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  • Canon introduced a compact camera with 40-fold zoom

    Canon company introduced compact camera, belonging to a segment ultrasnow. Camera is pocket size, optimized for shooting selfies and “pull” of 4K video. Canon PowerShot SX740 HS is equipped with 20,3-megapixel CMOS sensor, a lens with 40-fold optical zoom covering focal lengths 24-960 mm in 35 mm equivalent, and otkidyvayutsya up display for convenient taking…

  • Samsung has promised a “reasonable” price for Galaxy Note 9

    As we already wrote, today, Samsung reported financial results for the second quarter of 2018. Interestingly, the report mentioned has not yet announced a smartphone Galaxy Note 9. In response to falling profits, the company was forced to admit with weak sales of smartphones in General and the current flagship Galaxy S9 in particular. It…

  • Tour of the tree houses built by the company Microsoft

    Last year, while Apple was preparing for the opening of its new campus, Microsoft has built tree houses. This is not a joke. The company has decided that employees of its headquarters in Redmond can relax and negotiate in the trees. Colleagues from Business Insider visited the unusual structure of Microsoft. Tree houses Microsoft’s so…

  • Terraforming Mars is impossible. To do this, the red planet lacks carbon

    This is the dream of Elon Musk. This is the dream, the aerospace Agency NASA. And Arnold Schwarzenegger has managed to do it (though only in the movie). But, is it possible really? We are talking about terraforming Mars – turning the red planet into a blue with the help of geoengineering, which will make…

  • The Perfect Nerf Knock-Offs

    Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo) Nerf ranks up there with Lego, Hot Wheels, and Barbie, as one of the most recognizable brands in the toy industry, but can you have just as much fun pinging your co-worker with foam ammo fired from one of its competitor’s products? I went hands on with two Nerf alternatives: the…

  • The World’s Largest King Penguin Colony Is Catastrophically Shrinking—and We Don’t Know Why

    Photo: Peter Macdiarmid (Getty) The last time scientists visited Ile aux Cochons in 1982, an island that is part of an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, the king penguin population was booming. Over 500,000 breeding pairs (around 2 million penguins total) huddled together there, making the island the largest king penguin colony in the…

  • Ancestry and 23andMe Agree to New Rules to Make You Feel Safer Handing Over Your DNA

    Photo: AP Some of the top genomic-testing companies have agreed to abide by a new set of guidelines when sharing consumers’ DNA information with law enforcement and other third parties. Companies 23andMe, Ancestry, Habit, Helix, and MyHeritage released on Tuesday a guide, “Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services,” which the companies plan to…

  • The Large Hadron Collider Accelerated ‘Atoms’ With Electrons for the First Time

    The Large Hadron ColliderPhoto: Maximilien Brice/Julien Ordan/CERN You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, so long as it can be vaporized. You could even stick a sandwich in there. But for the first time, scientists have accelerated an atomic nucleus with electrons still attached. The…

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  • Why Facebook’s Latest Takedown of a Political Influence Campaign Matters

    Screenshot of a message Facebook is sending to users who planned to attend a counter-protest to the next Unite the Right event.Image: Facebook One event that Facebook identified by name was “No Unite the Right 2 – DC,” a counter-protest to a planned demonstration from the same Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia last year—an…