TECH

According to BBC, the Russian Ministry of Communications today announced successful testing of an alternative to the internet, called Runet. This alternative will supposedly work as an intranet works within a company. From now on, the Russian government can simply filter out all content made available to its citizens. Countries like China,…

Quite discreetly, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has launched a social network that wants to rival Facebook and Twitter. Wales underlines that this new bet will be focused on combating clickbait. Jimmy Wales launched the social network WT: Social, a site that allows users to share links to articles , enabling the exchange of ideas on…

China has officially started researching sixth-generation telecoms technology, state media reported on Thursday (Nov 7), a move it described as aiming to promote the latest wireless innovation. Chinese government ministries and research institutes met this week in a "kick-off" meeting to establish a national 6G technology research and…

On November 4, the annual Microsoft Ignite conference for developers opened in Orlando, where the software giant made many important announcements. Perhaps the most intriguing among them is Project Silica. This is a very promising conceptual technology for the use of quartz glass for long-term storage. First of all, the idea of using quartz…

Recently TikTok's popularity has exploded worldwide, and so has scrutiny over the app's parent company ByteDance and its relationship to the Chinese government. Now Reuters reports that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has opened a national security review of the company, because it had not sought approval to…

After several rumors suggesting this purchase, it seems that Google has come forward and acquired the popular wearables company Fitbit for an amount of $2.1 billion. By acquiring Fitbit, Google poses as a possible threat to Apple's smart watch market monopoly, as the industry's weight investment may signal that the internet giant intends to…

Private aerospace company SpaceX plans to begin providing its customers with the service of broadband Internet access using its satellite constellation Starlink in mid-2020, writes the resource SpaceNews. SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, said during a media roundtable in Washington, DC, that to launch the…

ARM introduced four new products all at once. These are Ethos machine learning processors that complement the existing N77 model with simpler N57s and N37s; the first mid-range graphics accelerator on Valhall's brand-new architecture in the face of the new Mali-G57; Mali-D37 display processor. Ethos neuroprocessors ARM first spoke about its…

John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries. “These lightweight, rechargeable and powerful batteries are now used everywhere, from mobile phones and laptops to electric cars. They can save a significant amount of energy from renewable sources from the…

In the race against Microsoft, Intel, IBM to be the first to build a quantum computer powerful enough to prove the superiority over conventional computing, Google claims to have crossed an important milestone known as "quantum supremacy," according to the Financial Times (FT). These calculators of a new type are able to perform certain tasks…

Cybersecurity experts have discovered a critical vulnerability in SIM cards, which allows remote access to a user's mobile device. According to experts, the problem concerns more than a billion people. The discovered vulnerability was called SimJacker. With its help, it is fashionable to intercept calls, messages and location information of…

Like all Apple products, it's credit card has captured the attention of the tech world, although not in the most positive way. Ironically, one of the most talked about subjects is the construction of the card and its manufacturing materials. Well, Bloomberg sent an Apple Card for review at the University of California. After testing by…

And a new record for Bugatti ! The luxury car manufacturer based in Molsheim has announced that a prototype derived from a standard version of its famous Bugatti Chiron has exceeded the 300 mph mark, more than 490 km/h! This modified Bugatti Chiron model was driven by British driver Andy Wallace for the record breaking event. It reached…

OnePlus 6 has finally made its way to Nepal less than three weeks after its global launch. It is the latest in its lineup of premium flagship smartphones that offers top hardware specifications and software while still being affordable. The official distributor for OnePlus 6 is iHub Pvt Ltd. The phone will be available in two storage…

The latest trial version of Windows 10 (Insider Preview) brings a feature called Cloud Download. It allows you to restore Windows 10 by downloading the same version you have installed on your PC. Reinstalling Windows means you must have a local copy of the operating system. With this option, if you require to restore your PC, you will be…