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Mad Genius Brings Flappy Bird Back From the Dead on Dreamcast Memory Card
GIF As Sega’s Hail Mary pass on hardware, the Dreamcast wasn’t exactly the miracle the company prayed for. But the long-dead console still has a massive fanbase, as a clever hacker who managed to port the infinitely addictive Flappy Bird to the Dreamcast’s interactive memory card recently demonstrated. The VMU, or Visual Memory Unit, was…
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Space-Grown Crystals Could Help Us Counteract Deadly Nerve Agents
Image: SpaceX The International Space Station (ISS) might be the perfect laboratory for developing antidotes to gases used in chemical warfare. Nerve agents such as sarin and VX are incredibly toxic, and yet, one way to combat them could come from crystals grown in microgravity. According to NIH, the AChE enzyme—or enzyme acetylcholinesteras—helps muscles to…
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Motorola’s New Body Cam AI Stops Just Short of Dystopian Surveillance
The New Tech That Could Turn Police Body Cams Into Nightmare Surveillance Tools Time and time again, police officers shoot, and sometimes kill, civilians holding harmless objects, … Read more As co-founder Max Versace explained, Neurala will train its software to recognize objects worn by either the suspect or missing person, not find their face.…
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New Model Could Solve a Huge Problem With Tornado Forecasting
Image: Screengrab via Basehunters Chasing Tornadoes aren’t hurricanes. Hurricanes are long-lasting, low-pressure swirls that follow somewhat predictable paths. But tornadoes can pop up and disappear in just a few minutes. It hasn’t been easy to give people fair warning about tornadoes, especially those folks caught in the crosshairs of violently-rotating columns of damaging, high-speed winds.…
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Google Glass Is Officially Back, Doing Something It Doesn’t Suck At
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How Google Is Stopping Phishing Attacks from Unverified Apps
Photo: AP Google is stepping up its effort to block phishing attempts that use app permissions to gain access to users’ Gmail accounts. These phishing attacks invite users to grant an app permission to manage their Google account—which lots of safe apps do, too—and then exploit those permissions to take over an account or send…
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German schoolgirl (16) arrested in Mosul
MOSUL – The 16-year-old German student, Linda W., who last year traveled to IS area, was recently arrested in Mosul. The girl would be part of a group of twenty female fighters of the terrorist group Islamic State. That reports the German newspaper die Welt. According to the newspaper, had women hiding in an underground…
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Soldier kills officer after argument about cell phone
JAMMU – An Indian military has an officer shot dead after a collision on phone calls. The soldier was kindled in anger when a major tried his mobile phone to get in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, reported Indian media on Tuesday. The major tapped the military reportedly on the fingers because he…
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Scheldkanonnade on Twitter French ministry
PARIS – Followers of the Twitter account of the French Ministry of Culture got in the night of Monday to Tuesday unusual tweets. The 13-year-old son of an employee was found the account a while to have taken up and started there then had to scold. The ministry has now apologized for the tweets. Most…
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Amusement parks based on Star Wars, will open its doors in 2019
We have repeatedly told you that Disney plans to open an amusement Park based on the franchise “Star wars.” This Park will differ from all others in that its visitors can participate in a kind of role-playing game, in which you’ll be able to join one of the factions — the rebels or the “First…