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New York City, as seen 170 million years ago.Image: Ancient Earth/Ian Webster The Ancient Earth map comes with some neat features, including a brief description of the chosen period at bottom right, and the ability to remove clouds and stop planet rotation. Using the mouse, you can orient the map to your liking. Specific time…

Two of the four frogs found in amber (the specimen on the right shows two views).Image: Lida Xing The extraordinary discovery of four small frogs preserved in amber is providing the earliest evidence of these now-prolific amphibians living in tropical rainforests. New research published today Scientific Reports shows that frogs—an animal that first emerged some…

Illustration: The Boring Company Billionaire Elon Musk, who also founded the car company Tesla and the space exploration company SpaceX, came under fire (sorry) last week when The Boring Company released a flamethrower of questionable social value. The device, literally called Not-A-Flamethrower, is idiotic, to say the least. “We’ve had three major fires in Orange…

The Drocon Cyclone was immediately eliminated—not just because of how shady the set up is, but because of how dangerous it is too.Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) Let’s get the painful one out of the way first. The Dronon Cyclone, Amazon’s best-selling cheap drone, is a nightmare. To fire up the gadget, you need to…

Image: Microsoft Even though there’s only one Amazon Go location so far, it seems the existence of Amazon’s cashier-less, checkout-free convenience store has left some of the company’s biggest competitors wondering how they, too, can get in on futuristic retail. According to Reuters, Microsoft is now working on tech that would allow retailers to build…

Roskomnadzor and FSB for a year trying to get a command Telegram to alter the architecture of the messenger so that his administration could meet the requirements of the Russian legislation and pass FSB encryption keys correspondence users. This was stated by the representative of Roskomnadzor at the meeting of the Moscow city court on…

Figure of the day: 0,1% the probability of winning Russian team in the world Cup. A group of researchers from the Technical University of Dortmund, the technical University of Munich and Ghent University conducted an interesting study in relation to the starting of the world Cup in Russia. Researchers have created a simulation of a…

Company Samsung Electronics has announced the launch sales of inexpensive smartphones Galaxy J4 and J6 in Russia. The first of these is a smartphone with a traditional aspect ratio of 16:9, and the second different edge-to-edge design. Samsung Galaxy J4 is equipped with a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display with HD resolution (720 x 1280 pixels)…

14 Jun 1822 Charles Babbage presented to the Royal society of the UK model of the difference machine — a mechanical device created to automate calculations. According to the author, the device could compute the roots of polynomials up to sixth degree with great accuracy until the 18th sign. Despite the funding of the British…

Team social network Vkontakte has updated the platform chat-bots. The developers have added the ability to connect to the chat bots keyboard — buttons for quick selection answer. As a result, users no longer need to enter text request — simply select one of the options. After that, the chat-bot will return with the result.…