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Image: Derek Keats You probably think you know how giraffe necks evolved. Maybe the ancestors of giraffes ate leaves from trees, and the ones who could reach the most leaves were the fittest, and therefore passed that trait down to the silly looking long-necked animals we see today. But scientists don’t know that—in fact, there…

Photo: Getty Waymo, the self-driving car company spun out of Google, just scored a major win in its ongoing legal battle against Uber. Waymo is suing the ride-hailing company, claiming that a former Waymo employee stole trade secrets about its autonomous vehicle technology and took them to Uber, where Uber then incorporated them into its…

Photo: AP Martin Shkreli, the cancer drug price-jacking pharmaceutical executive and convicted securities fraudster for whom the moniker “Pharma Bro” is among his politer nicknames, will be behind bars a little earlier than anticipated. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto revoked Shkreli’s $5 million bail, the Washington Post reported, citing the con’s goblinoid social…

Photo: AP Ever since the term was popularized by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump—and subsequently appropriated by Democrats—the stupid controversy over “fake news” has become a swirling vortex of pointlessness that refuses to go all the way down the drain. Now everyone’s calling legitimate articles and opinion pieces that contradict their own prejudices “fake,” as though…

MIAMI – Eight residents of a nursing home in Miami are the accident by a faulty air conditioning. The equipment was inoperative due to power failure when the hurricane Irma about Florida drew. This left the equipment of battle, and there was gassing. The drama played itself out in Hollywood, a town between Miami and…

BEIRUT – Buses with IS-fighters, who were evacuated from an area near the Lebanese border Wednesday, Deir al-Zor in the east of Syria. The evacuation took place after the organization of a Hezbollah prisoner had been released. That confirmed a commander of the Lebanese militia who meevecht with the Syrian army of president Assad. Damascus…

Washington – President Donald Trump has the sale of the American manufacturer of semiconductors Lattice to an investment company with Chinese background will be blocked. He gave Beijing thus a clear signal that Washington transactions with technology that could be used for military purposes, not tolerate. Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, based in Palo Alto, California…

When 20 years ago it became clear that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, scientists presented this all, a simple and verifiable explanation. But as soon as he received more and more data from experiments and observations, the reason for the existence of dark energy is presumably the cause of this acceleration remained elusive.…

In the hottest time of year, many of us use air conditioning. And despite the fact that summer has passed, scientists from Stanford University have unveiled a high-tech optical surface on which it is based air-conditioning system that does not require electricity for its operation. As a heat carrier is water, which passes through the…