A regular meeting of the Academic Council of Academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan has been held today. Heads of laboratories and departments took part in the event dedicated to the discussion of promising issues of research institutes' activities in the context of a pandemic. The director of the institute,...
A plan to connect Los Angeles and Hong Kong via an underwater data cable has been scrapped due to concerns from the US government that the Chinese government could siphon information from it.
The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN), which was partly owned by Facebook and Google, will now only operate between the United States, Taiwan and the Philippines, according to documents submitted to the...
The always-on Bluetooth module carries risks for the security of the gadget. This was warned by Alexander Timofeev, associate professor of the Department of Informatics of Plekhanov REU, Prime reports.
According to him, attackers are able to hack a smartphone via a wireless connection using special equipment and gain access to the gadget and data stored in its memory. To...
Researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Sony have created a surgical robot that’s much smaller than many other such devices. They took inspiration from origami to build the mini-RCM, which is around the size of a tennis ball and weighs about the same as a penny.
Wyss associate faculty member Robert Wood and Sony engineer Hiroyuki Suzuki built the mini-RCM using a manufacturing technique developed...
Important scientific results were obtained in the framework of joint international research by scientists from Academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and Academician A.Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the institute, the physiological activity of new substances synthesized by...
Another article by scientists of the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan - Academician Vagif Farzaliyev, Doctor of Science in Chemistry Afsun Sujayev, Researcher Khadija Mamedyarova and Professor of Baku State University Afat Huseynova, together with foreign colleagues, has been published in the journal «Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics».
The article is devoted to...
Apple’s worldwide retail network may be struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the company from indulging in its penchant for pricey-looking, unique, and outlandish exterior design. The iPhone maker’s newest retail location, located in Singapore on the city-state’s waterfront and known officially as Apple Marina Bay Sands, can claim a world’s first title: it’s the only...
In the Hunan province of central China, a supertram has been built that works without an overhead network, Xinhua reported.
The novelty came off the production line of the Zhuzhou City Locomotive Company, which is part of the CRRC Corporation. The train receives electricity from supercapacitors installed in it, and it can travel 5 km for one 30-second charge.
The train...
It’s been 25 years since Microsoft launched Windows 95. Windows 95 introduced the iconic Start menu and Taskbar to billions of users around the world. Over the past 25 years, Windows has continued to evolve. Today, Microsoft published the above video to showcase the evolution of Windows over the past 3 decades.
Microsoft also published interviews of two engineers who...
An unresolved security weakness in Google Drive can be exploited by software attackers to distribute malicious files disguised as normal documents or images targeting users, thereby allowing users to allowing them to deploy large-scale phishing attacks with a fairly high rate of success.
With that said, this is a vulnerability that Google has confirmed, but as of now it has...