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Photo: Getty While we’ve watched tech companies provide a means for us to tear apart the fabric of society, they’ve been credited with keeping the financial markets booming over the last year—but that could be coming to an end. This year has seen record gains and earnings on the stock market, but much of the…

An image that came up when I googled the word “network.”Photo: Magnus Hagdorn (Flickr) Blockchain is meant to be secure—but a new paper from quantum computing scientists warns that quickly advancing quantum technology poses a vulnerability for the much-hyped blockchain. Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin. It’s found uses as a secure digital ledger and…

Photo: Francois Mori (AP) Earlier today, Evgeniy Lvovich Zubarev, the sole shareholder and General Director of a “domestic and international news” corporation called Federal Agency of News LLC, filed a suit against Facebook for booting his page from its platform this April. In and of itself, the lawsuit is unremarkable. People sue internet services over…

Image: haiberliu (Pixabay) The FDA calls teen vaping an “epidemic,” but the influence of e-cigarettes on teens’ overall health might be more complicated than assumed, according to a new study out Thursday in the journal Tobacco Control. It suggests that while teens and young adults in the U.S. did start flocking to e-cigarettes these past…

Photo: Getty The Federal Communications Commission plans to publish a report on Wednesday that will purportedly reveal whether internet service providers are providing the broadband speeds they claim they are. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai published a cheesy Thanksgiving blog post on Tuesday. Mixed in with some quaint dad jokes and various other announcements, Pai mentions…

A single jumping cholla spine holds a half-pound hunk of meat.Photo: L. Brian Stauffer One benefit of working at a university with an agricultural school is the availability of meat. That’s especially useful if you need something to stab cactus spines into. The scientists weren’t as interested in the meat as they were in figuring…

Xiaomi company entered into an agreement with Chinese Meitu. Under the deal, Xiaomi has an exclusive worldwide license for the production of smartphones under the brand of Meitu. Companies are going to jointly develop smartphones. Xiaomi will design, produce, market and sell the smart, and she will Meitu image processing technologies. Note that Meitu known…

NVIDIA experienced a huge drop in the capitalization of 23 billion dollars in 24 hours. Record for the last 10 years, a one-day stock drop occurred last Friday. One day the depreciation of the shares was 30%. Also, the company has overcome the worst for the year value of the cost of shares in 161,61…

In the network there are new renderings and details about the next flagship of the company Xiaomi is preparing to release for next year. Renderings show the approximate appearance of future trends. From Xiaomi Mi 9 expected frameless design with keyhole cutout and integrated directly into the display with the fingerprint scanner. The smartphone is…

Operators MegaFon”, “Rostelecom” and the company rostec are in talks about the creation of a single infrastructure operator, which will build the 5G network in Russia. About it reported the edition “Kommersant”, citing three sources on the telecommunications market. The 5G network from a single operator should use local solutions. The beginning of the work…