Facebook and Global App Testing have teamed up to launch Russia’s first ever Testathon – a hackathon for testers – on October 8 and 9 in Moscow and St. Petersburg, respectively. Testathons aim to bring together the best testers in the world to learn from best practice, network and win prizes whilst trying to break …
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In an exclusive with Russia Beyond The Headlines, Yann LeCun, the Director of AI Research at Facebook, said that the Neural Nets and Deep Learning Lab at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT, also known as PhysTech), together with 14 research centers from around the world, will join forces in a global research program launched by the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Partnership …
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C3D Labs, a subsidiary of Russian computer-aided design (CAD) solutions developer ASCON Group, says its product differs from other visualizers on the market in that the latter are generally designed for the animation and video gaming industries, while C3D Vision was created with the requirements of the computer-aided design industry in mind. “As the ASCON Group worked …
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Earlier this year, the Kremlin tasked the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian) to develop develop a new secure messaging service for government. Concerned that foreign governments could access secret Russian information shared via Western apps such as WhatsApp and Viber, officials expressed concerns that Russia’s security agencies were unable to crack encryption if …
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Artificial neural networks are modelled on the human brain and nervous system. They are used to estimate or approximate functions that can depend on a large number of inputs that are generally unknown. One of the hottest areas of artificial intelligence development, neural networks are used extensively in image recognition, data science, forecasting, and many more. Ed …
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The Russian Regional Innovative Development Ranking is compiled by the Higher School of Economics – based on social and economic conditions for innovative activity, science and tech potential, innovation activity and innovations policy in the regions. Tatarstan knocked Moscow off the top spot in the rating for the first time since 2008. The Russian capital …
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VisionLabs, a Russian startup specializing in facial recognition, data analysis and robotics, announced today that it has secured 350 million rubles ($5.5 million at the current exchange rate) from Sistema Venture Capital. The fund received a 25% stake, valuing the startup at 1.4 billion rubles ($21.5 million). Founded in 2012, VisionLabs has developed a software package, named ‘Luna,’ …
Illustrating Russia’s and China’s willingness to strengthen their ties in the field of high technologies, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign fund, has agreed a partnership with several Russian and Chinese industry players to develop and manufacture medical robots. According to the agreement, which was annonced Friday last week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a …
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Panasonic and Raidix, a St. Petersburg based IT developer, have partnered to create a unique data management and storage system to be run by Russian software. An MoU was inked earlier this month, announced Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, also a participant in the deal. The partners are said to be planning to develop a brand new product enabling …
Panasonic bets on Russian software to run data for 100 years Read More
VisionLabs, a facial recognition, data analysis and robotics company, has created an open-source computer vision platform using funding from Facebook and Google. Founded in 2012, VisionLabs is a resident of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The Russian company created the new resource by integrating two popular libraries for developers …
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Valentin Demchenko, a video blogger who lives in Saratov, Russia, has created a real-life version of the police drone that can be seen in the computer game “Half-Life 2.” Demchenko says the project took two months to complete. He made the 80 cm-long, 55 cm-high device from scratch using carbon fiber and expanded polystyrene as well as flight controller DJI …
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“Russia is technologically ready to launch such large-scale projects as Elon Musk’s Hyperloop,” Russian minister of transport Maxim Sokolov said in mid-May at a press briefing in the southern Russian city of Sochi. As reported by Russian business daily RBC, this Hyperloop-like transport system would link the western and eastern ends as well as the northern and …
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