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The Earth rotates faster, in 2020 it set a new record

The Earth has revolved around its axis 28 times faster than the previous record of 2005. The shortest day of all was 19 July, when the Earth has completed its rotation 1, 4602 milliseconds less. by Manolo De Agostini published 12 January 2021 , at 17: 41 in the Science and Technology channel The 2020… Read more

Netflix promises at least one new movie every week in 2021

If you’re a Netflix subscriber, the company wants you to know there’s a lot of new movies coming. Netflix has 70 movies on its roster, more than Disney and Warner Bros. combined, according to the 2021 film slate the company released today. They include directorial debuts by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Halle Berry and the final… Read more

737 Max: Boeing avoids US criminal proceedings by paying millions

346 People are in two crashes of aircraft of the Boeing series 737 Max in October 2018 and March 2019 died. The main cause is the faulty MACS control software. Boeing had misled the FAA about important changes, whereupon MACS was not mentioned in the pilot’s manuals. Nevertheless, Boeing can most likely avoid a fraud… Read more

Head of film funding expects the cinema boom

Cinemas worldwide are suffering from the corona crisis – according to the German head of film funding Peter Dinges, however, a new high could come after the pandemic. The crisis is currently affecting both small and large film theaters. “The cinemas are currently drawing on their substance. And this substance is finite,” said the board… Read more

STALKER 2: First in-engine gameplay trailer

Around eight years after the termination of the first follow-up project there is now 14 Years after STALKER the first in-engine gameplay trailer of the official successor STALKER 2. The post-apocalyptic horror shooter is supposed to 2021 for the PC and Xbox Series X and Series S appear. It is not known exactly when 2021… Read more

Adobe Flash Player support officially ends today

by Jordi Bercial 31 / 12 / 2020 … After a long time in which it has been announcing that for the distant 31 December the support for Adobe Flash Player , said day has arrived today, where the famous interactive content player is no longer with us forever, with a scheduled date of the… Read more

OnePlus 9 5G prototype just sold for $3,000 on eBay

Leaks and prototype units are just a part of the smartphone “game” nowadays, but this is not your usual story. If you haven’t been keeping up with the news – the OnePlus 9, 9 Pro and possibly a OnePlus 9E/9 Lite are one the way and likely expected to arrive in mid-March – a bit… Read more

Google Cloud Print: Cloud printing service will be shut down this week. The reasons fully justify the decision

Quoting the classic, we can say that “nothing can last forever.” This also applies, and perhaps even primarily, to the services offered by the giants of the technology-related industry. This is perfectly illustrated by the history of the Adobe Flash plug-in, which has been extinguished relatively recently. Another solution used in web browsers, which we… Read more

Forth – the forever young programming language

Forth is a “concatenative” programming language. This means that there are only minimal syntax rules, and commands or functions (“words” in Forth parlance) are written one after the other, separated by spaces. All components that are implemented in popular programming languages through syntax (comments, variable definitions, control structures such as loops or decisions with IF-THEN-ELSE)… Read more

Telegram will receive new paid features for advanced users and business customers. There will also be advertisements

The instant messaging market is quite crowded, although without a doubt the most important services are Messenger and WhatsApp by Facebook and iMessage by Apple. Nevertheless, Telegram as a kind of privacy refuge is close to reaching 500 million users. For this reason, Pavel Durov, the co-founder of the platform, shared the “trailer” of future… Read more

Super Meat Boy Forever: Successor to the cult jump-n-run for Switch and PC

More than two years late, the successor to the popular hardcore jump-n-run Super Meat Boy has now appeared. Super Meat Boy Forever is initially available for the PC in the Epic Games store and for the Nintendo Switch. Next year the game will be released for Xbox, Playstation and Steam. The game continues the story… Read more

Stardew Valley’s jam-packed 1.5 update reminds us why it’s our forever game

Stardew Valley is an idyllic digital space to escape to after a long year — and thanks to its 1.5 update available today on PC, you can now bring friends and family along to your farm with local split-screen co-op. The multiplayer update from a couple of years back made it possible to play and… Read more

We built a 2020 time capsule out of synthetic DNA — here’s how

Somehow, it’s the end of December. What is there to say about 2020? This year has felt like a turning point, a cliff, the end of one world and the beginning of another. For us on The Verge’s science desk (and so many others), it’s been a year we want to both lock away forever… Read more

Google announces the closure of Android Things, its platform for IoT devices

by Jordi Bercial 1 hour ago … Although it is possible that we have never heard of Android Things , we have all seen the advantages and disadvantages of Internet of Things or IoT devices, and it is that Android Things was a platform launched by Google in 2018 and it came as a much… Read more

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 review: An absolute corker at this price

(Pocket-lint) – Lenovo makes several of the very best laptops that sit under the four-figure mark. And this, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7, is probably the one you should buy. Sure, the MacBook Air is a more exciting prospect, and even more powerful. But the Yoga Slim 7 is actually one of the best reasons… Read more