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The company Facebook continues to develop its social network, adding its functionality to the new “chips”. Thus, recently it was announced that the largest social network acquired the German startup Fayteq developing plugins for working with videos. Fayteq previously created add-in for various video editors, among whom were, for example, Adobe After Effects. Facebook is…

Chess and go – it was only the beginning. Now the computer won person in the most popular discipline among young people in Dota 2. Yes, not just anyone, but one of the best professional players in the world, Ukrainian Daniil “Dendi” Ishutin. On the stage of the tournament, The International, the flagship annual event…

Indian company Flux Auto decided to create our own autopilot, which can be fitted to almost any truck. Its main difference from other similar projects is that the technology offered by the Hindus, will cost much cheaper, and this means that you can upgrade your truck virtually any small business owner. The startup team consists…

Alesi, the skull of the new extinct ape species Nyanzapithecus alesi (Image: Fred Spoor) Fossils of ancient apes are even rarer than those of ancient humans, so very little is known about these important evolutionary missing links. The unexpected discovery of a 13 million-year-old infant ape skull in Kenya is offering a tantalizing glimpse of…

Reconstruction by April I. Neander/UChicago The origin of flight remains a perplexing topic in the scientific community, as tends to be the case with any origin story. Flight probably evolved multiple times in different groups. Insects probably started flying over 300 million years ago, and pterosaurs, large flying reptiles, evolved 230 million years ago. Add…

Image Courtesy of Mark Witton When much-beloved Motörhead frontman Lemmy left our planet for a more metal one back in 2015, the world mourned. But now, the iconic musician has been immortalized in a way we know he’d approve of—by getting a prehistoric beast named in his honor. Recently, scientists studying the fragmentary skeleton of…

Any Trump-loving red-blooded American dumbass looking to huff in a bit of the president’s residual success while sneering at New York liberals will be disappointed to realize Jamaica Estates is… basically Long Island. And shitposting may be difficult as the listing does not make clear if the home is equipped with wifi. Really, all you…

Image: Gizmodo This really isn’t that hard, people. Just last year, Snapchat apologized for adding an offensive Bob Marley selfie filter to its stable. Now, FaceApp—the silly photo editor you probably downloaded in March and totally forgot about—has outdone Snapchat by throwing in options for people to virtually switch between multiple races. No. Don’t do…

Image: Mike Prosser/Flickr/Screenshot My experience with StarCraft was probably the stupidest possible: I really liked the books. Sure, I played the games, but mostly I played single-player because I was not very good, and enjoyed the story. But for some reason, it was Sarah Kerrigan’s tale told through the novelization that resonated with me the…