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MARIPOSA In California, the remains of the fire around him to grab. Thursday, fires consumed according to the local fire department 45 buildings were destroyed near the Yosemite National Park. Five thousand people had to leave their homes. The forest fire is approaching the former gold diggers town Mariposa, a popular tourist destination. Since Thursday…

Smart thermostat market is far from new. But if such goods are in demand, so their creation may be interested in the fairly large manufacturers. That Microsoft couldn’t resist, so it announced its own smart thermostat GLAS. Yes, and under the control of the virtual assistant Cortana. To help develop the Redmond giant offered the…

On the road always something happening, and it’s not just about constant driving. And then there are and follow each other road signs, somewhere there are new lanes, interchanges and intersections, where road workers, in turn, set the traffic lights. Roads are constantly changing — have long been accustomed to ordinary drivers, so no problems…

A prototype of the first ATM machine was invented by the American scientist Luther Simpana in 1939. The device gave out cash, but could not deduct them from the account: the device was not associated with the Bank. In 1967 in London was a more perfect ATM. He still didn’t know how to check the…

GIF Image: Alvesgaspar/Wikimedia Commons/Ryan F. Mandelbaum You’re staring at the sky on a sunny day when you notice, in the corner of your eye, a transparent squiggle floating slowly across the blue. You try and focus on it, but it eludes your glance, refusing to be resolved. No matter where you look, the squiggle knows.…

Photo: Getty Roughly three-fifths of the weapons sold on a selection of dark web marketplaces originate from the United States, according to a new study examining the scope of the internet’s black market arms trade. The first of its kind, a report from RAND Corporation details the ever-expanding role of the dark web in facilitating…

GIF Sometime between your marine biologist and professional ninja phases, you probably dreamed of being an astronaut as a kid. But have you seen all the work that goes into actually becoming one? Save yourself years of G-force training and wearing onesies and just shortcut your way onto the International Space Station, which became available for tour…

Artist’s impression of New Horizons encountering MU69. The probe is expected to make its rendezvous on January 1, 2019. (Image: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) In about a year and a half from now, the New Horizons Spacecraft will whiz past a distant Kuiper Belt object named 2014 MU69. This rocky relic of the ancient Solar System—which is located…