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Kim Dotcom at a 2013 hearing before New Zealand’s parliament.Photo: AP Kim Dotcom, the former founder of defunct file hosting service Megaupload and its successor Mega, just lost another court battle to avoid extradition to the US on charges of copyright infringement and fraud. Per the BBC, Dotcom lost an appeals court decision on Wednesday…

Figure of the day: 15 100 000 of dollars of losses brought YotaPhone 3. The Chinese company Baoli China, which now owns the brand YotaPhone, reported $ 15.1 million of losses from the sales of the YotaPhone 3. This was told to the edition “Kommersant”. China Baoli for the first time disclosed data on the…

In the database benchmark Geekbench showed the results of testing the upcoming release of a new generation of laptops MacBook Pro. According to records, the following laptops are based on Intel Core processors eighth-generation Coffee Lake. The test device is based on Quad-core Intel Core i7-8559U with a clock frequency of 2.7 GHz (overclocking to…

In the desktop Yandex.The browser had a useful function for lovers of porn. It drew the attention of a friend of the author of the resource TJ. The browser started to prompt users when entering on the popular porn sites to open them in Incognito mode. If the user agrees, he is offered the opportunity…

In the Internet appeared quality renders showing the design of a future iPhone 9 with a 6.1-inch screen. They shared a profile online Nieuwe Mobiel. Renderings were created by designer Jonas Genertor (Jonas Dähnert). As expected, the iPhone 9 will be the budget smartphone in the new line of Apple, which is preparing to release…

Huawei is preparing to release a new “scary” technology and the smartphone based on it. This was told by Zhao Ming (Zhao Ming), head of division of Honor in your account Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. We will remind, in the spring of Huawei said that working on a “scary” technology, which will be…

Havard’s Ambulatory Microrobot (HAMR)Image: Yufeng Chen, Neel Doshi, and Benjamin Goldberg/Harvard University Inspired by bugs, Harvard’s Ambulatory Microrobot, or HAMR, can run, climb, make sharp turns, and carry small payloads. In the latest upgrade to the system, HAMR has been endowed with the ability to swim, dive down from the surface, and walk underwater—no small…

The partial foot of the Dikika child. Image: Jeremy DeSilva & Cody Prang A re-analysis of a three-million-year-old fossil suggests Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominid, had children who were as capable on two feet as they were in the trees—an important discovery that’s shedding new light on this critical stage in hominid evolution. A tiny…

In this photo illustration, the WhatsApp application is displayed on a iPhone on April 6, 2016 in San Anselmo, California.Photo: Getty WhatsApp is promising to introduce new features intended to prevent the spread of hoax messages in India following reports that more than one dozen lynchings have occurred in the country as a result of…