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It’s easy to look around and conclude that everything is horrible, that the world is getting less safe and more chaotic. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, has…
Every so often, George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” finds me and demands a reckoning. The essay, first published in 1936, describes an incident that may or may not have actually taken place, from a period of Orwell’s life, in…
The ISS, with its first section, launched back in 1998, was jointly developed by the US and Russia and allows international crews to conduct scientific research in a low Earth orbit environment. The US administration plans to end federal funding for the…
Large cryptocurrency mining companies have set up a base in Iceland, which by a twist of fate bursts with geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. Given the massive amounts of energy used to obtain virtual currencies, the new industry has found an ideal…
According to new research published by the Chinese security firm 360 Netlab, 241 out of the top 100,000 websites by Alexa traffic rank contain code that creates a type of malware which makes the site visitor’s computer mine cryptocurrencies. 360…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The international regulation of transactions with cryptocurrency is inevitable, and the International Monetary Fund is actively trying to prevent digital tokens from being used to launder money or fund criminal activities, the IMF chief Christine Lagarde told…
