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Mexican skiers and their flashy Day of Deads uniforms

The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games have begun. Mexican athletes do not have much chance of winning medals, but they are standing out with their eccentric uniforms. The skiers Sarah Schleper, Rodolfo Dickson, Robert Franco and Germán Madrazo will compete in a black outfit decorated with skulls that allude to the famous Day of Deads […]

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A guy discovers accidentally a ‘kill switch’ that can prevent the spread of the WannaCry ransomware

A UK cybersecurity researcher founds how to halt the spreading of one of the most dangerous malwares of the last years. The method? Just spending 10.60 dollars in registering a very long domain which is consulted by the Wannacry ransomware During the last hours, a ransomware called WannaCry affected lots of world wide organizations like […]

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“You are on the fun side of Trump’s Wall”

Seen in San Ángel Fluvial, a cafe-bar of the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta (Jalisco).

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Germany is closing their coal mines to transform them into pumped hydro batteries for wind and solar

Starting in 2018, Germany will no longer operate hard coal mines. However, these abandoned mines could receive a new life to make a great contribution to the development of renewable energy in the country. They could start to store the excess of wind and solar power during the hours with high renewable production by pumping […]

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Elon Musk advocates for a Direct Current world. War of Currents II?

During the first decades of the history of the electricity, Direct Current (DC) was the standard in the use of this kind of energy. However, this way to produce and deliver the electricity had a big problem: it was not easy to convert to higher or lower voltages. And then, in late 19th Century the […]

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Inventor of lithium-ion batteries introduces a new safer and faster-charging cell

John B. Goodenough (age 94) is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, but he is broadly known as one of the inventorsm, along with Mizushima, Jones, and Wiseman, of the Li-ion rechargeable batteries which have helped the development of […]

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Melania Trump is eating jewels on Vanity Fair Mexico’s cover amid one of the worst crises in U.S.-Mexico relations

The popular U.S. magazine ‘Vanity Fair’ has decided to feature, on the cover of their Mexican edition of February, a big picture of bejeweled Melania Trump, the current First Lady of the United States, eating a bowl of diamonds and jewelry, at the same time that her husband has started one the worst crises in […]

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Google Street View immortalized in Mexico the exact moment of a traffic accident, with two biker flying over a pickup’s hood

It happened in the town of Tlaquepaque in Jalisco in July 2015. In the crossing of Calle Chulavista and Avenida Río Nilo, two bikers crashed into a pickup, when the latter tried to make a turn. Perhaps the driver of the pickup was staring at the car of Google Street View and did not see […]

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USA and Mexico soccer players gathered together for a photo to show unity

On Friday, USA and Mexico played an important FIFA World Cup qualifying match. But before the game began, the players from both sides posed together, arms draped around one another to take a photo before the kick-off, to display unity. Credit: Sports Illustrated Credit: @nadorvila Kary Correa, ESPN sports anchor, praised the behaviour of the […]

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Mexico City replicates a nonexistent Day of the Dead parade from James Bond film, just for the tourists

The opening sequence of James Bond ‘Spectre’ film is among the best ones of the recent years in the film industry. It is situated in a nonexistent Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City, where the principal actor starts a thrilling pursuit through hundreds of extras dressed with sort of Halloween costumes, and a […]