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Elon Musk Quits Donald Trump
Photo: Getty Mere minutes after Donald Trump finished his batshit bonkers speech about exiting the Paris Climate Accord, White House advisory council member Elon Musk did what many have urged him to do for months: he quit. Which poses the question: Why did Elon Musk join Donald Trump’s presidential councils in the first place? Late…
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Tesla Fires Female Engineer Who Alleged Sexual Harassment and Wage Discrimination
Photo: Getty Tesla fired a female engineer this week, just months after she publicly raised concerns about sexual harassment and wage discrimination at the company. AJ Vandermeyden sued Tesla last year and went public with her allegations in a February interview with the Guardian, but continued working at Tesla until her firing this week. In…
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This Robotic Exosuit Could Turn You Into a Super Athlete
Credit: The Wyss Institute at Harvard University Researchers from Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a soft robotic exosuit that significantly boosts a person’s running performance. The device requires a tether and external power supply to work, but once it becomes portable, it could help athletes run faster and further than before, smashing their…
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Scientists Name Protein After Minions, America’s Favorite Movie Characters
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Workplace App Scrambles to Rescue Users Who Foolishly Used Its Service to Store Passwords
Image: Jim Cook Although storing passwords in plaintext anywhere online is fundamentally the opposite of security, routine data breaches at some of the world’s biggest companies haven’t dissuaded some users from engaging in this obviously terrible practice. Case in point: As Vocativ reported on Thursday, the company behind Trello, the popular workplace app, was forced…
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’Terrorist attack on a resort in Manila
MANILA – UPDATE 21.24 hours – At a hotel – and casinocomplex in the Philippine capital Manila are on Friday morning (local time), shots are fired and an explosion heard. The police has the area and the complex is completed. In the pictures on social media are plumes of smoke visible above the complex’s Resorts…
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U.S. pulls plug from climate deal
WASHINGTON – UPDATE 22.15 hours – The United States steps out of the climate treaty of Paris. The American president Donald Trump has Thursday announced in the garden of the White House. The termination of the treaty was already expected. According to Trump cost of the agreement to the American citizen to a lot of…
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Brussels: klimaatbesluit Trump sad
BRUSSELS – “A sad, sad day for the world, the day on which the United States turned away from the fight against climate change. The EU regrets this unilateral decision deeply.” That was the first reaction from Brussels, EU-commissioner Miguel Arias Canete (Climate and Energy) – Thursday night on president Donald Trumps announcement that the…
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Seven major trends in the field of high technologies which we change
The production is dirty, boring and outdated. It’s a slow industry, stuck in the past, and its development question of new technology from Silicon valley. And stereotypes — it’s funny and… wrong. Let’s not forget that manufacturing, the industry that brought us into the modern era. While many people dream of robots from science fiction,…
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How does it work? | Touchpad
Touch panel, or another touchpad, was invented in 1988 by George Gerpheide. Then, Apple has licensed the project and, since 1994, began to use in the PowerBook laptops. Since the touchpad is the most common control device a laptop. How it works — about it in today’s issue. The touchpad is a flat touchpad that…