Trend Review: IT, technology, business

2022-02-08 16:30:01 Belgium unveils new passport design with comic strip

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmes unveiled the new Belgian passport. A document that is even more secure thanks to new security and personalization technologies.

On the pages of the documents will appear images of the reporter Tintin, the adventurers Blake and Mortimer, Largo Winch, the Smurfs and other heroes.

From February 7, 2022, Belgian citizens will be able to receive the new passport model.

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2022-02-08 14:30:52 Scary fact: 92% of the features of your smartphone you just don't know about.

Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and other guys don't show all the features of their devices on purpose, so that you buy new models and spend more money.

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2022-02-08 12:04:50 A U.S. hacker single-handedly shut down the Internet in North Korea

He did it from his home PC, exploiting all the vulnerabilities he found in the North Korean segment of the Internet.

P4x (the hacker's nickname on the network) had previously suffered the actions of the North Korean hackers himself, and this was his revenge.

The computer was working on its own, and the hacker was sitting on the couch in his living room wearing a T-shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, watching alien movies and snacking on spicy corn snacks.

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2022-02-07 20:00:16 Airbus will produce its own hydrogen engines

Why is this important for the industry and startups?

The global passenger aircraft industry has two giants - American Boeing, which cannot recover from the problems associated with the 737 model. And the French Airbus.

The hydrogen engine is, on top of everything else, the ESG agenda. That is, Airbus may become popular with "conscious investors." Now that news about the new engine has leaked online, the company will have to invest in "green development" whether or not it wants to.

And that means buying relevant startups and boosting their stock prices. Because it's fashionable. And it drives the competitor out of the market.

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2022-02-07 17:01:01 Ukrainian startup Esper Bionic has introduced one of the lightest prosthetic arms on the market - lighter than a real hand. At the same time, it is very flexible.

Test subjects were able to easily perform tasks such as opening cans and bottles, cutting fruit, and using digital devices. And the use of AI and muscle memory will improve the user experience.

It is not known when the prosthesis will go on mass sale, but Ukrainians will get discounts.

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2022-02-07 13:53:13 Tesla released the TeslaMic microphone specifically for the Chinese market

The fact is that karaoke is very popular in Asia - last year about 500 million people sang online. Well, Tesla electric cars have a bunch of online services and a microphone jack. Well, Musk decided to take over this market as well.

It is interesting that Tesla produces literally everything - microphones, whistles, belt buckles. But the promised Cybertruck and the under $25,000 economy electric car, about which Elon Musk has been talking for so long, are being put off for a long time.

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2022-02-07 11:07:40 Twitter has launched an analogue of disliking - a downgrade function

If my memory serves me correctly, Facebook set the trend in 2018, when it tested hidden disliking, where users could specify the reason why they did not want to see the content.

YouTube hid the disliking counter last November. And in December of that year, Telegram launched reactions to posts in private chats, groups and channels.

I think in this way, companies want to know more about the content a user wants to see or not see.

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2022-02-06 20:00:12 DeepMind tested AlphaCode's AI in a competition for programmers on the Codeforces platform.

AlphaCode solved problems at the level of an average programmer and was in the top 54% of participants. The AI passed 10 tests and generated new code when solving without using off-the-shelf templates.

DeepMind noted that AlphaCode's skills are only applicable in competitive programming for now, but the company is not stopping development of the algorithm.

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2022-02-06 16:00:13 An anonymous artist and a group of crypto-enthusiasts have conceived an unprecedented startup performance BitMouseDAO.

He plans to embed bitcoin wallet code into mouse DNA - this can be done by editing genes.

Theoretically, the wallet's login data would exist in the mouse's descendants as well, but that's inaccurate. And the value of such a rodent would depend directly on the bitcoin exchange rate. Although, of course, one could simply decode its genes and let it go free.

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