Category Archives: HiTech

Startup Terraplanter (new York) has developed the technology based on hydroponics, which allows you to grow plants without soil and crates. The system is based on special ceramic vessels in which plants can grow without soil. Blood vessels Terraplanter made porous and relief. This allows you to keep the seeds or roots already sprouted plants and requires no soil. Poured into a vessel of water with fertilizers is gradually absorbed into its walls, providing plants with the necessary amount of moisture and minerals without the mandatory regular care. Terraplanter posted […]

The newspaper “Vedomosti” reported that in all schools of Russia will be a new system of facial recognition, which received the eloquent name “Orwell”. According to the authors, the system will keep the kids, watching their every movement and tracking of unauthorized persons who will be able to enter the school grounds. The platform recognizes targets using video cameras and thermal imaging pictures. For this purpose special algorithms developed by Elvis-Neotek (controlled by RUSNANO). A company representative assured that parents and their children will add to the database only with […]

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant is one of two candidates to become the main helicopter of the U.S. army to replace the obsolete UH-60 Black Hawk. During a recent test flight he was able to accelerate to the speed of 383 km/h. For comparison, his predecessor develops a maximum of 358 km/h and cruising speed is 286 km/h. Defiant is designed to carry four crew members and twelve passengers. Competitor SB-1 Defiant in the framework of the development of army long-range aircraft (FLRAA) – the tiltrotor Bell V-280 Valor. The program […]

On the background of the forthcoming meeting of leaders “the Big seven” Vladimir Zelensky assured that the return of Russia to the G7 it is impossible to a certain point. According to him, this issue should not rise until The Crimea and the Donbass again under the Ukrainian flag, and the country will not world. It is reported Диалог.UA with reference to the material The Globe and Mail. Zelensky said, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau said that he will support Kiev in this matter and will not allow […]

In the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine sit “mood@Ki” that don’t work to improve life in their country and are absolutely not those things. So says former MP Borislav Birch: his opinion he shared on the page in “Facebook”. According to the former Deputy, this behavior of current members of Parliament testifies to the universal diagnosis for the Ukrainian parliamentarism. Birch believes that many MPs did not like the fruits of their work, so these people allow themselves to enjoy prostitutes and expensive cars during the session, […]

The price of oil on world markets began to fall, pulling down stock quotes of the largest Russian energy companies. A new surge in the number of cases of coronavirus began to exert strong pressure on the market. About this report the global information Agency. Profile of the Russian Telegram-channel “Gas-Priest” notes that against this background, oil prices are falling, and behind them the action Russian oil and gas companies. In recent days the price of Brent crude oil fell on 0,14% – to $42,33 per barrel. In turn, the […]

Russia has no territorial claims to neighboring countries. This was reported by press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. © REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina On the eve of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, speaking on the proposed Constitution amendment, said that with the creation of the Union was not spelled out the procedure of exit of republics from its membership. According to the President, it could theoretically lead to the fact that the Republic after receiving a Russian land could withdraw from the Union, taking with them “gifts from the Russian […]

It became known about two cases of coronavirus in an exhibition tennis tournament Adria Tour that is organized by the Serbian Novak Djokovic. Reuters As reported Sportklub, we are talking about the coaches on the physical preparation of Djokovic and previously sick with coronavirus Grigor Dimitrov — Marko Panic and Christiane Gros respectively. Tournament Adria Tour began June 13. The finals had to go through 21 June, but cancelled due to the detection of coronavirus Dimitrov. Earlier it was reported that Borna Coric ill with the coronavirus.

Head of Hi-Tech mail.ru Dmitry Ryabinin spoke about the ways to protect the smartphone from the fire in the summer heat. Pixabay “Winter and summer temperature extremes negatively affect batteries. If in winter your smartphone just refuses to charge or turn off, in the summer there are more serious consequences — up to spontaneous combustion. It is necessary to follow, since the summer every year is getting hotter,” warned a specialist in an interview with radio Sputnik. He noted that the device may feel warm even when off, so you […]

This year because of the pandemic, the conference SIGGRAPH will be held in virtual mode, so the participants in advance to present their novelties. Among the most promising technology DeepFaceDrawing developed by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Hong Kong. It is intended to redraw simple sketches of human faces in detailed photo-realistic portraits. Formally, DeepFaceDrawing does not do anything new, similar problems have been successfully solved with the help of programs such as pix2pixHD, Lines2FacePhoto and iSketchNFill. The original image in the form of dashes […]