Category: English

Photo: Ripley’s Believe It or Not! When Chillal decided he was finally able to put his spite to rest and clip his nails, he reached out to the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! franchise. “He approached us when he was ready to cut his nails,” Ripley’s spokesperson Suzanne Smagala-Potts told Gizmodo. “He wasn’t just going…

Photo: Mars Bioimaging When used in the new scanner developed by father and son scientists Phil and Anthony Butler from the Universities of Canterbury and Otago in New Zealand, the Medipix3 chip, enhanced with custom data-processing algorithms, can detect the change in wavelengths as x-rays pass through different materials in the body. This allows the…

Pierre Baqué, CEO of Neural Concept, and the new AI-designed bike. Image: EPFL Competitors at this year’s World Human Powered Speed Challenge are going to have to contend with this—a bullet-shaped bike designed by an artificially intelligent software program. In 2012, a bicycle screamed across a flat, open road of the Nevada Desert at an…

Photo: AP Despite a massive recall of Honey Smacks last month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that some grocery stores and other retailers are still selling the cereal from a batch that has been linked to a salmonella outbreak across the United States. An estimated 1.3 million cases of Honey Smacks were…

Customers walk into a Blockbuster Video store on November 19, 2002 in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida.Photo: Getty The last two Blockbuster stores in Alaska are shutting their doors for good next week according to the Anchorage Daily News, which means there is just one remaining relic of the video rental giant still…

Freshly printed copies of the San Francisco Chronicle roll off the printing press at one of the Chronicle’s printing facilities September 20, 2007 in San Francisco, CaliforniaPhoto: Getty In addition to flooding social media with false news stories, propaganda-spreading bots, and all sorts of online chicanery during the 2016 US presidential campaign, Russian trolls also…

Figure of the day: 65 000 traitors count Facebook among Russians. The algorithms of advertising tools on the net Facebook automatically said 65 thousand Russians as “concerned in treason.” This was reported by the Guardian. The algorithms of the social network analyzes the data entered by the user in the network, making him a kind…

Apple introduced new MacBook Pro notebooks. Refreshed 13-inch and 15-inch models with Tabara. In the absence of external changes, they can boast updated hardware and a more quiet keyboard. Laptops got a six-core Intel Core eighth generation, up to 32 GB of RAM, up to 4TB of SSD storage, displays True Tone, Apple chips T2,…