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How and when to watch for meteor Perseids from August 11 to 13
The effect of a meteor shower, causing particles of the tail of the comet swift — Tuttle. Moving on a highly eccentric orbit, it completes one revolution around the Sun for 133 years. When approaching with a star the comet nucleus partly evaporates, and the gases carry dust and small stones behind her, forming a…
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Google expanded the capabilities of Assistant
Google has added a new Assistant functionality, which is designed not only for smartphones but also for other devices with this intelligent assistant. Even at Google I/O Google released a new software solution Google News in order to help users get acquainted with the news in a more convenient way. So the news was always…
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Airline Employee Steals Plane From Sea-Tac Airport, Crashes After Being Tailed by Fighters
Plane wreckage from the stolen Q400 burns on Ketron Island, Washington.Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP) A 29-year-old airline employee “thought to be suicidal” stole a 76-seat Q400 turboprop plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) on Friday night, eventually crashing some 30 miles away with fighter jets on his tail, the New York Times reported. Local…
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Florida Police Make Arrest in Alleged Multi-State SIM Card Hijacking Ring
A file photo of a SIM card in Bangladesh.Photo: A.M. Ahad (AP) Florida police made an arrest last month in an alleged “SIM-jacking” ring, with court documents claiming the scammers involved stole SIM cards belonging to other individuals and used them to amass a small fortune. Fraudulently obtaining a victim-specific SIM card, a small smart…
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Twitter Admits Alex Jones Broke Its Rules, Still Standing by Their Man for Some Dumb Reason
Alex Jones at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.Photo: John Minchillo (AP) Twitter, one of the few tech platforms that has refused to ban conspiracy shitposter and Infowars grifter kingpin Alex Jones, admitted on Friday that he had a history of posts that were in clear violation of the site’s terms of service…
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What planet seem to be the biggest on Earth?
Mars will never be as big as the full Moon. But this is not the biggest planet. From the point of view of a person, the Sun and the Moon will always dominate in the earthly heaven. But we know that Jupiter, Saturn — all the planets giants — never be as big in the…
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NASA want to build a robot for the direct search of extraterrestrial life
Until now, NASA has created tools designed to search for biosignals, which could only indicate the possibility of life but not life itself, no matter how primitive it is. In the framework of a new project at NASA want to create automated planetary robot that will mimic what biologists spend every day in terrestrial laboratories:…
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The world’s first SOS signal, and the invention of color film
11 August 1877, opened a satellite of Mars, Deimos. Fun fact: Jonathan swift in the book about Gulliver’s travels, wrote about an imaginary country in which they live some scientists and what they discovered two satellites of Mars. In fact, during the swift about satellites of the red planet, nobody knew anything. Only during the…
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Germany will cease to censor the swastika in computer games
Years the swastika and other Nazi symbols were out of the German versions of computer games, but soon that may change. Computer games often can’t do without enemies and villains And on the role of villains, the Nazis and fascists fit very well. However, publishers and developers had to be very careful with Nazi symbols…
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Probe “New horizons” saw the possible hydrogen wall at the end of the Solar system
As the distance from the Sun, the mission “New horizons” can literally rest against the wall. The apparatus is now at a distance of about 6 billion kilometers from Earth, far beyond Pluto. Apparently, he found the sign of the farthest reach of the solar energy — wall hydrogen. It is almost identical with the…