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Today is the Bitcoin pizza day
Exactly eight years ago, a programmer presumably bought the pizzas he regretted the most. Not because there was pineapple on it (though that's reason enough #teamnopineapple do not @ me) but because he paid 10,000 Bitcoins as an experiment…
Apple technicians find carbon-free method for melting aluminum
Aluminum has been available for more than a century, and in that time it has conquered the world in a stormy way. It is certainly an important metal from an economic point of view and therefore has many application areas. Also for Apple,…
The different functions on LinkedIn: 2003 versus 2018
LinkedIn has its birthday. This month it has been no less than 15 years since the largest online professional network in the world saw the light of day. LinkedIn now has more than 560 million members spread over more than 200 countries.…
SpaceX has successfully launched Kepler Space Telescope successor
SpaceX launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite on Thursday night with a Falcon 9 rocket. This new NASA space telescope has been successfully decoupled and is expected to discover far more exoplanets than the Kepler space…
Which messaging service is actually really safe for users?
Messaging services are well in the news this week. We look at it from all sides, fiddled around and doubted. The problem is that nobody seems to know for sure which solution ensures that you as a user have absolute privacy.
Both WhatsApp…
Google makes microscope that can recognize cancer with artificial intelligence
During a conference in the United States, Google researchers described a prototype of a microscope using augmented reality and machine learning to help medical doctors recognize cancer cells in human tissue.
The so-called Augmented…
Swedish test highway can charge electric cars
If you are a child of the 70s or 80s, you might know the Carrera race tracks that you could get with a slit in it, where a small car could drive around because of a projection on the bottom contact made with the job. This so to speak.…
Google test option for e-mails that erase themselves over time
The new design of Gmail, of which this week screenshots came out, may also introduce an option that allows users to set up a sent e-mail to clear itself over time. Google is currently testing this option.
Various media posts about the…
Futuremark adapts company name to UL
Futuremark has changed its name to UL and the website gets a redirect to benchmarks.UL.com. The step follows four years after the takeover of Finnish Futuremark by the American UL
The change of name does not affect the benchmarks, which…
10 nostalgic series (from the 80s) that you would like to see on Netflix
Netflix is working hard to develop and produce its own Originals Series. Something that they certainly should not stop. From La Casa de Papel to House of Cards and Stranger Things . All top series. But occasionally it is also nice to…