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Diet Drugs Might Make Mosquitoes Stop Thirsting for Our Blood
A group of adult female mosquitoes, under a microscopePhoto: Kevin Frayer (Getty Images) Losing weight is definitely tough. So tough, in fact, that scientists have tried to whip up drugs that trick us into feeling full and suppress our appetite. But these concoctions might not just work in people, suggest the authors of a new…
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Spooky New Photos Show the Alien Creatures of the Deep Ocean
A chimaera, also known as a ghost sharkPhoto: Schmidt Ocean Institute The research vessel Falkor has recently completed a three-week mission off the coast of Costa Rica, during which it gathered data, discovered new species, and took more incredible pictures of the life at the ocean floor. Falkor is an oceanographic research vessel operated by…
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I’m Still Searching for a Laptop Bag That Doesn’t Look Like Ass
RIP little guy. I could fit so much in you, but you’re practically toast.Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) As long as there have been laptops, people have been shoving them in bags. Incredible advances have occurred since that first big honking computer got shoved into a slighter bigger honking bag decades ago. Fabrics have grown more…
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Cartoonishly Well-Preserved Fossil Is the Earliest Bird of Its Kind
The 52-million-year-old fossil of Eofringillirostrum boudreauxi.Image: Lance Grande, Field Museum A 52-million-year-old fossil found in Wyoming is now the earliest known seed-eating perching bird in the scientific record, a discovery that’s shedding new light on the history and early eating habits of these now-ubiquitous birds. Perching birds like crows, finches, sparrows, and robins are prolific,…
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World’s Oldest Wild Bird, Now 68, Still Fucks and She Has the Baby to Prove It
The new chick and Akeakamai.Photo: Bob Peyton / USFWS Biologist Chandler Robbins first banded Wisdom on Midway Island in 1956. She was as an adult, implying that she was at least six years old. He spotted her again 46 years later, confirming her identity with the number on her band. At 68 years old now,…
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Seal Poop Thumb Drive Mystery (Partially) Solved as Owner Steps Forward
Photo: Wikimedia Commons On Tuesday, scientists in New Zealand announced they’d discovered a working USB drive in a sample of leopard seal poop that they hoped to return to its owner. In a surprise twist, the drive contained photos and videos of frolicking sea lions. Now, the owner of the fecal flash drive has come…
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Will Tech Workers Rise Up Around Automation, Too?
Photo: John Shearer (Getty) Over the last year or two, it’s sure felt like a seismic shift’s been underfoot in the way tech employees think about labor conditions and work—or, at least, in the way the media portrays them doing so. Maybe it’s a bit of both. Regardless, a number of stories have documented both…
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Budget-Smartphone LG K12+ ähnlich dem Flagship-9 Nokia PureView
Im Netz erschien das erste render zeigt das Aussehen über die bevorstehende Veröffentlichung des Budget-Smartphone LG K12+. Es veröffentlichte Ressource TigerMobiles.
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Was uns auf dem MWC gezeigt 2019
Der World Mobile Congress (MWC) 2019 bereits nahe. Die meisten der interessantesten und vor allem unerwarteten Ankündigungen im Bereich der mobilen Technologie und Telekom geschehen dort. Und zwar bleibt die Hoffnung auf eine angenehme überraschung, noch das Programm-mindestens — die Erfüllung der Erwartungen, die ich in diesem Artikel.
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Motorola präsentiert Budget-Smartphones Moto G7
Das Unternehmen Motorola hat heute eine neue Serie von Smartphones Moto G7. Es beinhaltet Low-Cost-Modell Moto G7, Moto G7 Power, Moto G7 Play und Moto G7 Plus. Interessant ist, dass die Bildschirme mit den kleinen Rahmen haben verschiedene nach der Form die Aussparungen für Frontkamera und sensoren.