Science and Technology

The fall in the value of cryptocurrencies in the last year is due to a confluence of factors, among them the fhigh liquidity of the main operators and the central banksthe increases in interest rates for savers' bonds and a hardened macroeconomic framework after the contraction of the economies suffered during the pandemic. The risk in crypto investment and the security of bank interest also contributed to the collapse of the virtual currency that that same year and after historical levels, began its recovery. Bitcoin posts its longest winning streak in nearly a decade To this we must add the…

Every year Black Friday generates an increase exponential in transactions online, converting consumers and businesses into a goal for scammers and the cybercriminals they are always lurking. Among the most frequent victims are small and medium-sized companies due to their high infrastructures limited distribution and protection capacity. The large amounts of online credit, debit card, and point-of-sale (POS) transactions that take place during the sale dayadded to the huge wave of data available, without the need to black Friday an attraction for cybercriminals. How to protect yourself from the main threats? A report prepared by Thales, the French world leader…

With the advancement of technology, the scams they become more and more complex. In recent weeks, concern has grown over the "double call"a new social engineering technique to extract data and money from users. This scam is related to the smishing and vishing. The first consists of the sending an SMS message posing as a legitimate entity such as an institution, a bank or a social network. The purpose is to obtain confidential information or make a financial charge. Normally, these SMS contain a link that redirects to a fake website or a premium rate phone number. Alert for the…

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is considering launching a test program for the digital yen in the spring of 2023. In fact, lan Asian monetary entity started a collaboration with three megabanks and some regional financial institutions to carry out a CBDC issuance pilot (digital currency of the central bank), as published by the local news agency Nikkei. As part of test project, which will last two years, the Bank of Japan will collaborate with major private financial institutions to detect and resolve any issues customers may experience with deposits and withdrawals to traditional bank accounts. According to the report,…

“Cancel the World Cup” was the plea that spread on social networks, but – although it could have been a request from Argentine fans after the result of the match with Saudi Arabia– is actually a message launched by the Foundation Argentine Cardiology and the Argentine Society of Cardiology. Both entities launched a preventive campaign to prevent a go up of cardiovascular events generated by stress, a phenomenon that usually registers a sharp increase during relevant matches and soccer finals. It is that it has been proven, in numerous studies carried out over the past two decades, that during key…

Virtual purchase and payment applications: Mercado Libre and Mercado Pago began to fail during the morning of this Monday, January 16, and user complaints multiplied. The faults extend into brazil and uruguayamong other points of the continent where the services work, and the accounts of miles of people are paralyzed and no operation can be carried out. According to fall detectorsite that collects service problems of the most popular online platforms, the applications increased the reports of failures from 9. Users say they can't log in to their profiles or get error banners when they try to make a transaction.…

For some thinkers, technology makes us freer and more powerful. But others think exactly the opposite. As the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra once said, who will free us from our liberators? Parachute byung chul han, human beings of the 21st century are subjected to a most efficient system of domination and semi-slavery: since in most cases we are convinced that we exercise our freedom in the fullest way. For Chul Han, very few humans really know what freedom is. Or as I would say – saving the distances – Calamaro, those who lost her know her, those who saw her…

The pandemic accelerated a new world of work that today is exploding within the largest economies. What just five years ago was wasting time on video games, today it has become a industrial monster that generates millions of dollars second by second. That's right, the gaming universe has become professionalized to the point of being, within the world of entertainment, a colossus that collects much more per year than the music and film industries combined. However, seeing many young people for hours playing in front of their screens, earning a salary in many cases greater than or equal to that…

the billionaire Elon Musk gave a conference this Wednesday where he presented the advances made by one of his technology startups and maintained that within six months they could implement a chip in human brain that would allow communication with a computer. The company through which it makes brain-computer interfaces is called Neuralink and was founded in 2016 by the tycoon. It aims to develop an implant that can allow humans directly control devices through mind. Elon Musk's brain implant company prepares human trials In addition, the chips would be used to try to restore vision and mobility in humans.…