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A sample of heroin laced with fentanyl, collected during a drug bust in New York City in September 2016.Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) More people are dying from drug overdoses in the U.S. than ever before, according to a new preliminary report released Wednesday by the federal government. There were an estimated 72,287 drug overdose…

Photo: Microsoft Still, these offerings are half-measures at best. For true, Y2K-inspired, candy-colored translucence, after-market modifications are really your only option. The Nintendo Switch community has made encouraging achievements on this front, presumably remembering translucency’s Surge-fueled halycon days better than most. Haters, with their predictable contrarianism, will likely deny the obvious merits of going clear…

While we don’t know what Google Coach may look like, it could be based on the latest version of Wear OS, shown off at Google I/O 2018 in May. Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Currently, when it comes to smartwatches, it’s the Apple Watch and then everything else. However, if a report from Android Police is…

A SoftBank Robotics Nao humanoid robot used in the studyImage: Vollmer et al., Sci. Robot. 3, eaat7111 2018 New research shows that children are more likely than adults to give in to peer pressure from robots, a disturbing finding given the rapidly increasing rate at which kids are interacting with socially intelligent machines. An experiment…

Photo: Saint Louis University When students of Saint Louis University begin their fall semester this month, they’ll notice a new addition to the campus—hundreds of glowing blue hockey-puck robots. The university has announced it will “deploy more than 2,300” of the devices throughout student living spaces, including in “every student residence hall room and student…

Photo: Alex Mikes Mikes designed and 3D-printed a plastic enclosure to neatly hide an Arduino Nano, an RF receiver, a tiny servo, and a mess of wires, enabling the simple device to clip onto the side of a Kindle Paperwhite. A small pivoting arm topped with a squishy tip from a capacitive stylus tricks the…

Turin Mummy S. 293 (RCGE 16550).Image: Egyptian Museum, Turin/J. Jones et al., 2018 The earliest mummies are typically associated with the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, but as an intensive examination of a 5,600-year-old mummy confirms, the methods used for this iconic funeral practice date back to well before the age of pharaohs. The practice…

Motorola, now owned by Chinese Lenovo introduced a new smartphone Motorola P30. He stanel the first Motorola smartphone with cutout display in iPhone style X. The design of a smartphone very similar to iPhone X both the front and rear. It is enclosed in a housing with glass panels, double camera located in the upper…

Apple will unveil its Apple vehicle Car in 2023-2025 years. This was reported by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (Ming-Chi Kuo) of TF International Securities, known for its connections with supply chain manufacturers. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the Apple Car will be the next “star” product that will revolutionize the automotive market as well as made the…

Samsung Electronics announced the development of the Exynos modem 5100. According to the manufacturer, this is the first industry-5G-modem, fully compliant with 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project). The modem supports the most recent specification of New Radio 5G (5G-NR). As the modem is in the current “system-on-chip” Exynos 9810, used in the flagship Galaxy S9,…