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Artist’s interpretation of the three protoplanets. Illustration: NRAO/AUI/NSF; S. Dagnello Since the 1990s, scientists have detected thousands of exoplanets orbiting distant stars, but the discovery of baby protoplanets embedded within stellar expanses of gas and dust has proven to be a challenge. An international team of astronomers has used a new technique to finally discover…

Photo: Andrew Burton (Getty) An update to Microsoft’s well-received line of Surface devices is no doubt already in the works, but news from Thurrott’s Brad Sams suggests we may see more than a few additions to the lineup as a whole. And if the showcase from Microsoft’s competition is any indication, one of them, a…

Photo: Getty If you were hoping to see all of your favorite Marvel characters under one roof, we have some bad news. If you didn’t like the idea of Disney owning the whole Marvel universe, well, it can always get worse. Comcast is backing a dump truck of cash up to 21st Century Fox’s doorstep,…

Image: Malti_Nirankari (Pixabay) Despite the best efforts of a Republican-led Congress over the past two years, the Affordable Care Act has largely stayed intact. A recent study published in Health Affairs offers the latest bit of evidence that the sweeping health care law, flawed and incomplete as it might be, has been a net good.…

Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe pauses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 7, 2017Photo: AP After being fired by the attorney general in March, a former top FBI official requested records from the bureau citing the federal freedom of information law. However, he was quick to discover that the agency he led for…

Google announced a number of changes that will affect brand extensions in the Chrome browser. Since June 12, the new extensions become available only from the online store Chrome Web Store. Since 2011, the developers could use so-called inline installation, which allowed to install extensions directly from the site without entering into the official Chrome…

In the network appeared live pictures of the upcoming flagship smartphone Sony Xperia XZ3, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. Photos published relevant Japanese resource SumahoInfo. The photos show frameless design with display with an aspect ratio of 18:9 without the cut-out-style iPhone X and dual main camera on the rear panel. According to…

American Tesla, specializing in electric cars, fired about 9% of its staff as part of a major restructuring of the company. This was reported in an email to staff from Elon musk (Elon Musk), the head of Tesla, also posted in his official Twitter account. In General, the number of downsized employees will exceed 3…