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Here’s Where Hayabusa2 Will Try to Land on the Asteroid Ryugu
Ryugu asteroidPhoto: JAXA How did JAXA determine the landing locations for Hayabusa2? The sites are flat spots within 200 meters (656 feet) of Ryugu’s equator, with an average slope less than 30 degrees, a flat region with a 100-meter (328-foot) diameter, boulders less than 50 centimeters (20 inches) high, and a temperature less than 97…
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Facebook Bans App That Inspired Cambridge Analytica and Suspends 400 Others
Photo: Getty In the midst of an app audit that will probably never end, Facebook gave us an update on its progress on Wednesday. While the company is still being stingy with information, it said 4 million users should expect a notification that a now-banned app called myPersonality may have misused their data. Additionally, Facebook…
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Declared the Russian prices for the flagship Meizu 16
The company Meizu announced the beginning of receiving pre-orders in Russia on the smartphone Meizu 16. The model has a frameless design, a fingerprint scanner integrated directly into the display. Meizu 16 is equipped with a 6-inch AMOLED-display with a resolution of Full HD+ (2160 x 1080 pixels), dual-core camera 12+20 MP and front camera…
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The output of the ancestors of the games in the RPG genre, Ultima III and Mac OS X Jaguar
23 August 1983 overlooks one of the pioneers of the RPG genre, Ultima III: Exodus. It was originally developed for the Apple II, but then ported a little more than a dozen platforms. The game could not boast of the most advanced graphics, plus it was the first RPG with animated characters. And characters, by…
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Declassified design the cheapest Samsung
In the network appeared new details about the upcoming smartphone Samsung Galaxy Core J2, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. They shared a specialized portal SamMobile. The source has posted a render of the Samsung Galaxy Core J2 (model number SM-J260x) in five color options. It is noted that the model runs on the…
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Curved gaming monitor Samsung is now available for purchase in Russia
Company Samsung Electronics has presented new model of gaming monitor with curved screen CJG5 at Gamescom 2018, taking place from 21 to 25 August 2018 in Cologne. The model is presented in versions with a diagonal of 32 inches (C32JG50QQI) and 27 inches (C27JG50QQI). They support a resolution of WQHD (2560 x 1440 pixels), refresh…
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iPhone 9 will be the spiritual successor to iPhone SE
The network continues to accumulate details about the new generation of smartphones Apple. Developers found references available version iPhone 9 in a development environment, Xcode. Find shared developed by Guilherme Rambo (Guilherme Rambo ), using your Twitter account. According to the source, the basis of the “budget” model iPhone will be Apple’s A10 processor as…
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Your Brain Tries to Change Focus Four Times per Second, Study Finds
Your brain scans your surroundings about four times per second, even while you focus on something else like reading a book.Photo: Pexels By the time you’re finished reading this sentence, your brain will have rapidly assessed your surroundings 14 times to see if you should focus on something else. At least, that’s what new research…
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Facebook Removes Hundreds of Pages Used in Iranian Influence Campaign
Photo: Getty On Tuesday, Facebook revealed that it has terminated hundreds of pages that were engaged in what it called “inauthentic behavior.” The latest takedown of political influence campaigns was said to involve hundreds of pages with hundreds of thousands of followers which are believed to be tied to Iran and Russia. Social media companies…
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Facebook Pulls Its Data-Harvesting Onavo VPN From App Store After Apple Says It Violates Rules
Photo: Richard Drew (AP) Facebook has yanked its vampiric Onavo Protect service—which purports to be a privacy-enhancing Virtual Private Network (VPN) but is by all indications data-harvesting Facebook spyware—from Apple’s App Store. The Wall Street Journal reports that a source said Facebook was compelled to remove the app after Apple “ruled that the service violated…