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  • Colombia Is Testing Drones to Drop Herbicide on Crops Used for Cocaine

    Photo: AP Under newly elected President Iván Duque, Colombia is testing remote-controlled drones designed to track and destroy coca, the crop used in cocaine production. The government has reportedly tested ten drones so far. The drones carry payloads of glyphosate, a powerful herbicide. During early tests they’ve destroyed “hundreds of acres of coca,” the Wall…

  • OK Fine, Maybe Nintendo’s on to Something With the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit

    Once you’re done building it, the right Joy-Con slips right inside the card board key. The left Joy-Con goes inside the pedal kit. Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) And so it was with this mindset I went to check out Nintendo’s third playset for Labo which features an all new standalone game and a new vehicle…

  • ‘Spooky’ Quantum Entanglement Confirmed Using Distant Quasars

    A quasarImage: NASA If you read enough science news, you’ll know that there’s a long list of experiments attempting to “prove Einstein wrong.” None have yet contradicted his hallmark theory of relativity. But the latest effort to falsify his statements surrounding “spooky action at a distance” has gone truly cosmic. Scientists have long performed tests…

  • Renders of the Huawei Mate 20 showed a keyhole and a triple camera

    In the network appeared new details about the upcoming flagship smartphone Huawei Mate 20, while not officially presented by the manufacturer. They shared the user community of mobile developers XDA Developers. According to the source, the published renderings based on current engineering sample photos of the Huawei Mate 20 which fell into the hands of…

  • Yandex.Taxi was taught to taxi to a friend

    The development team Yandex.Taxi announced the launch of new features for its service. The application Yandex.A taxi was possible to rent a car to another person. It is sufficient to specify in the application the phone number of this person and all the information about the trip will come in SMS. Forward the car number,…

  • Russia ahead of schedule has unveiled the new Apple Watch

    Apple is preparing to release a new smart watch Apple Watch. Record of them have already appeared on the website of the Eurasian economic Commission in the section with the plaintive title “Unified register of notifications of the characteristics of encryption (cryptographic) devices and products containing it”. In the database, the EEC referred to six…

  • NVIDIA showed how the schedule can issue GeForce RTX in games

    Simultaneously with the announcement of the first gaming GeForce RTX architecture Turing, NVIDIA talked about the games that are developed on NVIDIA RTX. The platform brings in game ray tracing in real time and the possibility of artificial intelligence. NVIDIA has published a selection of trailers showcasing these capabilities expected in such games as Battlefield…

  • Launch date announced open beta testing of Battlefield V

    DICE and Electronic Arts announced the start date of open beta testing of Battlefield V. on September 4, opens early access, and on 6 September the beta will be able to try out all the players on the PC on Origin, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The open beta includes two maps — “Rotterdam” (“Capture”…

  • Google’s Revamped Fitness App Turns Activity Tracking into a Game

  • Microsoft Seizes Domains Imitating Right-Wing Groups Controlled by Kremlin Hackers

    Photo: AP Last week, Microsoft took control of six internet domains allegedly being used by Russian hackers, the company said. The domains included one website apparently created to mimic an organization led by six Republican senators, the International Republican Institute, on whose board also sits Senate hopeful Mitt Romney. The six domains, Microsoft said, are…