AMD graphics. For…

In the database benchmark Geekbench showed the test results of the forthcoming smartphone ZTE Axon 9 Pro not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. Smartphone indicated in the benchmark as ZTE A2019G Pro. He scored 2,399 points in single core test and 8785 — in multi-core. Confirmed parameters such as 6 GB RAM and operating…

The Windows 95 operating system are often installed on different devices and platforms, just to show that it is possible. Windows 95 has already been run on the Apple Watch, smartwatches based on Android Wear and even Xbox One. Now the developer Felix Reisenberg (Felix Rieseberg) took place in this madness even further — he…

To put more energy into the battery is the key to making electric cars with much longer mileage, smartphones with the “eternal” charge and cheap electronics everywhere. Lithium-oxygen batteries represent one of the most promising ways of development in this direction. They can increase the energy density by several orders of magnitude compared to traditional…