The biggest dog.

The largest dog ever to live is the English Mastiff The English Mastiff Zorba, born in 1981, was the largest dog in history. Its weight was more than 155 kg, and the length from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail was 251.5 cm.

Harsh sentence.

In 1972, a Spanish postman was sentenced to 384,912 years in prison for failing to deliver more than 40,000 letters. He was just too lazy to spread them.

Interesting facts about the series "Breaking Bad".

Jesse Pinkman was supposed to die at the end of the first season of Breaking Bad, but the writers were so impressed with the performance of actor Aaron Paul that they changed the decision. $3 million is the cost of filming one episode of Breaking Bad.

Transgender children have three times more mental problems than other peers.

Transgender children 9-10 years old are three times more likely than other peers to suffer from depression and behavioral problems, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They also have a six times higher risk of suicide. These conclusions were made by scientists from the University of Melbourne. They analyzed data from 7,000 little Americans, 58 of whom identified themselves as transgender.

Tigers in the wild turned out to be almost one and a half times more than they thought.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature found that there are 5,578 tigers living in the wild today - 40% more than a 2015 study showed. The new number is significantly different from the previous one because animal rights activists have improved the quality of monitoring. All these years, the tiger population has been stable or increasing. Despite this, the species is still considered endangered.

In Enköping, Sweden, citizens have begun monitoring road conditions with a Pokémon GO-style mobile game.

To participate, you need to download the Crowdsorsa app, get on a bike and ride along the specified route. Collect virtual fruits and berries along the way, and then they can be exchanged for 20 SEK apiece. While you are driving, the smartphone camera records video and transmits it to the city authorities and the road repair service.

Interesting facts about Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan (who was a popular actor before his political career) did not get a role in the Broadway production of The Worthiest because the playwright decided that he would not be convincing enough as President of the United States.

The Australian Aboriginal language is ideal for human communication and artificial intelligence.

Scientists from the University of New South Wales have found that Jingulu, the language of the Jingili natives living in northern Australia, is ideal for training artificial intelligence systems. Based on it, the technological language JSwarm was created. Jingula words can be easily translated directly into commands for algorithms. The language has a simple syntax - this reduces computational costs. At the same time, scientists can change the context of using jingulu without rearranging words in sentences.

Robotic systems have been tested in the area of Mount Etna.

Robotic systems have been tested in the area of Mount Etna. The volcano provides an ideal landscape for testing the capabilities of robots and has some similarities with the Moon. The first to test two robots LRU1 and LRU2, working together autonomously. LRU1 evaluates soil samples with its cameras, while LRU2 collects surface samples and analyzes them using laser breakdown spectroscopy.

The Chainsmokers will be the first band to perform in the stratosphere.

The musicians have already signed a contract with World View, which organizes tourist flights in a space capsule. After special training, Andrew Taggart and Alex Poll will fly into orbit and play a concert at an altitude of 30,480 meters from Earth. It is known that the musicians will be accompanied by 6 passengers. The flight will last approximately 12 hours and is scheduled for 2024.

The world's first chipping happened in New York.

Scientists have installed a neurocomputer in the brain of a paralyzed person. The company Synchron, which developed the technology, said that the operation was carried out with minimal intervention - the device was inserted into the cerebral cortex through the jugular vein, which is located on the neck. The technology itself works with the power of thought - the implant reads the signal and transmits it to the device that the person wants to use. The development is, in fact, a direct competitor to the similar Neuralink project from Elon Musk, which should also help paralyzed people. However, the Australian startup, unlike the American one, was able to get permission to conduct a human trial. The chip from Elon Musk has so far only been implanted in a monkey.

NASA has announced a return date to the moon.

The SLS rocket will launch towards the satellite on August 29. So far, without people, but with a complete imitation of the presence of a person, the rocket will also have a landing module for verification as close as possible to reality.

Apple offered $2 million to hackers to crack iOS 16.

Earlier this month, the company announced a Lockdown Mode feature for the new version of iOS, designed to protect user data. The company also recently announced an unusual test of a new mode of operation for the iPhone, offering IT experts a large reward if they discover vulnerabilities that allow them to bypass the proprietary protection system.

In the UK, Oracle and Google servers are suffering due to abnormal heat.

Data centers can't handle the record 40.3°C heatwave. Some Oracle equipment had to be shut down due to "off-season temperatures" and because some of the cooling infrastructure failed. Google Cloud also said that a number of its products are "experiencing increased levels of errors, delays or unavailability of services" due to the heat. Representatives of the company noted that they are making every effort to turn the cooling back on.

In China, they learned to diagnose diseases by analyzing tears.

Chinese chemists have developed nanomembranes that extract all the accumulations of protein molecules from a drop of a human tear. Thanks to their analysis, it is possible to diagnose various diseases: diabetes, dry eye syndrome and others.

NVIDIA has developed the EG3D neural network, which generates 3D images from 2D source images.

The technology was demonstrated based on images of human faces and cat faces. According to the developers, AI works faster and more accurately than analogues.

The brain of a sleeping person wakes up more than a hundred times a night, and this is normal.

Frequent awakenings of the brain during sleep is absolutely normal. This process is important for memory - short awakenings reboot the brain so that it can retain all memories. It takes about 30 seconds from the peak of one wave of norepinephrine to another. The deeper the low point, the stronger the sleep and the higher the next peak, and hence the degree of awakening. These conclusions were reached by scientists from the University of Copenhagen in the course of experiments on mice. The researchers believe the results of the work will be useful in the creation of new antidepressants.

It turns out that blood is divided into six groups, and not four, as previously thought.

This conclusion was made by researchers from the University of Vermont. New species were identified thanks to another discovery - two proteins ABCB6 and ABCG2, located on the surface of red blood cells. Junior and Langereis - this is the name given to new blood types. It turned out that these groups are quite rare and are found in some Americans, in a fairly large number of Japanese and, also, in European gypsies.

In Germany, they created a robotic dog that learned to walk on its own.

The four-legged robot corrected its gait after each stumble, and after an hour was able to walk firmly and confidently. The robotic dog is controlled by an algorithm loaded with very little information about its legs, such as the exact shape of various elements.

Scientists infiltrated the brains of flies and began to remotely control them.

Thermal sensors in fly brain neurons have been genetically engineered. They are ion channels that respond to temperature changes. When the sensors received heat signals, the neurons fired and caused the fruit flies to spread their wings. The results of the experiments will help scientists treat neurological disorders in humans accurately and with virtually no surgery. Now the team is focused on finding methods to restore vision.