Significant fall in value of cryptographic currency due to failure of the Goldman Sachs crypto trading platform
Goldman Sachs worked on a trading platform for cryptographic currency. But now it has been decided not to do so. The result is a dive for the value of the most important virtual coins. The decline in value is very variable: the bitcoin lost 12 percent, while ethereum lost almost 20 percent.
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Originally Dutch business search engine Elasticsearch wants to make an IPO.
Recently there was a rumour that Elasticsearch BV had decided in the utmost secrecy to go on the stock exchange. Today this rumour is confirmed by the originally Dutch company. The IPO follows six years after the start of the company in Amsterdam.
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Google wants to get rid of the URL completely
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the online addresses that are a bit like one of the most important ways of surfing the Internet, have an important problem. Because they have a complex structure, malicious people can easily exploit them. Google wants to do something about that.
Now it is easy for a... Read more
Man remains the weakest link in any security system
People remain the weak link in any security system. A new investigation has shown that the vast majority of security incidents can be traced back to the personnel. In the case of a self-reported data breach, the chance is seven times greater that the leak is due to human error than that a hacker was... Read more
Microsoft brings popular recording feature to Skype
Microsoft has something good to do with the users of Skype. Today, the company announces the arrival of a much-needed new feature: the ability to record audio and video calls. Interestingly, it is available on all platforms except Windows 10.
Since Microsoft released a new version of Skype, to which... Read more
Google makes AI to quickly detect online child abuse
Google today released a new AI tool to help track down and remove online imagery that abuses children. The Content Safety API is a tool that uses deep neural networks for image processing. As a result, fewer people's eyes are needed to do the work.
Currently, researchers are manually searching thous... Read more
Amazon is the world’s second largest company worth $1 trillion
For a short time, the question was which company would be worth $1 trillion more: Apple or Amazon. Last month, that race was settled in Apple's favour. Yesterday, Amazon also crossed the border. This was due to the fact that the value of the company's shares was more than USD 2,050.50. The company's... Read more
Programming language Julia is rapidly becoming more popular.
For the first time, Python is in the top three most popular programming languages. Only C and Java are even more popular. According to TIOBE, an institute that maintains an index of the most popular programming languages, Python is becoming increasingly widespread and is the standard choice at unive... Read more
Google Chrome’s tenth anniversary brings some design changes
Google celebrates the tenth anniversary of browser Chrome by launching a new version. This includes not only support for the notch of smartphones, but also other small updates. This includes new types of code that are supported and visual changes.
The new version of Chrome includes a number of visua... Read more
SAP responds to Teradata complaint: there is no factual basis for it
At the end of June, Teradata filed a lawsuit against SAP. It is claimed that business secrets have been stolen through cooperation. Now GSP is responding to those allegations by saying that they have no factual basis. In fact, as far as GSP is concerned, Teradata brought the case only because it was... Read more