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Russia’s X5 Retail Group has opened a 'lab store' in Moscow’s central administrative district, close to a Pyaterochka outlet, to test new technologies that will enhance customer experiencе, Dairy News reports. Engineers in the lab will conduct in-store trials of electronic shelf labelling, video analytics, smart shelves, digital information panels,...
The Russian government has no plans to increase fines for Internet companies that break Russian laws, TASS news agency cited Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov as saying on Thursday. “No, we have no such plans,” he said, answering a question about the matter, adding that such a project has not...
A Russian state-owned tech conglomerate is considering the production of clothes made of electrically-controllable material that can change its color, developed for Russia’s army, Zvezda TV reported citing the company’s press service. Initially, Roselectronics holding (part of Russian state corporation Rostec) developed the material for military camouflage coating. But it...
A geological exploring subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft, PH Exploration, will hold ice observation trials in 2019 using the deck-based drones, Ura.ru reports. The company plans to design a drone-carried device that plants trackers on icebergs. Key target of the project is "to cut down costs for aerial...
Donald Trump’s plan for tariffs of 25% on imported steel and 10% on imported aluminum should drove U.S. aluminum producers’ shares last week, but domestic producers seem unimpressed by the president’s move, CNBC reported. In a letter to Trump on Wednesday, a group of 114 producers and related industry companies...
Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russian television channel RT, which is alleged to have taken part in the campaign to influence last year's U.S. presidential election, says that having to register as a foreign agent in the United States is already hurting the Kremlin-funded outlet. “RT has been shut out...
U.S.-based tech giant Google has chosen not to dispute a $7,300 fine imposed by the Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor, the company’s press service told Sputnik news agency. The company was fined this month for failure to comply with Russian laws on deletion of links to resources banned in Russia from search results "We can...
U.S. intelligence officials found evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, NBC News reported. The Department of Homeland Security denied the report, which a spokesman called “factually inaccurate and misleading” in a statement. NBC, citing...
Russian company Legium has launched a platform for signing these contracts. In them, you define the names of the participants and also specific sexual activities that you agree to during the intercourse, such as kisses with and without tongue or using sex toys, Cryptofeed.ru reports. Such a contract bears legal power...
The world’s most renowned cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has "deflated like a soap bubble" but boosted investments in new technologies, Russian Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin said Wednesday, according to CCN. 'You may recall what I said, for example, last year, when Bitcoin's price jumped up to $20,000, and now it is...