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The 18 Most Dangerous Volcanoes in the United States
Mount Rainier Looms over the Puyallup Valley, Washington. It’s the third most dangerous volcano in the United States, according to a new USGS report. Image: USGS The U.S. Geological Survey has updated its National Volcanic Threat Assessment, ranking the most dangerous active volcanoes in the United States. To the surprise of no one, Hawaii’s Mount…
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We Talked to the Graduate Student Who Made Bricks From Human Pee
Dyllon Randall and graduate students Vukheta Mukhari and Suzanne Lambert with pee bricks.Photo: University of Cape Town Pee contains some pretty amazing stuff. Scientists have known for nearly a decade that it’s possible to produce bricks from bacteria, sand, and urea—a chemical found in urine. Researchers have gone ahead and produced those bricks, now for…
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Astronomers May Have Spotted One of Earth’s Ghostly Dust Moons
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New Documents Show Amazon’s Face-Scanning Tech for Cops Was a Headache From the Start
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AI Community Feuds Over ‘NIPS,’ the Controversial Name of Its Top Conference
Pepper robot at the CeBIT 2017 Technology Trade FairPhoto: Alexander Koerner (Getty) At one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) conferences in the world last year, keynote speaker Elon Musk reportedly made a joke about “tits” on a stage in front hundreds of researchers and engineers. He seemed to be referring to the name…
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Not Only Are Vaginal Jade Eggs Useless, They’re Not Even an Ancient Remedy, Study Finds
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Facebook Proactively Erased Pages Praising Mail Bombs Before Suspect’s Arrest
What We Know About Mail Bombing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Jr. Law enforcement officials arrested and charged 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr. on Friday, in… Read more Read The 56-year-old suspect, whose van was found plastered with pro-Trump and anti-media stickers, as well as photos of Democratic leaders depicted in crosshairs, was arrested in Florida on Friday…
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Who’s Fucked, Who’s Not: The Tech Earnings Report Roundup
Photo: Getty The unstoppable stock market has been experiencing some turmoil this month with the S&P 500 experiencing the most daily losses since 2008. Tariffs, interest rate hikes, and tech stocks are getting a lot of the blame from financial tea-readers. Here’s the good and the bad we saw from the earnings reports of the…
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Intel berichtete über die großen Einkommen
Die Firma Intel seine Finanzergebnisse im Dritten Quartal 2018. Das Unternehmen erhielt Rekordumsatz in 19,2 Milliarden US-Dollar und einen operativen Gewinn von 7,3 Milliarden US-Dollar. Der größte Teil des Einkommens, 10,2 Milliarden US-Dollar wurde erreicht mit dem Verkauf von Prozessoren für Desktop-und nicht Hardware für Rechenzentren oder Geräte «Internet-Dinge». All dies, trotz der Verzögerung mit…
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Huawei kam auf den ersten Platz im Verkauf von Smartphones in Russland
Im Dritten Quartal 2018 die chinesische Firma Huawei zum ersten mal den ersten Platz auf dem Russischen Markt der Smartphones durch die Anzahl der verkauften Geräte. Der Anteil von Huawei musste 28,3% der Smartphone-Verkäufe in Russland, das ist dreimal mehr als im Vorjahresquartal. Nur in Russland verkauft wurden 8,3 Millionen Smartphones pro Quartal, das ist…