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Company Counterpoint has published the results of a study of the popularity of smartphones. Top-selling smartphones in may 2018 steel iPhone 8 and Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus, sharing first and second places. Each of these smartphones has taken a market share of 2.4%. This rise Phone 8 from fifth place in April on the first…

Team famous benchmark AnTuTu released its June ranking of smartphones running the Android operating system. Recall, each month AnTuTu publishes a list of the top 10 smartphones in General, as well as working on leading operating systems Android and iOS separately. As expected, the majority of smartphones occupying the top of the list, based on…

The portal Metacritic has published the best games of the first half of 2018. The rankings are based on assessments of new games, with remastered and ported versions, episodes, and DLC were not included. Metacritic is an aggregator that collects ratings and reviews not only about the games, but also music albums, movies, TV shows…

Concern “Kalashnikov” has offered to ease restrictions in the Russian legislation governing the issue of weapons. Amendments to the law “On weapons” have already been prepared concern. This was told by the online “Kommersant”. The amendments include authorization to have up to ten weapons per person, the lower requirements for experience to buy rifled hunting…

Modern wearable devices are usually designed to count steps, measure heart rate and display notifications. Embr bracelet Wave designed for quite other purposes. It cools you when you are too hot, and warm in cool weather. Embr Wave is a personal thermostat. Bracelet Wave Embr works automatically, depending on the needs of the user. The…

More and more things around us become “smarter”. Moreover, if some items just get useful features, others may be good for your health and even save lives. For example, according to news Agency Xinhua, the group of Chinese researchers from company Lenovo Group and Southeast University, Jiangsu province was able to develop smart clothing that…

NASA will have to attend to the issue of the protection of the planets. Agreement for use of space — Yes, there is — as well as laws and regulation are rooted in the days of the cold war. They were written before scientists learned about oceans on the moons of the other planets, about…

Alex the African gray parrot and animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg back in 1991.Image: AP Parrots are known for their intelligence, but why they should be so much smarter than other birds isn’t entirely clear. New research suggests parrots have an enlarged brain circuit responsible for higher-order thinking—a brain circuit with strikingly mammalian-like characteristics. With all…

Photo: Getty This week, some passengers traveling through the international airport in Sydney, Australia will be the first guinea pigs in a program that intends to replace the passport with facial scans. The check-in process may surely become less of a headache, but at what price? Select passengers flying with Qantas Airways will have the…

Battle of the birbsGraphic: Ryan F. Mandelbaum; Raven: Wikimedia user CanadianWikilover; Crow: Wikimedia user Mdf; Sky: Wikimedia user Mohammed Tawsif Salam, Screenshot via Nintendo (Wikimedia Commons) Crows and ravens are hard to tell apart, but basically, the common raven is bigger than the American and Northwestern crow. So, you might think that ravens would win…