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Disney and MIT have created a VR-a jacket that captures the feeling
With every passing day the popularity of virtual reality is growing. And the good news is the fact that the developers are not sitting idly by and develop technology. For example, Disney in collaboration with scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) have created a special jacket, which can provide the user with the…
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Russian air defense system was supplemented by artificial intelligence
An increasing number of service uses artificial intelligence. But when the AI used by the military is something new. And may not even be a joke to scare and make you remember the unforgettable film by James Cameron “Terminator”. But to control nuclear missiles, it has not yet reached, but to improve the work of…
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The founder of WhatsApp did not want to weaken encryption and abandoned their product
The founder of the popular WhatsApp messenger will be leaving the company Facebook. This was reported in the Washington Post, and later, Jan koum, and he wrote about his departure on his personal page. In the Washington Post as the main reason for such a decision failure Yana Kuma to come to terms with the…
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Blue Origin reusable rocket is experiencing. But why so secretive?
Sunday, April 29, the company Blue Origin conducted another test launch of a new reusable rocket New Shepard and the space vehicle which in future will be used as a tourist ship bringing people to the borders of outer space. For a series of missiles of this modification it was the eighth start and the…
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Robots, like a cross between a slow cooker and the Rover began food delivery
Campuses in major technology companies have canteens. In some of these cafeterias employees can eat for free. This is justified by the fact that the less employees will spend time on the road and lunch, the sooner they get back to work. In addition, in the canteens of companies, employees can discuss projects. For those…
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German scientists have created “electronic nose” that can be embedded in any smartphone
On pages of our site we’ve written about creating high-precision electronic nose, but in the modern world valued the portability and mobility. A group of researchers from Germany has recently introduced a very small sensor, which can effectively identify odors and fits into any modern smartphone. Responsible for the development of a team of scientists…
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In the most powerful Collider SuperKEKB held the first collision of particles
At the beginning of last month at the international center of high energy physics, KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan, has earned magnet SuperKEKB. And it was recently conducted the first experiment on the interaction of positrons with electrons, in which were registered the appearance of new particles containing quarks. Recording occurred through the detector, Belle-II, which…
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Russia is developing a sauna and a washing machine for astronauts
Scientific research and design Institute of chemical machine building (Niikhimmash) started to develop a sauna and washing machines for use in space (space stations and bases on other planets). This was reported on the website the only national developer of such systems. From sanitary systems on Soviet space stations, starting with the “Salyut-7”, installed only…
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Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear power station
Many countries, including China and the United States, had planned to create a marine or floating nuclear reactors, but no one dared. Russia was the first, launching the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, 70-MW “Akademik Lomonosov”, on the Baltic sea. Starting with St. Petersburg, the station will be towed by Norway to Murmansk to…
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Chinese companies monitor brain impulses and emotions of employees
We already know how hard is the Internet censorship in China. In addition, there is a facial recognition system like the one which recently caught the criminal in Russia. The Chinese are not stopped, and now they’re monitoring brainwaves to understand what emotions experienced by the employees of different enterprises. What the Chinese have to…