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  • Microsoft CEO Downplays ICE Contract in Email to Employees

    Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella downplayed his company’s work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a company-wide email sent this evening, saying that Microsoft’s contract with ICE deals only with email, calendar, and messaging—not with separating children from their parents. Tensions within the technology firm reached a boiling point on Tuesday…

  • iPhone can rise due to retaliatory duties of Russia to the USA

    Russia is preparing a “balancing measures” in response to the imposition of US duties on steel and aluminum. About it has told today to journalists the Minister of economic development of Russia Maxim Oreshkin. Plans to impose additional import duties on American goods. Oreshkin said: “due To the fact that the United States continue to…

  • Google has released a standalone app for podcasts

    Google released a separate app for devices based on Android. In fact, it is a direct response to the Podcasts from Apple. Google Podcasts lets you listen to podcasts, subscribe to them and download for listening offline. The app syncs with all Android devices user. On any of them, you can continue playback from where…

  • Got a beta version of Android 8.1 Oreo for Nokia 2

    Company HMD Global announced the beta release of the firmware update to the Android operating system 8.1 Oreo for Nokia 2. Users Nokia 2 can participate in the beta testing Android Oreo 8.1 on the Nokia Beta Labs. This program has already join more than 50 thousand users of Nokia smartphones, and now it is…

  • The Ministry of communications launched a mobile application “public Services Business”

    Ministry for digital development, communications and mass communications of Russia reported the launch of a comprehensive digital service for legal entities and entrepreneurs. It consists of a mobile application “public Services Business” for iOS and Android, as well as updated personal profile for entrepreneurs on the portal. The app provides access to information on past,…

  • Chinese declassified features frameless Xiaomi Mi 3 Max

    On the website of the Chinese center for certification of telecommunication equipment TENAA was seen new smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 Max, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. Xiaomi Mi 2 Max Documentation is available for models with numbers M1804E4A, M1804E4T M1804E4C and, presumably, these variations of the Xiaomi Mi 3 Max, which is preparing…

  • The “best” scenario of nuclear war has shown dismal results

    On Earth now more than 15 000 nuclear warheads — enough to blow everything to hell. Even more than enough. But how many nuclear explosions would it take to destroy the enemy? How many nuclear warheads a country-aggressor can throw at the enemy before the effects of nuclear winter would return to her? New research…

  • Google DeepMind neural network learned to turn 2D images into three-dimensional objects

    Looking at the photo, anyone will easily be able to imagine what is depicted on it as a three-dimensional image. And even if some of the objects behind the scenes (for example, we see only the front part of the back of the chair, but don’t see the rear), we are quite easy to guess…

  • A Woman’s New Tattoo Led to Three Years of Chronic Pain, Doctors Say

  • Can Thousands of Smartphones Help Detect Cosmic Rays?

    Map of the sky in gamma raysImage: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Your smartphone has a particle detector on it, and scientists want you to help them uncover how the universe really works and maybe even discover the true nature of dark matter. There are just a few bugs to work out. High-energy particles from space, called…