The social network Instagram will ask for the date of birth when creating the account. This is stated in the message published on the social network site on December 4. “Starting today, we will ask for your date of birth when creating an account on Instagram. According to our Terms of Use, you must be at least 13 years old...
Robots have been deployed at China's railway stations to help locate criminals using scanning and face recognition technology. It is reported by the British Sun. In particular, you can see a policeman robot at Changchun Railway Station in Jilin Province in northeast China. The robot slowly moves around the waiting room, intently "examining" numerous passengers. The device can track and...
Thousands of Android apps have been attacked by a vulnerability with help of which victim messages and files could be stolen. This was reported by experts from TrendMicro in the organization’s blog. The problem concerns the library, which is part of the android-gif-drawable package used to process GIFs by thousands of Android applications. The gap was fixed a few weeks...
Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the Internet and head of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), has announced a plan to rid the Network from  political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other threats that could plunge the world into a "digital dystopia." To do this, the British scientist invited members of the society to conclude a...
Bill Gates, an American billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, believes that Huawei has always been a very innovative company. He told the Chinese media about this during his recent visit to Beijing. In an interview, Gates said that China owns a leading technology company. He also noted that Huawei is creating low-cost devices with 5G support and thereby forcing...
Xiaomi has created a portable translator of the Mijia series, which will soon go on sale at the price of a budget smartphone. It is reported by Gizchina. The device is equipped with a 4.1-inch touch screen with full pixels of 357 ppi. A 3000 mAh battery is responsible for autonomy which provides 5 hours of continuous translation, or 19...
US cybersecurity expert Vinnie Troy discovered a database with information on 1.2 billion social network users. This was reported by Wired. According to him, the file was stored in the cloud service Google Cloud. He could not find out exactly who downloaded it. At the same time, the database itself did not contain important information such as passwords, bank card...
An international team of scientists has discovered the deadly danger of long space flights to the health of astronauts. It has been turned out that microgravity causes  malfunction in the internal jugular vein. This can be a significant problem for a manned mission to Mars. This is reported by Science Alert. Specialists examined 11 astronauts who visited the ISS. It...
Some smartphone models like Xiaomi, Samsung, Google and OnePlus discharge much faster after installing the latest version of WhatsApp.  Users who encounter a problem write about this on Reddit and in the reviews on the messenger page on Google Play. Most of the affected are users of OnePlus smartphones, however, there are owners of the Samsung Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S9,...
On October 31 - November 3, 2019, the 2nd International Environmental Chemistry Congress was held in Antalya, Turkey. In this prestigious scientific event the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences was presented by young researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of Additives Sabiya Osmanova and Gunay Ismailova. Young scientists made reports titled “Antimicrobial Properties of some Amidies of 1,1- bis-(carboxymethylthio)-1-pyenylethane ”və“...