Smartphone replacement.

Humane from former Apple employees introduced a gadget that is designed to replace smartphones. The device is mounted on the chest, projects a display on the palm, and is controlled by voice and gestures. The device can answer calls, as well as translate and extract from what the interlocutor said using neural networks. The built-in camera can recognize objects and provide information about them. The price and date of the start of sales are not yet known.

In Pennsylvania, children will be given weed right at school.

In the state of Pennsylvania, they have prepared a law that will allow nurses and parents to give marijuana to children on the territory of an educational institution, that is, they can smoke right in the classroom. The weed will be medical, and the child will need a certificate from a doctor.

"Baby Silencers"

A start-up that produces "baby silencers" has gone viral on the network - so that you can safely watch a movie or not be distracted by children's screams on a trip. But only the “founder” of the startup turned out to be humorist Brad Goss, who laughs at the hype around the device on his Instagram. But many parents have already run to buy.

In Israel, for the first time created an analogue of fish meat using 3D printing.

Steakholder Foods manufactures non-slaughtered meat products in a laboratory environment. Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried the company's products and promised new permits for the production of "laboratory" meat.

Australian scientists create artificial intelligence based on human neurons.

Scientists use clusters of lab-grown neurons from human stem cells to form an artificial brain and connect it to an operating system. Experts believe that such technology is a possible future of AI, because human neurons work much better than any digital model, as they are self-programming and require much less energy consumption. Prototypes managed to teach how to play an analogue of the game Pong. In the future, it will also help in the development of drugs, the study of diseases and other technologies.

In the US, lightning struck a tree and created a new mineral.

It is something between terrestrial and space rocks. Inside the fulgurite, they found crystalline phosphorus of an unusual shape. These are rare fragments of the phosphorus material CaHPO3 - it is not a phosphate, but it is not a phosphide either. It turned out that the new mineral contains calcium phosphite. It is likely that with prolonged heating, the discovered material will turn into a mineral that is present in meteorites.

The Red Cross urged gamers not to commit war crimes in games.

Many popular video games are based on players fighting in virtual wars. In this regard, the Red Cross urged gamers not to commit war crimes even in games. Gamers are asked not to shoot surrendered or wounded enemies, civilians and civilian buildings, and to provide medical assistance to anyone who needs it. The rules are linked to the real laws of war, which require humanism towards civilians, facilities and care for the wounded on both sides of the conflict.

British scientists have proposed giving harmful emissions to be eaten by volcanic microbes.

Researchers have discovered a new species of cyanobacteria that lives near the Italian island of Vulcano in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the waters of which there is a lot of CO₂. It turned out that these microbes effectively absorb carbon dioxide. So, they can be used to combat harmful emissions.

iOS 17 will introduce app installation from third-party sources, not just the App Store.

This was announced by insider Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. According to him, the company will comply with a law passed by the European Parliament, which obliges Apple and Google to allow the installation of applications on smartphones from third-party sources. Bypassing the App Store will allow developers to avoid paying a commission of 15-30%. How exactly this will be implemented is unclear.

The lamp from the Pixar screensaver in reality.

Xiaomi has introduced a "smart lamp" Mijia Pipi Lamp, which is controlled by gestures and can follow the owner's hand. An AI camera is built into the device, with its help the lamp “sees” a person’s hand and follows its commands. For example, an open palm turns on the light, a fist turns it off, and “seeing” the “OK” gesture, the lamp turns after the human hand. Also, the lamp "likes" when it is stroked and scratched - it will react approvingly to this. The issue price is $72.

Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton sold at auction for $6 million

A skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex named Trinity was sold at an auction in Switzerland for $6.1 million. The skeleton measures 3.9 meters high, 11.6 meters long and 2.65 meters wide. More than half of the bones are original, while the rest are made from plaster and epoxy casts.

New Zealand has launched a children's cat-killing contest.

In North Canterbury, a competition for young hunters was announced - children under 14 had to kill as many wild cats as possible and win a prize of $ 250. After a negative reaction from society and criticism from animal rights activists, the event was canceled. Cats harm New Zealand's ecosystems by eating unique lizards, birds and other endangered animals. The physical destruction of predators should have solved this problem.

CryAnalizer is an application that will help you translate from an infant.

It analyzes the crying of young children to understand what the baby needs.

Models of nuclear fuel pellets.

Models of nuclear fuel pellets for compact reactors with injection rods have appeared. Each tablet will produce as much energy as 3 tons of coal. All that fits in the hand is 28 thousand cubic meters of gas or 34 tons of oil.

Record of the Chinese thermonuclear reactor.

A Chinese fusion reactor has set a record for maintaining usable plasma. It turned out to be done within 406 seconds - the previous record was only 101. Thus, EAST, the Chinese prototype of a thermonuclear reactor, received the status of the most promising on the planet.

The first map of dark matter in the early universe has been created.

Amazingly, Einstein was right again. When analyzing light 14 billion years old, the latest theory about dark matter turned out to be wrong. A huge tentacle appeared on the map, exactly what Einstein predicted a hundred years ago.

Pringles will release chips with the taste of a suspicious soup from Minecraft.

In the game, the so-called Suspicious Stew consisted of flowers and mushrooms. It is not yet clear how the company achieved such a taste. The creators promise buyers a combination of "rich, satisfying and spicy taste" and a new tasting experience.

Engineers have assembled an edible battery out of almonds and gold.

Engineers from Milan have created a battery from edible ingredients - almonds, seaweed, capers, activated carbon, gold leaf and beeswax. The device can power medical sensors that need to be swallowed: cameras, biosensors, drug delivery systems.

A rare diamond with a diamond inside has been discovered in India.

It was named "Beating Heart" - in honor of the emotions after discovery. Now the stone is among the rare diamonds along with the Yakut "Matryoshka" - the first such find. The diamond weighs 0.329 carats. The inner stone moves freely in the cavity of the larger one. British laboratory staff who examined the find said they had never seen anything like it.

Male bees create their own perfume to attract females.

German biologists have found out why male orchid bees collect molecules of odorous substances from flowers in a special pouch on their hind legs. This behavior has been known since the 1960s, but there was no explanation for it. Now it turned out that this is how insects create their own scent, which attracts females during the mating season.