When traveling on the road, it is more dangerous for pedestrians to use a mobile phone than to listen music or talk to phone.

Canadian scientists analyzed 14 pedestrian crash studies. Scientists have found that using a phone is more likely to cause an accident than talking on the phone or listening music.

Pedestrians who looked at the phone on the road forgot the traffic rules, including looking left and right before moving. In addition, the researchers found no significant effect of listening music on pedestrian safety. And talking on the phone increases the time it takes to safely cross the road.

Xiaomi announced automatic toothpaste dispenser and toothbrush sterilizer at the collective funding site.

The dispenser uses an infrared sensor and automatically squeezes out toothpaste as the brush approaches, while the brush is treated with ultraviolet disinfection. A separate sterilizer provides disinfection after cleaning.

The dispenser is equipped with a battery of 1200 mAh, which is capable of providing up to 60 days of battery life with regular use by a family of 3 people. The sterilizer received a battery of 800 mAh, and its autonomy reaches 30 days.

As part of crowdfunding, the kit is offered for $ 14, but it will retail for $ 23.

Gamers from China can get Mirror Hentai Game on Steam for free.

The author of the initiative proposed such measures to help stop the spread of coronavirus in the country. Players from China can go online with the game, tie their phone numbers to confirm their provisions, and get a free copy.

“To stay clear of 2019 nCoV infection, it’s best to stay home. So we decided to distribute 45,000 copies of the games for you to own. Please accept our gift and be strong” -the developers write.

Launched in 2018, Mirror received the second-best Steam title of the year.

Google has launched a Tangi mobile app for content called “instructions, life hacks, DIYs, and more.”

This is an experimental application that was created in the Area 120 lab. It provides a variety of quick instructions. The name of the new platform comes from the words “TeAch aNd GIve”. Videos on this platform have a 60-second limit and are categorized as “Art,” “Cooking,” “Do It Yourself,” “Fashion and Beauty,” and “Lifestyle.”

The app is currently available for iOS and is not available for Android yet. The advantage of the app can be the short video format. But in some cases, 60 s is not enough to explain how to do this or that thing.

Apple Corporation ceases to sell its products in China due to the spread of a new coronavirus.

This restriction will be effective until February 10. In particular, the company closes all its corporate offices, stores and contact centers in mainland China. Apple followed the example of other Western retailers, such as McDonalds and Starbucks, which temporarily closed their stores in China.

China is Apple’s third largest consumer market and the place for most of the company’s supply chain. Many vendors are based near Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began, killing 259 people. Currently, nearly 12,000 people are infected.

The US National Science Foundation’s with DKIST Earth Telescope has made the most detailed images of the sun’s surface in history.

Each grain in this image is approximately the size of Ukraine, and the smallest objects in the light are only 30 km. The image shows that the Sun is a fluid-filled plasma ball whose upper layers are constantly “mixed”.

Scientists say that the data obtained are useful for understanding and predicting the activity of the sun, which in combination with the high electrical conductivity of its matter creates a strong magnetic field.

The DKIST telescope is a unique four-meter telescope designed specifically for observations of the sun. Its construction on the summit of the Haleakala Sleeping Volcano in Hawaii began as early as 2013 and ended just a few weeks ago.

The Unicode Consortium, which sets character encoding standards of the Internet, has introduced 117 new emoji.

They will appear on mobile devices by the end of 2020. The Emoji 13.0 series will primarily focus on gender equality. The list of already familiar graphic images in 2020 will be expanded, for example polar bear, seal, olive, blueberry, cake, ninja, mammoth, boomerang, rollers, gender-neutral Santa, etc.

An image of all the new emoji can already be seen on Emojipedia. But for now, these are just examples. The final look of the emoji will depend on which device it is viewed.

The Pokemon Company is launching a Pokemon Home cloud service that will allow players to store their Pokémon online and transfer them between different parts of the series they own.

Users will also be able to trade with other players on the Nintendo Switch or in the iOS and Android mobile app. Pokemon Home will only support Pokemon Sword, Shield, and Let’s Go dialogs, but it will also be able to connect to a Pokemon Bank service that stores Pokémon from 3DS games.

The service itself is free, but a premium plan subscription will be available for fans who want additional features such as contacting Pokemon Bank. Premium subscribers will be able to store up to 6000 Pokémon (unlike the standard 30), trade 10 Pokémon at once, trade in Room Trades, etc.

The Switch version of the premium plan costs £ 2.69 per month.

The artificial intelligence from Irish company Identv and Rothco can find out whether the prisoners survived, who made the most famous and probably the only successful escape from prison in Alcatraz Island in the US.

In 1962, brothers John and Clarence Englini and their friend Frank Morris disappeared from a prison on Alcatraz Island, located in San Francisco Bay. Usually prisoners who tried to escape and swim across the bay were killed by a strong cource, and their bodies were ashore.

In 2015, a friend of the Englin family posted a photo taken in Brazil 13 years after the escape, which allegedly depicted the brothers. Then it was impossible to check. Now face recognition specialists have shown the photo to artificial intelligence, and it is likely in 99.7% that the photo from Brazil shows the brothers who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962.

The case of their escape is still pending. Now men should be just over 80 years old.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered in space a star that periodically “steals” material from its neighbor, forming with it a dual star system.

The system consists of white and brown dwarfs. The latter makes a spin around his companion every 83 minutes at a distance of about 400 thousand kilometers.

The stars are so close that the white dwarf pulls the substance from a neighbor like a “vampire”. It forms a disk around a white dwarf. When the amount of matter reaches peak values, the disk flares, the brightness of the white dwarf increases 1600 times, and then it goes out again.

Scientists also say that the white dwarf is a nucleus left over from an aging star similar to the sun. The brown dwarf is a space object of mass from 10 to 80 Jupiter, but because of its small size is not capable of nuclear fusion.

Boeing’s first 777X aircraft departed from a factory airfield in the USA city Everett.

The new generation of Boeing 777X wide-body aircraft is designed on the basis of the Boeing 777. It is the longest-running series of long-range, wide-body, twin-engine aircraft.

The 777-8X will seat up to 375 passengers and the 777-9X will seat up to 425. These aircraft have already been ordered by several of the world’s leading airlines. It is expected to be the most economical compared to other civilian aircraft.

Polish designer Agatha Nowak has created an armchair that blocks internet connectivity on all devices in the seat.

Thus, the designer wants to help relax people who are addicted to smartphones. Inside the chair is a small offline pocket that blocks Wi-Fi and cellular signals from all devices within the chair.

The designer’s armchair was pushed by statistics, according to which, on average, people spent more than 2 hours a day on their phones and social networks. With the help of a chair, she aims to create a “quiet and cozy place” for digital detox.