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  • Crows Are Officially More Badass Than Ravens, Citizen Scientists Report

    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…

  • Revenge Porn Offenders to Face Harsh Punishment Under New UK Guidelines

    Photo: Getty The council tasked with ensuring consistency in criminal sentences in England and Wales has provided instruction on how courts should handle revenge porn cases: harshly. The Sentencing Council published on Thursday new guidelines on how courts should handle perpetrators who non-consensually share photos of their ex-partners. It’s the first time the committee has…

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  • ZTE Dumps All Its Execs to Appease U.S. Regulators

    Image: ZTE With ZTE currently operating on a lifeline in the form of a temporary reprieve from the company’s seven-year ban on purchasing components made by U.S. companies, there’s absolutely no room for any sort of messing about. So, in the latest rush to comply with U.S. regulators, after dumping its entire C-suite including the…

  • Report: NASA’s Policies to Protect the Solar System From Contamination Are Out of Date

    NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Whether it’s rovers rolling about on Mars, probes drilling into asteroids, or Tesla Roadsters drifting through space, it’s clear that our activities in the Solar System are changing. Accordingly, methods and rules to prevent our germs from spreading beyond Earth need to be updated, according to a new report…

  • Hospital Evacuated After Tuberculosis Sample Accidentally Released

    A scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image of the rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Image: Janice Haney Carr (CDC) One of the world’s deadliest diseases—tuberculosis—made a rare stateside appearance Thursday. This afternoon, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland reported that a small amount of the infectious germ was potentially released in its facilities while being transported. The…

  • Samsung will release its flagship smartphone-clamshell

    Samsung is preparing to release advanced mobile-clamshell codenamed Project Lykan. The details were shared by the Chinese source under the name MMDDJ_ to your Twitter account. We are talking about a clamshell phone with two displays, not a folding model with one flexible screen. The smartphone will hit the market under the name Samsung W2019.…

  • New iPad and MacBook ready to release in Russia

    Apple certified for Russia five new tablets and five laptops. They have already appeared on the website of the Eurasian economic Commission in the section with the plaintive title “Unified register of notifications of the characteristics of encryption (cryptographic) devices and products containing it”. Our database of ECE present a new Mac model numbers A1931,…

  • Scientists have protected the phones from the unlocking finger of the corpse

    Researchers at a South Korean University, UNIST has solved the problem of user authentication fingerprint when the attacker can unlock the phone, attaching to the scanner the finger of the corpse or made artificially a hoax. Special transparent and flexible sensor under the smartphone’s screen checks not only the fingerprint, but the temperature of the…

  • Declassified settings “frightening” smartphone Huawei

    Chinese sources have published details of a forthcoming Note 10 Honor smartphone from Huawei. In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed renderings and basic characteristics of the forthcoming novelties. Just yesterday, Zhao Ming (Ming Zhao), the chief Honor promised release of the “very frightening” products and technologies, the first of which is…