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Photo: Patrick Lucas Austin (Gizmodo) But lo, the Surface Laptop at a glance seemed downright practical. It’s an attractive laptop in a lightweight package with solid guts and a reasonable price tag. It’s got some of that Surface design flourish without any frills that make the device impractical. After spending a year with the model…

Parody website TrumpHotels.org, which highlights the atrocities currently being committed against children held in detention by the U.S. governmentScreenshot: TrumpHotels.org So what gave him the idea to buy the TrumpHotels.org domain name and set up a satiricial website? He saw a friend use the #TrumpHotels hashtag to describe the immigrant detention centers, and thought it…

Apple made it very clear there would be no iOS and macOS merge.Screenshot: Andrew Liszewski (WWDC 2018) But at WWDC earlier this June Craig Federighi’s stood on stage and emphatically assured the audience of developers and press that iOS and macOS are never going to be merged. “I was glad to hear that as an…

Image: Andrew Couts (Gizmodo) The public beta version of Apple’s newest mobile operating system, iOS 12, is now out in the wild, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it to find out whether Apple had really fixed the most annoying thing about using the iPhone X—screenshots—as we expected it would when the…

A 2015 lunar eclipsePhoto: Frank Schulenburg (Flickr) The Moon is incredible, and you should look at it. Our view of it is always in flux, but sometimes, the Moon’s visage changes in a particularly dramatic way—like when it sneaks behind the Earth’s shadow and turns red. An especially long lunar eclipse will occur at the…

Screenshot: Mozilla “This is major because Firefox has an install base of hundreds of millions of people which significantly expands the audience that can be reached once this feature rolls out to the mainstream,” Hunt wrote in a blog post Tuesday. According to Mozilla, roughly 250,000 users (mainly in the U.S.) will be invited to…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) In a self-congratulatory move, Microsoft announced some major improvements today to its fundamentally biased facial recognition software. The Azure-based Face API was criticized in a research paper earlier this year for its error rate—as high as 20.8 percent—when attempting to identify the gender of people of color, particularly women with darker…

Russia may revise the law in relation to reposts in social networks. The State Duma has already introduced a bill that eliminates criminal penalties in relation to part 1 of article 282 of the criminal code — “actions aimed at inciting hatred or hostility using mass media, including the Internet”. Social advertising The document is…

Became known the approximate prices on future smartphones Apple. They shared a analyst Katy Huberty (Katy Huberty) from Morgan Stanley. According to Huberty, most likely, Apple will release a 6.5-inch iPhone with an OLED display at a price of $ 999, the 5.8-inch iPhone with an OLED display from 899 dollars and the LCD version…

In South Korea, condemned the 28-year-old gamer for cheats in the game Overwatch. The court sentenced him to one year probation and two years probation. This was reported by the Korean broadcasting company SBS News. In exchange for cheats hacker received about 200 million won, which is about 179 000 USD. Earlier this year, two…