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Researchers working at Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Polar Station in Antarctica have contracted Covid-19, even though all personnel have been inoculated and any new arrival has to follow rigorous safety protocols. Two-thirds of the station’s staff of 25 have been infected with the coronavirus, Belgium’s polar secretariat confirmed to local media …

Workplace surveillance is nothing new. Nor is resistance to it. The idea that people needed constant observation if they were to work efficiently goes back to early manufacturing in the early 1900s and the emergence of Taylorism. But since Covid, surveillance has moved from the office into the home. Working …

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, wrote on Telegram, on Thursday, that the ‘Marker’ unmanned ground vehicle will practice patrolling the area around the facility, located in the remote Amur region.  This will include work on the Marker’s ability to spot, identify and “intercept” intruders, as well as confront drones …

The incident took place near Joplin, a town of some 200 people in Liberty County, Montana, around 4 pm local time. Amtrak has confirmed that its Empire Builder long-distance train derailed while carrying “approximately” 146 passengers and 16 crew, and that it was cooperating with the authorities to evacuate the …

Brandon Bryant served in the US military between 2006 and 2011, targeting drone strikes from the Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. His job was to point a laser at where a Hellfire missile fired by a coworker from a Predator drone should hit. He estimates that he personally …

Snowden has been among vocal critics of Apple’s plan to scan content on all iPhones for criminal evidence. The tech giant says it wants to identify child pornography stored on devices, but skeptics see it as the latest corporate move to encroach of people’s privacy under the guise of protecting …

Speaking to TASS just hours after the Antonov-26 jet disappeared while over the Kamchatka Peninsula, Alexey Khrabrov, the director of the Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise which operated the flight, said that “we found the wreckage of the plane.”  He added that he was unable to “say where and under what circumstances. …

Speaking to local media on Wednesday, Vasily Orlov, Governor of the Amur Region in Russia’s Far East, told journalists that a monument to the Soviet icon in the city of Blagoveshchensk had become a surprise hit with visitors. The frontier town is set on the banks of the Amur river, …

There are certain restrictions for local music. New feature is useful to those who keep part of your music collection on your smartphone. App YouTube Music received a new and quite useful feature that allows you to use it as a single music player on your smartphone. The fact that …

The drone is very cheap. On 26 April the market entered a very interesting miniature gadget. Mini drone Mi Rabbit Remote Controlled Drone(Mitu Mini RC Drone) for about 60$. The drone disappeared from stores. But now mini drone reappeared in the Xiaomi store still down for the dollar. This drone …