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A representation of the brain matter the patient had removed from his right brain hemisphere at age six.Illustration: Liu, et al. (Cell Reports) A new case study from Pittsburgh highlights the resilience of the human brain. It details a boy who, despite losing one-third of the right hemisphere of his brain when he was six,…

Image: Long Island Iced Tea Corp (Gizmodo) Remember “Long Blockchain,” or rather, the company formerly known as Long Island Iced Tea Corp. that saw its stock skyrocket after it changed its name to refer to the foundational technology behind the cryptocurrency boom and made a vague pivot to “globally scalable blockchain technology solutions”? Turns out…

A NASA mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.Photo: NASA (AP) Boeing has delayed two critical tests of its CST-100 Starliner crew capsule following an engine failure during another test in June, setting back the timeline for its plans to use the craft to shuttle crew back and forth from the International Space Station or other…

Tower tunnel 2 Aug 1870 , began his work for the first underground railway tunnel. It was built in London in 1869 and passed under the Thames. The diameter of the tunnel was approximately 2 meters and a length of 410 meters. However, this train never cruised. Instead, the passengers were moved to the only…

Video blogger with the nickname “tj the blind gamer” post to YouTube their achievements in Call of Duty: WWII. He recently reported on the threshold 7 600 kills in the game. All right, we are talking about a blind gamer who is quite “professionally” plays Call of Duty, despite the inability to see the game…

Google is planning to launch a version of its search with the built-in censorship in China. This was announced by the publication The Intercept with reference to some documents received. “Censoriously” the search will use a blacklist for websites and a search of topics related to human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protests. The project,…

The developers of social network Facebook and service Instagram announced the launch of new tools to manage time spent on social networks. In a special section of the app settings Facebook and Instagram will provide information about a user’s activity in those social networks. There you can set daily reminders to limit the time a…

From 1 September, the VTB Bank will start to use robots-collectors for the exaction of debts. About this informed the newspaper “Vedomosti” with reference to words of the Deputy President and Chairman of the Board of Bank Anatoly Pechatnikov. Pechatnikov said: “Now the robot collector is running in a pilot mode. From September 1 to…

At the conference in the Johnson Space center, which will be held on 3 August, space Agency NASA is going to announce the names of the first astronauts who will take part in a manned test launch of Boeing and SpaceX. In addition, the Agency plans to tell about the astronauts that will go into…