The use of cannabis in adolescence changes the function of neurons in the brain, responsible for decision-making, planning and self-control, established by American scientists. And this changes the behavior for life. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago studied the prefrontal cortex of animals, the department that controls cognitive Read more…
Personal data protection legislation – GPDR and the “right to be forgotten” – created a new industry. By the order of relatives of the deceased, specialized companies will rid the Internet of its digital traces, for example, they will clean the search sample from unflattering links. The latter requires at Read more…
The company, founded to fight fraudsters on dating sites, is ready to give battle to the new threat – fake videos with the participation of politicians and celebrities and fake photos. However, not everyone is sure that such an important task should be assigned to private owners. An increasing number Read more…
One of the largest US banks annually spends $8 billion on new technological solutions. The management does not hide: the development will allow to automate part of the processes and reduce staff. Citi call center employees are no longer needed, operators are next in line. The head of the Citigroup Read more…
Now there are two incompatible protocols in the heart of the Internet, but the technological barrier is becoming the basis for ideological separation, according to the authors of the study from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). The seemingly temporary technical fragmentation between two incompatible Internet protocols may in the Read more…
The government of the “world’s largest democracy” has decided that the Internet is too free. And now it plans to introduce new rules for content removal, comparable in severity with the Great Chinese Firewall. The Indian government began a “race against time” in an attempt to approve new and extremely Read more…
Australia is often called the “green continent”, but the country is not in a hurry with the transition to clean energy. Now the government is closely connected with the coal mining of the country and is planning a large-scale forest restoration project. Australia seriously lags behind the fulfillment of the Read more…
Sperm banks strictly protect the confidentiality of donors and customers. But the increasingly popular home genetic tests make such measures useless and obsolete. Genetic tests are increasingly causing scandals. At the epicenter of one of them, Daniella Torscher, a thirty-year-old nanny from Portland, Oregon, got into the story. The story Read more…
Unconditional income will ensure wealthy citizens, but it will hit the poorest strata, increasing inequality. This argument is often used by skeptics, and now American economists have found evidence in favor of this hypothesis. The $3 trillion idea In recent years, the unconditional basic income has become one of the Read more…
The Chinese company SenseNets on the instructions of the government is tracking 2.5 million Uigurs. Being Muslims, they were at the center of the most ambitious such program in the world: the system recorded visits to mosques, hotels and Internet cafes. Mass surveillance The database with the personal information of Read more…