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  • Study: which brands indicate a fat wallet

    If you have an iPhone, then you earn a lot of money. To such conclusion the National Bureau of economic research at the University of Chicago. Report prepared by Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica. They believe that any one brand is not an indicator of income as well as Apple. The result of the study…

  • Unfair penalty for a goalkeeper, but to fix it

    Penalty – one of those elements of games that make football particularly interesting. So it was that a penalty is completely unfair to the goalie. Statistics show that the chances to reflect a ball in the goalkeeper is almost there. However, this can be corrected with the knowledge of economists. Some data on penalties: In…

  • After 60 Years, Brio Has Reinvented Its Toy Trains for the Future

    Both of the SmartTech Brio trains feature modern designs, no steamies here.Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo) There are two main components to the Brio SmartTech system: a collection of playset accessories, and a series of new trains. Powered by a pair of AA batteries, the trains feature built-in sound effects (horns, air brakes, station announcements, etc.),…

  • Timehop Hit With Worrying Breach of 21 Million Users’ Personal Data

    Image: Timehop Timehop, an app that reminds social media users about posts from their past, has disclosed that it suffered a major security breach on July 4. According to the company, 21 million users had some form of personal data stolen. Attackers were also able to retrieve access tokens that would have enabled them to view…

  • Eight Boys Have Now Been Rescued From the Flooded Thai Cave Complex

    Earlier today, an ambulance with flashing lights leaves the cave rescue area in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Image: AP Rescue teams working in northern Thailand have pulled four more boys from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex, raising the total number of rescued boys to eight. After nearly two agonizing weeks…

  • Russia has handed over YotaPhone to the Chinese

    Rostec state Corporation was sold to a Chinese holding China Baoli its 25.1 percent stake in Yota Devices behind the creation of the “Russian” YotaPhone. About it reported the edition “Kommersant”. According to the source, as of July 5, the documentation of the China Baoli among the shareholders of Yota Devices is no longer the…

  • American bureaucrats leaked design of Xiaomi smartphone Pocophone

    Apparently, the first Xiaomi smartphone under a new brand Pocophone is already close to release. The Federal communications Commission (FCC) has certified the model with this brand. The FCC documentation not only confirms the existence of strange names Pocophone for Xiaomi smartphones, but also gives a first impression about the design of future trends. The…

  • Samsung is preparing a fully frameless premium smartphone

    In the network appeared render that shows the vision of the “ultimate” design of the flagship smartphone series of Samsung Galaxy S. It was published quite a well-known Chinese insider under the nickname Ice Universe to your Twitter account. According to the source, Samsung, in the end, can really get rid of the frames around…

  • Elon Musk has shown the submarine to rescue children in Thailand

    Elon Musk (Elon Musk) behind Tesla, Boring Company, and SpaceX, has published in his Twitter account the videos and photos, compact submarine that needs to go to Thailand to rescue stuck in the caves a group of teenagers and football coach. The experts conducted tests of the submarine in the pool Los Angeles. Miniature submarine…

  • Yandex declared the beginning of sales of its own smart speakers

    The company Yandex has announced the beginning of sales of its first device of its own design — smart column called Yandex.Station. The first batch of devices will go to the store and the Museum of Yandex in Moscow. Sales will start on 10 July at the time of store opening at 10 am. Yandex.Station…