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• Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs

  …Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a currency and a form of payment. To explain it better, let’s look at other currencies; say, the US dollar. The dollar has a centralized system that maintains its life cycle: banks, the government, the Federal Reserve. If you want to open a dollar bank account, you’ll need to go to a bank with your personal ID. If you’d like to transfer your fu…

  10.04.2019

• Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies

  …llection. The project implies the deployment of intelligent refuse bins  that are fixed with special sensors throughout the city. These sensors collect data on how full the containers are, which is then sent to processing centers and used for optimizing the routes of garbage trucks. A mobile app will help monitor the state of refuse bins, as well as block and unblock…

  10.04.2019

• Travel Tips: Pskov

  … men’s monastery, it was founded in the 15th century by hermits who settled in the area’s deep caves. You have to be with a tour to visit some of the “farther” caves, which contain ancient remains, but some of the “closer” caves are accessible to the public. The monastery can be very crowded with pilgrims, but even if you couldn’t be further away from their belie…

  09.04.2019

• Water-Spraying Parasols and Smart Traveling Apparel: Projects by Teens in Tech

  …imultaneously solve several problems: the time limit that often comes with free access to music, as well as excessive advertising and high prices reigning supreme on most entertainment platforms out there. The participants have far-reaching plans that include establishing partnerships with famous artists, which will grant the platform's users early access to new s…

  09.04.2019

• University of Mexico’s Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems

  …s of carbon, as an example. Depending on their position relative to each other, they present different properties and form different objects. A diamond and a piece of chalk contain the same atoms, just differently structured. These microscopic properties are the product of a process called immersion. The characteristics of immersion seem enigmatic to many, and tha…

  08.04.2019

• Programming Music with Sonic Pi: A How-To

  … an art. Or, in other words, a type of activity that doesn’t imply one specific route to a successful result. There are no ready algorithms that would allow you to create a certain musical hit, in the same way that there are no ready algorithms that would allow you to create a bestselling game. Everything is much of a blur. Even the main literary reference for buddin…

  08.04.2019

• Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking

  …roduction stage. In EU countries, life cycle assessment is widely used for environmental labelling and product certification. In the Russian Federation, we pay attention to certain properties only, and even they are seldom considered when it comes to e-commerce. Alessandra, you gave several lectures at ITMO University. What was it that you talked about? My lect…

  05.04.2019

• Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive

  …ople will no longer use PCs. There’s a good trick to help check for this kind of thing: put it in context. The sentence “In the future, people will no longer use PCs, claim certain experts and market analysts” is not as absolute and much closer to truth. Psychological abuse of others, especially team members. What makes aggression so terrible is that it’s add…

  05.04.2019

• CodeX Founder Petr Savchenko on the Team’s Next-Gen Software Editor.js: Block Editors Are the Future

  … bit, and you risk breaking everything. In our case, each block is an editable element of its own, and editing one block doesn’t have any effect on the others. This imposes certain limits, but still improves stability. Moreover, it lets us provide clean data on the output. Despite the blocks being separate editable elements, we’ve made it so that users can adhere …

  04.04.2019

• ITMO University Makes a Debut in THE University Impact Rankings 2019

  …ever, after a while, this turned into a more full-scale survey. “While some national systems were trying to gather evidence on universities’ role in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the new ranking will be the first global attempt at measuring this activity and moves well beyond established ranking parameters of research and reputation,” said Ph…

  03.04.2019