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Photo: Getty Benchmark Capital, one of Uber’s largest investors, is trying to explain its legal feud with former CEO Travis Kalanick to the ride-sharing company’s employees. Benchmark sued Kalanick for fraud last week, adding another controversy to the company’s already disastrous summer. In an open letter to Uber employees, Benchmark slammed Kalanick’s leadership of the…

GIF For fear of its screen shattering, you probably do everything you can to prevent your fragile smartphone from falling even just a few feet. But Blake Henderson accidentally tested the limits of a Samsung Galaxy S5's durability when he dropped it from a plane, only to later discover it recorded both the skydive, and…

GIF Boston Dynamics’ founder, Marc Raibert, recently gave a TED Talk where he trotted out some of the company’s recent innovations. The talk mostly features robot tricks we’ve seen before, except for a brilliant outtake of ATLAS trying to help out in a cafeteria that probably serves as the most accurate look at what life…

GIF GIF Source: Lockstate There are many reasons not to buy a smart lock, but high on the list is the risk of getting remotely locked out of your shit. For hundreds of customers using Lockstate’s smart locks, that potentiality became a reality last week—with some Airbnb users getting screwed the hardest. Are Smart Locks…

A DOJ warrant seeks information about visitors to a website promoting Inauguration Day protests. (Photo: Getty) A web hosting provider has revealed the US Justice Department’s efforts to obtain records about an activist website established to coordinate “mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump.” In a blog post titled, “We Fight for…

LLORET DE MAR – The popular Spanish resort of Lloret de Mar, is rocked by brutal uitgaansgeweld where a 22-year-old Italian has been killed. The man, Niccolò Ciatti, was lying on the floor hard against his head stepped on. In connection with the shocking case are three Russian tourists, between twenty and thirty years were…

PARIS – In a suburb of Paris, is a car drove down on the terrace of a pizzeria. The incident took place Monday night in Seine-et-Marne, east of the French capital. Eight people would have been injured. Among the victims would also be a girl. The driver would be held. According to BFMTV.com there is…

In the spring of 28-year-old resident of Shanghai was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma, a bone cancer. In the survey it was decided to do the surgery, but the matter was complicated by a number of factors. However, Chinese experts have made progress in her treatment and even replaced all six of her vertebrae affected by cancer…

The use of biodegradable materials no longer news. Such materials not only practically safe for the environment, but also reduce the production process. Biodegradable materials are widely used in the creation of disposable cell phones and other similar gadgets, microbots, and many more things. But the development of biodegradable car is something new. For the…

Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. This time we will talk about the successful flight of the SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, the algorithm that defines depression according to the photos in…