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Stop Reading Into Tropical Storms Don and Hilary
Tropical Storm Don, a weakening system that’s now approaching the Windward Islands (Image via Weather Underground) Meteorologists are currently tracking a pair of weather systems, a tropical storm named Don that appears to be on its way out, and an emerging system that will be dubbed Hilary should it continue to gain strength. While the…
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Controversial Treatment Appears to Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler
Image: OpenStax College/Wikimedia Commons Fifteen minutes beneath 41-degree Fahrenheit water is a crippling experience, and possibly death sentence for a two-year-old. These are just not conditions that children generally survive. But a controversial treatment may have played the role in saving Eden Carlson’s life. The girl fell into her family’s pool in February 2016, according…
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Check Out How Samsung Describes Its Male and Female Bixby Assistants [UPDATED]
Screenshot: Adam Clark Estes After months of delays, Samsung’s much ballyhooed voice assistant Bixby is here—and users on social media are already noticing the company’s loaded, sexist characterizations of its female and male voices. Inside Bixby’s “language and speaking style” menu, Samsung describes its female voice as “chipper” and “cheerful,” while the male voice is…
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Scientists Just Observed an Effect of Gravity on Tiny Particles For the First Time
Image: US DOE/Public Domain Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s mostly because most black holes are too far away, and even if we could travel to them, it’s unlikely we’d survive their gravitational pull. That means that if we want to study…
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Baltimore Cop Plays Himself by Seemingly Planting Drugs in Front of Body Cam
Image Credit: Twitter/ Justin Fenton On Tuesday, Baltimore news outlets shared footage from a January drug bust where an officer appeared to record himself planting drugs he would later say belonged to a suspect. The video, posted by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, is staggering: While on, Axon body cameras enter “buffering” mode, allowing them…
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Man catches rare blue lobster
PORTSMOUTH – A unique catch in the U.s. state of New Hampshire. Angler Greg Ward could not believe his eyes when he was a blue lobster found in his catch. The fisherman thought at first that it was an albino lobster was, but had soon that it is a ’hard-shell blue lobster ” turned out…
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Slovakia demands more fish in fish fingers
BUDAPEST/BRATISLAVA – Slovakia will not get the same quality fish sticks and other European countries, and this discrimination must soon come to an end. This said the Slovak prime minister Robert Fico shortly before a regional summit meeting Wednesday with the leaders of Hungary, Czech republic and Poland. Fico is imminent according to the BBC,…
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Sexist commercial, Audi is bad in China
BEIJING – An advert from the car manufacturer Audi is badly received in China. In the video, which according to many Chinese misogynistic is to see how a bride by her mother-in-law subject to a type APK. The mother of the groom pulls at the ears, lips and nose of the woman, and everything seems…
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What scared the developer of AI in his creation
As people involved in artificial intelligence research, I often encounter the view that many people are afraid of AI and what it can become. It is not really surprising, when viewed from the standpoint of the history of humanity, while paying attention to what we are fed by the entertainment industry that people may be…
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Mira Prism – budget AR headset for only 99 dollars
While Microsoft is trying to convince everyone that their augmented reality headset HoloLens for $ 2999 – this is a very advantageous purchase to market a small company who clearly understand that consumers want a budget alternative to similar products. One such company is California-Mira. American engineers managed to build an affordable AR-Prism headset costing…