Flashback: Samsung tried to resurrect the hardware QWERTY with this case

Samsung never fell in the “modular phone” trap that companies like Motorola, Google and LG went into. However, the company did experiment with ways to add functionality through cases – things like the Lens Cover that we looked at a few weeks ago. Now we want to look at a different cover from the same […]

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This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine

Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine met its end in part because the government paid its citizens a bounty for every animal killed. That end came recently enough that […]

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To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones

The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only about 50 left in the wild in Jordan—and Celtis australis, sometimes called a European hackberry, which is even more rare. However, not everyone is convinced these small-scale forests will help […]

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