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  • OUKITEL Mix 2 and OUKITEL C8 – smartphones with unlimited displays

    Full-screen smartphones have recently become very popular, and to keep up with the trend, the Chinese manufacturer OUKITEL released two new devices equipped with such displays. New items were named OUKITEL Mix 2 and OUKITEL C8 and will go on sale next month. OUKITEL Mix 2 looks very similar to Xiaomi Mix 2 and has…

  • Stop Wasting My Time With This Stupid Planet X Doomsday Conspiracy Theory Bullshit

    Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Holy shit, stop, please stop. When a crazy person says something crazy in real life, we ignore them. But for some reason on the internet we decide that every crazy person is worth listening to, news outlets with large audiences write about their fever dreams, and less crazy people suddenly get concerned because…

  • A Running List of Uber’s (Predictably Lukewarm) Apologies 

    travis kalanick on Twitter “10/ We are up to the challenge to show that Uber is and will continue to be a positive member of… Read more In January of 2014, Uber apologized after it was revealed that its New York team was creating Gett accounts in order to sabotage the rival ride-sharing service. “The…

  • The Fight Over DRM Standards for Streaming Video Is Over and Big Business Won

    Photo: Getty A fight over the future of video streaming has been brewing for years—and it finally came to a head today, with a major electronic privacy organization bowing out of the consortium that sets standards for the web. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) resigned from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today over the…

  • Why Is Someone Clogging Swiss Toilets With Tens of Thousands of Euros in Cash?

    Image Source: Public Domain Pictures Swiss authorities are trying to crack a strange case involving the disposal of more than $100,000 worth of 500-euro notes that were flushed down the toilets of public establishments in Geneva. The perfectly good cash caused thousands of dollars worth of plumbing damage and officials are stumped by the seemingly…

  • Are Wolves Better Problem Solvers Than Dogs?

    Got any snacks? (Felicity Robinson/Wolf Science Center) From a young age, human children learn that a rattle won’t make a noise until it’s shaken, and that placing fingers on a hot stove is a terrible idea. New research suggests that wolves, like humans, have a knack for identifying these kinds of cause-and-effect relationships, but that…

  • Equifax’s Troubles Grow With News of Prior Breach, DOJ Investigation Into Stock Trades

  • Evil Del Ponte away as Syria-researcher

    GENEVA – The prominent jurist Carla del Ponte, has taken leave of the human rights Council of the United Nations. She let her frustrations run wild about the fact that no special tribunal was established in Syria committed war crimes to punish. Del Ponte announced earlier this year that her departure from the commission, which…

  • Spain put ambassador North Korea country

    MADRID – Spain put the ambassador of North Korea out of the country. He must before the end of the month in Spain to leave because of the repeated refusal of his country to renounce its nuclear weapons program, said the Spanish ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Today the North Korean ambassador was informed of the…

  • US will send 3000 military personnel to Afghanistan

    WASHINGTON – The United States sending 3000 military personnel to Afghanistan. That said, the Us Defence secretary Jim Mattis. Most of them are already underway, or informed of their broadcast. At the end of August had Mattis all command given for the sending of more soldiers to Afghanistan, but he had not yet said how…