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  • Instagram quietly launches its own payments inside the social network

    Get ready to shop in Instagram. The social network has quietly added native function payments in your app for some users. It allows you to register a debit or credit card in the profile, configure the security PIN, and then start buying things right in the “inst”. No need to go to the website and…

  • Ford introduced the glass, which will allow the blind to “see” the landscape outside the car window

    In the world there are more “smart” gadgets. But most of them bear nothing but a minor make everyday tasks easier. For example, viewing notifications on the watch and not on the phone, photographing by pressing on the earpiece and not the trigger of the camera and so on. But one in particular is “smart”…

  • Compare the size of ships from “Star wars” with real-world objects

    Many favorite movies Star wars show us the future that we never came. We are not familiar with other civilizations may not move freely between planets and solar systems, and lightsabers came up. Certainly we have such a variety of spacecraft. And if there was, what would they be like? Our colleagues from the Business…

  • Study: what men like women and what influences this

    It was thought that hormonal contraceptives and ovulation influence women’s preferences with regards to men. This week in Psychological Science published the results of a new study, which was much bigger than the previous one. It gives to understand are the preferences of women after hormonal therapy and what are preferences. A study led by…

  • Passwords 336 million Twitter users have been compromised due to a bug

    Tonight Twitter has released a security warning, which advised 336 million of its users to change their passwords. It turned out that because of the obvious mistakes some codes were stored unprotected in the internal magazine. However, large leaks seemed to be no. It seems to be. The company disclosed the problem in the official…

  • Completed tests of a compact nuclear reactor for space colonies

    As the portal Space.com engineers and scientists from the Research center NASA’s Glenn has completed ground tests of a compact nuclear reactor with a capacity of 10 kilowatts, which we wrote about earlier in the year. In the future the installation is planned to use in space and on other planets for space colonies by…

  • In Helsinki the launch of a self-governing unmanned buses

    The city of Helsinki bought the first driverless bus trials which will be held on the ground in the capital of Finland permanent long route Helsinki Robusline. This was reported by “Fontanka” with reference to the official portal of Helsinki. The new route will be operational in early summer in the area of Kivikko. Six…

  • Russian scientists first in the world unfroze and launched heart

    The main problem of modern cryonics (the science of freezing living tissue) is the difficulty in unfreezing these tissues so that ice crystals don’t hurt a living material. Therefore, worldwide research is being conducted on creating a safe technology “defrost”. And the first in the world that managed to make national experts from the Foundation…

  • NASA has approved the design of a 30-meter-assembled space telescope

    Space Agency NASA approved and provided funding for the first phase of designing a new space telescope with the mirror diameter of 30 meters. But the most interesting in this project is not even a giant the size of the device, and the feature of the Assembly. According to the plans of the telescope will…

  • Created contact lenses that help color-blind people to distinguish colors

    Color blindness is not fatal, but quite unpleasant disease in which a person almost does not distinguish color. And there are many ways of correcting this condition, but they are all tied to the use of electronics or complicated optical devices, whether special glasses VR-helmets or a computer program. But that could change thanks to…