Accusés d’avoir transmis des informations aux services de renseignement américains, deux responsables du FSB ont été placés en détention. Etrange réunion que celle qui s’est déroulée au début du mois de décembre 2016 dans les locaux du FSB, les services russes de sécurité, héritiers du KGB. Sans crier gare, Sergueï Mikhaïlov, nu

Google’s move to give away its latest machine-learning software, key to its speech- and photo-recognition programs, isn’t as crazy as it may appear. The unit of Alphabet Inc. said Monday it is releasing its TensorFlow system for free under an open-source license. That’s one of the company’s crown jewels, a machine-learning program that teac

“I am Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin.” Since that pseudonymous figure first released bitcoin’s code on January 9th, 2009, Nakamoto’s ingenious digital currency has grown from a nerd novelty to a kind of economic miracle. As it’s been adopted for everything from international money transfers to online narcotrafficking, the total

Sur le ouèbe, des erreurs apparaissent parfois sous forme de codes. La plus connue est l'Error 404 : Not Found, qui informe que la page recherchée est inexistante. Il en existe des dizaines d'autres, telles que la 400 : Bad Request ou encore la 500 : Internal Server Error. Pour signaler que l'accès à une page internet est interdit, les welbmest

Last week, coal miners in the town of Luchegorsk began a hunger strike. Taken by itself, the news isn’t all that notable: the town is both tiny and in the middle of nowhere (sorry, Luchegorsk…). But the strike is important in that it fits into a larger trend, and one potentially of concern to local authorities: Russia has seen a spike in labor-

MOSCOW — Those who tried to use Google Translate to switch Ukrainian into Russian this week may have found an unexpected message in their documents: The “Russian Federation” turned into “Mordor,” and Russia’s top diplomat was translated as a “sad little horse.” It was unclear whether the cheeky messages were the result of a hack or

In an effort to expand its original video content, including movies and TV series, Amazon announced this morning the launch of a free, cloud-based screenwriting software program called Amazon Storywriter. In addition, the company says it’s expanding to include drama submissions, and will no longer take a free option on scripts submitted to the Am

My interview with Justin McLeod was winding down when I tossed out one last question: “Have you ever been in love?” The baby-faced chief executive had designed Hinge, which was a new dating app. My question was an obvious throwaway. Justin looked stricken. No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. “Yes,” he finally answered.

Facebook Messenger is getting its own virtual digital assistant code-named "Moneypenny," according to a report from news site The Information (paid registration required). But where Apple's Siri, Google Now, and Microsoft Cortana focus on productivity, Moneypenny is actually a way to ask real people for help researching and buying products and serv