In recent years, the capital of the Netherlands has been trying to fight off the excessive flow of tourists, limiting the work of Airbnb and imposing a ban on visiting the "red light district". But, as it turned out, travelers are not the only ones who love Amsterdam and its suburbs. In recent years, technology companies have opened dozens of data centers in the region, and a new problem emerged....

Held at the end of May 2019, the International Defense Exhibition of the Czech Republic (IDET) will showcase tens of military manufacturers, eager to present their new creations in the current era of global military reorganization. Some have come with specific projects in mind, as artillery and infantry take, once again, the center of the tactical stage. Infantry and artillery systems take center...

The Volkswagen concern has stopped production of the Beetle model, one of the most popular cars in history. The last Beetle went off the assembly line on Wednesday at a plant in Mexico, where it has been collected since 1967. The last Beetle will go to the museum. Ferdinand Porsche introduced the forerunner of the popular Beetle to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1938. The model was developed...

The big data market is primarily lacking awareness of how important it is to analyze data, said Vice President and general manager of global product sales for data centers at Intel Sales and Marketing business group Rose Schooler. According to Intel, now only 2% of the generated data is analyzed. At the same time, every inhabitant of the Earth by 2020 will generate 1.7 MB of data per second due...

Researchers at Cambridge University report that Bitcoin mining consumes about as much electricity as Switzerland or Kuwait. Computers used for mining Bitcoin spend as much electricity as all residents of Switzerland or Kuwait together. This is reported on the website created by the University of Cambridge. According to the researchers, the energy consumption of Bitcoin miners on average is...

Oxford Economics research agency said that robots could “occupy” about 20 million current jobs in industrial production by 2030. This is 8.5% of the entire global labor market in this sector. Experts fear that a sharp increase in automation may hit the less developed countries the most, causing an increase in unemployment. Oxford Economics is a commercial research division of a business school at...

With a delay of three hours, SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket with 24 satellites and 152 ash capsules. Elon Musk called this launch the most difficult in the company’s history. SpaceX, private space company of billionaire Elon Musk, launched the Falcon Heavy rocket with 24 research satellites and 152 ash urns on Tuesday. The launch was broadcasted live on SpaceX YouTube channel. The...

Amazon has shown its new development. This is a drone, which will deliver small purchases. Amazon showed a flying unmanned vehicle capable of delivering small packages. The drone was presented at the re:MARS conference. The drone is equipped with artificial intelligence and a set of sensors that will allow it to move without creating a threat to air transport or passers-by, told the company to...

Apple introduced a new version of iOS 13 and a whole series of new products at the annual conference for WWDC developers. A new, dark mode will appear in iOS 13. The developers promise to improve performance - applications should open twice as fast, and the Face ID function can launch a locked screen 30% faster. In addition, application and system updates will take up half the memory space....