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Hacking Group Anonymous Claim They Were Responsible for Moscow Traffic Chaos!
Although I presume most of you probably know who Anonymous is, for those of you who don’t, they undoubtedly represent one of the biggest hacking organisations on the planet. While their actions mostly tend to generally err in the somewhat grey area of morality, when they do create an incident,…
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Yandex Reveal First Smartphone Design
Yandex Reveal First Smartphone Design You may not have heard of Yandex and that is certainly no reflection of any ignorance on your part. The Russian based company may not be particularly big in the ‘West’, but in the homeland, it’s hard to understate just how big they are in…
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2-Weeks Old Chatbot Declares ‘It’s Necessary to Shoot Enemies of the People’
Its opinions on Stalin and violence are… interesting Yandex is the Russian equivalent to Google. As such it occasionally throws out its own products to attempt to keep par with its American counterpart. This also includes the creation of new or technology similar to other companies. One of these released…
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Google Loses Sole Search Engine Rights for Android in Russia!
Google has settled out of court to promise that future versions of its Android software in Russia will have to include other non-google search engines and applications. In addition to this, Google has also agreed to include a tool that will make swapping the default Google options (most notably the search engine)…
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Yandex Can Now Translate English to Elvish
In order to celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s 124th birthday on January 15, Russian search engine Yandex has actually improved its online translator by introducing the Elvish language of Sindarin to its database. According to a company statement, the language was restored after the Yandex team carefully “studied Elvish manuscripts”, and users can now translate texts…
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Google Opposes Antitrust Accusations in Russia
Google is no stranger to being faced with anti-trust rulings worldwide, but this is the first time that the accusations have been put forth in Russia. Back in September this year, the Russian search engine Yandex filed a complaint against Google with the Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, which ruled…
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Facebook And Yandex To Share User Data
& Facebook has agreed to share user date with Russia’s largest search engine Yandex, according to an article from BBC. The deal is said to grant access to public user data from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other independent Commonwealth countries. The deal was made in both…
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Russia Building State-Controlled “Sputnik” Search Engine
A Reuters report that emerged recently suggests that Russia is preparing to launch its own state-controlled search engine. The state-controlled search engine will be dubbed “Sputnik” and the Sputnik search engine will be operated by the Russian state-controlled Rostelecom. The Russian government has been pouring a fair bit of money into…
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