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Purdue Pharma’s offices in Connecticut. Photo: Douglas Healey (AP) The State of New York is suing Purdue Pharma, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers, for what it says is the company’s role in driving the opioid crisis. On Tuesday morning, the attorney general’s office announced that it was filing a lawsuit…

A vial containing fentanyl. Image: AP For the first time in U.S. history, a death row inmate has been killed with a lethal injection containing fentanyl, a potent drug at the heart of the ongoing opioid overdose crisis. The execution of Carey Dean Moore happened this morning at Nebraska State Penitentiary, as reported by the…

Artist rendering of the GMTGraphic: Giant Magellan Telescope The bigger a telescope’s mirrors, the better resolution it has. Excavation has just begun on a new telescope that will be truly enormous, called the Giant Magellan Telescope. The GMT will be be big—24.5 meters (83.5 feet) in diameter, high up in the Chilean desert. It’s one…

Photo: Getty A spectre is haunting San Francisco—the spectre of feces. The Golden City has the second-highest cost of living in the U.S. and a major factor contributing to that fact is its housing crisis. Jeff Kositsky, director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told ABC in June that homelessness isn’t…

Sony Mobile Communications has announced the launch of pre-orders for the Xperia XA2 Plus in Russia This is her first smartphone with a larger edge-to-edge screen, previously XA2 Ultra (review) had a standard aspect ratio of 16:9. According to the manufacturer, it is also the first mid-range smartphone line Xperia with the ability to play…

Operator MTS has announced the launch of a new tariff called “Maritime”. The main feature stated it was unlimited Internet. However, it soon turned out that “unlimited” Trifida with restrictions. Subscribers found the limit when you try to connect via the mobile app MTS. The Annex stipulates a limit of 30 GB per month. In…

Became known more details about the release of one of the protracted Apple dock wireless charging AirPower. Information shared the Chinese resource Chongdiantou citing “industry sources”. According to the source, the price of AirPower will be about thousands of yuan in China, while in the US it will cost about $ 150. The beginning of…

Company Xiaomi unveiled a new tablet Mi Pad 4 Plus. It’s the older model compared to the tablet Mi Pad 4, which debuted in June. Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 Plus got a larger display, more memory and battery capacity, as well as the fingerprint scanner that was missing in Mi Pad 4, in addition to…

NVIDIA introduced a new GPU architecture NVIDIA Turing. According to the manufacturers, the architecture of Turing became the biggest breakthrough since the invention of the GPU CUDA in 2006. The architecture of the Turing equipped with special processors for ray tracing, called RT-nucleus. They speed up calculations of the motion of light and sound in…