More than 150 students, developers and scientists working in the field of neuroscience spent a sleepless weekend at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on November 16-18 for a neuro-hackathon , racing each other in teams to find solutions...
The U.S. may be streets ahead in the development of driverless cars, but there is one area where Russia could still overtake, Russian technology experts believe. Their secret weapon? That tried-and-tested historical ally, General Winter. For it’s one...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
Banks, power stations and cryptocurrency exchanges are the most likely targets for hacking in the near future, the cybersecurity company Group-IB said Tuesday, presenting its Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2017 report at a conference. Ilya Sachkov, CEO of Group...
Skolkovo’s resident cybercrime sleuths Group-IB have helped Russia’s Interior Ministry catch a gang of hackers suspected of using a Trojan virus to steal money from more than one million bank accounts via mobile banking apps, the ministry said Monday...
Would you agree to your court case being decided upon by a robot judge? In surveys in which people were asked precisely this question, the highest proportion of positive reactions came from Russia, according to Ekaterina Schulmann, a political scientist . ...