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  • Oh Joy, We Just Found Another Virus Spread By Mosquitoes That Might Make Us Sick

    Image: mikadago (Pixabay) A mosquito-borne virus discovered over a half century ago has been found in humans for the first time ever, likely having caused a case of severe rash and fever in a Florida teenager in 2016. But despite the recent reveal, it’s likely the germ has been making people sick for quite some…

  • We Need to Study the Effects of Revenge Porn on Mental Health

    Illustration: Chelsea Beck (Gizmodo) Leah Juliett was 14 when nude photos of her were circulated throughout her school without her consent. She had sent the photos privately to a boy, who then shared them with fellow students. “It really was kind of an emotional numbness. I completely shut down,” Juliett told Gizmodo. For years after…

  • Facebook Is Working on a Hidden Tool That Shows How Much Time You Waste on Facebook

    Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty) You’re not the only one worried about how much time you’re spending on Facebook. The social media giant is, according to TechCrunch, working on a time-tracking tool designed to let users know how long they spend on Facebook. The “Your Time on Facebook” tool, found in Facebook’s Android app by Jane…

  • Whoa, Check out Zebrafish Eyes

    Zebrafish eyeImage: University of Sussex Imagine that during our evolutionary history, we could not turn our heads up or down. How might our vision have evolved differently from the two frontal, mobile eyes we have today? Zebrafish larvae, a fan favorite when it comes to scientific research, can help us with this thought experiment. They…

  • Physicists Think the Weather Can Trigger Blackouts in an Unexpected Way

    Windmills in a stormPhoto: Andreas (Flickr) Renewable resources are great, but they bring a new element of uncertainty to a power grid. This element can lead to failure in surprising ways, according to a new paper. A team of researchers built a model of power grids that transport electricity from solar and wind power. That…

  • Apple Finally Offers Fixes for Faulty Butterfly Keyboards, Acknowledging the Design Sucks

    An Apple employee points to the Touch Bar on a new Apple MacBook Pro laptop during a product launch event on October 27, 2016 in Cupertino, California.Photo: Getty At this point, it’s no secret that the butterfly keyboard used on newer models of Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have a litany of issues. Apple…

  • The Russians set a record for spending on phones

    Analytical company IDC has summed up the results of the first quarter of 2018, the market of mobile phones in Russia. As it turned out, consumer spending on the purchase of mobile phones continues to grow. The volume of Russian market of mobile phones amounted to 1.63 billion U.S. dollars. According to analysts, this is…

  • Tablet Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 seemed in the photo and rendering

    In a network there is a selection of press renders and photos of the upcoming tablet Xiaomi Mi Pad 4, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. The images showed that the tablet display has aspect ratio of 16:10, whereas the earlier rumors talked about the 18:9. As expected, the Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 will…

  • Deprive Apple iPhone all ports and buttons

    Apple has considered the possibility to deny iPhone X wired version of the charging switching entirely to wireless. This told Bloomberg. The author notes in Bloomberg said that we are talking about the complete elimination of X in the iPhone Lightning port. Moreover, the company’s engineers hope eventually to completely get rid of all external…

  • Drone Yandex.Taxi independently drove from Moscow to Kazan

    The company Yandex has published on its YouTube channel a video with a new demonstration of their own self-driving taxi. The UAV made its first big trip — he drove from Moscow to Kazan. Machine overcame 780 kilometers, most of the way ran along the Federal highway M7 “Volga”. In total the trip took about…