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13:50 • 02.06.21Google developing first foldable pixel smartphoneIt is believed that the South Korean company decided to sell UTG to other companies as it plans to expand its foldable display business. Along with Google, the company could start shipping ...
09:19 • 02.06.21Isaac Newton’s handwritten notes for greatest work going up for London auctionPages containing Isaac Newton’s jotted revisions to his masterwork, the “Principia,” are expected to sell next month for between 600,000 pounds and ...
12:38 • 01.06.21South Korea unveils homegrown space rocket for first timeSouth Korea has earmarked 2 trillion won (US$1.8 billion) to develop its first homegrown space launch vehicle, named Nuri, and aims for a launch in October this year. In 2013, South Korea successfully launched ...
13:24 • 31.05.21Xiaomi shows off Phone that can charge to 100% in 8 minutesThe 200W wired charging tech, used on a modified Xiaomi MI 11 Pro with a 4,000mAh battery, gets the phone from 0-10% in just 44 seconds. The phone gets to 50% in 3 minutes ...
11:42 • 31.05.21Google employees admit in lawsuit that the company made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location privateGoogle continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing settings, made popular privacy settings harder to find, and even pressured LG and other phone makers into hiding settings ...
10:34 • 29.05.21First European woman to command the International Space Station“This will be the second space mission for Samantha, who will become the first European woman to command the International Space Station ...
10:40 • 27.05.21SpaceX launches new Starlink satellite fleet on used rocketThe private spaceflight company will launch a full stack of 60 Starlink satellites on one of its newest rockets, a Falcon 9 dubbed B1063. The frequent flier is scheduled ...
10:32 • 27.05.21Canada announces plans to land rover on moonAccording to the Canadian Space Agency, the unmanned robotic vehicle will aim to gather imagery and measurements on the moon's cratered surface, showcasing technologies ...
09:44 • 27.05.21Rising global temperature 'inexorably close' to climate tipping, UN warnsThis does not yet mean that the world would already be crossing the long-term warming 1.5-degree threshold set by the Paris Agreement of 2015, which scientists warn is the ceiling to avoid the most catastrophic ...
16:09 • 26.05.21Total Lunacy! Stunning photos show giant Super Flower Blood Moon glowing over US cities during its closest annual orbit of EarthThe moon appeared large and red in the night sky above Manhattan as the Super Moon event coincides with a lunar eclipse at at 1.47am PDT ...
13:57 • 25.05.21Blind man has sight partly restored after pioneering treatmentThe 58-year-old man, from Brittany in northern France, was said to be “very excited” after regaining the ability to recognise, count, locate and touch different objects with the treated eye while wearing ...
11:40 • 25.05.21NASA announces $433.5m mission to send a rover to the MOON in 2023 to scout out potential landing sites for the Artemis crew in 2024The space agency plans to send the $433.5 million (£306 million) rover, named VIPER, to explore the lunar south pole, where it will look for water ice and other resources that could be harvested ...
09:11 • 24.05.21COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer, AstraZeneca 'highly effective' against India variant,Public Health England (PHE) said on Sunday that the Pfizer vaccine was 88 per cent effective against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant — named B.1.617.2 — two weeks after ...
11:50 • 21.05.21Google’s first-ever retail store to open in NYC this summerGoogle has toyed with retail in the past, sometimes with little pop-up shops where people can browse new gadgets when they’re announced. But it has otherwise relied on its website and other ...
13:44 • 20.05.21Rare corpse flower draws hundreds of onlookersSolomon Leyva, a nursery owner in Alameda who deals in exceptionally rare plants, had been posting on social media about his amorphophallus titanum. When he saw a lot of interest ...