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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 13-14

  … movie with gravitas (April 14, from 9pm, tickets), and As Needed, a comedy about a veteran chef “with minor anger management problems” forced to take on a couple of young padawans (April 14, from 7pm, tickets). The full program is available here (in Russian). Tickets start at 200 rubles. Films are screened in Italian with Russian subtitles. Have a great weekend!…

  10.04.2019

• Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs

  …tter, let’s look at other currencies; say, the US dollar. The dollar has a centralized system that maintains its life cycle: banks, the government, the Federal Reserve. If you want to open a dollar bank account, you’ll need to go to a bank with your personal ID. If you’d like to transfer your funds to somewhere else, you’ll once again be forced to visit the bank or u…

  10.04.2019

• Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies

  …sport Systems (OTS) laboratory. Its members work on developing a high-precision dynamic model of transport systems of cities and metropolitan areas. “Let’s say a city wants to build a road it needs,” explains Timofey Volozkiy, the laboratory’s co-head. “Its administration will have two choices: either simply build it and hope for the best or approach an expe…

  10.04.2019

• Travel Tips: Pskov

  … It’s not a particularly large kremlin, especially compared to that in Novgorod, but impressive nevertheless. Inside, spend some time admiring the Trinity Cathedral and wandering around the ancient Dovmontov Settlement. The excavated foundations of churches and other buildings make it easy to get into the spirit of the time (and appreciate your spacious studio…

  09.04.2019

• ITMO-VK Competition Winners Receive Prizes and Bonus Exam Points

  …ited to come to St. Petersburg, where the second round was held at ITMO University on April 5-7. The participants were not limited in the number of subjects: if one had wanted to tackle several areas, they were free to do so in the qualifying round. During the second round, the conditions were different: each participant was given six hours, of which they coul…

  09.04.2019

• Water-Spraying Parasols and Smart Traveling Apparel: Projects by Teens in Tech

  …ill offered as part of a separate subscription option. The one that had an ace up its sleeve: smart clothes In their turn, the team that touted the smart clothes concept wanted to do their bit for athletes and travelers. Pointing to the fact that regular clothes aren’t fit for the extreme conditions of the forest, water and mountains, the participants proposed …

  09.04.2019

• Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking

  …t application. I was surprised with how similar our research interests were: circular economy, recycling, corporate environmental responsibility. Obviously enough, I very much wanted to adopt their experience and learn from the professors of one of Europe's oldest universities. I was particularly interested in the Transition Engineering approach to solving the iss…

  05.04.2019

• Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive

  … product to your preferences, but it’s too easy to cross the line here. First you add one feature that you like, then you add another dozen and it’s no longer a product people want to use. When you are your own reference point, it becomes too hard to verify data and hypotheses; A lack or abundance of confidence in your own decisions. Due to the challenging and inte…

  05.04.2019

• CodeX Founder Petr Savchenko on the Team’s Next-Gen Software Editor.js: Block Editors Are the Future

  …, from paragraphs to embedded YouTube videos. The community is hard at work creating new ones: we’ve already seen a table editor, polls, galleries, and even a few games. We wanted to make it possible for any developer, even a beginner, to easily write a plug-in. Right now, you could do one with just 10 lines of code. Our API is based on the mirror principle: you o…

  04.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 6-7

  …history of our magnificent city and look at it from a different perspective (quite literally). The creative space is open from 11am till 10pm. Entrance is free. Whether you want to buy a fancy interior item for your home or a nice handmade souvenir for your loved ones, get some designer clothes, or just wind down a bit, you’ll find it all at the Stylish Market. Ho…

  03.04.2019