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Trump’s FDA, Sticking to Pressing Issues, Takes Aim at Nut Milks
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The Girl Scouts Looks Toward the Future With 30 New Science, Tech, and Environment Badges
Photo: Girl Scouts of the USA The Girl Scouts announced on Tuesday a number of new badges that the organization says will help equip girls with the leadership skills needed to deal with “key 21st century issues.” The badges tackle “some of society’s most pressing needs,” the Girl Scouts says, including environmental advocacy, robotics, online…
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Your Earliest Memory Might Not Have Happened
If your earliest memory is before the age of three, it’s probably not real. Photo: Pexels (Pixabay) If life is but a tapestry, then memory is the thread. But some of those threads may simply be imagined: A new study out today in Psychological Science suggests that our earliest memories often couldn’t have happened the way…
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Twitter Reportedly Purged 58 Million Accounts in Just Three Months
Photo: Getty Twitter has pursued various efforts to make its platform a less nightmarish place and, in recent months, those measures have reportedly taken the form of a sustained mass purge. According to data obtained by the Associated Press, the social network suspended 58 million accounts in the last quarter of 2017. Asked for comment,…
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Microsoft has promised to add in Skype most anticipated feature
Microsoft is beginning to distribute a new version of Skype for desktop. Skype update 8.0 will completely replace the “classic” Skype translate users to the new interface. The update also adds a number of new features. Among them is group video calls in HD resolution, more possibilities of interaction with the media collection chat and…
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Moscow will allow Yandex to release self-driving cars to the streets
The company Yandex and the government of Moscow signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and implementation of unmanned vehicles in the capital. This was announced within the framework of the Moscow urban forum (Moscow Urban Forum 2018). The project also involves Scientific research automobile and engine Institute NAMI, GAZ group and KAMAZ. The…
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The government supported the idea to impose foreign Internet purchasing duties
The government of Russia can begin to establish separate payments for for individuals when making purchases in foreign online stores. This is stated in the amendments presented at the meeting of the budget Committee of the state Duma. Amendments submitted for the second reading of the bill “On customs regulation”. Among the approved Committee amendments…
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You will find everything: Yandex showed scans of passports and tickets
Around search service Yandex, a new scandal erupted. A couple of weeks ago in search results Yandex has detected files user Google Docs (Google Documents), and have now become available personal data of users of services for the purchase of tickets, a couple of banks and the Department of transport. In search of Yandex it…
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Disclosed appearance of the iPhone 9 Plus
Case makers are often the source of information about the design of future smartphones. This time, the render of upcoming 6.5-inch iPhone in case from a Chinese manufacturer Sanfeng has published a resource GizmoChina. According to earlier leaks, the fall Apple will release two OLED models with a diagonal of 5.8 and 6.5 inches, the…
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Virtual reality will help to overcome a fear of heights
We all used to think that virtual reality is an intensely interactive entertainment. However, there are already quite a few developments in which VR technology is used not for games. For example, according to the publication the Lancet Psychiatry, a team of scientists from Oxford University were able to use virtual reality to free people…