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Photo: Getty Honda just announced that it will cease development of Asimo, the super cute humanoid that tours the world in the name of stunt marketing. Asimo was 18 years old. Asimo, once heralded as the future of robotics, was not even old enough to buy a beer. But it was always happy to help…

Someone else who managed to get Yeast Ken.Screenshot: YouTube It started as all tales of hubris do: with Yeast Ken, a Japanese plushie who is a dog and also a loaf of bread, and recently went viral on Twitter. As someone easily captivated by anything involving Shiba Inus, and having recently been told by my…

Photo: Getty The Federal Communications Commission just settled an investigation into AT&T 911 outages from last year, hitting the telecom company with a $5.25 million fine. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau made the announcement on Thursday, stating that “such preventable outages are unacceptable.” Aside from the fine—which is really a drop in the bucket for the…

Screenshot: MoviePass MoviePass, a company that exists solely to piss off its customers despite offering a service so generously price that it will inevitably lead to its own downfall, entered the “we’re selling flamethrowers” phase of its existence Thursday with the official launch of its merch store. The collapse of the company is sure to…

The PornHub team is one of the most popular resources in the world with an adult video, announced an important innovation. The site launched a new video with closed captions. This section is for the deaf and hard of hearing users. At the initial stage, it includes more than thousands of the most popular videos…

Hackers can gain access to information on the smartphone using its battery. This was told by a group of researchers in the report on the Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The study involved experts from the University of Texas at Austin, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Technion (Israel Institute of technology). When using…

Figure of the day: 58% users of mobile phones do not put the password to unlock. “Kaspersky lab” has published the results of a study of how Russian users protect their mobile Ostrava. As it turned out, 17% of Russian Internet users do not protect their mobile and more than half (58%) do not give…

Russia is working on a bill that can equate mobile phone numbers to the passport. The working group on the legal regulation of the digital economy on Wednesday evening, was sent back for revision amendments that are designed to create a system of universal identifiers. This was told “Vedomosti” that managed to read the document.…

The team of the popular map service Maps.Me, in 2014, purchased Mail.Ru Group, announced the launch of a new service, Locals Maps.Me to search for local guides. As promised the developers, the site services Locals Maps.Me travelers will be able to find local guides in every country of the world. This can be done in…

Visited our Solar system “the first interstellar visitor” Omwamwi actually turned out to be a comet. To such conclusions scientists have led to the observed anomalies in the trajectory and speed of movement. Strange cigar-shaped object was first discovered last year by using an automated telescope Pan-STARRS1. From the comical discovered the body was missing…