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Hitecher oktober’s top stories

Hitecher oktober’s top stories

In October, Hitecher came across a number of fascinating subjects. We told our readers about the discovery of new enzymes accelerating chemical reactions that had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The...
GitHub suffered failure

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development took place on October 22, which resulted in disappointing news: the users could not log in and observed the outdated discussion...
VisionLabs presents Face ID for cars

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...

The human beyond: augmentations - gift or curse of the future technologies?

Our body is nearly excellent. However, no one is born perfect. No one lives forever. We are not eternal creatures, and over time get old, becoming a pale shadow of ourselves. After a short period, our youth...

New Facebook Vulnerability Affects 90 Million Users

A loophole making interception of the user's access tokens possible was found in the code of the “View as” feature on the social network’s website. The company reported this on its official news blog. Access...

Hitecher september’s top stories

September 2018 will be remembered by the Apple presentation, which left no one indifferent. Learn how Apple plans to combat early mortality with its flagship product Apple Watch, as well as details about the...

A way to the post-human: biochips developments & implementation

A few decades back many people had been fascinated by the numerous science-fiction movies. One could not get the idea that soon enough the imagined reality would become outdated — it happens that the TVs,...

How to encrypt your life in less than an hour?

Andy Grove fled from Hungary to save himself from the communists. He received an education in engineering which allowed him to lead the personal computer revolution as the CEO of the giant Intel. He died...

Facebook introduces a system for assessing the reputation of users

Facebook has decided to deal with fake news by using a new rating system for users. The company will use algorithms to analyze both official corporate accounts and ordinary users, and assign them a reputation...

UK to test 5G on the railroad

A new standard of mobile communication will ensure the Internet of things concept development. In addition, unmanned vehicles and buses will use 5G. The maximum data transfer rate in 5G networks reaches 1 Gbit...

Facebook promises to use 100% renewable energy by the late 2020

The largest IT companies are switching to green energy. In 2017 Amazon provided half of the energy consumption from renewable sources, and Google moved all its units to solar and wind power. Facebook is...

A periodic table of technologies: from improving our life today, to being able to destroy humanity in the distant future (or earlier)

Scientists from Imperial Tech Foresight have developed a table that classifies the most important technological ideas of the present and the future. The researchers were inspired by the periodic table of...

Google is developing an alternative to Android

Google programmers are developing an operating system that will become a more advanced replacement for Android and will help them to compete with Apple. The new system, called Fuchsia, will focus on...

Apple has committed $300 million for the development of green energy in China

Apple is trying to be both the largest and coolest technology company that cares about the environment. Most Apple devices are assembled in China so the corporation decided, along with their partners, to...

In China WeChat is replacing passports, banks, and even the registry office

Developers of instant messengers are trying to combine many services into one application. Users save time by doing operations directly on the messenger, and companies get more user involvement in their...