Category: English
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The review points to the computer and video games
In recent years, I’ve been spending in front of screens of monitors and televisions more and more time. This is mostly due to my professional activities. When you’re a journalist, like it or not, but every day for several hours at a time gaining huge amounts of texts, edit them and “brush”. In other words,…
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Scientists won one of the deadliest and incurable diseases
There is a very rare genetic disease — epidermolysis bullosa characterized by blistering and erosions on skin and mucous membranes, skin fragility and its sensitivity to minor mechanical trauma (let’s just say it’s better than “Google”). There is no cure. However, thanks to the achievements of German and Italian scientists, thousands of people around the…
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Uber has released a video demonstration of the flying taxi
A short video illustrating the future air taxi, which is Uber, appeared on the website of the company. The video briefly talks about how passengers can use aircraft, the launch of which is planned for 2020. Judging by the video, the flight to taxi aircraft will be made over long distances and between key points…
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Tomtop is selling gadgets of famous brands!
Few lovers of Chinese online shopping had not heard about the store Tomtop — there is often possible to find products that are significantly lower than in Russia. And when on the nose sale on 11 November, prices reach just up to an indecent level, besides the store gives free shipping. So, Xiaomi Redmi Note…
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How does it work? | Fire sensor
The first automatic fire sensor was heat. It was created by Americans Francis Upton and Fernando Dibble in the late 19th century. The design of the sensor was an electric battery, bell dome, a magnet in an open circuit and a thermostatic device. The latter was discovered an abnormal amount of heat, and the circuit…
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Scientists wanted to classify the discovery of the “quark fusion”
In the image below, you can see the mushroom cloud from the explosion of ivy Mike in 1952, the first thermonuclear fusion bomb ever exploded. In the process of fusion and fission of nuclei is allocated a colossal amount of energy, thanks to which we are to shiver fear of nuclear weapons. Recently it became…
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In Russia there will be a plant for the construction of combat robots
Already not the first year experts from the USA and Japan are preparing for a battle of bots. Of course, this is all part of the show, but soon the production of military vehicles can pass from the grade of fun into something more serious. For example, recently the representatives of the Foundation for advanced…
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Error of the programmer froze on cryptocotyle $ 280 million
Programmer with the nickname devops199 working with their smart-contract Parity, by mistake deleted the library that provides the wallets, was from mid-summer to the present. Now in the purses frozen about $ 280 million in essential terms, which, it seems, will not be able to recover. Service multipacting purses Parity was considered one of the…
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The inventor of the flying suit tested it and set a world speed record
Richard Browning, CEO of Gravity Industries and part-time pilot-tester, got into the Guinness Book of records by flying in a flying suit of its own design in the air and while speeding up to 50 miles per hour. The flight took place thanks to the mounted in the suit pulsed a kerosene engine with six…
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Experimental SpaceX rocket engine blew up in Texas
Merlin rocket engine of new generation, manufactured by Elon musk, exploded during tests on one of the test sites in Texas. According to the official statement of the company, at the time of this incident nobody suffered. The explosion, however, caused serious damage to test equipment at the facility MacGregor had run. Company representatives have…