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Have Amana Saraji four hands. The two of them hug him. Limbs covering Saraji, long, lanky and robotic, and they are connected to the backpack he’s wearing. Arms are controlled remotely by another person who is wearing the Oculus Rift VR headset, and who sees the world from the point of view Sarici (camera fixed…

Photo: AP The Bangladeshi government has reportedly suspended 3G and 4G mobile internet services since last Saturday after more than a week of violent clashes between police and student protesters over road safety. Hundreds of students have walked out of class in Dhaka, the capital, to protest the transportation sector following the deaths of two…

Screenshot: Gizmodo (Infowars) It’s been a rough day for Alex Jones and InfoWars. Hot on the heels of bans from Apple and Facebook, the conspiracy theory media empire has been banned on YouTube. It’s not yet clear if the video platform’s ban is permanent, but it appears that all InfoWars videos have been deleted. If…

Image: Google At long last, three months after it was first announced, today Google is finally ready to release the next version of its mobile OS. And now Android P officially becomes Android 9 Pie. To be honest, after Marshmallow, Nougat, and Oreo, Pie is kind of an underwhelming name. There’s no spice of fun…

Ryan F. MandelbaumToday 1:30pmFiled to: rosettaFiled to: rosetta rosetta space porn physics comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko science comets 88 Edit Embiggen Send to Editors Promote Share to Kinja Move ad slots Go to permalink The Rosetta orbiter ended its mission in September 2016, but science fans continue to unearth and reprocess some of its incredible images of…

Photo: Alex Proimos (Flickr) There’s a strange gender paradox at the heart of cardiovascular disease. Men are more likely to be diagnosed with a heart condition in their lifetime than women, but diagnosed women are less likely to survive. A study out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a new…

Photo: DARPA Members of the military and other Defense Department employees can no longer use apps or certain devices that track their location in operational areas. That means no more Fitbits in war zones, folks. Can you even believe this was ever allowed? “We don’t want to give the enemy any unfair advantage,” Army Col.…

HuBi 1, the inside-out nebula.Image: Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami When some stars get old, they eject gas and dust, forming a cloud of electrically charged material in space called a planetary nebula. These nebulae all tend to have the same layered structure, but a team of scientists recently spotted a kind of planetary nebula that looks…