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BRUSSELS – There is no progress in the negotiations on the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. That said EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, after the end of the third round of negotiations in Brussels. That began Monday and lasted four days. According to the Frenchman it is in this pace, the…

The algorithms by which robots calculate the trajectory of its movement from point “A” to point “B”, there are enough long. This is not surprising. However, the movement of the robot in a place with heavy pedestrian traffic – a task much more difficult. After all, you need to move according to the generally accepted…

The forum “Army-2017” was presented a lot of novelties from different manufacturers. Attended the event representatives of “Kalashnikov”, demonstrated their development. Among other things, was presented to the electromagnetic gun REX 1, is designed to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles. The weapon was developed by specialists of the company Zala Aero Group, a member of the…

Image: NIH On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment that genetically modifies a patient’s own blood cells in order to attack childhood leukemia, a landmark decision opens the door for an era of FDA-sanctioned human gene modification. The treatment, called CAR-T, is made by the drug company Novartis. Doctors first harvest a…

Photo: Getty Politicians on both sides of the aisle are starting to wake up to the enormous power that tech companies wield, and there’s a growing sentiment that something needs to be done about it. But giants like Google are extending their moneyed tentacles in all the right places to ensure silence in Washington and…

Photo: Getty Today is the last day to submit comments on the proposal to kill open internet rules to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Good luck with that, though. The public comment period has been complete disaster from the start, and a new study funded by big telecom suggests that the record-setting 21 million comments…

Image: USDA/Flickr There’s some crazy meat industry propaganda video waiting to be made where an All-American jock takes a bite out of a hamburger served by a polite waiter, who then rips off a mask to reveal the demented face of someone from the mushroom industry shouting “that burger is 50 percent mushrooms,” after which…

Photo: AP Parts of Twitter lit up on Wednesday evening with the news the Federal Communications Commission, which is now headed by Donald Trump appointee and unflinching net neutrality opponent Ajit Pai, had posted a statement insulting the chairman in the grossest possible terms. The message—which is not real—is hosted on the FCC website, and…

All images: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo For the last couple years, fall has signaled the release of LG’s V-series phones—the kind of big, kind of funky phones that usually feel less like an attempt to put together a handset that people would actually want to buy, and more like an attempt to see how far LG could…