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  • Using Google Maps you can now warn of a discharged smartphone

    The developers of Google Maps (Google Maps) without much fanfare, has launched a new opportunity. Now when you send user location Google Maps also indicate the battery level of the mobile device that sent the message. Initially, the feature was seen relevant resource Android Police and one of the beta versions of the app. Now…

  • Physics turned a microwave into the plasma generator

    School children know that substance has 3 main aggregate States – solid, liquid and gaseous. But few people remember that there are others. For example, the state of the plasma. To it is not so easy, however, a group of physicists-lovers turned the conventional microwave oven available in the plasma generator. As is known, the…

  • FCC Almost Does Something Right, and It May Give Google Fiber a Boost

    Photo: Getty There is plenty of reason to be skeptical when this FCC decides to do anything that isn’t a gift to the biggest telecoms in the nation. But on Thursday, it created new rules that could help upstarts like Google Fiber break into wireless and broadband markets. It’s a rare instance in which less…

  • Nut Milk Recalled Because It May Contain Real Milk

    Photo: Getty Beware, lactose-intolerant Almond Breeze drinkers: There may be milk in your milk alternative. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that HP Hood is recalling many half-gallon cartons of Blue Diamond’s Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk because the products may contain real milk. “There was a failure in the production process…

  • NASA Announces First Crew for Commercial Space Travel

    The commercial space flight crew. From left to right: Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.Photo: NASA NASA has announced the first astronauts who will head to the International Space Station on a commercially built spacecraft. These U.S. astronauts previously flew aboard Russian…

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  • Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size, New Study Concludes

    Photo: Mike Finkelstein (Flickr) You just can’t trust a little dog. We all know dogs can communicate through scent. They urinate on new areas, their own home turf, and certainly things that other dogs have peed on. We also know that some male dogs lift their legs in order to pee higher. But new research…

  • The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Jumbled Shark Evolution

    The great white shark is a lamniform shark, a group that dominated oceans in the Cretaceous Period.Photo: Elias Levy (Flickr) More than 500 different shark species roam Earth’s oceans: from zippy little cookie-cutter sharks, to the iconic great white, to nightmarish goblin sharks, to 25-foot-long, filter-feeding basking sharks. And it seems that the current equilibrium…

  • People Are Getting Sick From an Opioid-Like ‘Dietary Supplement’: Report

    Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) People are increasingly turning to an unconventional drug to supplement their opioid addiction, suggests a new report published this week. And some are getting sick as a result. Since 2014, hundreds of people have apparently rung up their local poison control center in connection to tianeptine, an antidepressant not approved…

  • March of Dimes Pulls Millions in Funding From Unsuspecting Scientists, Blames Budget Problems

    Photo: Joe Scarnici (Getty Images) One of the most famous charity organizations in the world—the March of Dimes—has suddenly become much less charitable to the scientific causes it funded. The organization has canceled research grants totaling $3 million that it had already awarded to dozen of scientists, Nature reported Friday. As per Nature: On 24…