10 best technology world stories 2017

2017 has officially passed, this is a year with many changes of the technology village. Besides the achievements and new inventions, there are also many scandals that shocked the whole world.

Join us in reviewing the most prominent stories and events of the year in 2017, these stories are selected based on global influences, noisy in the media, landmark making change the face of the technology world later.

1. WannaCry malicious code infects the globe

1. All about WannaCry, Ransomware has been confusing for the past few days

In May of last year, it is likely that users around the world must be staggering with the threat of malicious code called WannaCry. This malicious code spreads quickly, stealing all important data of systems from hospitals, banks to public agencies in over 150 countries and requires users to pay a virtual money in within 3 days to retrieve those files and data. Not only that, this malicious code also made the computer system in police stations and gas stations completely paralyzed. By the end of 2017, the US and the West had officially voiced that the WannaCry malicious code was distributed by North Korea, but this information did not provide concrete evidence.

2. The technology monuments sell themselves

In 2017, he grew up Internet for a time in Yahoo's 8x generation youth who officially sold their shares to Verizon for $ 4.5 billion. After the deal with Verizon is completed, Yahoo will change its name to Altaba - a company with a majority of its shares in Alibaba Group and a 35.5% stake in Yahoo Japan. Earlier, at the end of 2016, early 2017 BlackBerry also completed its sale to TCL, a Chinese electronics group.

3. The king of Nokia officially returned, taking advantage of the former

1. List of the most desirable phone models

After years of being absent from the technology market, the king Nokia once again officially returned to the smartphone market in 2017 to declare war on other mobile carriers. The re-export of Nokia brand after it belongs to HMD Global consumes a lot of press ink. With its comeback, Nokia has brought to the smartphone market three models of mobile phones including Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 and Nokia 3310 popular phones in 2017 with the hope to find the position again. dominate her like before.

4. War between big men

Until now, strong people in the technology world have never stopped confronting each other, and handshakes are only temporary. In 2017, the world of technology has seen a legal dispute between Qualcomm and Apple, when the apple blunder of the US telecommunications equipment group is too greedy to enjoy the percentage of every iPhone sold. Meanwhile, Amazon emerged as a phenomenon when it gradually swallowed up the retail market, digital content. Bezos's empire is also tense with Google and the two sides are having ugly responses.

5. Facebook, YouTube degraded

In 2017, Facebook has been involved in a number of fake news scandals, especially ahead of elections in the US and UK. Opinion raised many opinions that Facebook has continued to spread fake news in favor of candidates even though Mark Zuckerberg said he did not think fake news could affect election results because they only "occupies a very small amount of content" on social networks. Besides, in 2017, YouTube also faced a big scandal when many global brands simultaneously stopped advertising on this platform because they appeared next to videos that attracted pedophiles, tolerance, controversy. .

6. Bitcoin and the dream changed life

1. What is Bitcoin? Why is Bitcoin not "virtual money"?

2017 is also the year of Bitcoin fever when this currency increased from $ 1,000 in January and reached $ 19,000 in December. The US, Japan and South Korea are the three most vibrant digital money markets, but China is new. is the country that owns the largest "bitcoin mines". In addition to Bitcoin, a range of other electronic currencies such as Etherium, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dashcoin, Ripple . also rank and attract the attention of both investors and hackers.

The electronic money market can be said to be developing rapidly and some big banks have shifted their structure to keep pace with the trend of future trading. Although the prediction of "bubble breaking" by many economists, the electronic money fever has not shown signs of stopping. Nobody can guess what will come to Bitcoin and digital currencies in general. Blockchain technology will be applied a lot in the near future and pre-algorithm is just the first step.

7. AI, AI and AI

1. Stephen Hawking revealed the AI ​​artificial intelligence solution that dominates people

Last year Google, Facebook and Apple competed with the development of AI artificial intelligence. At the national level, the US and China are the two great powers of artificial intelligence. AlphaGo by Google defeated Ke Jie, the world No. 1 go player and began to apply in many fields of research, statistics, and medicine. In Saudi Arabia, people grant citizenship to a robot with thoughts and speeches like real people. Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg criticized each other for disagreeing about the future of AI. Many startups start applying basic concepts of deep learning and machine learning to solve problems or replace human roles.

8. iPhone X: New smartphone standard

1. How to order iPhone X

Apple released the iPhone X and at the same time pushed the limit of a further smartphone: the front-facing battle screen, no home keys, face recognition, new controls . and prices above $ 1,000 . As every year, iFan is still rushing to buy new iPhones and technology sites to constantly update news and photos about this mobile model.

9. Dawn of self-driving cars

1. Elon Musk: Tesla's self-driving car will amaze the world

Along with AI, 2017 is five self-driving cars that come true. This technology really has a profound impact on how goods and people move around in the future. Imagine 100% of self-driving cars on the street, they have sensors and AI to "compromise" with each other, optimize speed and limit accidents. Or if hacked by the hacker, all will crash into each other and . burn.

1. Take a ride on Tesla's self-driving car and watch the self-driving Tesla car video on the real road

10. The fairness of the Internet is dead

Net Neutrality collapsed in the US, meaning that operators and ISPs have priority to access content services created by themselves, strangling the download speed of small, rival services. Consequently, users have to pay additional fees if they want to use the Internet freely as before, and small and medium content content enterprises are running out of land if they do not sell themselves or cooperate with big men.

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