A Russian AI-powered selfie-editing app that has been having a viral moment lately has become the center of a controversy after being called out over privacy concerns, TechCrunch reports.
FaceApp uses neural networks and artificial intelligence to add a few years and creates a pretty compelling version of the user’s...
Vostok, a startup founded by the Waves platform team, has been sold to one of the project’s earliest investors, a Russian-based financial consultancy, Gazeta.ru reported.
Waves CEO Alexander Ivanov “sold his stake” in the data management and smart city oriented project to Mark Garber of the financial consultancy GHP Group,...
Global tech news publisher TechNode is expanding to the Russian-language market in partnership with local company Eurasia Development Limited, the company said in a statement.
TechNode Russia will cover Asian technologies and startups, especially those in China and Russia.
TechNode was launched in 2007 as an effort to cover China’s technology...
Russia’s Yandex has launched a beta version of its food retail app Supercheck on its price comparison platform Yandex.Market, the country’s biggest internet company said this week, according to Vedomosti.
The app allows users to compare prices and assortments on a store level, form a basket, and get 1% cashback...
Russia has offered to supply South Korea with a key material needed to make semiconductor chips amid an escalating trade feud between Seoul and Tokyo, Hankyoreh reported.
Citing an unnamed government official, the South Korean news outlet reported Russia had recently notified Seoul through diplomatic channels that it was willing...
China’s telecom major Huawei plans to significantly increase its sales in Russia and has contacted several Russian tech firms to create joint ventures and use their technologies, RBC reported on Wednesday citing sources.
Over the past few months, Huawei has contacted several Russian firms, including the developers of Elbrus processors...
The Russian Ministry of Finance will not issue any special regulations for Facebook’s upcoming digital currency Libra, deputy minister Alexei Moisseev has said, according to Interfax.
Answering reporters’ questions, Moisseev said Libra will be treated in Russia like any other digital asset, regulations for which are in preparation.
"On the other...
U.S. music streaming service Spotify plans to poke into the Russian market this summer with a price that beats rival Apple Music, Russian website Akket.com reports.
The music streaming service was supposed to launch in the country in 2015, before abruptly canceling those plans.
Now Spotify will likely launch later this...
Russia’s Roscosmos has announced plans to support long-term lunar missions by 3D printing structures made from on-site material, Newsweek writes.
The space corporation’s declaration adds to plans made by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) that also intend to use Lunar or Martian regolith, which is the dusty layer...
Banks in Russia have lost at least 58.4 million rubles ($919,400) through cyberattacks carried out by infamous hacker groups Cobalt and Silence in 2018, according to a survey by Bank of Russia’s FinCERT (Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team) said on Friday, according to TASS.
"According to the data provided...
