President Donald Trump's administration has proposed that green card applicants already legally residing in the US must share their social media accounts. This proposal was denounced in the initial public response as an attack on freedom of expression. Visa applicants from abroad are already required to provide information about their social ...
Czech fintech startup Flowpay has scored a significant success. The London-based investment company Fasanara Capital will provide it with an injection of EUR 30 million (approximately CZK 755 million). The startup specialises in lending to smaller companies that often would not have a chance of getting funding from traditional banks. A new ap...
Online accommodation booking platforms are very popular, but their security measures are often seriously flawed. According to a recent analysis, one of the largest platforms in the travel industry has faced repeated problems with fraudulent offers and inadequate customer protection. One of the main problems is the communication system between...
At this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, visitors were impressed by one of the most daring technological achievements - the first biological computer CL1 from Australian company Cortical Labs. At first glance, it looked more like a laboratory device, but at its core are living human neurons created from stem cells. And this is no fu...
From a gifted boy from Stockholm to a musical legend Tim Bergling, known to the world as Avicii, has been interested in music since childhood. He was born and raised in Stockholm, where his parents fully supported his passion for melody and rhythm. At first he tried playing guitar, but the real breakthrough came when he discovered the music s...
Dementia is one of the most serious neurodegenerative diseases, affecting millions of people worldwide. Although it is most commonly encountered in the elderly, it is also increasingly found in people under the age of 65, which experts refer to as early onset dementia. This disease causes a gradual decline in cognitive function, including mem...
After many years of waiting, the legendary green ogre Shrek returns to the cinema screen. The fifth installment of the popular animated series from DreamWorks Animation is in the works and its first official teaser has already created a huge buzz. However, it's not about the story or the new characters, but about the major visual transformati...
The amount of sea ice on Earth has reached record lows, as confirmed by the latest satellite measurements since 1978. This decline is the result of a long-term loss of ice in the Arctic, compounded by an unexpected and not yet fully understood loss in Antarctica. Why is sea ice crucial? Sea ice is an important indicator of climate change a...
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski warned that if billionaire Elon Musk decided to shut down Starlink's service to Ukraine, Poland would be forced to look for another provider. Warsaw currently finances the operation of the satellite network on Ukrainian territory, at an annual cost of around $50 million (more than CZK 1.15 billion). Siko...
