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  • Future Apple Watch will lose the hardware buttons

    Apple will be deprived of their future smart watch Apple Watch hardware buttons. This was told Fast Company magazine, citing a source directly aware of the Apple’s plans. Watch get touch button that will not move up and down, but will determine the touch of a finger. The layout of the buttons and crowns will…

  • On Yandex.Maps now has bike routes

    The development team Yandex.Cards announced the launch of the new opportunities. Now Yandex.Maps allow you to plot Cycling routes. The service will show you how to get by bike from one point to another, and calculate approximate travel time. The route can be build on both the computer and smartphone. The owners of devices on…

  • Declassified features of the flagship Sony Xperia XZ3

    In the network appeared the details about upcoming flagship smartphone Sony Xperia XZ3, not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. A screenshot with a detailed list of characteristics of a published profile of Japanese resource SumahoInfo. According to the source, Sony Xperia XZ3 will be a small upgrade compared to the Xperia XZ2, released in…

  • System with drones taught to recognize a fight in the crowd

    System for automatic monitoring increasingly penetrate into our lives, as developers discover new ways to use machine learning to analyze the video stream. A new project of researchers from the UK and India allows the use of this technology for the determination of aggressive behavior in crowds using feature cameras drones. The developers used a…

  • New Acne-Fighting Compound Blocks Inflammation and Kills Bacteria Without Irritating Side Effects

    Photo: LBPics (Wikimedia Commons) If you survived adolescence without a harrowing bout of acne, consider yourself lucky: It’s estimated that 85 percent of people aged 12 to 24 have had at least mild acne. But if you’re among those of us who would have been thrilled to deal with merely “mild” acne, you’ve probably tried…

  • We Should Search for Aliens by Looking for Their Space Junk

    The Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico.Photo: Hajor/Wikimedia The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) began in earnest in the 1960s when scientists started scanning for alien radio signals. This approach has yielding nothing, highlighting the need for alternative strategies. In recent years, scientists have proposed that we look for alien megastructures, such as Dyson…

  • Facebook May Have Been Shamed Into Fixing the Most Annoying Thing About Messenger

    Photo: Zach Gibson (Getty) Facebook says it’s “working to” reduce the number of annoying notifications it sends you when you add new friends. The alerts, which masquerade as Facebook Messenger notifications, were the subject of a BuzzFeed article lambasting the feature two days ago. Messenger, which was spun out of the main Facebook service in 2011,…

  • The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Is an Absolute Beast

    A row of Summit’s server racks.Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Behold Summit, a new supercomputer capable of making 200 million billion calculations per second. It marks the first time in five years that a machine from the United States has been ranked as the world’s most powerful. The specs for this $200 million machine defy…

  • The Top 7 Gadgets Shaped Like a Cube

    Image: Next Amazon’s announcement for its new Fire TV Cube on Thursday was a great reminder that the cube just doesn’t get enough love in gadget design. Cubes are solid as hell. They’re elegant, simple, functional, and memorable. They beg the question: “What’s in the box?” As a reminder of all that and more, we’ve…

  • Two Quantum Computing Bills Are Coming to Congress

    A dilution refrigerator from an IBM quantum computer.Photo: IBM Research (Flickr) Quantum computing has made it to the United States Congress. If this field of quantum information is the new space race, the US doesn’t want to fall behind. After all, China has funded a National Laboratory for Quantum Information Sciences, set to open in…