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Elon Musk and Grimes at a gala earlier this year.Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision (AP) Three months ago, I had no idea who recording artist Grimes was, but after weeks of nonstop drama and intrigue, reports she’s been unfollowed on Twitter by her boyfriend Elon Musk have me shook. Musk, who heads aerospace manufacturer SpaceX and electric…

Illustration: Elena Scotti/Jim Cooke (Photos: Alex Cranz/Shutterstock) Read anything interesting in the news lately? No, really. I’m still catching up, because for much of the past week, I was vacationing in lovely Cook Forest, Pennsylvania, during which my access to the internet was limited to whatever stretches of 4G could be obtained amid supply runs…

20 August 1975 started the space program “Viking”, designed to thoroughly explore Mars. All through this Odyssey, NASA launched two spacecraft: “Viking-1 and Viking-2”. The study of the planet were conducted with both Mars orbit and on its surface. In a number of studies including the were included a program to search for life. Each…

In the flagship smartphones — powerful hardware. 855 new Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm is likely to get previously not peculiar to hardware platforms a feature that will expand its functionality. In the Network appeared new information about the successor of the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset 845 — 855 Snapdragon. TSMC will begin production of these…

People have long produced and consumed cheeses, and the recent discovery of cheese by age of 3200 years old Egyptian tomb was proof of that. Although this cheese for some palates could be a delicacy, it also has become a source of disease. This week in the journal Analytical Chemistry appeared a study in which…

An iPad at an Apple Store in Chicago.Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast (AP) An Apple store in Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square was briefly evacuated after an explosion believed to be the result of an overheating iPad battery, Dutch broadcaster AT5 as well as Dutch blog iCulture reported. The fire was quickly put out by Apple staff who…

Iberian pigs grazing on acorns at the farm Faustino Prieto in the village of Cespedosa, Spain, in 2012.Photo: Denis Doyle (Getty Images) There are now enough pigs in Spain that technically everyone could have one, and there’d be pigs to spare. Per the Guardian, Spanish environmental ministry figures reveal that the country now has 50…

August 18, 1868 French astronomer discovered helium. Pierre Janssen used a spectroscope for the observation of plasma formations on the edge of the solar disk during an Eclipse. He also invented a method of daily exploration of the solar edges on ordinary days. In the spectrum of solar radiation that day, in addition to the…

17 August 1982 released the world’s first CD-ROM*. Order Philips has made it the factory of the record company Polygram, located in Langenhagen near Hanover, Germany. Honor of being the first published CD was awarded to the ABBA album “The Visitors”. CDs developed by Sony and Philips in 1979 whose objective was to create a…

A massive cylindrical housing may one day adopt four astronauts sent into deep space. Lockheed Martin showed how could look like such dwelling, on Thursday at Space center. Kennedy, where the aerospace giant’s contract with NASA is developing a prototype residential environments. Lockheed is one of six contractors (including Boeing, Sierra Nevada Space Systems, Orbital…