Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users in Q3 2018 increased by 1.4% compared with the same period in 2017 and amounted to 389 million units, Gartner research company reported. In many ways, the growth occurred thanks to Chinese brands. According to experts, in July-September 2018, global...

New study shows that crypto-currency mining could hasten global warming. The “Nature Climate Change” journal has published a new study which revealed that the mining and trading business of crypto-currencies including bitcoin could contribute to the global warming by two degrees Celsius by the year...

Europe has overtaken America and left Asia far behind by the number of applications for patents related to self-driving cars, the European Patent Office (EPO) calculated. The most active developers of technology for autonomous driving are Americans and Germans: these countries are submitting the...

Samsung announced the Infinity Flex Display technology, which will form the basis of devices that are bent in half. The company demonstrated the technology on the example of an unnamed smartphone: in the expanded state, the screen diagonal is 7.3 inches, and the interface automatically adjusts to...

Retail trade has always been quick to respond to changes in consumer behavior. Digital shifts are directly related to retailers: the ease of buying has turned into demand. Here, breakthrough innovators can be considered those who, with the help of technology, mitigate the inconvenience that a...

Since 2004, Facebook has been claiming that it wanted people on earth to be closer to each other. To achieve this goal, the company relied on applications for the web and smartphones. But software alone is not enough. On Monday, Facebook introduced a pair of video call devices - Portal and Portal...

After the European Commission fined Google and forbade it to preinstall its popular applications on smartphones and tablets, the company took unprecedented measures. Now, smartphone makers will be required to pay a license for using the Play Store, Google Maps, Chrome browser and other company...

Data leaks occur daily around the world, so it is quite difficult to track them. However, they can be so large that it is impossible not to pay attention, since such leaks affect a huge number of people. And the consequences can be truly catastrophic. 1. Yahoo! When: 2013-2014 Impact: 3 billion...

The purpose of the new Moon Race contest is development of technologies necessary for permanent human presence on the Moon. The competition will be held in 2019 in four categories. The European aerospace concern Airbus has announced a technical innovation project competition. Start-ups as well as...