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Ukrainian animator participates in creation of ‘The Suicide Squad’ staying in Kharkiv

Ukrainian character animator Klym Protasov, who has already worked on such projects as Game of Thrones, Thor: Ragnarok, Alita: Battle Angel, and Mowgli, also helped create the new part of the film The Suicide Squad, which premiered on August 5. In Protasov’s commentary to

“It was our last pre-IPO round” — Interview with Oleg Rogynskyy, founder of new Ukrainian unicorn — People.ai

People.ai has recentry achived unicorn status. On August 11, the company announced the $100 million D round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. During the pandemic, People.ai doubled in headcount and turnover, though back in April 2020, it was making

Twitter pays $3,500 to Ukrainian who found flaw in image cropping algorithm

Ukrainian Bogdan Kulynych, a graduate student at Switzerland’s EFPL university, demonstrated racial bias in the Twitter algorithm used to create preview images. For this, the company has paid him a reward of $3,500. As The Guardian reports, Kulynych found bugs

Nuka raises $400k for “eternal stationery” but does not release the product. What’s going on at the startup?

Today, there is a lot of talk about Nuka, a startup that has designed an “eternal stationery” project. On vc.ru, there is a story saying that Nuka’s notebooks, despite investments and fundraising through crowdfunding platforms, have not become publicly available

Windows 10 to block torrents and mining softwares starting from August

Microsoft has announced that from August 2021, potentially unwanted applications (PUA) will be blocked by default for Windows 10. But this option can be disabled, or you can make a list of the programs you want to exclude. Here’s how

90s aesthetics: if Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other popular websites existed in the age of floppy disks

What would today’s popular social media and platforms have looked like in the days of the Snake game, floppy disks, and Tamagotchis? That’s the question the web studio Zyro asked themselves and redesigned Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, WhatsApp, and

SoftServe purchases prison for ₴377M to turn into creative campus

On July 16, 2021, the SoftServe IT company announced the purchase of the inactive Lviv penal colony No. 48. It has been purchased for ₴377.5 million during an open online auction organized by the Ministry of Justice. In the interview for DOU.ua, SoftServe’s co-founder Oleh

The finalists already known! How the first selection stage of the All-Ukrainian award for HR professionals went

At the end of March, a new award for HR professionals – HR PRO AWARDS 2021 – appeared in Ukraine.  It is intended to recognize the team and personal achievements of HR representatives that will contribute to improving the level of professional practices in Ukraine. Very soon,

Ukraine to change border checkpoint crossing rules

As reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs on its Telegram channel, the rules for crossing the border and checkpoints associated with the lockdown will be changed on September 5, 2021. Both Ukrainian citizens and foreigners who cross the

Ukrainian authorities seize unencrypted Windscribe VPN servers

On June 24, 2021, Windscribe reported that two of its VPN servers in Ukraine, which were running OpenVPN, were seized by Ukrainian authorities. The reasons for the confiscation of the servers are not yet known. The main problem is that