Science and Technology

For a few years, mini apartments have become fashionable - first as an eccentricity of distant Japan and then as an increasingly concrete reality around us. These spaces of between ten and fifteen square meters became nice and attractive, not only because of the very high rental prices in big cities that often become inaccessible to young professionals, but also because of their curious multifunction furniture: bed, armchair, wardrobe; or wardrobe, table, desk. Until a few years ago, the telephone and the computer were a family possession, and not a personal necessity. They were usually found in the living room…

The issuance of the Communication “A” 7759 by the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) causing worry and rejection in the Argentine Fintech Chamber. Said measure prevents payment service providers that offer payment accounts (PSPCP) carry out or facilitate operations with crypto assets to its clients. From the Argentine Fintech Chamberexpressed a "Deep concern about this measuresince it limits access to a technology that offers multiple benefits and opportunities for society". Fintechs will no longer be able to offer cryptocurrency payments Notably, Argentina is one of the leading countries in crypto adoption assets and international reference in the creation…

The platform that allows users to post and share videos is ranked as the second most popular website in the world, second only to Google. YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, three young men who met as employees of the American company PayPal. Hurley and Karim worked as engineers, while Chen worked as a designer. The three co-founders made different statements about the birth of the platform, two of them agreed that the original idea was a dating page where people could qualify based on their videos. Once the site was developed, its domain was…

The artificial intelligence (AI) These are computer systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Fundamentally, they are usually tools that allow building solutions to solve complex tasks: image recognition and treatment, diagnosis, event prediction, among other cases. In this regard, the AI, through the instructions that run through its algorithms, aims to emulate those cognitive processes that later lead to mental activities such as learning, creativity or the ability to plan. The paradigm that best represents these virtues is ChatGPT, a system developed by open AI, which is popularly consolidated for being able to answer all kinds…

The artificial intelligence (AI) has been showing expectations throughout the year. A leading Chinese scientist has exposed the important role he will play in dealing with the next health crisis. When China ended its “zero covid” initiative late last year, millions of new infections a day were recorded, quickly overwhelming hospitals and straining capacity, and stoking concerns about the accuracy with which the country reported about the situation. The sudden influx of patients meant that health workers did not have time to fill out the infectious disease report card for each patient, which found an undercount, said Wu Zunyou, an…

Google's parent company, Alphabet, topped market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion, the company said Tuesday, in a sign the search engine giant is regaining its footing. The tech titan came under pressure due to a general slowdown in ad spending, over-hiring during the Covid-era boom and a great challenge of Microsoft in the field of artificial intelligence. Microsoft is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI, the company that is building the technology that powers ChatGPT and has released its latest version, GPT-4. That technology, which OpenAI says can be driven by…

He National Bank just released one exclusive promotion in its online store for technology lovers. The promotion includes discounts and payment plans in installments for the purchase of cell phones, smart watches, LED TVs and brand notebooks Motorola, TCL, Noblex, Xiaomi and Samsung. The BNA Store has a wide variety of models of each of these brandswith different prices and characteristics to adapt to the needs and tastes of each user. It is important to note that to make the purchase, it is necessary to have a Visa or Mastercard from Banco Nación and register on the BNA Store platform.…

Day after day, cybercriminals search for new forms of scams to trick their victims into getting their hands on their money. personal, financial data and thus steal their money. In recent times, one of the most popular deceptions among scammers is that of impersonate representatives of companies or government entities. Among other fraud methods, these types of criminals often use fake profiles on social networks, generally pretending to be customer service assistantsPhone calls or fake websites that imitate the originals and appear among the first results of Google. The AFIP alerts for virtual scams via email "It's important that people…

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,…