Earlier this month Yandex Data Factory, a division of the Russian search giant, unveiled ‘Extract,’ a new solution to search and track of business-critical information. One of Extract’s first use case involves Russia’s central bank, which needs to find all cash-loan providers represented online in order to check their compliance with regulations. To address this needs, …
Today Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, and Panasonic, a world leader in electronics and system solutions, agreed “strategic areas” for their business cooperation in 2017. The agreement was signed in the framework of the Russia-Japan Business Dialogue during the visit of Russian president Vladimir Putin in Japan. The parties intend to “make an …
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On December 5, a group of students at Saint Petersburg’s College of Information Technologies launched a parody programming language designed for “streetwise” computer science students struggling with traditional languages like JavaScript and C++. As reported by the news website TJournal, Semyon Gozman, Mikhail Belozerskiy, and Georgiy Mkhitaryan came up with“YoptaScript,” which appropriates Russian slang to make it easier for street-educated students to understand, …
Russian students create programming language to help their ‘streetwise’ peers graduate Read More
Scientists at MISiS, a top Russian tech university based in Moscow, have developed a technology to slash the production cost of smartphone displays, the MISiS website announced. Obtained through chemical processes from high-purity aluminum oxide, artificial sapphires (monocrystalline corundum) today play an essential role in the production of smartphone displays. They are a key component of LEDs and protective glass …
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Samsung has partnered with the Institute for Systems Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP-RAS) to use a tool for static program analysis developed by the ISP’s researchers. Russian business daily Vedomosti reported about this partnership last week, based on exchanges with the ISP’s director Arutyun Avetysyan and Marat Guriev, GR Director at Samsung Electronics CIS. Samsung has invested …
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Russian apps Artisto and Prisma made a splash over the past couple of months with their cloud AI-powered effects apps for photos and video. But Facebook, too, is in the running, reports The Next Web. In an interview at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive conference, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox demonstrated an app the …
Facebook is working on its own Prisma-style art effects app for video Read More
Russian companies have begun searching for ways to fully decipher intercepted messages on popular platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the Kommersant newspaper reported Tuesday. Decryption of messages is a key provision of the recently-passed anti-terror law authored by conservative lawmaker, Irina Yarovaya. As part of the wide-ranging law, all companies providing online communication are …
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Experiments conducted by scientists at the Novosibirsk-based Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics show that new multilayer graphene based flash memory can offer much higher IPS (instructions per second) and data storage time values than in analogs based on other materials, portal Science in Siberia reported recently. According to Yuri Novikov, PhD, a senior research fellow at …
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Under an agreement signed last week with the Linux Foundation, Sberbank, the Russian savings giant, is joining the Hyperledger Project. Launched in December 2015, the Hyperledger Project defines itself as “a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way …
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Moscow-based Cognitive Technologies said it’s ready to release a pre-commercial version of an advance driver assistance system with artificial intelligence, or ADAS, for Russia’s KAMAZ truck. ADAS qualifies as Level 1 according to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), which means that it can detect road signs and warn about a possible collision with another …
Driverless truck system will cruise Russian roads in 2017 Read More
Russian tech enthusiasts are cordially invited to the Brain-Computer Interface hackathon, which is arguably the largest brain hackathon in the world. The event will be held on October 8-9 in Budapest, Hungary. Anyone interested in brain-machine interface, brain-computer interface, robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning, sensors, human-machine interface systems, control, signal processing, big data, haptics, …
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Iran’s Islamic Azad University will open next year an R&D center at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The two sides agreed at the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference, which took place earlier this week in Moscow. The partnership encompasses several technology fields, including energy, oil …
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