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The star being eaten by the black hole is in pink.Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNH/D.Lin et al, Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI We’ve seen supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies tearing stars to shreds. We’ve detected the energy wave from relatively tiny black holes slamming together to create a wobble in space-time a billion light-years away. But what…

Look but definitely don’t touch.Photo: Natubico (Wikimedia Commons) A towering invasive plant capable of scarring anyone unlucky enough to touch its toxic sap is cropping back up in the U.S. And for the first time ever, it’s been spotted in the state of Virginia. The toxic plant, aptly known as the giant hogweed, was first…

Photo: AP AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they won’t provide their customers’ location data to third-party data brokers, AP reported on Tuesday. A New York Times report in May touched off a major scandal by describing the ways location data, which all four major carriers in the U.S. share with data brokers like LocationSmart,…

Illustration: Bryan Menegus (Gizmodo) Microsoft employees are putting pressure on their management to cancel a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of a backlash against the agency’s policy of separating children from their families at the U.S. border. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent today, employees demanded that the…

Image: Facebook Remember HQ Trivia—that live game show you totally would have won that one time if you hadn’t gotten the easy question wrong? The app, and its “quiz daddy” host Scott Rogowsky, seem to have inspired Facebook to try its hand at captivating viewers with live-streamed multiple choice questions, among other gimmicks. Facebook announced…

Federal court of Australia has fined Apple on the 9 million Australian dollars, which is about 6.6 million U.S. dollars. This was reported edition of the Sydney Morning Herald. The penalty for misleading Australian iPad and iPhone users who have been refused repair of devices from Apple, if the gadgets were previously repaired in unauthorized…

Company LG Electronics announced the launch of pre-orders in Russia for smartphone LG Q7 and advanced variation of the LG Q7+. This is a simplified and smaller version of the flagship LG ThinQ G7. The smartphone belongs to the middle level, but has received a number of features of a more upscale model. LG Q7…

Tonight, Oppo will hold a presentation of the flagship smartphone Oppo Find X in Paris. Journalists resource, a little ahead of the event and published a preliminary review of the smartphone, including its main feature — retractable module with cameras. Oppo decided to radically get rid of the frames around the display, without making such…

AMD decided to divert users ‘ attention from the anniversary of the Intel Core i7-8086K, which Intel unveiled at the recent Computex 2018. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the x86 architecture, AMD quite cynically offered to exchange absolutely free of charge six-core Core i7-8086K on their own last year shestnadcatiletnim Threadripper 1950X. Retail…