Moscow Vice Mayor Maxim Liksutov has told the BBC Russian Service that the Russian capital’s municipal government is tracking the movements of its residents using tools as diverse as taxi data, cell phone data, security cameras, data from Troika multi-ride metro passes, and customer complaints about the city’s public transport system. Liksutov said that all this geoanalytical …
The Tretyakov Gallery, a leading Moscow museum that exhibits more than 190,000 works by modern and contemporary Russian artists, has decided to use blockchain to attract private capital for the digitization of its collection. The Gallery is developing a blockchain-powered app, ‘My Tretyakov,’ which will allow individuals and companies to donate money to the museum. …
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Moscow is plowing billions of dollars into reinventing itself as a modern, tech-friendly European city, and its system of remote surveillance is also ballooning. Over the past six years, the city has contracted with telecommunications operators to install more than 130,000 cameras, many of them boasting high resolution, zoom and swivel functions, and an uplink …
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Unmanned vehicles were unleashed on the snow-covered roads of the Moscow Region earlier this month “for the first time in history,” claims Yandex.Taxi, the taxi hailing service of the Russian Internet search company, which held the experiment. Yandex.Taxi wanted to check how their automatic cars fare during the winter when snow can obscure road markings, …
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Cherry Labs, a Russian-founded startup an AI-powered solution of which “provides your family with the safest, smartest and most-private home possible,” secured $840,000 from Gagarin Capital, a US-based venture fund with Russian roots, and two Russian funds — Impulse VC and Altair Capital. The round also involved such individual investors as Alexander Agapitov, Yuri Gursky, …
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As the blockchain craze continues in Russia, the government has announced the first project based on this technology – converting the land and property registry of all Moscow property to a blockchain. The pilot blockchain project will run from January to July 2018, focusing on verifying information from the property registry, which is normally run …
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In a bid to help tourists have a more authentic travel experienc, programmers from ITMO University in St. Petersburg have created a computer algorithm that allows travelers to find museums, cafes, streets and other interesting spots based on Instagram posts by local inhabitants. To test the algorithm, scientists analyzed photos taken on Instagram in St. …
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Yandex.Taxi, the on-demand transportation service of the Russian Internet search giant Yandex, has just unveiled the prototype of its autonomous car project. The prototype has been developed as “a step towards a comprehensive set of driverless technologies for application across a wide range of industries.” The driverless car incorporates Yandex’s own technologies, such as mapping, …
Over the past several years, Moscow has turned into a global leader in the introduction of urban smart technologies and accessible communications. Muscovites can now recharge their smartphones and tablets while waiting for the bus, and access the Internet via lamppost hotspots. Free Wi-Fi for all passengers Muscovites can no longer imagine urban life without …
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