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  • Scientists have developed an electronic skin allows the prosthesis to feel pain

    Researchers from Johns Hopkins University (USA) developed an “electronic skin” that simulates the ability to present the skin, according to the publication IEEE Spectrum. The development proposes to use artificial prostheses, so it will be possible to return the possibility of using an artificial limb to feel pain. Why the pain? Chapter studies on the…

  • Google, Unlike Apple, is Making it Easy to Cancel App Subscriptions

    Photo: Getty Mobile app subscriptions are usually a pain in the ass to cancel, but Google is doing its part to make it slightly easier to get out of the fees with its new Subscriptions Center. The feature, announced at Google I/O earlier this year, rolled out to most Android users Wednesday. Subscriptions Center puts…

  • Having Allegedly Failed to Gobble Up Bumble, Dating Giant Match Group Buys Rival App Hinge

    Screenshot: Hinge.co Tinder’s parent company Match Group, the online dating conglomerate that owns a number of dating sites including OKCupid and Match.com, has acquired rival service Hinge. Per the Verge, that leaves women-centric Bumble as the “only notable dating app” outside Match’s control, though not for lack of trying. According to the company, the deal…

  • Turns Out All Kinds of Tech Companies are Working With ICE

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents detain an immigrant on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Getty Days after Microsoft came under intense scrutiny for working with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a report from NBC News revealed that a number of major tech firms have been raking in millions of dollars…

  • FBI Warns of ‘Alarming’ Increase in In-Flight Sexual Assaults

    Planes on the tarmac at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago in 2018.Photo: Kiichiro Sato (AP) Reports of in-flight sexual assaults committed by passengers against passengers are going up by double-digit margins, according to federal crime statistics, and it’s unclear why. Investigating alleged sexual assaults on airplanes falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI. Per CNN,…

  • Snapchat: Still Fucked

    Photo: AP Earlier this year, Snapchat owner Snap Inc. saw its stock plummet after a brutal first-quarter report that saw it come in over $13 million short of $244 million earnings expectations. Spoiler alert: The pain is not stopping. Per Bloomberg, shares in Snap Inc. are entering freefall again after the company’s stock had just…

  • Scorned US Lawmakers Press Google on Relationship with Huawei

    Photo: Getty Google faced a bunch of uproar from employees after it was revealed the company was offering its artificial intelligence tools to the Pentagon for a drone project. Now, after deciding not to renew the contract, the company is getting pressure from the other side as lawmakers are pressing Google over its relationship with…

  • Live photos of Motorola Power confirmed One “eyebrow” and dual camera

    In the network appeared live pictures of the upcoming smartphone Motorola One Power, yet not presented by the manufacturer officially. Photos published relevant resource TechinfoBit. According to the source, Motorola, now owned by Chinese Lenovo, already is testing a prototype smartphone and may release it in the next few months. On the exact name yet.…

  • The Chinese showed Nokia Plus 5.1

    On the website of the Chinese center for certification of telecommunication equipment TENAA was spotted a new Nokia smartphone with a model number TA-1109. He can go in China called Nokia X5 and Nokia 5.1 Plus in other markets. The smartphone has a frameless design with cutout screen in the style of iPhone X and…

  • Former astronaut: you have not yet created rockets that will take us to Mars

    Chris Hadfield, Colonel, canadian air force and astronaut of the Canadian space Agency, the perpetrators of three space flights (two for the Space Shuttle program and one under the long-term missions on the ISS) known to the General public due to its cavero on the famous song “Space Oddity” of the deceased David Bowie. After…