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«Volatility Index» and the largest stock market decline since 2011

«Volatility Index» and the largest stock market decline since 2011

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Stock markets around the world have seriously subsided: on February 5 and 6, 2018, trades were held with a record fall since 2011. Dow Jones fell by 4.6%, the S & P500 lost 4.1%. A sharp correction in the...
Y Combinator is interested in the fight against aging

Y Combinator is interested in the fight against aging

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Y Combinator has launched a program to support biological start-ups which are at the laboratory research stage. YC Bio's initiative will primarily support development aimed at combating aging. President of Y...
PITTA – A multifunctional modular camera-drone

PITTA – A multifunctional modular camera-drone

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The startup Eyedea Inc. has created an interesting gadget, PITTA, which combines the capabilities of drones, action cameras, and streaming cameras by using a modular system. The developers of PITTA have...
BMW acquires the Parkmobile app in order to cope with urban traffic

BMW acquires the Parkmobile app in order to cope with urban traffic

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BMW has acquired the company Parkmobile, which has developed a smartphone application for parking conveniently. BMW Group has been a minority shareholder since 2014 and owned a subsidiary of Parkmobile Group...
50 qubit quantum computer from IBM

50 qubit quantum computer from IBM

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IBM presented a quantum computer with a capacity of 50 qubits at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. The power of the new computer will solve computing problems that is not possible for conventional silicon chips. IBM's...
E-Chat cryptomessenger will make its own Ethereum hardfork

E-Chat cryptomessenger will make its own Ethereum hardfork

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The creators of e-Chat messenger working on Ethereum decided to develop their own hardfork. A new blockchain platform is required because the application has outgrown a standard messenger and became a...
AR-application Art.com helps to choose a picture for the interior

AR-application Art.com helps to choose a picture for the interior

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Art.com, online retailer of paintings and posters has added to its app the function that helps to choose a picture or picture set fitting exactly to your home or office. It is not always clear what the...
SpaceX will launch its “Falcon Heavy” on February 6th with Elon Musk's personal car on board

SpaceX will launch its “Falcon Heavy” on February 6th with Elon Musk's personal car on board

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SpaceX has announced the launch of its super-heavy lift “Falcon Heavy” rocket on February 6th, 2018. The launch has already been postponed several times but recently the company successfully tested the engines...
A hidden miner worked while users watched ads on YouTube

A hidden miner worked while users watched ads on YouTube

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Mining cryptocurrency using the resources of foreign computers is becoming increasingly popular. All that is needed is to find a way to place a JS-code on a popular resource and those who open the web page...
ContentSquare startup has raised $42 millions for the platform analysing UX

ContentSquare startup has raised $42 millions for the platform analysing UX

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The most important thing for website and mobile applications developers is to understand how people interact with their products. The platform developed by the startup ContentSquare helps companies analyze...
Is quantum computing a threat to the Bitcoin system?

Is quantum computing a threat to the Bitcoin system?

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Quantum computers are fundamentally different from modern quartz computers and are capable of solving tasks that would take ordinary computers thousands or millions of years. Today, the era of quantum...
Russian company started trading bitcoin futures

Russian company started trading bitcoin futures

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Inspired by the success of the US stock exchanges the FINAM brokerage company started trading bitcoin futures for Russian traders. The company cooperates with the largest US stock exchange CBOE, which first...
Robinhood developed an application for cryptotrading without fees

Robinhood developed an application for cryptotrading without fees

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Robinhood developed a mobile platform for buying and selling BitCoin and Etherium with no transaction fees. The service will start working in February 2018. The fintech start-up Robinhood  appeared in 2012...
Three mobile applications for crypto maniacs

Three mobile applications for crypto maniacs

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A demand is first, then comes an application. This is how any market segment approximately develops. And the cryptocurrency market is no exception. The explosive interest in the cryptocurrencies, the rapid...
Speech generator from Google imitates the natural human voice

Speech generator from Google imitates the natural human voice

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Google developed a speech generator which reproduces the text in a voice indistinguishable from the human. The program called Tacotron 2 functions based on two neuronal networks. One algorithm is designed for...
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