Стажёр-исследователь ЦКЕМИ Евгений Смагин прочитал в Библиотеке иностранной литературы лекцию о киберспорте в арабских странах. Она стала частью Фестиваля культур стран арабского мира. В своей лекции молодой исследователь рассказал:
💱 зачем страны Ближнего Востока — такие как ОАЭ и Саудовская Аравия — инвестируют в индустрию компьютерных игр; 🎮 какие проекты, ориентированные на киберспортсменов, они развивают; 🕌 что делает компьютерные игры инструментом мягкой силы арабских стран.
Стажёр-исследователь ЦКЕМИ Евгений Смагин прочитал в Библиотеке иностранной литературы лекцию о киберспорте в арабских странах. Она стала частью Фестиваля культур стран арабского мира. В своей лекции молодой исследователь рассказал:
💱 зачем страны Ближнего Востока — такие как ОАЭ и Саудовская Аравия — инвестируют в индустрию компьютерных игр; 🎮 какие проекты, ориентированные на киберспортсменов, они развивают; 🕌 что делает компьютерные игры инструментом мягкой силы арабских стран.
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. The gold standard of encryption, known as end-to-end encryption, where only the sender and person who receives the message are able to see it, is available on Telegram only when the Secret Chat function is enabled. Voice and video calls are also completely encrypted. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War."
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