Communication

The FCC has passed new requirements requiring broadcasters to report when foreign governments or their representatives lease their airtime to broadcast their own material.

Alexei Navalny obscenely cursed at the human rights defenders who visited him in the colony, and rudely refused to communicate, according to a letter from the human rights ombudsman to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of the Galaxy Upcycling at Home initiative, in which the brand's older smartphones can be adapted for use of things on the Internet.

Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in a telephone conversation discussed an attempted coup in Belarus. This was confirmed by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

Google representatives announced their intention to remove content that is contrary to Russian laws in the near future, said Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the State Duma commission.

An experiment involving the organization of a data center in near-earth orbit was agreed to be carried out by two Russian firms: RuVDS and Orbital Express.

Nvidia has unveiled its first processor for supercomputers. This information is reported on the company's website.

Modern smartphones can determine the age of the owner or the calorie content of food from a photo.

Experts have discovered a new vulnerability in the WhatsApp messenger, which allows you to block your account. Forbes writes about it.

In the United States, all the tweets previously published by the 45th American President Donald Trump can be made publicly available.

If Zoom decides to prohibit the sale of access to the service to Russian government agencies, its blocking in Russia is not excluded.

According to the Russian Minister of Education, Russian schools will focus more on domestic software, including the Spherum system.

Roskomnadzor has extended measures to slow down Twitter traffic until May 15. 

The personal data of more than half a billion Facebook users from 106 countries leaked to the network. This information is reported by the Business Insider agency.

Android smartphones send far more data to Google than iPhones to Apple's servers. This is the conclusion reached by researcher Douglas Leigh from Icelandic Trinity College.