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Boston Dynamics is torturing robots again

news | Feb 21, 2018 | Gadgets | 5

Boston Dynamics has recently shown, how a robot called SpotMini is helping the other one to open the door using his mechanical hand. The new video shows how a robot tries to leave the room but a man hinders...

Twitter made its first profit

news | Feb 19, 2018 | Business & Startups | 3

Twitter reported a profit of $91 million in the last quarter of 2017. This was the first profitable quarter in the history of the company. For the last 12 years the social network has worked at a loss and has...

Crypto-billionaires will build a utopian city on the ruins of Puerto Rico

news | Feb 19, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 4

In 2017, Hurricane Maria destroyed the infrastructure of the island of Puerto Rico, including the power grid and communication lines. The region will need a long time to recover. Assistance has already been...

Durov Brothers reported on raising $ 850 million for Telegram and TON blockchain platform

news | Feb 19, 2018 | Business & Startups | 4

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a notice on the offer of securities owned by Telegram Group Inc. and TON Issuer Inc. owned by Pavel and Nikolay Durov. Assets with a total value of $ 850...

Samourai Wallet developers invented how to send bitcoin via SMS

news | Feb 16, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 3

Samourai Wallet developers have created an application called Pony Direct allowing to send Bitcoins via standers SMS. The main idea of this development is to avoid censorship by state regulators. Samourai...

Brock Pierce is to create a decentralized charity organization and donate $ 1 billion to its foundation

news | Feb 16, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 4

Crypto-billionaire Brock Pierce worked as an actor at the Walt Disney Pictures studios at a young age. But due to his passion for video games Pierce left his creative career and started IT projects, and later...

Hackers built a hidden miner in thousands of state sites in the US and UK

news | Feb 16, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 3

Scott Helme, the information security specialist reported on the distribution of the script for monero mining on sites, most of which are owned by US and British government agencies. Ummm, so yeah, this is...

Microsoft develops a decentralized identification system

news | Feb 15, 2018 | Tech & Security | 3

Microsoft Identity Division is a department working on the development of Microsoft Authenticator. It has been working on a decentralized system for the identification and storage of personal data for a year,...

Tesla to create the biggest virtual power station in Australia

news | Feb 15, 2018 | Tech & Security | 3

South Australian state authorities in cooperation with Tesla launch a pilot project aimed to create the largest virtual power plant. During the experiment solar mini-power plants will be equipped with 1,100...

Apple patents a non-contact stylus

news | Feb 14, 2018 | Gadgets | 5

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has filed a new patent from Apple. It looks like Apple engineers decided to make a contactless stylus allowing to conduct professional work with images on...

The part of Coincheck's stolen cryptocurrency was found on the YoBit cryptoexchange

news | Feb 14, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 6

The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported that XEM tokens (the designation of NEM cryptocurrency) stolen at Coincheck were found that on the Russian stock exchange YoBit. The approximate cost of funds...

Skydio quadcopter won’t get lost in the forest

news | Feb 14, 2018 | Gadgets | 3

Modern drone for aero surveillance are very good in open field but the majority of them do not navigate good in case of any obstacles like tree branches. For safety reasons manufacturers often limit the...

Microsoft buys the startup PlayFab, to win the online games market

news | Feb 13, 2018 | Business & Startups | 3

The gaming industry is moving away from desktop solutions to cloud services that do not require expensive personal computers with high-end components. The computation of complex graphics and physics in games...

TRAPPIST-1 system may have habitable planets

news | Feb 13, 2018 | Science & Education | 4

There are seven in red dwarf TRAPPIST-1. In early 2018 scientists came to the conclusion that three of them are located in the habitable zone, that is conditions prevailing there are close to those on the...

Windows Vulnerability with customer Telegram enabled to disseminate malware and do cryptocurrencies mining

news | Feb 13, 2018 | Tech & Security | 3

Kaspersky Laboratories, the antivirus company informed about the 0-day vulnerability in the Telegram. The Company’s experts have discovered that hackers were able to disseminate malware and get access to the...

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