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_{12 Aug 2015 14:30:11}

Chinese military will teach you to control robots by thought

In the military academies of China, students are taught to control robots remotely without joysticks, and with the help of a special helmet that reads thoughts. The device picks up brain activity and interprets it as a command to control machines. During the demonstration session of telepathic connection military managed to force the robot to move in different directions, to turn his head and pick up objects.

_{12 Aug 2015 13:00:15}

The Australian raised the hand the ear with an Internet connection (video)

Honorary Professor of art and robotics at Pittsburgh University, and concurrently also a performance artist who has demonstrated the ear, which grew on his left hand. Stelios Arkadiou, which is better known under the pseudonym Stelarc, intends in the near future to equip the ear connecting to the Internet so people from all over the world could hear what he.

_{11 Aug 2015 13:30:09}

Top space events of the decade (video)

In 2006 into space was launched on the device is "New horizons." His triumphant mission will begin only after nine years, when all the media will show made them clear pictures of Pluto. However, over the decade there have been many other interesting space events: people made a breakthrough in the search for other planets; the world has a real "Tony stark" — Elon Musk, who created and sent into orbit the first private spacecraft; Mars opened to mankind on the other hand, and the first man-made product "Voyager-1" left the Solar system. All this look in our video review.

Top space events of the decade (video)

_{11 Aug 2015 11:30:09}

The universe will degenerate after 100 trillion years

Astronomers have found out that for the last two billion years, the universe had dimmed twice, indicating a slow dying of our world. This is not new, however, revealed details of the process, its speed and scale. Be ready that after 100 trillion years will go out the last red dwarfs in the Universe and will become much darker.

_{11 Aug 2015 11:00:14}

Microsoft will teach computers to joke

Joint development of Microsoft and the newspaper the New Yorker needs to teach computers to distinguish funny jokes from those who are "not very". It was needed to somehow to cope with the flood of cartoons sent in by readers to the competition. Since artificial intelligence is able to recognize only the pictures, the context of the cartoon pictures had words to describe.

Microsoft will teach computers to joke

_{10 Aug 2015 14:30:13}

In Russia want to replace the "Bang" and "wow" Patriotic "haldirams and webaby"

the Translators centre of comics and visual culture offered to create Russian dictionary onomatopoeia — ideophones — to replace English variants more Patriotic. According to translators, during operation, they are constantly faced with the problem of translation of such words, because in English they significantly more than in Russian, write "Izvestia".

_{10 Aug 2015 14:00:10}

On Mars found traces of dried-up lake

once on the red planet for a long time there was a lake full of water, say scientists from the University of Colorado at boulder. Using digital terrain mapping and mineralogical analysis they found on Mars an area of 46 sq km covered with salt. This Playground is located near the landing site of the Opportunity Rover.

On Mars found traces of dried-up lake