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Samsung released the biggest SSD

Samsung released the biggest SSD

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Samsung started the mass production of a solid-state drive with a volume of 30 TB.  The PM1643 model broke the previous record: the new SSD is twice as large as the 15 TB drive released in March 2016. The...
Boston Dynamics is torturing robots again

Boston Dynamics is torturing robots again

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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

Twitter made its first profit

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Samourai Wallet developers invented how to send bitcoin via SMS

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Boston Dynamics’ Robots Learn Cooperation

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Boston Dynamics Company has posted a video where a SpotMini robot helps another one to open the door. SpotMini is the Company’ four-legged robot that looks like a dog. The first test videos showed a robot...

A3 has successfully tested unmanned air taxi

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A³, a subsidiary Airbus is working on a project of an unmanned flying taxi called Vahana since 2016. On January 31, 2018  the company has tested a full-size prototype, which was named Alpha One. The aircraft...

Facebook bans the advertising of Crypto-Currencies and ICO's

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Facebook is continuing to tighten the rules of advertising on its site. This time, the social network decided not to provide advertising services to companies associated with crypto-currencies and ICO's. The...

Line instant messenger will have its own cryptoexchange

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The Japanese company Line Corporation, which is developing the Line messenger, plans to add the possibility of exchanging cryptocurrency for its users. The monthly volume of the messenger is about 200 million...

Bitcoin's price tumbles as Bitfinex and Tether head to court

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission of the United States (CTFC) summoned representatives of Bitfinex and Tether. As it turned out, the companies had received the notice on December 6th, 2017. Tether...

Steve Wozniak "no longer believes" Elon Musk and is "tired" of Bitcoin

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Steve Wozniak is one of the pioneers of the IT industry and therefore his public statements rarely go unnoticed. At the same time, the famous engineer has repeatedly changed his attitude to these or other...

Binance resumed work and is thanking users for their support

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Binance, the popular Hong Kong crypto exchange announced it resumes the work after solving technical problems. Problems while synchronizing the data caused the exchange to fail for more than a day. Now the...

Intel has introduced a compact and powerful Xeon D-2100 for cloud systems

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Intel announced the release of Xeon D-2100 processor. The company calls the new "system-on-chip" (SoC) development, emphasizing that engineers have been able to optimize 14 nm technology and create a compact...
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