Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Roscosmos has decided to create a hydrogen engine for the Angara rocket, the press service of the enterprise told RIA Novosti. This will allow the development of a carrier of increased carrying capacity, and in the future - a rocket with reusable stages, the source said. It was reported last week...
The highly-anticipated report on alleged Russian interference has dealt loosely with evidence and was partly based on testimony by discredited experts. Nevertheless, it may be used by the UK government to give more rights to domestic counter-intelligence agents. The UK government is looking at ways to tighten up security laws,...
Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development has held an online roundtable discussion on the support and development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) within the five-member BRICS trade alliance. The video conference was attended by government officials and representatives of public and business structures, Russia Today reported. They exchanged experiences and...
Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov demanded to intensify the fight against cyber crimes. According to him, over the past five years, the number of such crimes in the country has grown 25 times, and since the beginning of the year the negative trend has intensified, Kommersant reported. “The Prosecutor...
First driverless taxis can start operating in Moscow in 2024, Russia’s Deputy Transport Minister Alexei Semyonov said on Wednesday, TASS reported. "If we efficiently start implementing the plan we are developing on the basis of our stakeholder authorities and key companies - these are the Transport Ministry, the Interior Ministry...
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Tuesday he still expected support from Russia’s space corporation in its Artemis moon program despite Moscow’s space chief slamming the U.S.-led lunar effort, Reuters reported. Bridenstine said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday “the relationship between NASA and Roscosmos is solid” and emphasized that...
A human-like robot designed to look and act like a female clerk has started providing services to the public at a government office in Siberia, Reuters reported. The humanoid, with long blond hair and brown eyes, is serving customers in Perm, a city 1,100 km (680 miles) east of Moscow. So...
The German expert center Jugendschutz.net (created by the federal and state governments to protect children and adolescents on the Internet) has published a report "Telegram: Between the propaganda of violence and the information war," Kommersant report. In the report, the center’s experts note that Telegram has recently been playing the...
Rostelecom Solar specialists discovered vulnerabilities, including critical ones, in Schneider Electric’s industrial equipment used to control power systems, as reported by Kommersant. The experts tested the security of the embedded controller software for the automation of transformer substations Schneider Electric Easergy T300 and the separately supplied software Schneider Electric Easergy...
The Kurchatov Institute National Research Center has obtained a patent for the system capable of converting thermal energy into electric power, including for a lunar base, according to the invention’s description released by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property on Tuesday, TASS informed. "The stated invention deals with the technical...