Alexey Shmatko

Founder & CEO of @yottapay #fintech UK
UK Start Up Awards 2024 & Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2024 nominee

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NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

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The most important event for Humankind in the last 50 years…

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Excited to announce: Stefan Eberlein’s team has crafted an exceptional documentary! Details remain under wraps for now, but be sure to watch the premiere on @ARTEde , 25 November 2025. #Documentary #FilmPremiere #ARTE
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NASA are confident they have found possible traces of ancient life on Mars.

A new analysis of rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater has revealed microscopic nodules and inclusions enriched with iron phosphide and iron sulfide. These formations are associated with organic carbon and appear to have formed after sediment deposition under low-temperature conditions.

The key discovery is evidence of redox reactions that led to the formation of these minerals. On Earth, similar processes are often linked to the activity of microorganisms, for example in oxygen-free Antarctic lakes. While this does not prove the existence of ancient life on Mars, it does point to a potential biosignature. Final confirmation would require the collected samples to be studied in laboratories on Earth, but the mission to return them has so far faced budgetary and technical difficulties.

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@GOP It's just that the Twitter generation has started using ChatGPT))))

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They’ve banned golf in Swansea... Where’s Trump @realdonaldtrump looking then? Urgent need to send in the troops, innit! 🤣🤣🤣

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@YLatynina PEPов наши британские банки не любят)

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Sean Carroll’s "The Biggest Idea in the Universe" has arrived, and I couldn't be more excited! If you're passionate about physics—especially wave physics and quantum mechanics—this book is a must-read. Carroll explains some of the most profound ideas in science in an accessible way, using real equations without sacrificing clarity or excitement. Can't wait to dive into his take on wave functions and the laws that shape our Universe.

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Just got my hands on Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll. Looking forward to diving into his take on the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and how it might reshape our understanding of reality. Perfect food for thought for my downtime! #QuantumMechanics #ManyWorlds #SeanCarroll

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First Light Achieved from the Vera Rubin Telescope!

The Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile has commenced operations with its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera. Within 10 hours, it captured millions of distant objects. In the first few hours alone, 2,104 new asteroids were discovered, including seven near-Earth objects.

The observatory is situated in the Chilean Andes atop Cerro Pachón. The telescope employs three mirrors with diameters of 8.4, 3.3, and 5.7 metres, which project images onto a 3.2-gigapixel camera measuring 3 × 1.65 metres and weighing 2,800 kilograms. Each single exposure covers an area 40 times larger than the full Moon.

Scientists have published a mosaic of the Trifid Nebula and Lagoon Nebula — comprising 678 images taken over 7 hours, revealing details from 9,000 light-years away.

Over the next decade, the observatory will scan the southern sky every 3–4 days to discover 20 billion galaxies, 90,000 asteroids, and investigate dark matter. Scientists hope that within the first year, the existence of a ninth planet beyond Neptune will either be confirmed or refuted.

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1.5 TB of Space Images Released by the James Webb Telescope

The project team has made publicly available the most comprehensive survey of the Universe to date, captured using the James Webb infrared space telescope. The COSMOS catalogue features 800,000 galaxies, imaged in the near-infrared (NIRCam instrument) and mid-infrared (MIRI) ranges, and is available online. The descriptions include a complete photometric catalogue and other scientific data, all free to use.

This is the first COSMOS release based on Webb data. The survey covers 0.54 square degrees of the sky (roughly the area of three full Moons) in the near-infrared range, and 0.2 square degrees in the mid-infrared. The images can be viewed without registration via the provided link.

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I thought all the good memes would end when Biden wasn't re-elected, but nope!

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Back in 2016, two Indian entrepreneurs founded the startup https://t.co/0UM6IowtEr, promising a revolution in app development: their chatbot, Natasha, supposedly allowed anyone to create fully-fledged applications from simple text prompts, with virtually no coding required. The idea quickly caught the eye of investors—over $450 million was raised, with backing from the likes of Microsoft, SoftBank, and other major funds. https://t.co/0UM6IowtEr’s valuation soared to $1.5 billion, earning it “unicorn” status.

However, the reality was far from the company’s claims. Investigations and internal audits later revealed that there was no genuine artificial intelligence behind Natasha at all: user requests were processed manually by teams of planners and developers, mostly based in India. In essence, the staff were pretending to be AI, and many features were handled using traditional methods or by hand.

What’s more, the management of https://t.co/0UM6IowtEr systematically inflated their sales figures—internal reviews showed that actual revenue was three to four times lower than reported. After this information came to light, creditors froze the company’s accounts, and most employees were dismissed. In May 2025, https://t.co/0UM6IowtEr officially filed for bankruptcy and began winding down operations in all countries where it had a presence.

So, behind the bold claims of “breakthrough AI” was little more than manual work and financial misrepresentation, with Natasha turning out to be a glossy front for human labour rather than a true artificial intelligence.

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Huge news: OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI device startup for $6.5B. This is where cutting-edge AI meets iconic design. The impact on the future of tech will be massive—AI and design are about to change everything
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📷 BREAKING: British Scientists Find Promising Signs of Alien Life! 📷📷
Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have announced the most compelling evidence yet for possible life beyond Earth. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, they detected molecules in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b—compounds that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms, mainly marine microbes like phytoplankton.
K2-18b is located 124 light-years away, in the habitable zone of its star, where conditions could allow for liquid water. The team found traces of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in the planet's atmosphere—both considered potential biosignatures. While these findings are incredibly exciting, the researchers emphasize caution: more data is needed to confirm whether these chemicals really point to life, or if there could be another explanation.
The scientists plan to gather more evidence over the next two years. If confirmed, this could be a historic turning point in our search for life in the universe!
#Space #Exoplanets #LifeBeyondEarth #JWST #sciencenews
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@EmmanuelMacron "There is a victim: Ukraine"
Calling Ukraine a victim is the most terrible insult to the people of Ukraine!