The Chinese government has banned the use of foreign-made hardware and software in government and public institutions. According to a government decree earlier this year, the aforementioned organizations must replace foreign computers and software with domestic counterparts within three years.
According to estimates by China Securities analysts, as part of the government decree, about 20-30 million units of computer equipment...
WhatsApp messenger will stop working for users of Windows Phone and older versions of Android and iOS. Daily Mail informs about it.
The messaging service on Windows Phone will be disabled after December 31, 2019. Support on OS older than Android 2.3.7 and iOS 8, will end on February 1, 2020. According to the newspaper, millions of users will be...
The primary territorial party organization of New Azerbaijan Party has been created at the Institute of Chemistry of Additives (ICA) of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) today. The event was attended by chairman of New Azerbaijan Party Yasamal regional branch Tagi Akhmedov, ANAS curator, Ph.D. in Philology Khadija Iskandarli, employees of the institute and active youth.
Opening the event,...
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...