Category: English
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Why Can’t This Soap Dispenser Identify Dark Skin?
A user of Xiao Mi’s Mi Band 2 Heart Rate monitor says the device can’t detect his heart rate on his wrist, but can on his fingertip. (Image: Miui.com) In his original post, Afigbo hypothesized that “having a dark skinned person on the team would have resulted in a better product.” And surely, testing the…
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Life As We Know Could Have Come From Algae on Steroids
Image: Harsha K R/Flickr What was life really like here on planet Earth before animals were big enough to leave fossils behind? How did living things turn from dinky capsules of genetic material into the intelligent, complex organisms that do things like fart and type curse words into posts on the internet? Scientists think they’ve…
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New Image of Jupiter Is So Beautiful It’s Making Us Angry
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran Even Juno itself was impressed by the resplendent photo: Shine on, Jupiter, you beautiful, swirly mystery ball. You can see the entire gallery of raw JunoCam images here. [NASA]
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Fieldwork Fail Shows How Science Is Sometimes a Hilarious Trainwreck
All images Courtesy Jim Jourdane After long years of research, your efforts have paid off: the archaeological site you’re digging in has turned up a stash of rare, striking bones, no doubt the beginning of a groundbreaking discovery. Only then, you find the KFC wrapper, revealing that this “ancient burial ground” is just the leftovers…
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EU helps burnt black Portugal
BRUSSELS – The European Union allows up to 45 million euros to Portugal for the recovery of the damage the fires have caused. The fire destroyed in June estimated that more than 40,000 hectares of forest. A total of 64 people were killed and there were more than 150 wounded. The fire raged in the…
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Abdeslam also for the Belgian court
BRUSSELS – Terreurverdachte Salah Abdeslam need to register for the Belgian court to answer for the shooting in Brussels, where last year’s march, three policemen were injured. Then could Abdeslam, who played a role in the attacks in Paris by half a year earlier, to escape. Abdeslam sits in a French prison for his role…
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Miljardenverbouwing great mosque Mecca resumed
MECCA – The building of the family Bin laden, the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) will resume next month, after the annual pilgrimage hajj, the construction work at the grand mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. The huge construction project that converted 22.7 billion euro cost, it was since september 2015 year still. Then…
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Motorola has patented a self-healing screen for smartphones
Imagine that one day, smartphones will learn to correct physical defects in their screens. You dropped your smartphone on the pavement, cracked screen and smartphone immediately identify where he suffered damage, and healed, “the wound”. Yes, like no cracks and was not at all. About this future imagine the engineers of Motorola, which recently patented…
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A review of the game Agents of Mayhem
C Agents of Mayhem had a very interesting story: being the first in a long time, a new project from Volition (creators of Saints Row), the game remained indirectly linked to the old universe. The first commercials much confused players, and they began to take the game almost as a “new Overwatch”. To understand what…
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Giant Tortoise Apprehended 140 Meters From Zoo Two Weeks After Daring Escape
Image: Asahi Simbun/YouTube A female Aldabra giant tortoise named Abuh who had escaped from a Japanese zoo earlier this month has been found just a few steps away from the facility. Which got us wondering: Just how far could a 121 pound tortoise travel in 16 days? As reported in ChannelNewsAsia, Abuh made her daring…