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CARACAS – The opposition in Venezuela, the population Monday called for the work later this week, a 24-hour halt. The national strike, which on Thursday should take place, is directed against the leftist government of president Nicolás Maduro. The work stoppage is part of a number of protests against Maduro. As demands of the opposition…

For the transistor important properties of the semiconductor. Modern transistors are based mostly on silicon. Scientists are constantly looking for a replacement for this material. As one of the alternatives to silicon being considered even carbon. But, it turns out that this role can play metal, not a semiconductor. How is this possible? In a…

The company OUKITEL is famous for producing modern smartphones with a solid design and decent specifications, and still manages to sell them at very low prices. And when she is satisfied with traditional sales, those prices drop quite so up to an indecent level. From 17 to 24 July in the online shop Gearbest is…

Exhibition D23 Expo has become a real gift for fans of the franchise Star Wars. Learn fun facts about movies, games, amusement parks. Disney definitely knows how to heat up the necessary interest to their projects. But one of the highlights of the presentation was a demonstration video from the set of the eighth episode…

Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. This time it will be ending support for Windows Phone, an ATM with facial recognition technology and more! Pleasant viewing! #news high tech…

Astronomers have discovered a huge galactic supercluster, located about 4 billion light years from Earth. And this supercluster not only represents one of the largest cosmic structures among the discovered, it is also the most remote supercluster, which managed to find and explore. In the Universe everything is relative. You may feel that the world…

The clump of 17 contact lenses. (Image: BMJ) While prepping a 67-year-old female patient for routine cataract surgery at England’s Solihull Hospital, physicians noticed a strange bluish blob in one of her eyes. On closer look, the blob turned out to be 17 contact lenses stuck together. Another 10 lenses were subsequently discovered in the…

Imagine spending your whole day here, eating and reading the internet and pooping and then eating more and reading more internet. But now, Subway wants to put stupid touchscreen kiosks in its restaurants. They look like the ones you use to get tickets at the movie theater, except sandwich-related. Listen to this. You build your…