On the night of February 8, players around the world faced a large-scale failure of the PlayStation Network (PSN). The first reports of problems began to appear around 02:00 Moscow time, and a few hours later the situation has not changed – the service remains unavailable. Sony confirmed the problems, publishing a message on social […]
Nvidia’s recently released GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card failed to take the top spot in PassMark’s GPU performance tests, falling behind the GeForce RTX 4090, which continues to hold the spot with a score of 27,275 operations per second. The RTX 5090, tested on just 13 instances, shows an average score that probably won’t change […]
Following massive progress on the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian tiger, Colossal launches Avian Genomics Group to continue groundbreaking de-extinction pursuits Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, has announced an oversubscribed $150M Series B financing led by United States Innovative Technology Fund (“USIT”), with participation from Breyer Capital, WestRiver Group, Bob Nelsen, Animal Capital, Victor […]
Dalan Animal Health founders Annette Kleiser and Dalial Freitak have figured out how to vaccinate honeybees against diseases that wipe out up to half the hives in the U.S. each year. Vaccines for shrimp and mosquitoes are on the horizon How do you vaccinate honeybees? And would such a thing even be of interest to […]
Nvidia has called China’s new DeepSeek R1 an “excellent” achievement in AI. The day before, on the back of DeepSeek’s success, shares of the U.S. chip vendor fell 17.8%, causing the company to lose about $620 billion in capitalization. As Bloomberg wrote, the Chinese company’s latest AI model rose to the top of Apple’s AppStore […]
India had not cut interest rates since March 2020, when the country faced a recession caused by the pandemic. For the first time in five years, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key interest rate to give a boost to an economy that is showing signs of slowing down. The Monetary Policy Committee […]
Significant year-on-year growth was seen in the Food and Soft Drinks categories. Inflation rose by 2.5% year-on-year in January, but slowed down compared to the previous month when it rose to 2.6%. According to Statistics Cyprus, the consumer price index (CPI) fell by 1.58 points to 116.73 points in January 2025 from 118.31 points in […]
Reducing the tax burden on Cypriot businesses in order to increase their competitiveness and exports, shifting to a green economy and digitalization, combating tax evasion and making Cyprus more attractive as a destination for quality investments are the main principles on which the government bases its policy for 2025 with the aim of creating a […]
The largest structure in the local Universe, said to be named Kipu after the Inca counting system, has been discovered. Science Alert writes in more detail. The mass of the superstructure is 200 quadrillion (one with 15 zeros) solar masses. Its length is about 1.3 billion light-years. Kipu was named due to its resemblance to […]
WikiTok is a project with an interface in the style of the social network TikTok, but instead of short videos, the feed contains random articles from Wikipedia. The service was developed in TypeScript and uploaded to Github by developer Isaac Jemal. WikiTok works in 14 languages, including English, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. Among the features […]
