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Russia develops world’s DEADLIEST sniper rife: £30,000 ‘game-changer’ gun can hit targets TWO MILES away The Lobaev Arms SVLK-14S is able to kill from a distance of nearly two miles The weapon costs £30,000 and weighs 10kg and fires one round at a time It has double the range of the L115A3, the sniper rifle used … Read more
Microsoft unveils a ‘real time noise suppression’ tool for conference calls to help people working from home filter out potentially embarrassing background noises Microsoft has demonstrated a new feature for its communications tool Teams Users on conference calls will now have the option to filter background noise The company demonstrated the feature by removing the … Read more
The Cleveland Clinic has developed a coronavirus test that will be able to deliver results in just eight hours. It will be significantly faster than tests available at other US public health laboratories, which take between two to seven days to confirm results. Once the medical center, based in Ohio, received approval from the Centers … Read more
Samsung has developed a 900wh solid state battery that provides electrical vehicles with a range of 500 miles on a single charge – and has a life cycle of over 1,000 charges. The South Korean firm noted that the technology is half the size of a conventional lithium-ion battery, which was achieved by reducing the … Read more
A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus, and help in the fight against the disease. China employs some of the world’s most sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance, including facial recognition. … Read more
A woman has told how she developed skin cancer out of a scar left over from her battle with chickenpox as a five-year-old. Louise Thorell, 32, from Ashington in Northumberland, needed three operations to remove the basal cell carcinoma. For years she had been embarrassed by the white scar beneath her right eye from her … Read more
A man developed kidney failure after taking 12 times the recommended amount of vitamin D every day. The unnamed 54-year-old, from Canada, had been taking the bumper dose drops for two-and-a-half-years after being advised it by a naturopath. But his health took a turn for the worse when he took a two week holiday and … Read more