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Глава министерства транспорта России Максим Соколов и представители компании-создателя проекта Hyperloop договорились создать проект первой в России совместной магистрали, пишет «Интерфакс». Пилотный проект Hyperloop может появиться в Приморье, он будет соединять российскую сторону с Китаем.... →

459,000 years. That’s how long Twitch users spent watching other people play video games last year, and Facebook wants a piece of the pie. It might sound weird, but eSports are wildly popular, and Facebook is getting serious about owning those video views. A source tipped us off that Facebook has hired eSports super-connector and former professional gamer Stephen “Snoopeh”… Read More... →

Airbnb has been under fire recently for some bad, racist behavior by hosts on its platform. Now, the Congressional Black Caucus is urging Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky to take further action in addressing the issues of racism and discrimination on Airbnb’s platform. In a letter addressed to Chesky, the CBC notes how Title II of 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in places like… Read More... →

We’ve been focused on VR and non-traditional gaming here at E3 this year, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been walking around with our eyes closed. But you might not have been paying close attention, what with having a real job and everything, so I took the liberty of collecting the most interesting trailers from the show in one place. Read More... →

Eye tracking has always been a tough problem. Multi-camera solutions existed in order to sense the position of the eyes in 3D space but in general watching where your peepers pointed was too hard for cellphones. Now researchers at MIT and the University of Georgia have created an eye-tracking system that depends on crowdsourced data. The team created a simple app that showed a dot on the… Read More... →

Российское правительство не станет поддерживать идею дополнительных сборов для телеканалов, а также обычных и онлайн-кинотеатров, в пользу отечественного кино. Такое решение было принято 15 июня на совещании у первого вице-премьера Игоря Шувалова, пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на федеральных чиновников и сотрудников медиакомпаний.... →

ROOBO, a fast-growing hardware and AI startup headquartered in Beijing, today unveiled a prototype of its newest product, a “pet robot” called Domgy. For the unfamiliar, ROOBO is the company behind Pudding, a voice-controlled, educational robot for kids. Pudding is used to teach kids vocabulary, geography, jokes and more. The company also makes the Idealens virtual reality… Read More... →

Today Prince William exhorted tech leaders to do something about cyber-bullying at the Founders Forum conference in London. Representatives from Google, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat listened to the speech, but some of the biggest tech firms have already joined the Prince’s taskforce on the issue which will be chaired by Brent Hoberman, former founder of Lastminute.com and more recently… Read More... →

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Dear Seattle, We’ve arrived. We have our pitch-off companies in a row, and our judges are locked and loaded. All we need now is you. We’ll be hanging out at the ShowBox SoDo from 6pm to 10pm. Ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their products on stage, and one will eventually be crowned the winner. Plus, there will be plenty of time to drink alcohol and network… Read More... →

Госдума приняла пакет законопроектов об увеличении лимитов для компаний, которые хотят перейти на упрощённую модель налогообложения (УСН), пишет Audit-it. Теперь эти документы должны быть утверждены Советом Федерации и президентом России.... →

It feels like we only hear about Bitcoin when the price is either tanking or skyrocketing. And, since it’s currently skyrocketing, let’s talk about Bitcoin! As of writing, Bitcoin is hovering around $745 per coin. It has only been worth this much twice before – once on the way up to the height of the Christmas 2013 bubble, and once on the way down. But since trading at lows… Read More... →

Say what you will about the thieves who ply their trade in the digital realm, you can’t deny they put in a hard day’s work. After all, according to Verizon’s just-released 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed an astounding 100,000 digital security incidents last year, these crooks continue to succeed at stealing corporate and personal data and records by… Read More... →

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge have impressed us before, so half the Active’s job is already done, since it shares most of the core specs from the originals. Read More... →

Немецкий производитель программного обеспечения SAP планирует инвестировать около 12 млн рублей в развитие социального предпринимательства в СНГ, говорится в сообщении компании. Также SAP и фонд региональных социальных программ «Наше будущее» подписали соглашение о трехлетнем партнёрстве. Они будут реализовывать проекты по формированию и развитию среды социального предпринимательства в России и странах СНГ. Программы будут проходить в форме как вебинаров, семинаров, круглых столов, дополнительной профессион... →

Оператор Tele2 решил уйти от позиции «дискаунтера» к модели бизнеса «lifestyle enabler», заявил глава компании Сергей Эмдин. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости».... →

Applications for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are now open. We’re looking for badass early-stage startups to debut on stage in front of top investors and a massive audience. This competition is open to everyone, but we’d love to see more people of color, LGBTQ people, disabled people and older peeps battling it out for the Disrupt Cup. Since launching at Disrupt SF… Read More... →

Mozilla’s Firefox browser is getting a new experimental feature today that aims to help you segregate your different online identities and allow you to sign in into multiple mail or social media accounts side-by-side without having to use multiple browsers. This new “container tab” feature, which is now available in the unstable Nightly Firefox release channel, provides… Read More... →

Проект будет стоить дешевле, чем строительство железной дороги, рассказал глава Минтранса Максим Соколов... →

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