Science and Technology

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.…

Today, the Knowledge Economy is the Third exporting sector of Argentina and only in 2022 closed external sales for 7,300 million dollarsWhile that number is expected to climb to 9 billion this year. what's moreemploys 500 thousand people directly and is emerging as the "future". Because, beyond the idea that everyone has of the activity, how much less does it sound like "what's coming". It has that imprint of a 'potential' sector, as it has not yet reached the place it will surely reach. Y Ariel SukharchukSecretary of Knowledge Economy, shares the vision when he places it as "a look…

President Alberto Fernandez affirmed this Friday that during his administration he will invest "all the money that is necessary to develop science and technology in Argentina", considering that this "The future of a society depends". "While I am President, I am going to put all the money that is needed so that science and technology continue to develop in Argentina, because there I am investing in the future, in more equality, in more development and in thought. That investment has no price"stressed the President. Leading the delivery of the Houssay Awards, Houssay Trajectory, Jorge Sábato, and the National Research Distinction…

The figure is very high and a compelling example of how a relatively recent cultural trend was consolidated in Argentina: a survey carried out by the specialized consultancy Carrier y Asociados found that 93% of Argentine internet users consume audiovisual content through streaming. According to this work, Netflix continues to be the most "popular", mentioned by 84% of users. But that investigation is not alone. Other "paper” of consumption that you have just shown points in the same direction and to deepen some data: after analyzing the daily customs of a thousand Argentines from all over the country, in a…