An enormous mechanical arm enclosed inside a glass cube dips a brush into a set of paints, and like a real artist, depicts the surrounding landscape. The people who pass by also end up on the canvas. As soon as a new person appears in the robot’s field of view several new dabs of the brush are …
Professor Alexander Kuleshov, president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), has been made an officer of France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit). Kuleshov was presented with the order of merit at Skoltech on Wednesday evening by Marie-Hélène Bérard, president of a French investment bank and a former advisor to …
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Last week Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant and Google’s archrival on the Russian market, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Why is it so popular among Russians? Yandex is more than a company; it’s a matter of national pride. Russians like to wear clothing by major international and American brands, but when it comes to online services, they go local. In …
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had notified Telegram CEO Pavel Durov that his firm was in violation of the law for not sharing with the authorities the encryption keys it uses to protect its users’ communications. Adopted in 2016, this legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) requires messenger apps and other “organizers of information distribution” …
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Will Facebook be banned in Russia? This might happen next year, warned Roskomnadzor’s head Alexander Zharov yesterday, should the social network still fail to comply with the local legislation on personal data storage. “The law is mandatory for everyone. Either we will [have it] applied or the company will stop operating in Russia,” the RIA …
Last week Rusnano Sistema Sicar, a Russian private equity fund, announced that it will invest $6 million in Apis Cor, a startup originated from Siberia which has designed a 3D printing technology for the construction industry. The Apis Cor 3D printer is a mobile robot is a mobile robot capable of constructing buildings using fine-grained fibre concrete with special additives. It can build …
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared victory over opposition leader Alexei Navalny on social media and ‘real life’ on Monday, following a social media post comparing the politicians’ following on social media. The caption of an Instagram post shared by Navalny, which compares Medvedev’s 2.8 million Instagram followers to Navalny’s 236,000, reads “the ruling party is winning decisively …
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Oz Forensics, a Russian startup developing a cutting-edge document management solution and a graduate of the GenerationS-2016 startup accelerator, has made it to the finale of the competition of this year’s edition of SLUSH Singapore. This top-tier international startup competition is being held as part of the Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology (SWITCH 2017). …
Cryptocurrencies aficionados have a variety of options to buy, store and sell their digital assets – but such operations become complicated when dealing with several currencies. There is now an app to address this issue. It has just been launched by Indacoin, a UK-based company backed by Russian business angels Stanislav Kosorukov, Sergey Merkukov and Alexey …
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A new release of classified documents by WikiLeaks sheds light on how Russia spies on its citizens online. The 35 documents titled, “Spy Files,” are related to a St. Petersburg software company that works on government surveillance projects. According to WikiLeaks, the St. Petersburg-based company, Peter Service, participates in Russia’s digital surveillance operation known as System …
A wave of fake bomb threats across Russia has entered its second week in what a senior lawmaker called a “full-scale cyberwar” against the country that authorities are ill-equipped to fight. About 400,000 people have been evacuated from more than 1,000 shopping malls, airports, and government and other buildings around the country since the surge …
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Social network usage has continued to grow with their increasing Internet audience. According to a recent study by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) cited by eMarketer, 75 million Russian people are expected to use a social network at least once per month this year. If you want to reach them—you could try using humor. This blog …
