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What scientific experiments will open the door for us in the future?
The ALPHA collaboration has conducted the most precise experiment of all on the measurement of the behavior of neutral antimatter in the gravity field. Depending on the results, it can open doors to incredible new technologies. A sci-Fi technology for a long time (or forever) will remain in the field of literature, if only physics…
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The Jaguar will appear “smart” steering wheel
Smooth transition from conventional vehicles to Autonomous confronts engineers of different companies with new challenges. Developers have to develop new solutions that harmoniously fit into the concept of self-governing transport, so they offer all new decisions concerning the principles of interaction of the owners with their personal transport. So, Jaguar has introduced the concept of…
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Review: Bigger, Badder, But I Still Want More
All images: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo Forgive me for passing up the chance to beat the exploding battery joke into the ground. Let’s get straight to the point: Samsung’s once dominant flagship phablet is back after a two year hiatus. Sporting a stunning extra-widescreen 18.5:9 display, the new Galaxy Note 8 is bigger and more engaging than…
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Uranus’ Moons Are Unluckier Than We Thought
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Super Secret US Air Force Spaceplane Is Going Back Into Orbit This Week
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) is being staged at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its upcoming launch on September 7, 2017 in this September 5th handout photo (Boeing) The US Air Force’s secretive X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth back in May after a mysterious two years in orbit. Nobody knows what it was…
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I Ate Wasps and Scorpions at New York’s First Bug Eating Festival
Black ants on shrimp (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum) Brooklyn Bugs filled Labor Day weekend with events, from an outdoor market to the haute ten-course tasting menu at the Brooklyn Kitchen. The festival was the brainchild of Chef Joseph Yoon, who normally runs dinner parties and tasting events. Yoon was only introduced to entomophagy, or bug…
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Cuckoos Are Even Bigger Assholes Than We Realized
The common cuckoo. (Image: Wikimedia) In one of the more notorious dick-moves of the animal kingdom, parasitic cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, forcing them to raise the cuckoo chicks as if they were their own. New research shows that female cuckoos conduct this bait-and-switch while scaring the crap out…
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Lenovo Gets a Slap On the Wrist For Loading Up Computers With Dangerous Adware
Image source: Lenovo Users who purchased a Lenovo PC between September 2014 and January 2015 got an extra special surprise in the form of adware that left them wide open to malicious attacks. After two and a half years of legal wrangling, the Federal Trade Commission settled its lawsuit against the company, and it’s hard…
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Prosecutor Claims Social Media Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Members Wasn’t Surveillance
Youtube/ Geofeedia In the BLM members’ lawsuit, their attorney quotes the Strategic Intelligence Unit’s own internal reports as evidence of the illegality and racial bias in its geofencing tactics: The SIU describes the purpose of the Report as follows: Though the use of social media monitoring platform and other Investigatory tactics, the ILLPPC [Intelligence Led…
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Biologists Have a Cosmic Explanation For Last Year’s Mysterious Sperm Whale Strandings