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The company HOMTOM sent us photos that leave no doubt that the long-awaited smartphone S8 already passed the stage of mass production and prepared to come to the first buyers. In pictures visible a number of boxes filled with smartphones. The uniqueness of this device consists in the fact that this is the first smartphone…

While Uber plans to launch an unmanned taxi in 2020, other companies are also not sitting idle. The service Lyft, one of Uber’s biggest competitors, has announced that it will soon acquire its own unmanned vehicles. For this the company signed an agreement with startup Drive.ai, specializing in the development of software for the autopilot.…

We have become to rely on machine learning systems in everything from creating playlists to control cars, but like any tool, they can be used in a dangerous and unethical purposes, even by accident. Today’s illustration of this fact — a new article by researchers from Stanford who created a system of machine learning, which,…

PHILIPSBURG – UPDATE 10:02 – It looks to be that the hurricane José, direction Sint-Maarten rage, a little north of course will follow, where up to now it was gone. The distance to the island which is bigger than thought and will the impact therefore be smaller, says the KNMI. José is now in the…

MEXICO-CITY – Hurricane Katia has the east coast of Mexico was reached. Although, for a real hurricane comes, gets it not for its rivals today by the Caribbean rant and anywhere heavy devastation havoc. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States share Katia in category one in. The storm shrinks after landing in…

HAVANA – Hurricane Irma is on the Sabana-Camagüey archipelago drawn, a series of small islands right in front of the North-Cuban coast. There are no reports about victims. A weather station on one of the islands mat Saturday morning (local time) wind speeds of 200 kilometers per hour. Thousands of residents of the archipelago were…

Image: ESA Humans have had such a dramatic impact on Earth that some scientists say we’ve kickstarted a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. A fascinating new paper theorizes that alien civilizations could do the same thing, reshaping their homeworlds in predictable and potentially detectable ways. The authors are proposing a new classification scheme…

Image: NASA Now here’s both the natural and false color images just for fun:

Debris from a collapsed wall sits in Oaxaca, Mexico. (Image: AP/Luis Alberto Cruz) The strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century has struck off the nation’s West Coast, shaking buildings for hundreds of miles and triggering tsunami warnings. At least 16 people have been killed, but officials are expecting the death toll to rise.…

Facebook’s ‘Tag Your Friends’ feature uses faceprints Broadly, face recognition works by measuring people’s faces and assigning them a “faceprint.” In this particular study, the software was shown the faceprints of men and women who identified themselves as gay or straight. It found patterns and then, when shown pictures it had never seen before, it…