Friday, June 20, 2025
Russian company Medplant, a resident of the Moscow Special Economic Zone, has come up with a unique portable device that monitors the condition on artificial ventilation, TASS reports. The device can be used both in medical facilities and in the field, according to the Moscow Department of Investment and Industrial...
The total volume of written cyber insurance premium in Russia does not exceed several million dollars, but may increase several times in the coming years, according to experts interviewed by TASS. "Many insurance companies are getting accustomed with this market because there is not enough statistics, there is no infrastructure...
Chinese smartphone manufacturers, as well as U.S.-based tech giant Apple that has production facilities in China, have delayed the supply of their products to Russia for two weeks because, amid a prolonged New Year vacations in Chinese factories due to the coronavirus outbreak, Kommersant reports.   A multiple-week delay may create...
A Russian court was set to hear a legal challenge to Moscow's rollout of facial recognition technology on Friday over privacy fears, RNS reports. The Russian state awarded a software contract last month to undertake the biggest surveillance project so far in the capital of Moscow. Moscow has stepped up its...
Swiss-based ProtonMail has been blocked by the Russian government in efforts to halt a prolonged series of anonymous bomb threats, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor said Wednesday, according to Silver.ru. The FSB security service said Russia acted against Geneva-based ProtonMail after blocking another social network, Netherlands-based Smartmail, for the same reason...
Moscow has been quietly switching on a massive surveillance project this month, built on tens of thousands of cameras and a cutting-edge facial recognition system from the makers of popular app FindFace, according to Forbes. The software is a product of NtechLab, a company that some reports claimed would bring...
Aleksei Burkov, a Russian cybercriminal once described as part of the hacking “elite” and “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, Engadget reports. He also pleaded guilty to administering a highly secretive crime...
Russia's largest technology company, Yandex, is getting groceries to Moscow homes within a quarter of an hour, free of charge, with its new online service Lavka, Bloomberg reports. The company has spread small warehouses across the capital stocked with about 2,000 items and uses bike couriers to deliver orders. Its...
A former employee of Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank was arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary information from the holding’s telecom firm and giving it to Russian officials, the Japan Times reported Sunday. Yutaka Araki, 48, is suspected of obtaining “trade secrets from a computer server at a telecommunication-related company on February 18 last...
Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation has presented its Ryvok-2 (Breakthrough-2) project, which would offer direct flights to the Moon on reusable spacecraft without intermediate landing on the international lunar orbital station, Energia specialist Rafail Murtazin said on Tuesday, according to Lenta.ru. Energia earlier considered the project of the Ryvok spacecraft for...