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Samsung’s New Water-Resistant Wearables Will Get You Laughed Out of the Pool
All images: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo Not content just to let the Galaxy Note 8 make waves, Samsung is pushing out three new fitness minded wearables this holiday season: the Gear Icon X 2018 wireless earbuds, the Gear Sport smartwatch and the Gear Fit 2 Pro fitness band. Now none of these devices are exactly new (or…
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Biggest X-Ray Laser Gun on Earth Opens in September
Image: European XFEL/Heiner Müller-Elsner Even if you haven’t seen any James Bond films, you’re probably aware that the space laser battle depicted in Moonraker ranks among the stupidest scenes in the franchise’s history. But there’s a new laser gun in town that’s actually good and opening up for business. It is not a weapon. The…
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Killer Ants Snap Their Spring-Loaded Jaws 700 Times Faster Than You Can Blink
A close-up image of a Myrmoteras trap-jaw ant. Image: Steve Shattuck. Below the tangle of vines and branches of the East Malaysian rainforest, a small contingent of ants scuttles frenetically along the shaded leaf litter. But these are no mere picnic pests—these are Myrmoteras trap-jaw ants, fearsome predators armed with long, spiky, widely-agape mandibles—and they are…
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If Grandma Has a Pacemaker, Please Take Her in For a Firmware Update
Photo: AP The Food and Drug Administration announced today that 465,000 pacemakers installed in the US have a security vulnerability that could be exploited to make the device operate too quickly or deplete its batteries, and these devices need firmware updates to keep them from getting hacked. Yikes. The vulnerability affects devices made by Abbott’s…
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Hurricane Harvey Has Left a Chemical Plant Near Houston Ready to Detonate
Flooding near Addicks Reservoir in Houston, Texas on August 29th, As Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters begin to slowly recede from Houston, leaving behind at least 23 dead, residents and authorities alike are only beginning to assess the surreal extent of the damage throughout the region. That includes the country’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, which experts…
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Furniture store Houston let evacuees stay
HOUSTON – A furniture store just outside of Houston offers all day for about 200 evacuees of the floods to help. Chairs, sofas, and beds; it is the only grip that the sudeten people from the American town still have. The entrance of the store is filled with towels, clean clothes and toys, all donated…
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Tax Mallorca up a lot
PALMA – Holidaymakers should bear in mind that they next year on Mallorca and the other islands of the Balearic islands two times as much tax to pay. The left-wing ruling coalition of the autonomous Spanish region has, according to Podemos-foreman Alberto Jarabo an agreement in principle about reached. The details are Thursday completed. Adult…
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Mayor Houston asked the government for money
HOUSTON – The mayor of Houston has the U.s. government called on his city and other affected communities as soon as possible financial aid. Sylvester Turner said at a press conference, in order to avoid the municipality of the money for the hulpverleningsinspanningen around the tropical storm Harvey must pay in advance and later request…
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Conducted the first test of technology quantum 4D-encoding
Traditional encryption technologies for information transfer use the binary system. However, even now evolving methods of quantum information transfer are also based on system data with two variables. Although the methods of multidimensional quantum coding “capable of more”. And it is theoretically possible four-dimensional coding for the first time not long ago passed a series…
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Aston Martin will release an electric car in 2019
The English manufacturer Aston Martin Limited announced its intention to produce electric car by 2019. In addition, AM CEO Andy Palmer said in an interview with the press that for about 2025 the company plans to start a smooth transition to electric. In the next few years to completely abandon the internal combustion engines will…