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Educational and productive practice of fourth-year students of Baku State University at academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives has been completed. According to the chairman of the Institute's trade union, associate professor Elkhan Isakov, about 30 students of this higher educational institution were involved in the process for three months as separate groups. He noted that students were familiarized...
On May 1, the opening ceremony of the Internet of Things laboratory took place at the Information and Communication Technologies Applying and Training Center of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies. Pursuant to the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Information and Communication Technologies Applying and Training Center and representative office of Microsoft in Azerbaijan, the laboratory will operate...
The number of devices connected to the internet reached 22.0 billion worldwide at the end of 2018, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. Enterprise IoT remains the leading segment, accounting for more than half of the market, with Mobile/Computing at just over a quarter. The report predicts, however, that Home will be the fastest growing segment over...
Google tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon. Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times op-ed that said “privacy cannot be a luxury good.” But behind the scenes, Google is still collecting a lot of personal information from the services you use, such as...
The EU adopted a mechanism to impose sanctions on individuals and legal entities for cyber attacks, the EU Council said in a statement on Friday. The EU Council has established a framework allowing to impose targeted restrictive measures to deter and respond to cyber attacks which present an external threat to the European Union or its member states, the statement...
Spyware crafted by an "advanced cyber actor" infected multiple targeted mobile phones through the WhatsApp messaging service without any user intervention through in-app voice calls. The malware was able to penetrate phones through missed calls alone via the application's voice calling function, a spokesperson for the Facebook subsidiary said on Monday. An unknown number of mobile phones were infected by the...
Scribes of the world, rejoice! There is still some time before we are replaced by machines able to spit out reams of velvet prose in less than the time it takes to sharpen a 2B pencil. For smooth the (robot) prose was not. That conclusion we drew from examining the work of an artificial intelligence writer developed by QLX for...
Popular instant messaging app Telegram has been updated for Android users with several new features and a new design. The updated Telegram 5.6 version can now be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Some of the major highlights include archived chats, bulk actions, new icon, and improved usability. The new archived chats feature is aimed at helping users clean up...
The Group of Twenty Agriculture Ministers Meeting concluded Sunday with calls to feed a growing global population and promote sustainable agriculture through new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics and drones, and to increase cooperation among farmers, nonfarm businesses and academia. Separately, a meeting between the U.S. and Japanese farm ministers Saturday failed to produce any breakthrough on lowering agricultural...
Shanghai Jiushi, the largest bus company in Shanghai, has launched buses running on biodiesel produced from  edible oil by using special technology. More than 2,000 buses used biodiesel fuel, which is more environmentally friendly than traditional diesel, started on May 7 across Shanghai. Applicable for refueling buses, B5 fuel consists of 5% of biodiesel, obtained by processing waste vegetable...