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Russia to develop augmented reality technology for the military

February 14, 2016

Last month the Advanced Research Fund (FPI in Russian), a state-run organization which some compare to the DARPA in the USA, announced plans to develop a national augmented reality technology. Several domestic tech companies responded to a call from the FPI and offered their action plans to implement this project. The project will be carried out in stages, each new …

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Skolkovo teams up with Panasonic and KAMAZ in search for battery breakthrough

February 16, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow,  is teaming up with two of its biggest industrial partners in Panasonic and truck-maker KAMAZ in a search for the next big breakthrough in battery technology. The three powerhouses of innovation this week launched a competition among Skolkovo residents – also open to …

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Skolkovo offers 30 million ruble grant to develop “the maps of the future”

July 17, 2015

The grant committee of Skolkovo, the international high tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, has signed off on a 30-million ruble grant (approximately $500,000) for space and telecommunications cluster resident startup HelgiLab. An equal amount is being put up by the company’s founders. Founded in 2012, HelgiLab provides three-dimensional visualization of surrounding spaces …

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Intel launches IoT Lab in Russia

February 17, 2016

Intel is announcing the opening of an “IoT Ignition Labs” in Moscow. With a focus on Smart building, Smart City, and Retail, the Moscow lab “offers tools, technology and engineering know-how to those in the industry keen to take IoT projects into commercial deployment.” The US corporation is simultaneously announcing IoT labs in Ireland and …

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Skolkovo and IBM team up to “extend the healthy productive lives of patients with cancer and other age-related diseases”

June 29, 2015

Last week IBM signed a memorandum of understanding with Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, the First Oncology Research and Advisory Center (FORAC), a resident of Skolkovo’s biomedical cluster. The three partner will develop a personalized medical platform in Russia in a joint strategic, technology and commercial collaboration effort. …

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Market experts and tech innovators shared their visions of the future at international e-commerce conference

June 19, 2015

In its second edition on June 4 and 5, the eDays e-commerce attracted nearly 250 top executives and high-level professionals, some of them joining the event from as far as France, Estonia, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Ukraine. In addition to a thorough coverage of the current trends in Russian e-commerce, the event offered an …

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Panasonic opens R&D center in Skolkovo

February 18, 2016

Earlier this month Panasonic opened its R&D center in Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, following an agreement signed in December 2014. Panasonic thus became the first Japanese company to sign up as a Skolkovo partner. The agreement commits Panasonic to deploying at least 30 workers from its Russian representative office …

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Government-backed accelerator GenerationS aims to stimulate startups within Russian corporations

February 18, 2016

State-owned fund of funds RVC has launched GenerationS 2015, the second edition of its annual initiative to stimulate innovation in large Russian companies. Corporations associated with this “corporate accelerator” include mobile operator MTS, hydroelectricity firm RusHydro, construction group Morton, national savings bank Sberbank, Johnson & Johnson, and more. “Enterprise customers formulate the requirements for the selected …

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Russia’s Yota working on dual-screen tablet

February 18, 2016

Russian electronics firm Yota Devices has created a new tablet device, Sergei Chemezov, the head of state technology holding Rostec, told newspaper Vedomosti in an interview published Monday. “We are working on a tablet. I’ve already seen it,” Chemezov said, adding that one of the Yota Tablet’s novel features is the ability to charge a YotaPhone smartphone. Rostec, a massive state conglomerate heavily invested in the …

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New technology for bank card protection: breakthrough or scheme of the century?

May 27, 2015

“A Russian scientist made a breakthrough”: this is how many global media outlets have described the new quantum key protection technology for bank cards developed by Viktor Petrik. The scientist seemingly proposed a brilliant solution for the problem of data leakage. According to Petrik, the magnetic strip and the electronic chips are the weakest link in the …

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New Yandex browser offers rich search suggestions while “protecting user privacy”

May 22, 2015

Yandex unveiled yesterday new features of its Yandex.Browser, now in beta testing, including a “high privacy level” for its users. Unlike other browsers, says the Russian company, the private version of Yandex.Browser does not send users’ information to the developer by default: “We do not get any stats or browsing data.” “Sharing users’ information helps developers …

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Russian-made GPS dog tracker spots your pet’s location and monitors obesity

May 19, 2015

A group of Russian developers has come up with a gadget that many dog owners have been dreaming of. Spotty, a sleek 4.5-centimeter aluminum chip attached to a dog’s collar, identifies a pet’s location using GPS coordinates and a 3G modem, monitors its physical activity with the help of accelerometer and transfers real-time data to …

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