Category Archives: HiTech

In Singapore, municipal authorities use a four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Spot to remind Park visitors to keep a safe distance from each other. On may 8, the little yellow robot is patrolling a city Park Bishan-Ang Mo Kio. Spot walks along the paths and broadcasts a pre-recorded message about security measures. And special stands in the Park asking visitors not to “interfere” robot during his patrols. Spot equipped with cameras to assess the number of visitors, but the national parks Board of Singapore says that it will not collect […]

The U.S. Navy, together with DARPA has started to develop Autonomous vehicles-robots. The concept is called NOMARS (No Ship Mariners Required). In the case of its successful implementation in the U.S. Navy may receive warship that will take on the most “dull, dangerous and dirty” work to get rid of it ships with living crews. In the framework of the joint project is expected to be built within five years, 10 Autonomous unmanned surface vessels – Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle (LUSV) in length from 61 to 91 m with a […]

The Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine announced the beginning of work of service centers in the context of a weakening of the quarantine. About this on his page in Facebook said the Deputy interior Minister Anton Geraschenko, informs Диалог.UA. The official said about the algorithm of work of the centre: citizens have the opportunity to join the queue with online forms, and the process simplified. Ukrainians can use the functionality, which will be posted on the official website of the service center of the Ministry of interior. If people […]

Blogger alekandr Kovalenko, known under the name the Angry inhabitant of Odessa, writes that Saudi Arabia is out of oil wars with billions of dollars in net profit. At the beginning of the confrontation propagadisty in Moscow, betting on the ruin of the pool of Arab countries, which for the first time in decades, spoke out against Russia, according to Диалог.UA. At the beginning of the economic confrontation, initiated by Moscow, Saudi Arabia has become the locomotive of the process of “devaluation” of oil. Then almost all Russian experts claimed […]

In the Volyn region increased cases of coronavirus COVID-19, among its speakers were parishioners of the churches of the Moscow Patriarchate. Such information during a press briefing said the head of the Volyn regional laboratory center of the Ministry of health of Ukraine Natalia Janko, reports Диалог.UA. According to the authorities of Volyn region, another hotbed of the epidemic in the region is the temple of the Holy Archangel Michael: two days ago, on may 10, it became known that 18 people, the laity, became infected with the coronavirus. As […]

The head of the Ural Institute of cardiology, Jan Gabinsky gave recommendations for people with cardiovascular diseases on the background of the forecast of weather forecasters about the changeable summer in Russia. RIA Novosti In an interview with URA.RU he noted that people with cardiovascular diseases are sensitive to weather changes, monitor the forecast and adjust your regime. “We need to avoid stressful situations and excessive physical exertion. Most importantly — do not forget to take the medicine, to warn the negative effects of pressure drop,” — said Gabinski. He […]

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced the introduction of controlled regime in the country from 15 may. Reuters As reported TASS, the head of state pointed out that the wearing of protective masks will be mandatory in the indoor shops and public transport. “From may 15 becomes compulsory wearing masks, covering mouth and nose when we are indoors. Also required is the distance between the faces in 1.5 meters”, — he said. It is noted that on may 15 in Romania the deadline for a state of emergency, which will be […]

As the lifting of restrictions imposed in connection with a pandemic of mers in different countries resume cinema and set. However, not all film distributors are ready to get to work. Many people afraid of additional security measures, limits bandwidth, and the lack of new products that might attract viewers, because most of the big premieres have been postponed to a later date. © RIA Novosti / kinopoisk.ru At the end of April and in early may, the governments of various countries began to loosen restrictions due to pandemic coronavirus. […]

Call graphene the “miracle material” for a reason – he is ultra-thin, ultra-strong and has a very unusual electrical properties. Researchers from MIT before been found particularly strange pattern that occurs in twisted graphene but is now significantly deepened in his study. Graphene consists of layers of carbon with a thickness of only one atom. This makes it actually two-dimensional, and the current in it, electrons can only move back and forth and from side to side, but cannot move up or down. This makes graphene extremely high conductivity. However, […]

At the University of North Carolina has developed a movement technology for soft robots of the new generation. It greatly expands the speed range of such machines, which speed has never been. The secret of a novelty copied from cheetahs bistable position of the body during movement. The fastest running animal on the planet, the Cheetah, has a lot of secrets to achieving unprecedented speeds, one of which – the double position of the spine. It acts as a flexible beam, which is compressed and takes the shape of an […]