Last week Sberbank, the Russian financial and tech behemoth, announced it created a disinfection robot “in the shortest time.” It is intended for use in any public place – from hospitals, to schools, to offices, to public transport. This robot – which is an adapted version of a delivery robot – can disinfect a room of 20 sq. …
Around 2,500 people arriving in Moscow from China have been ordered to be placed under quarantine for the coronavirus and are being monitored by the Russian capital’s facial-recognition technology, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday. All arriving passengers from China are required to undergo a physical examination and coronavirus test at the airport, Sobyanin wrote on his website. …
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Dmitry Golovin, who leads the Moscow IT Department’s video surveillance division, has revealed during a forum called Security Technologies that 105,000 of the city’s security cameras are connected to a facial recognition system. Over the course of Russia’s New Year holidays, Golovin added, that system helped state officials arrest 34 individuals who had been wanted …
The Russian chatbot market is set to increase three-fold in 2020, reaching or exceeding 4 billion rubles (around $65 million at the current exchange rate), says a report by industry association Neuronet. This market already grew three-fold this year to around 1.5 billion rubles ($24 million). While banks, financial and insurance companies were initially the main …
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Since we started our search engine in 1997, we’ve sought to connect people with the information most relevant to them. Over the years, we’ve updated Yandex Search with smart features and more informative results, making it as easy as possible for our users to navigate the mass of information that is the internet. Today, we’re …
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Sberbank, the Russian financial and technological behemoth, is preparing “Russia’s fastest supercomputer” for commercial launch. This computational capacity was unveiled at an industry conference last month by Sberbank CEO German Gref in presence of President Putin . The supercomputer will be made available to customers of SberCloud, Sberbank’s cloud solution, starting from December 12 as scheduled by the …
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Born in Ufa city (Bashkortostan, Russia), Oleg Ganeev has built his career in the banking industry (Uralsib, Rus-Bank, Sberbank). In November 2014, at 42, he was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank. He is in charge, in particular, of the sales network, distressed assets department, Islamic banking and related partnerships. In this exchange with East-West Digital News, Mr. Ganeev presents a …
Five top Russian corporations – state-controlled financial giant Sberbank, Internet groups Yandex and Mail.Ru, mobile operator MTS and oil major Gazprom Neft, – together with the sovereign fund RDIF, intend to pool their resources to foster Russian AI technologies. The agreement was inked earlier this month, a few weeks after a “National Strategy for the …
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Yesterday Sberbank, the state-controlled financial giant, and LSE-listed Mail.Ru Group signed binding agreements concerning their JV partnership in the fields of food delivery and taxi hailing. As previously announced: The deal puts Mail.Ru’s Delivery Club and CitiMobil businesses, plus Sberbank’s own FoodPlex arm into a single joint venture. The two partners will invest “up to …
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A “National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence for the period until 2030” was approved earlier this month by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reported by TASS. The presidential executive order defines AI as “technological solutions that can simulate a person’s cognitive functions and get results comparable at least to the results of human …
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Officials in Moscow have spent the last few years methodically assembling one of the most comprehensive video-surveillance operations in the world. The public-private network of as many as 200,000 cameras records 1.5 billion hours of footage a year that can be accessed by 16,000 government employees, intelligence officers and law-enforcement personnel. Now the entire system …
Moscow activist Alyona Popova has submitted a lawsuit asking for the city’s implementation of facial recognition technology to be declared illegal. Sarkis Darbinyan, an attorney for the free speech group Roskomsvoboda who is representing Popova in court, notified Vedomosti, a major Russian daily, of the lawsuit. Popova is arguing that processing biometric data without receiving written permission from the …
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