On Sunday, billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and five other business employees flew to the edge of space on the Unity-22 rocket-powered space aircraft, reaching a height of 86 kilometers. The space flight lasted nearly an hour, and the astronauts were weightless for a few minutes. Aside...
According to Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos, a piece of space debris flew 1.8 kilometers near the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, July 08.
According to the statement, "an uncatalogued piece of space debris flew at a distance of 1.8 kilometers near the International Space Station at about 4:15...
The Ministry of Internal Affairs began to use a new system for recognizing faces and silhouettes of people and cars in five regions of Russia, Andrey Telenkov, CEO of the developer company Ntechlab, told TASS.
Ntechlab (Rostec's technology partner) has developed a face recognition system, which is already used in...
US President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan clarified the White House's position on the exchange of cybercriminals with Russia, Russian media reported.
Earlier, Biden answered positively to the question whether he is open to the idea of exchanging hackers with Russian authorities if they have committed crimes against...
Fraudsters have begun to use new schemes to deceive Russians and steal money from their bank cards, said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank.
"If earlier fraudsters could quickly talk on the phone, immediately persuade the victim to transfer money, now the level of cyber literacy of...
Russia’s online smartphone sales reached their highest ever market share in Q1 2021 at 36%, according to the latest research from Counterpoint Research Model Sales Tracker.
The country is recovering from the second wave of COVID-19, which helped its smartphone market grow by 4% YoY in Q1 2021. The...
The cost of bitcoin on the Binance crypto exchange increased by 5% and reached $34.5 thousand, with its capitalization increasing to $643 billion. The increase happened after El Salvador became the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as an official means of payment.
El Salvador's Legislative Assembly has...
The first international online forum Smart Cities Moscow had 86 speakers from Russia, China, Switzerland, Canada, Spain, the United States, Sweden, and others, while more than 193,000 people participated in the panel discussions and sessions.
"Recent years have especially shown how important it is to develop the IT infrastructure of...
According to the Interfax news agency, Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Wednesday that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms must have databases of Russian users on Russian territory by July 1 or face fines.
As part of Moscow's broader efforts to exercise much more control over Big Tech,...
Lawmakers are preparing a bill which will oblige large foreign IT companies to open representative offices in Russia. For the refusal to fulfill this requirement, the draft law provides economic sanctions up to the prohibition of advertising and blocking payments to the resource, according to MP Alexander Khinshtein.
Khinshtein clarified...
