Consumers will still be able to use Mastercard and Visa-branded cards for domestic transactions in Russia, the country’s state-backed payments network has said, reducing the impact of the US firms’ decision to pull services over the invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s homegrown payments system Mir said the cardholders would still be Read more…
It is the dominant American maker of smartphones, a household name to billions and for many makers of high-tech parts their most important customer ever. Just don’t ask who it is. In Asia, it’s surreptitiously referred to as “the fruit company” or sometimes “Fuji,” referring to the variety of the Read more…
If blockchain technology is to reach true mass adoption, it will have to become cheaper and more efficient. Low transaction throughput on some of the most popular blockchains, most notably Ethereum, has kept gas fees high and hindered scalability. A host of new projects has cropped up to improve efficiency Read more…
“Code generation AI — AI systems that can write in different programming languages given a prompt — promise to cut development costs while allowing coders to focus on creative, less repetitive tasks,” writes VentureBeat. “But while research labs like OpenAI and Alphabet-backed DeepMind have developed powerful code-generating AI, many of Read more…
“Every day, several petabytes of data are generated on the internet,” says Kasra Tabatabaei, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. “Only one gram of DNA would be sufficient to store that data.” So the Institute is now announcing the results of a project Tabatabaei worked Read more…
Serhiy Storchaka, a Ukrainian developer, is the second-most prolific recent contributor to Python and tenth-most prolific of all time, according to Lukasz Langa, the Python Software Foundation’s developer in residence, based in PoznaÅ, Poland… Storchaka faced an impossible choice as Russia invaded his country. Like many young male programmers in Read more…
Samsung on Monday confirmed that the company recently suffered a cyberattack, but said that it doesn’t anticipate any impact on its business or customers. Last week, South American hacking group Lapsus$ claimed it had stolen 190GB of confidential data, including source code, from the South Korean tech giant’s servers. The Read more…