Under the hood. The bill on total Russian wiretapping passed in first reading

The State Duma of the Russian Federation today adopted in its first reading an “anti-terrorism” package of bills. Among them is an amendment to the Law on Communication, in paragraph 1 of Art. 64: "Telecom operators are obliged to store on the territory .

Central Bank: the issue of legalization of cryptocurrency in Russia is still at the discussion stage

Photo: Getty Images / Thomas Trutschel Today it became known about the opinion of the Central Bank regarding the legalization of cryptocurrency in Russia. In particular, the head of the financial technology center ...

RAO Demands Rakhmaninov Museum Money for Rachmaninov Music

Museum staff at one of the events, Alexander Yermakov, director of the museum-estate of Sergei Rachmaninov, said that the Russian Authors' Society (RAO) demanded to pay for concerts ...

US court allows blocking Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub's pirate hub for scientific research received another blow from the American judicial system. In May, Elsevier, one of the largest scientific publishers, achieved an overlay on a young ...

Invented a very useful "acoustic prism"

A single microphone is enough to determine the angle of the “prism” to the sound source Hervé Lyssek and his invention - an acoustic prism (aluminum tube with holes in the front ...

The picture generated by the neural network went under the hammer for $ 432,500

“Edmond de Belami, from the family of de Belami. A controversial neural network, print on canvas, 2018. Signed by the loss function of the GAN model by the ink publisher, from a series of eleven unique ...

Google opens speech recognition API in 80 languages.

Google has made a gift to third-party developers - and has opened access to the Cloud Speech APIs. At first, access is provided free of charge, rates will be announced ...

Yandex has deleted both pirated links and links to the websites of the copyright holder

Yesterday, representatives of the company "Yandex" stated that they would not fulfill the requirement of the Moscow City Court and remove pirated links from search results. But in this conflict the position has triumphed after all ...

The Russians offered to throw off the lunar program for 21 000 rubles. per person

Former Director of the Department of Manned Space Systems of the United Rocket and Space Corporation (2014–2016) and Director of the Department of Commercial Projects in the Field of Manned ...

The number of pirate sites in Russia has increased dramatically

By the end of 2018, the number of pirated sites in Russia increased by 43%, according to WebKontrol statistics. It scans the Internet for unlicensed content, ordered by copyright holders, ...