Moscow City Hall has announced the launch of its own version of online game “Pokemon Go.” Russians will be asked to find and “catch” historical figures in the streets of the capital via an app called “Know Moscow.Photo.” The game, which is due to be released in August, will use the augmented reality technology of …
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Bridging the gap between academia and industry to turn the ideas of the country’s brightest minds into successful commercial projects is one of the challenges struggled with by innovations institutions all over the world. To find out more about the Dutch approach to this mission, the Skolkovo Foundation recently hosted a roundtable for representatives of …
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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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In late June, a delegation of high-flying Chinese Internet entrepreneurs visited Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, as part of a fact-finding mission to the Russian capital. Their visit followed the signature of a raft of energy deals by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing. …
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On September 29, Moscow will play host to the third edition of the annual international Internet of Things Conference, Expo and Meetup, in partnership with East-West Digital News. The one-day event will bring together developers, entrepreneurs and investors who will be able to meet key industry players and experts. The event will cover a variety of fields …
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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
Novosibirsk State University (NSU) and Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) are teaming up to create a joint university venture fund of up to 900 million rubles (nearly $14 million at the current exchange rate) over five years. The partners expect to attract funding from both private and state-owned organizations. The new fund will focus on …
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Like cities throughout the West with Zipcar service, Moscow is a city with great potential for the car-sharing business: its traffic is some of the worst in the world, and parking in the city’s center — within the “Garden Ring” — is prohibitively expensive. Under these circumstances, many people did not think much before signing contracts with Moscow’s major …
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A new messenger service that seeks to unite 500 million Buddhists all around the world will be launched in Kalmykia, a Russian region with a large Buddhist population, the NSN news agency reported on May 26. Approximately $1 million will be invested in the project. The main investor and creator of the project is the former President of …
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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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Itseez, a Russian company developing computer vision algorithms and implementations for embedded and specialized hardware, has just been acquired by Intel. The US corporation has announced a “definitive agreement” – without disclosing, however, any details of the deal. “This acquisition furthers Intel’s efforts to win in IoT market segments like automotive and video, where the ability to …
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