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Steve Wozniak approves of Bitcoin

Steve Wozniak approves of Bitcoin

Bitcoin is sometimes compared to gold. Unlike ordinary money, it has a limited supply. That is, it is impossible to create new Bitcoins indefinitely. Bitcoins must be mined just like minerals. And the more...
Mevo Plus - Vimeo live-camera

Mevo Plus - Vimeo live-camera

Video hosting company Vimeo and streaming service Livestream have released Mevo Plus - a portable 4K camera for online broadcasts. This was the first new product as a result of their collaboration since...
Magnetic Tail of Mars

Magnetic Tail of Mars

Scientists from NASA announced a new discovery. Using the artificial satellite MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) it was found that Mars has a unique "magnetic tail". Today there is no...
Scotland has launched a floating wind farm

Scotland has launched a floating wind farm

Scotland put into operation the first floating wind power station, Hywind, located in the sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire. The station produces 30 megawatts of power. The Norwegian company Statoil and the...
Large companies are ready to help Puerto Rico cope with the consequences of "Maria"

Large companies are ready to help Puerto Rico cope with the consequences of "Maria"

On September 20th hurricane Maria became the most devastating hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in the last 80 years. Several dozen people died and a significant part of the country's infrastructure was destroyed....

Electric vehicle from Volvo

Green types of energy are becoming increasingly popular and it seems that prospective start-ups are already coming to the real market. Manufacturers of cars are trying to secure a future for themselves by...

The University of Melbourne has launched a new certification system - for blockchain

Blockchain is a technology that is used today in various areas of business, production, and in general any activity related to management distribution. So the arrival of blockchain into the educational process...

Google Clips – A camera that shoots itself

The IT giant, Google, introduced a new gadget - a miniature camera called Google Clips. You might think, what else can you still come up with in this area? There are already GoPro, various steadicams for...

Belarus creates a cryptocurrency in order to improve the economic performance of the country

Belarus has launched a cryptocurrency project called Taler. The system is already functioning, but the project creators decided to remain anonymous till the official launch of the project. Crypto Taler, or...

ODMCoin - The first ICO in the oil and gas sector

The resource based economy is often opposed to innovation. But as shown by the interesting Russian experience there is a place in the oil and gas market for modern technologies. Waste is formed in the process...

USA: open government on blockchain

Blockchain is becoming more and more popular every day. Here it comes: a very centralized government of United States is ready to entrust the major functions to a decentralized system. A working group met on...

Dubai: Real estate already on blockchain

Several commercial block projects have already been launched in the commercial and industrial capital of the Middle East. It's time to combine these initiatives on a governmental level. In 2016 the Crown...

Payment for electricity in real time

Electricity will become cheaper! Anyway, ConsenSys is working on this. The blockchain company ConsenSys is known for their recent project of the distribution of surplus renewable energy. And this year it...

Hotel-tunnel: you go and relax

You work a whole year long, and finally you go on vacation: you get your suitcase packed, get on the plane and finally you land on the beach. This is the way most of us take. But soon everything will change....

Did you order drone? Here it comes!

What associations do you have with drones? Should it be an interesting toy with remote control? Or do you imagine great videos recorded from the height of the bird? Or maybe you dream that a good you ordered...

The classic comes back! Nintendo announced release of the legendary NES in summer 2018

The premiere of  Nintendo Switch has not cooled yet but the company already announced the release of another console in the summer 2018. But it will not be a brand new console, it will be an old new NES...

CarTaxi is like Uber, only in reverse

There are more and more vehicles, on the roads and on the road sides. That means the vehicle recovery business is very promising. But it is also chaotical, it is not optimized and is totally hand-on. The...

Intel and Tencent collaborate on the security solution for the Internet of things

On the 10th of September at the Internet of Things exhibition in China, the biggest telecommunication company Tencent and Intel announced a joint project based on the blockchain technology. The companies will...

Is there life in Antarctica?

Аustralian scientists explored ice caves under antarctic ice shelves and came up to the solution that it is warm enough over there for animals and plants. Natural cave systems were developed by a steam around...

The application for Android from Snowden is to protect from shadowing

After his escape from the United States in 2013, Edward Snowden does not use a mobile phone anymore. Taking such strict measures to ensure his security, a former employee of the NSA continues to study the...