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Majority of Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Viewpoints
In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is reflected in the eye of a man on March 25, 2009 in London, England.Photo: Getty It’s a real challenge to find just about anything that Republicans and Democrats can agree upon in the current political climate, but Pew Research Center managed to do just that.…
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ZTE develops its own version of the YotaPhone
In the vast Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed a qualitative image of its forthcoming smartphone ZTE Nubia, whose debut is expected before the end of the summer. Interestingly, one of the sets of renders have leaked from the site of the Chinese intellectual property office. The smartphone boasts not only a currently fashionable…
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Apple violates users of older iOS and OS X
Apple has announced that from 30 June 2018 users of older versions of iOS, OS X, and Apple TV will not be able to change payment information in the iTunes Store and App Store. We are talking about iOS 4.3.5 or earlier, OS X 10.8.5 or earlier, and Apple TV 4.4.4 or earlier versions. These…
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Apple and Samsung have reconciled after 7 years in court
Samsung and Apple to settle their patent dispute, which lasted seven years, since 2011. In the District court of California companies sent a reconciliation agreement. Thus, Samsung and Apple have privately resolved their differences and closed all litigation claims. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the company has not yet made…
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Putin endorsed the penalties for circumvention of locks of Roskomnadzor
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that introduces fines for the search engines for the links to prohibited sites and services to bypass locks. The law amends the code of administrative offences (Code on administrative offences) and already published on the official portal of legal information and the website of the President of Russia.…
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Smartphones have learned to identify inedible food
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Nanjing University in China have developed a method of determining the spoiled food with your smartphone. About it it is told in article of the journal Nano Letters. To identify spoiled food uses a special NFC-tag with sensor for determining biogenic amines, are responsible for the…
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The Strange Connection Between Opioid Addiction and Narcolepsy Might Help Us Treat Both
Image: sferrario1968 (Pixabay) A new study could revive an abandoned theory about how to treat narcolepsy, the thus-far incurable disorder that makes people chronically sleepy. And it could also provide a new lead on how to treat drug addiction. The paper, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that opioids can restore a narcoleptic person’s…
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This New Tool Aims to Help Reunite Kids Seized at the Border With Their Families
Photo: Getty Freedom for Immigrants, a California-based nonprofit working to expose and abolish U.S. immigration detention, launched a tool on Wednesday that it says will help reunite families separated through immigration incarceration. The tool, aptly named REUNITE, is designed to allow the organization to find people in U.S. immigration detention, criminal custody, and Office of…
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Sling TV’s Great, Super-Cheap Streaming Plan Is Getting a Price Hike
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Interstellar Comet ‘Oumuamua Has a Built-In ‘Propulsion’ System
Artist’s impression of ‘OumuamuaImage: Hubble Space Telescope Remember that cigar-shaped interstellar object that whizzed through our Solar System last year? It was pretty weird, right? Well, new research shows ‘Oumuamua is even stranger than we realized. ‘Oumuamua, pronounced “oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah,” is a comet and not an asteroid, according to research published yesterday in Nature. That’s not…