Virtual Private Network (VPN) downloads grew 184% last year, a figure that reflects the growing popularity and consolidation of a tool virtually unknown until five years ago.
VPNs appeared about 25 years ago to protect transfers within corporate environments. Although they began to become popular…
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The Internet of Things (IoT) will generate millionaire profits
The potential economic value that the Internet of Things (IoT) could generate by 2030 is between $5.5 and $12.6 trillion worldwide, including the value captured by consumers and customers of the Internet's products and services. IoT,…
Facebook denies that there is addiction to its network
The social network Facebook contested the investigation carried out by The Wall Street Journal, which claimed that there were at least 360 million users addicted to the platform.
The network, owned by Meta, published a statement where it…
Spanish Government approves general budget for 2022
The Spanish Government approved the draft bill of General State Budgets (PGE) for 2022, which amounts to 458,970 million euros, of which 27,633 come from European funds. This was reported by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.…
WHO opens hub on pandemic and epidemics in Berlin
The World Health Organization (WHO) inaugurated an Intelligence Center on Pandemics and Epidemics in Berlin, whose mission will be to provide nations with the best data and research that will allow timely decision-making for the detection…
Google would have offered special discounts to Netflix
Google is being investigated for accusations of having offered the Netflix streaming platform a special discount on commissions of 30 % for internal payments from the Google Play Store, to prevent it from opting for an external payment…
57% of the world’s population connects to social media
About 61 % of the world's population is Internet user, and slightly less than 57 % uses social networks, a type of service that has seen its user base grow by 500 million in the last twelve months.
The number of users of social networks…
WHO requests cooperation from China for Covid-19 investigation
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, believes that China should cooperate more in the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the first cases of which were detected in December…
Bank of America creates research team for cryptocurrencies
The Bank of America recently created a team dedicated exclusively to conducting research within the field of cryptocurrencies.
Alkesh Shah, the US bank's innovation data strategy staff, will lead this team along with Mamta Jain andAndrew…
Tesla could accept bitcoin again
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, would again be willing to include bitcoin as a payment method for those who want to buy their electric cars.
All this will occur, of course, according to Musk's thoughts, when there is a use of clean energy by the…