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Samsung to Release a 5G Smartphone in 2019

Samsung to Release a 5G Smartphone in 2019

December 4 marked the launch of the annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 hosted by Qualcomm, a leader in the development of mobile processors and wireless communications. The summit will focus on the...
Mozilla adds support for several languages to its VR browser to expand the audience

Mozilla adds support for several languages to its VR browser to expand the audience

In addition to English, the new version of Firefox Reality 1.1 browser now supports Chinese (Mandarin), French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish and Korean languages. The update will enable the Company...
Hackers Gain Access to Data of 100 Million Quora User Accounts

Hackers Gain Access to Data of 100 Million Quora User Accounts

Employees of the Quora knowledge sharing service discovered that unknown hackers managed to access one of the company’s systems. The attack could affect about 100 million users. Quora reported about it in its...
The Large Hadron Collider is Suspended for two years for an upgrade

The Large Hadron Collider is Suspended for two years for an upgrade

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest scientific and experimental project involving thousands of scientists and engineers from different countries. During experiments in the vacuum tubes laid in the...
The Swiss police change over to Tesla Model X

The Swiss police change over to Tesla Model X

The Swiss police have converted Tesla Model X to patrol vehicles. A few months ago the Swiss police announced that they were replacing 7 diesel cars with 7 Tesla Model X 100D electric cars. In the Police...

Uber Said to Be Acquiring an Electric Scooter Rental Startup, but Has Not Yet Decided Which One

Uber is considering the acquisition of an electric scooter startup, The Information reports with reference to an unidentified source. A possible deal target could be one of Uber’s competitors in the sector,...

Apple Music Is Coming to Amazon Echo Smart Speakers

Amazon has announced that Apple Music would now be available on its smart Echo speakers. From December 17, the new agreement between the two corporations will allow Echo users, who have subscribed to Apple...

2001: A Space Odyssey helps launch the first 8K channel

On 1 December, NHK TV Company launched the first super-high definition 8k television channel. The new broadcasting format which the company named Super Hi-Vision supports 7680×4320 pixels resolution, the speed...

Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled fined by SEC over Fraudulent ICO Promotion

In the fall of 2017, music producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather became media personalities for Centra Tech blockchain project. The plans announced by the company claimed the development of several...

The world of Fallout is closer?! The nuclear battery is here.

Scientists from Krasnoyarsk have approved Nickel-63 isotope as a product. The element will be used in the manufacture of atomic batteries. Due to the soft beta radiation, the battery does not harm the health...

QuarkChain Token Is Growing with the Reported Launch of Testnet 2.0 Supporting Mining

QuarkChain blockchain project developing a high-throughput blockchain to perform millions of transactions per minute has announced that everything is ready for the launch of its Testnet 2.0. In their blog, the...

Yandex Launches a Project to Analyze Internet Resources on Runet

The new service entitled «Yandex.Radar» covers 10,000 websites popular in the Russian segment. The rating of top websites is compiled based on data and extensions received from Yandex.Browser using...

GRAM Token Prospects Evaluated by Experts

QIWI experts issued the first analytical report on the GRAM platform. The study was conducted by Hash CIB associated with QIWI Blockchain Technologies. However, the report can hardly be called unbiased: QIWI...

A Foldable Smartphone from Samsung

Justin Denison, head of Samsung’s mobile product marketing, presented a prototype of the company’s new product – a smartphone with a foldable screen. Flexible and foldable screens are the next step in...

The Largest Airdrop Ever from Stellar? How to Participate in the Airdrop from Stellar?

Stellar is about to hold an auction of unprecedented generosity: it is going to have the largest airdrop in cryptocurrency history and give away almost 500 million XLM as part of its airdrop. Styellar...

Ethereum 2.0 vs Visa: Blockchain Throughput to Increase 1,000-fold

On October 31, Vitalik Buterin spoke at the DevCoin Conference currently running in Prague. The key news is that the blockchain throughput will increase 1,000-fold. The Serenity upgrade, also known...

Firefox Launches an Experiment with a Paid VPN Service

Mozilla continues to explore the possibilities of developing its products focusing primarily on user privacy. As part of its joint experiment with ProtonVPN service, Mozilla will be offering a VPN add-on for...

HTC Blockchain-enabled Smartphone Can Only be Bought with Cryptocurrency

This morning HTC announced the launch of its blockchain-enabled smartphone. The new phone was named EXODUS 1 and it is the first model of its kind. But don’t assume you can find it on store shelves among other...

Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges unite in a self-regulating association

Japan’s main financial index, the FSA (Financial Services Agency), officially endorsed the Japan Virtual Currency Association (Japan Association of Cryptocurrency Exchanges (JVCEA) as a self-regulating...

GitHub suffered failure

A severe failure in the work of the largest service for joint development took place on October 22, which resulted in disappointing news: the users could not log in and observed the outdated discussion...

Cryptocurrency Thaw: South Korea Pushing for ICO Legalization

In September 2017, ICOs were banned in the country due to the abundance of hackers in the sector. These measures seemed too harsh at the time, but today there is a growing understanding that the authorities...

VisionLabs presents Face ID for cars

The Russian startup VisionLabs has presented face identification technology based on NVIDIA DRIVE IX that enables to monitor the driver’s condition in driving  as well as open the car without keys. Most...

What happened to Tether? What can Tether crash lead to?

The Tether USDT rate fell by 6% against the US dollar, to which it is theoretically pegged at a ratio of 1: 1. The price of USDT fell to $ 0.92. This happened at the moment when Kucoin announced that it was...

Why was the Constantinople hard fork in the Ethereum network cancelled?

Ethereum Constantinople goes to testnet with some problems. One of the most significant changes is the reduction of block remuneration: from 3 ETH to 2 ETH for each block mined by the miners. The...
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