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  • This is What Happens When You Teach an AI to Name Guinea Pigs

    This Guinea Pig is named “Hanger Dan.” (Image Courtesy of Portland Guinea Pig Rescue) As literally every sci-fi movie has predicted, we’re becoming increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence. AI can already compose music, play Ms. Pac-Man—like a pro, nonetheless—and even manage a hotel. But it’s never been used solely for the purpose of naming small,…

  • TSA Reminds Passengers That Ninja Stars Are Not Fidget Spinners

    Screengrab: Instagram/TSA What is a “weapon?” Technically, you can inflict harm on another person with just about anything, be it a projectile, blade, stone, or even just your own human hand. So where do you draw the line? The TSA’s verdict: Fidget spinners are toys and ninja stars are weapons. Ninja star fidget spinner? Weapon.…

  • This Study is Forcing Scientists to Rethink the Human Genome

    Image: Getty Images The more data, the better, right? When it comes to genetics, it turns out that might not be the case. As both genetic sequencing has gotten cheaper and computerized data analysis has gotten better, more and more researchers have turned to what are known as genome-wide association studies in hopes of sussing…

  • Merkel praises mentor, Kohl’s,

    ROME – Angela Merkel has her old CDU-mentor Helmut Kohl commemorated in a speech in Rome, where the German chancellor, on Saturday a meeting with pope Francis. “The Germans had a lot of luck with Kohl’s,” said Merkel. They praised him as a great European. “The message of the death of Helmut Kohl makes us…

  • Trump fits Cuba policy Obama

    MIAMI – President Donald Trump has Friday the toenaderingspolitiek of his predecessor, Barack Obama against Cuba disapproved. He signed a decree allowing the individual Americans made much more difficult as a tourist to the Caribbean island to travel and to spend money that, according to him, the communist regime in the saddle. Trump also decided…

  • Condition Scalise improved slightly

    WASHINGTON – The state of the Republican Congressman Steve Scalise is still critical but in the last 36 hours have improved. “That is encouraging,” said the surgeon, which to him operated on Friday. Scalise was this week during a honkbaltraining shot by a 66-year-old man, believed to be a Trump-hater. The perpetrator died by a…

  • Robot submarine the Boeing Echo Voyager first came out into the open sea

    Robotic technique gets more and more into our lives and seek to replace the technique of “normal”. And if robotic cars and planes is no surprise then that deep-sea submarine looks very interesting. All the more so for its creation is the Boeing company, and the submarine belongs to the class of very large deep-water…

  • Sberbank tested delivery drones money

    Something in the savings Bank said so long finally happened. The Bank’s specialists began testing the drones-collectors, with the help of which the future is supposed to deliver cash. That drones will begin to experience in the near future, said a month ago the Chairman of Board of Bank Stanislav Kuznetsov. He said that after…

  • Elon Musk quote on SpaceX: us satellites become free

    The budget of the U.S. air force recently became available to all comers, so the ability to compare prices on launches from companies providing such services. It turned out that SpaceX have done great job and their prices differ from the prices of United Launch Alliance (ULA), which is owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.…

  • HTC has demonstrated a wireless version of the VR headset Vive

    The wire stretching from virtual reality headsets to the computer or game console, stopping completely dissolved in the VR-worlds, and imposes tangible restrictions on the user. That is why big players are still young VR market is actively working to improve technology to make their devices as convenient as possible and offline. The first solution…