The Singaporean Obike bicycle rental company has announced the launch of OCOins cryptocurrency. It can be earned by making bicycles. This is written by Straight Times. Cryptocurrency will be launched in early 2018 in cooperation with the Chinese Tron blockchain platform.

Photo: Rami Al-zayat / Unsplash.com Hackers threaten not only politicians, leaders of large companies or journalists. Their victim can be an ordinary employee in a bank whose computer will become an entry point for attackers trying to access the financial institution infrastructure. Or anyone who makes purchases in online stores and enters the data of their debit card on the site through an unencrypted connection.

Photo: Denis Balibouse / Reuters Medicine is constantly being improved, but not always changes are obvious. Small transformations give a noticeable effect after years, and innovative technologies do not justify hopes. We have collected the most important events in this area for 2017 - from an opioid epidemic in the United States to promising discoveries.

There is a man on the side of the road. Maybe there is a bus stop and a person is waiting for a bus. Maybe he has a date and he is waiting for a person who should meet him. Maybe he is not waiting for anyone and he just has nowhere to go. Maybe he lives nearby, briefly went out to breathe fresh air and will return home soon, brew tea, turn on the TV. Passing by this man, we don’t know anything about him, we only see that he is standing there-for some reason, for some reason.

The unsuccessful launch of the Soyuz launch vehicle in November 2017 occurred due to the fact that the experts of Roscosmos mixed up the cosmodrome. The apparatus launched from Vostochny flew with the Baikonur settings, TASS reports with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. According to Rogozin, all the settings for launch were displayed under the Baikonur cosmodrome. “They did not count the azimuth,” the Deputy Prime Minister explained.

From January 1, 2018, the law on telemedicine begins to operate in Russia. Prior to this, such services were positioned only as “informational” and were not specifically regulated. The law adopted in the summer can give impetus to the development of a huge market - in fact, therefore, in 2017, large players from other industries invested in the creation of medical services.

The FSB officers detained the head of the legal department of Rosneft, the former head of the Investigative Department of the Moscow SK in the CAO Alexei Kramarenko in the case of a thief in the Law of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Young). On this evening of December 26, with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies, Interfax , RIA Novosti , TASS , RBC reported.

The results of 16-hour negotiations in February 2015 are not satisfied with anyone today. Photo: Mykola lazarenko / Reuters The outgoing year has become a turning point for the Ukrainian crisis and the geopolitical situation associated with it.

UPD. The version of the attack is worked out, but the main one is not, the interlocutor of Republic in the regional department of the FSB said. Explosives and special services are currently working on the spot. So far, law enforcement agencies suggest that we are talking about home -made small power device, the source said. At the same time, according to him, the IEVU was probably equipped with amazing elements. An explosion occurred in the Perekrestok supermarket on Kalinin Square in St.

Hacker from Yekaterinburg Konstantin Kozlovsky said that the FSB was behind the development of the Wannacry and Lurk viruses. He told about this in a written interview with the Rain TV channel. “Wannacry is the virus that we wrote. <...> The “face” of this virus was made by people from my group. “Muzzle” - what is displayed on the computer at the time of blocking. <...> Wannacry was “running -in” at the Development aircraft.

On the morning of December 27, reports appeared about shooting in the building of the Menshevik factory in Moscow. Later it became known that Ilya Averyanov, the founder and former owner of the factory, discovered the shooting-due to the conflict with the new leadership. As a result of shooting, one person was killed. Averyanov founded the Menshevik in 1999 and for a long time was its owner. Ilya Averyanov, according to the base of the Spark, is still the general director of the enterprise.

The recruiting company Headhunter agreed to buy the Job.ru portal, the oldest personnel selection and job searches in the Russian market. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to the press service of Headhunter. The amount of the transaction is not reported, it is supposed to be closed before the end of January 2018. The Job.ru website already refers to the closure of the portal and it is proposed to go to the site hh.ru.

The US Congress library will change the rules by which it leads a long Twitter archive. From December 31, she will stop archiving absolutely all tweets and will do it only with certain. This is written in the document posted on the library website. It says that the Congress library has collected all tweets for 12 years - from the moment of Twitter. But now there is no point in archiving all records in the microblog: only those that carry “historical significance” will enter the archive.

The richest people of the planet in 2017 increased their capital for trillion dollars. According to Bloomberg, this is four times more than last year's earnings. The founder of Amazom Jeff Bezos - $ 34.2 billion added to his capital. This money helped the businessman to supplant Bill Gates from the first richest people in the richest people in the world of Microsoft. By the end of 2017, the Bezos state approached $ 100 billion.

On the morning of December 27, the Zenit-2SB launch vehicle was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, which was supposed to bring Angosat satellite into orbit. But the connection with the satellite was lost, and still cannot be restored. The launch began regularly. In normal mode, both the launch vehicle and the Frigate accelerate block worked, after which the Roscosmos officially stated that the satellite was successfully brought to target orbit.