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Photo: Getty In July, four thieves walked into an Apple Store in Fresno, California and, unarmed and in under thirty seconds, scooped up over $27,000 in iPhones and MacBooks from the display tables and ran out. On Sunday, five suspects were arrested after executing a similar heist from an Apple store in Thousand Oaks. According…

Image: New York Public Library Gizmodo has advocated for libraries as an excellent means of logging off, because a library is a service that lets you “stream” films, music, magazines, books, and all other kinds of media for free. But now one of the world’s greatest libraries is trying to enrich the social media experience.…

Team Parallels has introduced Parallels Desktop for Mac 14, tool updated to run Windows applications on Mac computers. The new version brings support for macOS Mojave. In addition, according to the developers, Parallels Desktop 14 saves up to 20 GB of storage space used by the virtual machines and runs 4 times faster than previous…

Figure of the day: 802 000 000 Internet users in China. Information center the Internet in China (CNNIC, China Internet Network Information Center) reported the achievement of another milestone. The number of Internet users in China exceeded 800 million and reached 802 million. For comparison, the population exceeds 1.4 billion. In the first quarter of…

As expected, Xiaomi today launched in India its first smartphone under a new brand Poco. Model called Poco F1 differs flagship technical parameters and low cost. In Europe the smartphone will be released under the title Pocophone F1. In addition to the usual variations, Poco F1 will also be of dostupen “reinforced” edition Armoured Edition…

Apple will release a cheap laptop until the end of 2018. About it told the publication Bloomberg, citing “knowledgeable” sources. The laptop will have a design similar to the current MacBook Air, but with a thinner frame around the display. The screen will retain a 13-inch diagonal, but the resolution will rise to the level…

People with poor eyesight as an alternative to more conservative points less visible use contact lenses. Options of contact lenses on the market are a great many, but typically, this product serves its master very long – from several months to several days. Then they are usually discarded. And usually, the drain. Don’t do it.…

Company Stratolaunch announced plans to develop a series of space rockets, the launch of which will be carried out by special carrier aircraft. The design includes three rockets and a reusable spaceplane that will be used to deliver cargo and people into orbit. To present the first development according to the Stratolaunch plan promises in…

In recent years more and more developers of medical equipment carry out investigations in the field of creation of moving inside the human body, diagnostic implants and robots. But with all the advantages of such technologies, there is a problem: these “microscopic diagnosis” is very difficult to follow. For these purposes experts from the Massachusetts…

Diagram showing the location of ice on the lunar poles.Graphic: Li et al (PNAS 2018) The biggest issue was that the LRO’s instruments measured water ice’s characteristic interaction with certain light wavelengths, or spectra, in the ultraviolet. But the ultraviolet signatures might have come from other molecules, such as hydroxide—OH, rather than H2O. The Moon…