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ü The first stage of the competition among developers of booths took place in the end of last year, the second took place in the summer. Then the representatives of the company said that will continue the tradition and make the third stage. Now the company Elon musk has opened registration for the competition which…

Image: NASA/NOAA As the strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history continues to wreak havoc in the Caribbean, two more threats have emerged in the form of hurricanes Jose and Katia. Though it’s unusual for three hurricanes to be active in the Atlantic basin at the same time, it’s not without precedent. Earlier this year, scientists…

Image: AP On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted a message to immigrants protected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), telling them they “have nothing to worry about” because there will be no action until the program expires in six months. Bizarrely, the tweet was reportedly sent at the behest of House Minority Leader…

Image: Getty Facebook outsourced its fake news problem, and it appears the company isn’t keeping its fact-checkers fully satisfied. According to a report from Politico, third-party fact-checkers want more internal data from Facebook both on how impactful their work is on the platform and also on which stories they should prioritize. Facebook isn’t handing the…

GIF Image: OpenGameArt.com Over the weekend, China banned initial coin offerings (ICO) and briefly paused the seemingly unstoppable price increase of bitcoin. But the cryptocurrency has already bounced back. With the likes of Paris Hilton, Kim Dotcom, and John McAfee all jumping into the ICO world in one way or another, it seems worth asking…

FrontRow Price $400 What is it? A camera you wear as a necklace. Like The hardware is nice. No Like The camera is bad. Companies are also banking on us wanting to strap on silly looking hardware to capture those moments—you know, instead of the phone that’s already on my person at all times. It’s…

Image: Apple Apple’s iPhone 8 event is coming up fast, and we’re expecting Tim Cook and company to announce far more than new handsets. Here’s a quick primer. The event kicks off at 1PM ET/10AM PT on Tuesday September 12 at the brand new Steve Jobs Theater. You can watch it live on Apple’s website,…

Photo: Getty Social media companies need to start being more transparent about their roles in the U.S. presidential election, Sen. Mark Warner told reporters today. Twitter will need to explain to Congress how its platform was used by Russian trolls attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election, and Facebook ought to make political ads purchased…

Image: IAU Whoever came up with these names clearly did their homework. A group of surface depressions has been named Djanggawul Fossae, which the IAU described as “three ancestral beings in indigenous Australian mythology who traveled between the island of the dead and Australia, creating the landscape and filling it with vegetation.” Other regions are…

Photo: AP On Wednesday, Senator Claire McCaskill released a report on the findings of a congressional investigation into the practices of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics. The jaw-dropping allegations detail the process in which agents systematically convinced insurers to pay for a highly-addictive opioid cancer pain drug for patients who didn’t have cancer. Why the FDA…