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"THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE — IT’S JUST NOT VERY EVENLY DISTRIBUTED" William Gibson
In Lebanon, people affiliated with Hezbollah have started blowing up their pagers en masse. Israeli intelligence services are suspected of this, which hacked them and activated the self-destruct mode.
As a result of this incident at least 8 people were killed, about 2.8 thousand were injured. A Hezbollah spokesman called it the group's biggest security breach during the nearly year-long war against Israel.
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Serbian extreme blogger wowed his subscribers with a crazy prank! 😱
He decided to test not only his own nerves, but also the bear's, by living right in its den!
Strange as it may seem, the owner of the dwelling did not dispose of the uninvited guest. What ended this dangerous meeting - remains a mystery.
Perhaps the blogger knows some secret of peaceful coexistence with bears, or maybe he was just fabulously lucky.
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Estonian acrobat Jaan Roose has done the unbelievable - he walked on a rope stretched over the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul from one continent to another! 😲
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Astronomers managed to get unique images of the star R Doradus, a red giant located not far from us by cosmic standards.
In the video, created on the basis of data from the ALMA telescope, you can see not only the surface of the star, but also giant bubbles of plasma, resulting from convection.
Such detail was possible due to the enormous size of R Doradus: it is 350 times larger than our Sun!
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House of illusions: when every room is a trick🔮
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It seems unbelievable, but an ordinary packet of Cheetos potato chips almost caused a real ecological disaster in the famous Carlsbad Caves!
Due to the carelessness of a tourist who dropped a packet of chips, a chain reaction started in the caves, which could have led to the death of many animals.
First, the chips attracted insects, then the whole mass became damp and began to mold. It didn't continue, because the park's caretaker Erich König noticed the foreign object and removed it, after which he wrote an essay in which he described how the slightest interference can disrupt a large and fragile ecosystem.
This time around, it was okay.
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Now that's a visual aid to healthy living! Two 61-year-old twin sisters, identical genes, but completely different life paths. One is a tanner and cigarette addict, the other is a health advocate. The result? 16 years of bad habits literally aged one of the twins.
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For the first time in history, an ordinary person (well, almost ordinary) went into outer space.
The lucky person who had the honor of being the first space tourist in outer space was billionaire Jared Isaacman. He was accompanied by Sarah Gillies, a SpaceX crew trainer.
A spacewalk is not exactly what we see in the movies. Isaacman was not “free floating” in space. SpaceX spacesuits don't have their own oxygen supply or other life support equipment. Instead, they used 12-foot hoses for air and communication. It's like deep sea diving, only instead of water, it's endless space!
Isaacman was outside for about ten minutes.
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In the sky above the Chinese city of Shenzhen, 8,100 drones soared into the air, creating incredible paintings and patterns that change right before your eyes. This grandiose show broke two world records at once.
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When it's not immediately clear what exactly is being practiced
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Asian engineers continue to surprise the world with their technological innovations! This time they have created a hypercar Yangwang U9 with a unique suspension that allows the car... to jump!
This car can bounce by lifting all four wheels off the ground at the same time.
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South Korea has developed an AI system called Dejaview that can predict crimes before they happen with 82% accuracy. The system analyzes data from street surveillance cameras and statistics, taking into account the time and place of events.
For example, if a combination of a number of factors occurred at night on the outskirts of a city, the risk of a crime being committed would be high. Dejaview can also monitor a person's actions if new crimes need to be prevented.
The AI uses a range of parameters and analyzes camera footage using machine learning technology to identify signs of impending offenses. The system is planned to be commercialized in late 2025.
Sounds like the beginning of a sci-fi thriller.
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Tickets for this grand show in Las Vegas cost a fabulous amount of money: from $1000 for the most basic seats to $17,000 for the opportunity to sit in the front row!
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🏆 Объявлен победитель конкурса Astronomy Photographer of the Year!
Им стал Райан Империо с потрясающим снимком полного солнечного затмения.
Фотограф использовал более 30 снимков, чтобы запечатлеть редкое явление — "чётки Бейли", цепочку ярких точек, возникающих из-за неровностей лунной поверхности.
Этот кадр — настоящий шедевр астрофотографии!
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An inventor blogger shared exciting footage of diving on a homemade submarine.
It took him 4 years and $29,000 to create this marvel of engineering!
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Runway just blew up the world of video editing! Their new Gen 3 Alpha is like a Swiss knife for video bloggers. Imagine: you upload your video, choose a style, and bam! - your video becomes a work of art. From retro to futuristic, from anime to noir - all in one click.
It's not just an update, it's a revolution!
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Singapore Airlines First Class
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Neural networks have learned to do amazing things, and this time they literally breathed life into portraits of Russian classics!
Imagine how familiar faces from school come to life: Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoevsky smile at the interlocutor and finally appear as living people who can be empathized with and admired.
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The sun put on a fire show and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured it all! 🔥
Five hours of footage was captured in a short video, where you can see our luminary spewing streams of plasma. The sight is mesmerizing, but also frightening: these emissions caused a magnetic storm on Earth. 😨
A beauty you'd better stay away from.
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Forget robot vacuum cleaners, the era of remote-controlled furniture is coming! And first in line to conquer our apartments is the coffee table.
No, seriously! Inventor Guilliam de Carpentier has created something incredible: a coffee table that... walks. By itself. On its four legs?
This marvel of technology is controlled by a wireless joystick.
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A working old railroad crossing in North Yorkshire, England
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