TECH

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…

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…

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…

ByteDance, which owns the TikTok social network, a leading platform for short videos in China and quickly gaining popularity in other countries, has launched a new search engine in China. Currently, Baidu is dominating the Internet search market in China. According to StatCounter, in 2018 it accounted for 66% of search queries on a PC and…

Intel announced the first 11 models of 10th Generation Intel Core Ice Lake Processors. The new 10nm systems based on the Gen11 graphics architecture are designed especially for 2-in-1 computers and ultra-thin notebooks , and according to the company, it offers up to twice the performance of previous generations. The first machines should reach…

AMD has recently launched a number of successful products including the new Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards, based on the 7nm 'Navi' architecture… However, as you may know, these cards only compete directly with NVIDIA's mid-range! So it's time for AMD to release something that impacts the high end! Most likely an RX 5800 XT to rival the…