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  • I’m Starting to Have Serious Doubts About Amazon Prime

    Photo: Getty It’s not like I’m spending my whole paycheck on Amazon orders, either. Most of my orders are in the $50 range, and most of the stuff I buy, I could also buy locally and carry home in my backpack. The one big, inconvenient thing I ordered was a TV that would have been…

  • The Latest Priceless Art Restoration Disaster Is One for the History Books

    Image: ArtUs Restauración Patrimonio You alright, Spain? In what is most certainly a contender for worst art restoration project, a 500-year-old wooden effigy of San Jorge de Estella in the Spanish city of Estella-Lizarra has been, uh, restored by a “handicrafts teacher,” according to the Guardian. The end result isn’t a pretty sight, and has…

  • It Costs Seven Cents to Make a Nickel, So the U.S. Mint Had a Computer Simulate Cheaper Coins

    To comply with anti-counterfeiting rules, new coins are tested with a non-standard, “dummy” design.Photo: K. Irvine/NIST As the value of precious metals fluctuates over time, the U.S. Mint has to constantly find new ways to keep currency manufacturing affordable. A five-cent nickel that costs as much as seven cents to make is a problem, but…

  • In Huawei Mate 20 will be exactly four cameras. Or even more

    In a network there is another live picture allegedly showing the smartphone 20 Huawei Mate, which has not yet been officially submitted. Photos published relevant resource SlashLeaks that specializes in the collection of a variety of leaks. The new photos clearly shows the narrow frame around the display, including top and bottom. Remarkably, there is…

  • Figure of the day: How many smartphone users in the world?

    Figure of the day: 59% smartphone users in the world. Analytical company Pew Research Center has published statistics regarding the popularity of smartphones in the world in General and individual countries in particular. As it turned out, 59% of surveyed adults in the world are smartphone owners, 31% use simple mobile phones, and 8% neither…

  • What’s new in public beta iOS 12

    Apple has made available to the public beta of mobile operating system iOS 12. So now not only developers, but also iPhone and iPad users can download and install test iOS 12. iOS 12 beta is available for download from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air if you have an existing configuration profile. Recall, Apple…

  • The day when phones came mobile web

    On June 26 1997 Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet (known as the developer of the NetFront browser) teamed up to develop mobile Internet called WAP. Technology is completely sounded like Wireless Application Protocol — wireless data transfer Protocol and was designed to display the websites on the phones, “monochrome” era. From enterprises to implement…

  • Apple AirPods will teach 2 does not light up in the ear under the influence of moisture

    Apple developing new audio devices, among which are headphones HomePod, the second generation of AirPods headphones and high quality headphones, pair, misleading close to the company sources. And details about flagship wireless AirPods second generation is available now. According to the source, new model will receive the resistance and noise reduction, and at the moment…

  • Browse portable DAC and amplifier iFi xDSD — now without wires

    The company iFi — is not new in the market of portable audio. Once, long ago, I did a review on the first three models in their lineup. Since then, it took a lot of time, but more recent developments in my hand did not fall. And now, more recently, in a review managed to…

  • The American company Taylor’s “reinvented” acoustic guitar

    Once Apple “pereizobreli” phone. At least, she announced, presenting the world of the iPhone. The significance of the advent of the iPhone, there really is difficult to overestimate. And what else would you reinvent? Company Taylor decided to re-invent the acoustic guitar. The guitar is an empty box connected to a neck to which the…