Science and Technology

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne, a shareholder who left the company twelve days later. It was created with the primary goal of distributing the desktop personal computer known as the “Apple 1”. The machine was widely accepted and with the money from the profits the founders developed the "Apple II", a computer that launched the company to success. With the return of Steve Jobbs to the company in 1997, Apple focused its efforts on improving its products and testing new lines of business. Seeking to venture into the music industry,…

Leaving the cell phone on the table and going to bathe is a typical opportunity that thousands of Argentines have taken advantage of to "check" their partner's smartphone. How common is this situation? A lot, according to one recent survey Conducted by a company specialized in technology and security that discovered that almost half of Argentines who say they are in a loving relationship –43% of men and 44% of women– “suspect” that their partner has checked their phone in a surreptitious way. The work commissioned by the company Avast, specialized in the development of security software for devices, investigated…

The matrix of Facebook and Instagram, metaplatformsannounced this Tuesday that it will cut other 10,000 jobsin the midst of its owner's struggle, mark zuckerberg, to achieve greater corporate efficiency in the face of falling revenues. The cuts are made less than six months later after the social media giant announced 11,000 dismissals in November, a measure that reduced the total number of employees by a 13%. The company will incur construction costs that oscillate between US$3,000 and US$5,000 million, as announced on Tuesday by the company. In this sense, Zuckerberg warned that economic instability could last for "many years". Layoffs…

The bitcoin continued this Tuesday with its uptrend that began over the weekend, in the midst of a crisis of uncertainty in the United States after the crash on Silicon Valley Bank. the market of cryptocurrencies rises this Tuesday driven by the rescue of the federated reservel to the banking system of the United States and dispel the specter of a generalized financial crisis. However, more and more experts argue that BTC is proving the concept. flight to quality: which is basically the action of investors that move their capital away from risky investments towards a more secure one. The…

through the decree 136/2023 that was published this Tuesday the 14th in the Official bulletinthe Government stipulated the new import tariffs for PCs, notebooks and tablets, with the aim of "strengthening the industrial sector". The measure raises the rate from zero to 8% and 16%for certain property IT and Telecoms. It is a modification of the decree 910/2021incorporating decisions of the Mercosur Common Market Council. According to the provision, the aliquot rises 8% for tariff item 8471.30.12which includes units “of weight less than 3.5 kilograms with alphanumeric keyboard with at least 70 keys and with a screen with an upper…

The cryptocurrency market rose this Monday driven by the Federal Reserve's bailout of the United States banking system and dispel the specter of a generalized financial crisis. Bitcoin, the largest crypto by market capitalization, once again surpassed the $24,000 after he drilled the US$20,000 last Friday in the midst of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Over the weekend, the US government pledged to protect the bank's deposits and launched a new program that offers banks access liquidity to meet needs of the depositors. Joe Biden spoke about the bank crisis and assured that the system is "safe" This Sunday…

Not by intuiting, the specific data ceases to have a great impact: a company specialized in digital security developed an investigation to investigate in detail what the phenomenon of digital harassment is currently like, which thousands of users and –above all– users suffer daily through of internet According to conclusions of BTR Consulting, today one in four people claims to have suffered some form of harassment through different types of images. And 61% of women and girls who use social networks claim to have suffered”cyberbullying”. The study is calleddigital gender violence” and, to reach their conclusions, they conducted a survey…

After years of research and testing that day When Bell uttered the famous phrase "Mr. Watson-come here-I want to see you" into the liquid transmitter, Watson, listening on the receiving end in an adjoining room, picked up the obvious words. Although Bell was, and still is, accused of stealing the phone of Elisha Grey, a contemporary inventor, he demonstrated Grey's water transmitter design only after he was granted his own patent, and as a scientific experiment, to satiate his curiosity. Their discovery marked the beginning of a technology that today remains one of the most important communication resources in our…

The leak of 50,000 documents from a Spanish company dedicated to "erasing the past" of its clients on the internet reveals a plot of dark maneuvers that affects those accused of drug trafficking, espionage, corruption or fraud, including 400 Latin American citizens and companies . According to the description it makes of its activities, Eliminalia looks for negative information in articles, blogs or social networks to later manage its elimination. The company defends itself on concepts such as the right to be forgotten (used by people who ask to remove references to their crimes when they already pay for them)…