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Something weird is happening to North Korean YouTubers

Experts from South Korea drew attention to the increase in the number and quality of YouTube videos from North Korea. But at the same time, they noted a lot of contradictions in them, because of which the videos look like clumsily directed propaganda. Its goal is to show life in the DPRK as attractive as […]

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Top-down high-rise building nearing completion in Detroit

Any construction work begins with the foundation, then the walls are gradually erected. But in the case of the Exchange Tower in Detroit, the architects had to deviate from tradition. It’s all about the site, the location and size of which did not allow for the normal operation of construction equipment. Now the building with […]

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Future technologies: 21 ideas on how to change our world

The future will come sooner than you think. These new technologies will change the way we live, how we take care of our bodies, and help prevent climate catastrophe. At any given time as you read this article, scientists and engineers are creating the technologies of the future and changing the world around us, big […]

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Yandex apologized for the “N-word” in its code and explained the scandalous leak by the carelessness of employees

The Yandex company has published the first results of an internal corporate investigation into the leakage of fragments of the program code of some services. Representatives of the IT giant assure that there is no threat to the safety of users and the performance of services, but admitted that the code contained data from taxi drivers […]

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Code in a bag: what we learned from the Yandex data leak and what it will lead to

On Thursday, January 26, it became known that source codes and accompanying data for many Yandex services and programs appeared on the Internet. The total data size is about 45 GB in compressed form, we are talking about the source codes of many of the company’s products – from Mail and Taxi to Disk and Alice. How […]