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Why are people afraid of vaccines?

Why are people afraid of vaccines?

Ever since the very first smallpox vaccine, there have been people who feared or even openly opposed vaccines. Today, the anti-vaccination movement is gaining traction in many countries around the globe. Why do people distrust methods that have saved humanity from so many deadly diseases?
Open government: what data the state is ready to disclose?

Open government: what data the state is ready to disclose?

Governments of different countries are increasingly coming to the practice of more open management and providing more and more data on the work of departments. Nevertheless, to what extent are the authorities really ready to share information with the public? Moreover, where is the boundary between security, data protection, freedom of information and the interests of citizens?
When to expect a global wireless Internet

When to expect a global wireless Internet

SpaceX, Google, Facebook and other companies are working to create a new wireless infrastructure. The developers will not only have to solve the complex engineering problems of moving the Internet into the stratosphere or into orbit, but also to deal with the space debris, to withstand competition and come to agreement with politicians and antitrust services

Correcting genetic mistakes with CRISPR/Cas

CRISPR/Cas is one of the most promising technologies developed in the field of genetic engineering in the past few years. Scientists have managed to transform bacterial immune systems, allowing them to make precise modifications to any organism’s genome. Some of the potential applications of this technology are treatment of hereditary diseases, creation of next-level antibiotics, and genetic modification of animals and plants.

Quantum computer: a panacea for computing technology?

Quantum computers are increasingly gaining traction — not just among scientists, but also with journalists excited about the upcoming computing technology revolution set to completely transform our world....

What is Augmented Reality (AR)

Human perception is naturally constrained by the physiological limits of our sensory organs. For thousands of years, we’ve been using a variety of instruments to enhance our perception of the world,...

AMD releases first 7 nm video cards

Radeon VII to compete with GeForce RTX 2080 from NVIDIA

Beta Technologies Developing an Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft

The aircraft maximum speed is 300 km/h and the flight range is up to 250 km

IBM Unveils Its First Quantum Computer Model

The IBM Q System One cannot yet be purchased, but users will be able to rent computing power

Amazon’s assistant advises a user to kill his foster parents

Alexa probably read the regrettable joke in one of the forums

Saplings Cloned from More Than 3,000-year-old Sequoias Planted in California

For the first time ever, scientists used genetic material extracted from a dead tree for cloning

The Boring Company Unveils Its First Electric Vehicle Tunnel

The system still operates in the test mode and can be tried out by invitation only\n

What is a smart home and how do they work?

Economists say a country's level of well-being is determined by the quality of life of the average person.

Baden-Württemberg to sue Volkswagen

The claim follows a scandal over the company's understating harmful diesel emissions

A nuclear-powered robot will search for life on Europa

NASA is developing a new probe that can drill through the ice shell of Jupiter’s satellite\n