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North Korea Releases New War Games For Smartphones
Screenshot from the Start menu for the new North Korean smartphone game titled Confrontation War (Arirang-Meari) North Koreans, they’re just like us! By which I mean they love smartphone games about war. And according to North Korean state media, the people of that isolated country have three new war-themed smartphone games to choose from. First…
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Why Are Sea Levels Around Miami Rising So Much Faster Than Other Places?
Flooding in Miami Beach, Florida in September 2014. Image: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky In Miami, it’s no secret that sunny day flooding is occurring more often, nor that rising sea levels and climate change are to blame. But, as is often the case when you drill down into the inner workings of our planet, the full…
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Disturbing Data Visualization Shows Just How Many People Would Die in a Nuclear War
GIF Data visualization artist Neil Halloran has a knack for turning incomprehensibly large and complex data sets into content that’s both coherent and engrossing. In his latest project, the filmmaker uses his skills to convey the unthinkable: the total number of deaths caused by an all-out nuclear war. A couple of years ago, Halloran used…
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Cuba allows US diplomats to be deaf’
HAVANA – At least five American diplomats who are in Cuba are stationed, over the past few months deaf. In some cases the hearing impairment so severe that they prematurely are returned to the US. Anonymous diplomatic sources reported to news agency Associated Press that ultrasonic sound is probably the cause. A device that inaudible…
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People can learn new information during sleep
Sleep anciently attributed a variety of properties: from quite ordinary functions to a magical holiday and even describe the fact that during sleep the soul leaves the body. But one of the most common modern belief is, perhaps, that in the dream, you can learn vast amounts of information. And here, according to the journal…
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Einstein’s theory has passed a major test
The basic laws of physics, from the pen of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, do not work in all cases. One has only to apply them to very fast, almost the speed of light moving objects or things heavier stars, and then they give up the slack. In such cases, comes to the aid…
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In the Beijing metro has begun testing trains on a magnetic pillow
The development of new and faster and more fuel-efficient vehicles is in full swing. But if big giants like Tesla is still not aimed at the mass market, developments of scientists from China may well be to the taste of ordinary people, because they are aimed at the field of public transport. For example, this…
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Drone’S-MAD can sit on a vertical surface
Engineers of the University of Sherbrooke created a drone that can land on any vertical and horizontal surface. This interesting feature the developers have borrowed from the birds that on the fly can sit on the cliffs or walls of houses using the smallest ledges and cracks to grab onto. Inspired by this natural example,…
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Smartphone vs latex paint: will survive?
Last month we talked about how Chinese smartphone OUKITEL K10000 Max braved after a series of severe tests. He was drowned in the aquarium, submerged in dirt, fed the fish — but persistent the Chinese were all uneasy. This time the manufacturer decided to up the ante and expose your gadget even more serious test.…
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Vertu Is Now Auctioning Off Its Shitty Gold Phones for Pennies on the Dollar
Image: G. J. Wisdom & Co Back in the halcyon days of 2013, you could buy a brand new, handmade Vertu phone with an underpowered processor and an outdated operating system for $10,000. But today, my friend, Vertu is drowning in debt and auctioning off these hilarious relics of excess with bids starting at a…