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Germany needs to rebuild trust with Russia to tackle regional crises and promote multilateralism, a newly-appointed Foreign Minister said in a surprise addition to his statement praising the West’s unity over the Skripal case. Speaking to Bild’s Sunday edition, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Berlin is ready to revive dialogues with Moscow, despite supporting the […]
Reuters Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Sunday that students who have rallied for gun control should instead learn CPR or find their own way to prevent a school shooting. The 2012 and 2016 presidential candidate said students could work to stop bullying in their communities or respond themselves to a shooter instead of asking […]
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. The voice app ecosystem is booming. In the US, the number of Alexa skills alone surpassed 25,000 in January 2018, up from just 7,000 the previous January, in categories ranging […]
Rubik’s Cube record. Hardware hackers Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo have smashed the previous record for solving the Rubik’s cube robotically. Their machine solved the puzzle in 0.38 seconds—a 40-percent improvement over the previous record of 0.637. “We noticed that all of the fast Rubik’s Cube solvers were using stepper motors and thought that we could […]
Startup Astranis hopes to blanket the Earth with dozens of satellites the size of a mini-fridge. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a9848dc052a533488ac2bc0/master/pass/Satellite-FINAL.jpg
Start-ups are clamoring to use cryptocurrency software to get and trade genome sequences for research and profit. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a85fc4fbc5bd27505947f70/master/pass/blockchain_genome-01.png
Everyone wants in on that sweet Netflix original series action, including Carey Mulligan. The Drive actress is the latest big name to appear in a Netflix series as she headlines Collateral, a new drama which originally debuted on BBC Two. Below, the Collateral trailer sets up the central mystery of the show: the murder of a pizza delivery […]
Enlarge / An original Ryzen die; this one doesn’t have a GPU so it should work with any firmware. Well; this one won’t, it’s been etched to expose the die so that it could be photographed. (credit: Fritzchens Fritz) So you want to build a PC using AMD’s new Ryzen processors with Vega graphics. You […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) The Meltdown and Spectre attacks that use processor speculative execution to leak sensitive information have resulted in a wide range of software changes to try to limit the scope for harm. Many of these are operating system-level fixes, some of which depend on processor microcode updates. But Spectre […]
AP/Carolyn Kaster A new video features a gust of wind ruffled President Trump’s carefully placed hair. The video seems to displace a flap of hair that covers a bald spot in the back of his head. This seems to confirm the theory Trump had an early hair transplant. Many have wondered, but nobody knows what […]
