Photo: rawpixel.com The technological race between large corporations is sometimes fraught with imminent mistakes and not the most pleasant consequences. In 2016, Samsung went through this - the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone was supposed to become a flagship for the next year and bring billions of dollars of profit for a South Korean company. In fact, the hardware error when collecting batteries led to the disaster - dozens of phablets around the world exploded in the hands of the owners.

Exchange around the world will fever. And this, oddly enough, it seems, is the problem of growth Photo: Moritz Hager / Reuters On Monday, the American markets survived one of the largest collapses in their history - the fall of Dow Jones absolutely became a record for one individual trading session, and in percentage - maximum over the past few years.

The Dow Jones business activity index during a trading session on Monday February 5 fell by absolute terms by 1175 points (during the auction it fell by 1600 points regarding the start of the session) - this fall became maximum in history, Reuters reported. As a percentage of the day, Dow Jones lost 4.6% - this was the largest fall in one day since the summer of 2011. Other indices also fell sharply, S&P 500 lost 4.1%, NASDAQ - 3.8%.

32 Russian athletes were disputed in the Federal Court of Switzerland and the Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) Non -allowed Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. This was reported by the official CAS website. Among these athletes are short-refresh Victor An, biathlonist Anton Shipulin, skier Sergey Ustyugov, skater Ksenia Stolbova. The defendant in the lawsuit was called the International Olympic Committee.

Vladimir Putin was officially registered by presidential candidate, Interfax reports. He goes to the polls as a self -nominee. The head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova also said that on February 8, Ksenia Sobchak (she will go to the elections from the “Civil Platform”) and Maxim Suraykin (“Communists of Russia”) will be officially registered.

In 2016, the ZUME pizzeria opened in the city of Mountain-Vew in Silicon Valley. Pepe, Georgio, Marta, Bruno and Vincenzo work in it - they are all robots. They help the cooks roll out the dough, distribute the sauce along it and monitor the baking process. The robot compresses the dough into the perfect circle in just nine seconds, in an hour in ZUME you can cook 372 pizzas (although on average 250 pieces are delivered per day).

Banks and payment systems test a service that allows you to withdraw cash from the card at the store cash desk. This is written by "Vedomosti". Several pilot projects are already testing, in particular, Sberbank. According to one of the sources of the publication, the corresponding service may be launched already in the II quarter. The service will be available only for Sberbank card holders and only in those stores whose terminals it serve (about half of the points in the country).

In January, we met with Anna Tsfasman , a co -founder of the Dublby Coofen network. It was one of the most amazing conversations in the REPULIC Talk series. Anna easily talked about the crisis in which the company ended up after the first year, about the problems with the buyers of the franchises, about the alarm of the growing business, which did not allow sleeping at night. I chose the most interesting fragments from a half hour conversation, accompanying them with small comments.

Researchers from the University of Oklahoma found evidence of the existence of planets outside the Milky Way. The corresponding article is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. According to Atlas Obscura, this happened for the first time in the history of science. The galaxy in which the planets are found is located at a distance of 3.8 billion light years from the Earth. The planets were found due to gravitational microlysis.

Photo: Dado Ruvic / Reuters According to February 6, the Bitcoin exchange rate decreased to $ 6,000 - about three times compared to the peak in December last year. Skeptics consider this to be evident that cryptocurrency is a bubble that began to burst. For example, economist Nuriel Rubini, who predicted the financial crisis of 2008, said that the price of bitcoin could “fall to zero”. Others object that he and other currencies have a fair price that can be set using various tools.