Tesla Boosts Bitcoin Exchange Rate to Nearly $50k per Piece
Elon Musk's Tesla spent $1.5 billion to buy the world's most popular cryptocurrency - Bitcoin. As a result, the virtual coin's exchange rate shot up to a record high of $47 Thousand.
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Bart Swiatek
February 9, 2021
Starlink Seeks Designation as Eligible Telecom Carrier
The Internet service currently being tested by Elon Musk's company - the so-called Starlink system - is already used by 10 thousand people. The service may soon become available to a larger group of users.
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Bart Swiatek
February 8, 2021
Police Seize Over $60 Million in Bitcoin, Have no Password
This time, the password to a crypto wallet was forgotten - the fraudster who was convicted of cryptojacking does not want to reveal it. Investigators have failed to gain access despite multiple attempts, and the convicted man is not cooperating.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
February 8, 2021
Bitcoin Regains Popularity and Sets Historic Record
January turned out to be the month when more than 22.3 million unique addresses on the Bitcoin network were used to receive or send the most important cryptocurrency. It's a new record.
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Witold Ciemierz
February 5, 2021
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon Changes CEO
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, is going to step down as CEO of Amazon. However, the changing does not mean that he will say goodbye to the company. We also know who will replace the company's founder.
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Adam Lukaszewski
February 3, 2021
Spinach Detects Explosives and Sends Emails
Sometimes, scientists get ideas that ordinary people might find strange or even unbelievable. After all, who would immediately believe in the existence of email-sending spinach?
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Bartlomiej Sagan
February 3, 2021
Dogecoin Shoots for the Moon Thanks to Elon Musk and Reddit
The value of memetic cryptocurrency Dogecoin has grown by a thousand percent at its peak, all thanks to a campaign by Reddit users and tweets by Elon Musk pushed Dogecoin for top spot among cryptocurrencies according to their market capitalization.
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Adam Lukaszewski
February 2, 2021
Google Stadia Shuts Down In-house Studios to Pursue Other Goals
Google has closed its two studios in Montreal and Los Angeles. Stadia will continue to offer streaming of games from other publishers, but will no longer receive any original productions, other than those already in development.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 2, 2021
Musk's Starlink Banned in Russia?
Not only the oppositionist Alexei Navalny seems to be troubling the Russian government. The Russian State Duma sees another threat in satellite internet from Elon Musk. Starlink could be banned in Russia.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
February 1, 2021
YouTube's Clip Creation Feature Undergoes Testing
A feature enabling you to create clips from streams and published videos on YouTube is coming. It is currently being tested on a strictly limited number of channels.
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Milosz Szubert
January 29, 2021
WhatsApp Loses Millions of Users but Gains New Virus
Dark clouds are gathering over WhatsApp. First, plans for controversial privacy policy changes, now a virus spreading via messages. The creators of Signal and Telegram are rubbing their hands in glee.
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Konrad Sarzynski
January 26, 2021
End of Support for Adobe Flash Brought Chineses Trains to a Standstill
Various local railway have been the object of travelers' jokes for years, but few can say they are worse than the Chinese one. After all, how many railways would be paralyzed just because the Flash plugin was disabled?
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Bartlomiej Sagan
January 25, 2021
Bitcoin Will Reach the Million Dollar Mark?
Apart from the pandemic, the year 2020 has also brought another boom for cryptocurrencies. According to an expert, the most popular one among them, bitcoin, may reach a value of up to a million dollars a piece within a few years.
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Bartlomiej Sagan
January 19, 2021
DuckDuckGo Grows in Strength; Popularity Record Broken
DuckDuckGo, an Internet search engine that focuses on user privacy, recently broke a popularity record. At the peak moment, it broke the barrier of 100 million searches per day.
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Bartlomiej Sagan
January 18, 2021
Elon Musk's Starlink Internet Speeds Up to Over 200 Mbps
Satellite Internet Starlink entered another test phase. It was possible to achieve download speeds of 190 Mbps. Some users report results even over 200 Mbps and quite bearable pings.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
January 18, 2021
WhatsApp Claims it Doesn't Know Your Location; Terms and Conditions Say Otherwise
WhatsApp is trying to deal with the image crisis caused by the recent update of terms and conditions. The company has published an infographic to explain the situation to the users. Unfortunately, it looks like there was incorrect information on it.
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Bart Swiatek
January 14, 2021
TikTok Sets Accounts for Persons Under 16 as Private
Many underage TikTok users may be surprised - their accounts are now automatically no longer public, and the popular Duet and Stitch features have been heavily restricted. All in an effort to improve security.
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Konrad Sarzynski
January 14, 2021
TikTok has a Plastic Surgery Ad Problem
Since October last year, more than 120,000 videos devoted to plastic surgery, especially rhinoplasty, have appeared on TikTok. Some of them are ads of plastic surgeons who bypass the platform's restrictions. Content of this type is very popular among teens, which is a concern for experts.
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Bart Swiatek
January 11, 2021
WhatsApp Introduces Controversial Changes; Musk Responds: „Use Signal”
The new regulations of WhatsApp messenger will enable the app to send user data to Facebook. The decision caused a lot of controversy on the web, and Elon Musk encouraged dissatisfied users to use competitive Signal.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 8, 2021
End of Flash; Microsoft Automatically Removes Plug-in From Windows
The end of 2020 brought us the death of the popular Flash technology. The shutdown, announced back in 2017 has become a fact. What next with many archival projects?
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Paul Musiolik
January 2, 2021