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$15 Magnet Hack Turns Smart Gun Into Regular Gun
Image: Armatix Just like anything with a lithium-based battery has the potential to explode, just about any tech product that’s considered “smart” is potentially hackable. Which is why one clever hacker was able to break the Armatix iP1, a smart gun that is designed to only be fired by a person wearing a paired smartwatch.…
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FDA Considering Forcing Companies to Reduce Nicotine in Cigarettes to Non-Addictive Levels
Image: Wikimedia In an effort to reduce tobacco-related disease and death, the US Food and Drug Administration says it’s considering a plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes—a major regulatory shift that’s already causing turmoil for conventional cigarettes companies at the stock market. Announced earlier today, the FDA’s new regulatory plan places nicotine and the…
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Twitter’s First Subscription Service Turns Your Tweets Into Ads for $99 a Month
Photo: Getty A day after Twitter revealed that its user base is stagnating like never before, the company began inviting users to test a subscription service that automatically promotes tweets to a wider audience for a monthly fee. On Friday morning, several companies and individuals tweeted out screen grabs of emails inviting them to participate…
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How New Technology Could Threaten a Woman’s Right to Abortion
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Roomba CEO Swears That He Will Never Sell Maps of Users’ Homes, So Help Him God
Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder The Roomba is generally regarded as a cute little robot friend that no one but dogs would consider… Read more In a statement first shared with ZDNet, iRobot CEO Colin Angle wrote: First things first, iRobot will never sell your data.…
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Why We Still Don’t Know How Long a Day is on Saturn
Saturn, taken by Cassini in 2012. (Image: NASA) According to Cassini scientist Jo Pitesky, we’re still not sure after all these years. When Voyager 2 visited Saturn back in 1981, it recorded the planet’s rotational period as 10 hours, 39 minutes. But when Cassini visited the gas giant, it measured the day as 10 hours,…
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New Analysis at Nuclear Reactor Reignites Search for Mysterious ‘Sterile’ Neutrino
Image: University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory You’re probably aware that stuff is made from particles. But the second most abundant particle in the universe, the neutrino, refuses to be fully understood. This tiny and elusive speck only barely interacts with the other particles that make up us humans and our galaxy. Its mysteries…
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Lavrov calls with Tillerson
MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, has Friday his American colleague Rex Tillerson called on the phone and stressed that Russia is pleased with the US cooperation. Lavrov said that the two countries, their relationship should normalize and work together in matters that are of the world entering into. He confirmed that the…
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Baby Charlie died
LONDON – The British baby Charlie Gard died in the hospice where he since was yesterday. That report several British sources. “Our beautiful little boy died, we are so proud of you Charlie,” says his mother Connie Yates in a statement, reports the British newspaper The Guardian. Photo: EPA The parents of Charlie have in…
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82 high-rise buildings with dangerous façade cladding
LONDON – Certainly 82 British buildings are clad with façade plates that do not meet the rules for fire safety. Research shows that it is set as a result of the fire last month in London, Grenfell Tower in the axis is explained. Sure 81 inhabitants came to life. The government announced Friday a revision…