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Photo: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities It’s been quite the month for Indiana Jones-inspired madness, after a sealed 2,000-year-old sarcophagus was discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, on July 1. Nobody knew what was inside, but some feared that the black granite coffin might be cursed. Those fears were put to rest on Thursday, when the sarcophagus was…

Artist’s interpretation of the newly discovered armored dinosaur Akainacephalus johnsoni.Illustration: Andrey Atuchin They’re calling this newly discovered dinosaur “thorny head,” and it’s changing what we know of North American ankylosaurs, the heavily armored herbivores that had the misfortune of living alongside Tyrannosaurus rex during the Late Cretaceous. Behold Akainacephalus johnsoni, a new species and genus…

I was there!Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum A steam pipe blew up just blocks away from the Gizmodo office this morning, emitting a plume of white smoke on New York City’s Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District. The Gizmodo writers are all fine, unfortunately for you. But The New York Times reports that city officials believe…

Photo: Getty It just became more difficult for children under the age of 13 to use Facebook and Instagram. Facebook already doesn’t technically allow children under the age of 13 to create accounts. But until recently, Facebook only looked into children’s accounts if someone reported them for being underage. Now, when reviewers come across accounts…

In the network appeared new details about a folding smartphone that Samsung Electronics is preparing to release. They shared the Wall Street Journal, citing “knowledgeable” sources. In 2019, Samsung is planning to introduce a smartphone with flexible, foldable display. The prototype’s internal code name of Winner has a screen diagonal of about 7 inches and…

Company HMD Global has officially announced that the Nokia X6 will be released outside of China called Nokia Plus 6.1. The first region, where the international version of the smartphone will be in Hong Kong. Technical specifications Nokia Plus 6.1 coincide with the Nokia X6, but as the software platform used pure version of Android…

The CEO of Google Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai) responded to a fine of 4.3 billion euros, which was imposed on the company by the European Commission yesterday. He has published on the official Google blog lengthy open letter about the operating system Android. It Pichai said that he never took money for using Android, and…

Marketplace Tmall working in Russia on the basis of AliExpess, announced the beginning of free delivery of goods in a single day. On July 19, the delivery of “day to day” has become accessible to buyers from Moscow. At the initial stage free shipping the day of order available for the most popular electronics goods…

When scientists want to study fish and shellfish, to collect samples is quite simple: reset the network for the boat ride and for sure someone will get caught. But to collect sensitive deep-sea organisms such as squid and jellyfish, not so simple: the network can literally destroy the fragile bodies of the creatures. Zhi ERN…

A year ago from a car rented by employees of the U.S. Department of energy, stole an unknown amount of weapons-grade plutonium, a vital ingredient for the production of nuclear warheads. It has become known only today, reports Motherboard. Weapons-grade plutonium is plutonium in the form of a compact metal, containing not less than 94%…