Home / News

News - page 53

news | Jun 14, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 161

Litecoin rose sharply on May 29th. Its average market price increased by 7% in a few hours. The coin's rate was $122 and, according to experts, it could go up to $130. Analysts predicted three important levels...

Digital pirate, Kim Dotcom, launches a crypto-platform for monetizing content

news | Jun 14, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 155

Kim Dotcom is known to many internet users as the creator of the file sharing Megaupload. In 2012, the businessman was arrested by New Zealand police at the request of U.S. authorities. Dotcom was accused of...

Boston Dynamics starts mass production of robots

news | Jun 14, 2018 | Gadgets | 203

One of the most famous robot development companies, Boston Dynamics, will begin selling its robots in 2019. Since its foundation in 1992, the company has completed several orders for . But in 2015 the military...

Reddit user encodes the key to a wallet with 1 BTC in a picture

news | Jun 14, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 173

In a Reddit thread devoted to Bitcoin, a puzzle appeared worth 1 BTC. The user with the nickname “cryptogreetings” posted a picture with a cloud of words and numbers from Satoshi Nakamoto's article about...

Happy Bitcoin pizza day!

news | May 28, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 175

The cryptocurrency community once again is marking "Bitcoin Pizza Day". May 22nd, 2010 cryptoenthusiast Lazlo Hanesh decided to buy a pizza with Bitcoin. At that time it was impossible to buy goods with...

Telegram tests its user identification service. WhatsApp sees a serious competitor.

news | May 28, 2018 | Tech & Security | 220

The messenger service Telegram has started testing its External Secure ID service, which will be a convenient way to identify users on the new TON (Telegram Open Network) platform. The service will combine...

The creator of the world's most powerful pocket PC collected 37 times more than planned on Indiegogo

news | May 23, 2018 | Gadgets | 1 | 228

Hong Kong engineer Leo Cheung has developed a Mini PC pocket computer with a built-in 5-inch display and operates as a normal PC. The computer, which is comparable in size to the average smartphone, runs on...

People from the future can attend Stephen Hawking's farewell ceremony

news | May 23, 2018 | Science & Education | 1 | 177

The famous British physicist Stephen Hawking will be buried in Westminster Abbey. The farewell ceremony which is scheduled for June 15th will not only have family and friends of the scientist in attendance,...

Tokenised Tor. Orchid Labs plans to become a decentralised Internet provider

news | May 21, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 158

Internet, which took decades to develop as a free platform for information exchange, more and more often is becoming an instrument of spying and censorship in the contemporary world. Orchid Labs, a California...

The startup IR WAY is developing a night vision system for drivers that has raised 8 million rubles

news | May 18, 2018 | Business & Startups | 177

The Russian company IR WAY won first place in the technological startups accelerator, GenerationS 2017, and has received financing of 8 million rubles ($129,000) for the further development of their...

Goldman Sachs launches bitcoin futures trading

news | May 15, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 190

Goldman Sachs – one of the major investment banks - is to launch bitcoin futures in near future. The Company will offer its customers a more flexible crypto currency derivative – a settlement forward contract...

Apple will finance an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series

news | May 03, 2018 | Science & Education | 177

In mid-2017 Skydance Television bought the rights to adapt the famous fantasty series "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov and is planning to shoot a full-length television series. The project is supported by Apple,...

The space hotel “Aurora Station” will be launched by 2022

news | May 03, 2018 | Tech & Security | 178

The emergence of private space companies not only contributes to the technological and scientific development of mankind, but also brings the time of mass space tourism closer. Orion Span presented the...

UVL Robotics has attracted $300,000 for the production of drones

news | May 03, 2018 | Business & Startups | 229

The Russian startup, UVL Robotics, is one of the graduates of the accelerator for industrial start-ups HSE {100K}, which was organized by the Higher School of Economics in conjunction with the Phystech...

The 17-millionth bitcoin is mined

news | Apr 27, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 216

Bitcoin network has produced 17 million coins. The mining pool BTC.com has calculated another block which has lead to increased bitcoin numbers to a round number. The number of coins in the bitcoin protocol...

Hacker extorts 0.1 BTC for decoding the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy

news | Apr 26, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 263

A hacker calling himself X~zakaria has hacked a website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy and cole industry and encrypted all its files. He requested to transfer 0,1 BTC to his e-wallet for decoding. Ha...

MyEtherWallet is compromised again

news | Apr 26, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 159

The owners of MyEtherWallet cryptocurrency wallets started to post on Reddit and Twitter about problems with the service on April 24. When trying to log in, users were sent to phishing sites that intercepted...

Tap2Pay allows to make payments directly in messengers

news | Apr 24, 2018 | Business & Startups | 317

Many online retailers require a separate registration and filling out different forms. A Belorussian startup called Tap2Pay offers to substantially simplify Internet purchases and perform them with a couple of...

Zuckerberg appears in front of the U.S. Senate with apologies, and seems to have restored investor's confidence

news | Apr 12, 2018 | Business & Startups | 184

Facebook's shares rose by 4.5% after almost a five-hour speech by the comapny's head in front of the U.S. Senate. The highest growth in stock price since 2016 and returned $2.8 billion to Mark Zuckerberg and...

Telegram collects another $850 million in the second round of its ICO

news | Apr 12, 2018 | Crypto & Blockchain | 199

The Durov brothers attracted additional funding for the development of Telegram and the development of a blockchain platform for the messenger. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a...

Tesla shares fell 5% after an unsuccessful joke by Elon Musk

news | Apr 12, 2018 | Business & Startups | 167

After Elon Musk joked on his Twitter about Tesla being "bankrupt", the company's shares fell by 5% - to $252.48. First, the businessman said that "important news" would appear soon. After some time, a tweet...

USA banned broadcasts of SpaceX launches. A special license is required

news | Apr 12, 2018 | Tech & Security | 186

SpaceX was broadcasting its every launch on YouTube for years, but only now The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA (NOAA) has announced the company does not have rights to do it. It...

Hackers have deleted the most popular video on YouTube. It turned out, you should not be a hacking guru for that

news | Apr 12, 2018 | Tech & Security | 331

You do not need to hack the entire service in order to delete someone’s video from YouTube. All you need is to get the credentials to sign in to the account from which the video was posted. So did the hackers...

A mini-robot from the company “Trailer Valet” acts as a tractor for a trailer

news | Apr 12, 2018 | Business & Startups | 203

Trailer Valet has released a small radio-controlled robot RVR which you can move a large trailer with. The robot is equipped with caterpillar tracks which allow it to move on almost any horizontal surface -...

« Previous 1 2 ... 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 ... 59 60 Next »

Google Chrome's browser extensions are perfect for any occasion

articles | Dec 06, 2022 | Tech & Security | 101

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers in the world. It is easy to use, although you can make it more convenient and effective for your work and home!