Does misinformation on the Internet to increase victims CoVID-19?
We live in a time of two epidemics: coronavirus and misinformation. The first sweeps rapidly across the planet, taking thousands of lives, and the second it helps. conspiracy theory and con artists every day contribute to the grow...
Technology spy on users: how and why companies collect personal data
App TikTok developed in China, whose government engages in pervasive surveillance of its own citizens. do you think you are being followed? While you ponder the answer, let us recall that almost every action is passive observation...
As a habit to check the facts can make your life better?
Verification of information — the only way to not fall victim to marketers and scammers the Time in which we live, will undoubtedly go down in history as the era of the information storm and . Data from numerous studies indi...
a Large amount of information makes it difficult to find truthful information. We live in an era of excess the different information. Today it is difficult to imagine a person who never heard anything about fake news. The English ...
Why scientists should not rely on AI in matters of scientific discovery, at least for now
We live in a Golden age of scientific evidence, surrounding himself with huge reserves of genetic information, medical images and data on astronomical observations. The current capabilities of machine learning algorithms allow art...
USA looking for a company that will burn tons of sensitive data
Huge volumes of data that are stored on military bases, not just drag to trash and delete. All equipment that store confidential information, subject to complete destruction. Best of all this handle the fire, so missile range Whit...
On the moon will send a time capsule with information encoded in DNA
Repeatedly mankind has sent information about their civilization into space. Cost to recall famous gold-plated disc attached to the hull of Voyager, with a series of sound and video messages or records of spacecrafts "pioneer". A...
Found a way to transmit thoughts from one person to another
Send a brain signal from one person to another has long been described in various works of fiction and, as often happens, technology was quite feasible. Because for a long time already invented sensors for recording brain activity...
The new mechanism will allow to store information in one atom
Scientists from the University of Radboud discovered a new mechanism for the magnetic storage of information in the smallest unit of matter: an atom. Despite the fact that proof of principle has been demonstrated at very low tempe...
The new method of storing data using light and salt crystals
data storage Systems are increasingly developing every year. In the early 2000s, the volume of DVDs is quite enough for most needs. Then came the era of Blu-Ray and SSD. Now vengeance are developing a memory based on DNA, but scie...
When we will end the storage of digital data, we'll use DNA
In the world there is a shortage of space for storage of digital data. This problem exists for a few years, however, ordinary people are unlikely to about it ever thought of. Not so long ago there was a time when the free space fo...
How much data can our brain hold?
it's No secret that most people don't use all of their brain capacity. To debunk the myth of 10% will not, but it is obvious that the possibilities of the human brain go far beyond the limits of accepted norms. How much data are i...
Twist Bioscience will record your favorite song directly to DNA
today, there are lots of ways to store information from cloud services to "old-fashioned" methods of recording on discs or external hard drives. However, with the advancement of technology the size of the files increases, and we n...
The new format of JPEG XS for virtual reality, drones and Autonomous cars
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the international Committee under the leadership of Professor EPFL, presented a new JPEG format XS. It allows you to compress the image using less power and send high quality images through...
What have you learned about the attack on 200 000 network of Cisco switches?
the Last few days were not the best for cyber security. The Iranian Ministry of communications and information technologies reported that it has also become a victim of global cyber-attacks that (or simply switches) from Cisco, wh...
Scientists have invented a new way to store data inside DNA
the Future of technology lies not only in the constant growth of computing power of processors or the transition to quantum computers, but also in the evolution of storage devices. Humanity generates a huge amount of information, ...
Microsoft recorded in the DNA of the song Deep Purple
On the application of DNA as a storage medium say for a long time. There is even a quite successful development in this area. And it seems that this technology may indeed prove to be the future, as recently a group of scientists f...
Underwater communication cable of the new generation was launched
hundreds of connecting all the continents of the world except Antarctica. They ensure the uninterrupted transmission of large amounts of data from servers of popular services and sites in the apartments of users in different parts...
Conducted the first test of technology quantum 4D-encoding
Traditional coding technologies for information transfer use the binary system. However, even now evolving methods of quantum information transfer are also based on system data with two variables. Although the methods of multidime...
Norway will build the world's largest data center in the Arctic circle
Modern data centers consume a lot of energy, have a lot of information, produce complex calculations and, of course, require very powerful cooling system to maintain stable operation of the systems. In this regard, it seems quite ...