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• Jobs of the Future: Who Will Design Emotions and Preach IT Knowledge?

  … Mandzhieva. As many corporations all over the world, Megafon develops robotic assistants. For instance, specialists of Megafon’s call centers work along with a virtual consultant, a counterpart of Siri, called Elena. The system by Yandex recognizes human speech and can answer questions of clients. Working all around the clock seven days per week it can process up …

  13.02.2017

• The Master Provocateur

  …ancing skeletons, baying hounds of hell and monstrous three dimensional dinosaur fossils, all created from the shimmering dark blue-green exoskeletal shells of beetles, is simultaneously jarring, engrossing and disquieting. Even more baffling is the fact that all this is happening in the Hermitage, the hallowed inner sanctum of Imperial pomp and high-classicism. T…

  03.02.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … the heart beating, potentially saving lives of heart failure patients. It’s made out of material that resembles the outer layer of heart tissue and it squeezes and twists simultaneously, like the real muscle, Science reports. In pigs, the device restored heart function to 97%. Quantum gas goes below absolute zero. Physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-…

  23.01.2017

• A "Smart" Band Will Save People from Drowning

  …oating devices (PFD). Aquatic Saver offers a panic button for children and those who can't swim well, which sends information about the drowning person to several contacts simultaneously, and is fixed with a PFD which allows you to stay afloat until the lifeguards arrive. The band is to be worn around the neck and turns into a gas-filled flotation ring once the bu…

  16.01.2017

• Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch

  …es of the country now have some of their best courses available online for download. The development of this area means that Russians no longer have to deal with automatic simultaneous translations while watching foreign lectures, but can just switch to materials in their mother tongue. Another question is how seriously do people take online education? In an inter…

  13.01.2017

• ITMO’s Startup to Develop IT Innovations for Pharmaceutical Industry

  … equipment as well as keeps account of chemical solutions and volumetric flasks used. LIMS also gives an opportunity for several lab researchers to be working on a process simultaneously. "A laboratory is the most important element of any pharmaceutical plant. After implementing our automated system, almost all processes at a lab will be controlled by LIMS. …

  11.01.2017

• Junction Hackathon — New Solutions for VR Gear

  …and use a semi-transparent lens. The lens can reflect the light from a smartphone and the eye in such a way that the person will see both reality and virtual augmentations simultaneously. Such a device will cost a lot less than the existing counterparts, as the only expensive component would be the lens. The team's project got 1st place in the Unity Company nominati…

  05.01.2017

• How to Hack into Something That Cannot be Hacked?

  …e-versa. And though you can attempt to assess its position after you measure the speed, you will get a random value. This pair of quantum properties that can't be measured simultaneously can be used for encrypting bits. If the property is chosen randomly and the cracker doesn't know which it is, he won't be able to read the information without mistakes. Still, such d…

  28.12.2016

• ITMO’s Nanosystems Journal Joins the Web of Science Core Collection

  …Furthermore, specialists always improve metrics for evaluating research journals and articles. [For more information on this topic, read an interview with aElsevier S&T's consultant here -Ed.]. How ITMO’s journal got into the Web of Science Being the world’s most reputable scientometric base, the WoS Core Collection includes only journals with a high citation inde…

  28.12.2016

• President Putin Acknowledged Inventions by Quantum Communications and Diakont Company

  … News Agency, Russia and Kazakhstan will discuss the prospects of creating a joint venture with the Diakont Company as its base. During their visit, Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev learned of the unique products manufactured by the company. Among those were a synchronous motor that rivals its foreign counterparts, diagnostics technologies for oil and gas p…

  27.12.2016