Still, all those decade-plus investments in the future still rely on gadgetry that you have to wear on you, even if it’s only a pair of glasses. Some of the craziest, most forward-looking, most unpredictable advancements go even further — provided…
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Death of the smartphone and what comes after – Business Insider
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Rethinking our default profile photo – Twitter Blogs
…[P]eople have come to associate the circle head with masculinity, and because of this association, we felt that it was important to explore alternate head shapes. We reviewed many variations of our figure, altering both the head and shoulders to…
@GrantDuffy: “Amazing video of #CycloneDebbie taken from ISS @Space_Station…”
Amazing video of #CycloneDebbie taken from ISS @Space_Station. Beautiful yet ferocious, stay safe QLD @ForceThirteen https://t.co/ysf0EBCYCI pic.twitter.com/EHEzKWnYoy — Grant Duffy (@Grant_Duffy) March 27, 2017 From: Grant Duffy on Twitter: “Amazing video of #CycloneDebbie taken from ISS @Space_Station. Beautiful yet ferocious,…
NuSTAR Probes Puzzling Galaxy Merger – NASA
In several hundred million years, the black holes of the large and small galaxies will merge into one enormous beast. From: NuSTAR Probes Puzzling Galaxy Merger | NASA
Brain ‘rewires’ itself to enhance other senses in blind people – Harvard Medical School
“Our results demonstrate that the structural and functional neuroplastic brain changes occurring as a result of early ocular blindness may be more widespread than initially thought,” said lead author Corinna Bauer, HMS instructor of ophthalmology and a scientist at Schepens…
The EU can push for a hard Brexit, too – Financial Times
Even the negotiation process itself allows the EU to do well by doing good. The EU side is considering opening much of the negotiation to public view by publishing negotiation mandates and other documents. That is a good thing in…
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, had plan to ‘greatly benefit the Putin Government’ – Telegraph/AP
President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics. The allegations,…
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Manafort’s Ukrainian ‘blood money’ caused qualms, hack suggests – POLITICO
The texts, posted on a darknet website run by a hacktivist collective, appear to show Manafort’s family fretting about the ethics, safety and consequences of his work for Yanukovych. And they reveal that Manafort’s two daughters regarded their father’s emergence…
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Benjamin Wittes: How to Read What Comey Said Today – Lawfare
If there’s anything mitigating the bad news for the White House here, it is that Comey may have also sent subtle signals that the matters under investigation are not principally about the personal conduct of Trump himself. While this is…
Isenstadt and Vogel: Paranoia seizes Trump’s White House – POLITICO
Some rank-and-file White House aides, meanwhile, have become convinced that intelligence agents may be monitoring their phone calls, emails, and text messages. Those fears intensified last week when WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents outlining how the agency can…
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