The US Treasury Department has clarified the procedure for applying the sanctions imposed on Crimea. This was reported on the agency's website. It is about using software and Internet services. According to the text of the license, a number of network functions are removed from the sanctions. Sharing data with individuals ...
More than 2,16 million American households still pay for dial-up Internet service from AOL (formerly America Online). The corresponding figures are given in the company's financial statements. The cost of a subscription to a package of services, which includes file storage, antivirus and Internet access via modem, averages $ 20,83 per month. At the same time, the service of remote access via modem ...
A service has appeared on the Internet that allows you to monitor online the fall of the Russian space truck Progress M-27M. Using Google maps, www.n2yo.com displayed a ship icon showing the trajectory of an uncontrolled descent. As reported, after launch, the Soyuz launch vehicle failed to bring Progress M-27M to ...
American corporation Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc announced on Friday that they had disrupted a $ 45 billion merger deal. The reason was the statement of employees of the antimonopoly committee. According to them, the deal will give Comcast an unfair advantage in the Internet services market. The Justice Department said Comcast ...
In the Russian segment of Twitter, there are about 18 thousand accounts that support the state line in the same terms, writes Global Voices, citing research by analyst Lawrence Alexander. The researcher began by examining the connections of accounts that published the same text about the death of politician Boris Nemtsov. Alexander found ...
Many search engines like Google or Yahoo! make people think they are smarter than they really are. Psychologists from Yale University (USA) found that this happens because people are just superficially familiar with information. Searching the Internet gives ...
Petersburg journalists have already managed several times, on condition of anonymity, to talk with former "trolls" - this is the name of the employees of special offices, where for a salary you have to engage in propaganda on the Internet. But for the first time, Radio Liberty was able to talk to the ex-“bot” who did not hide his ...
Monica Liwinsky began her TED2015 talk this way: “At 22, I fell in love with my boss. At the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.” And she continued: “Who didn’t make a mistake at the age of 22?... Not a day goes by that I don’t remember about...
Now everyone, if they have a device capable of connecting to a wireless network, will be able to surf the Internet while on Glory Square for an hour or until 300 MB is used up. Authorization occurs using a mobile phone. The “Free WiFi-Mogilev” network is now...
A US resident transferred $ 1,4 million to an online boyfriend she had never seen in real life over a year and a half, Viral Spell reports. A man in Africa convinced a 46-year-old American woman to part with her money through declarations of love. He also promised soon ...