The YotaPhone’s main attraction is a 4.3-inch E-Ink display that sits on the phone’s curved backside, allowsing users to keep …
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Part Phone, Part E-Book Reader: Russia’s YotaPhone Has a Secondary E-Ink Screen
Although Russia isn’t known for grand contributions to consumer electronics, it’s piqued our interest with the YotaPhone, a smartphone with an E-Ink display on its backside.
Russian Carrier Holds Contest to See Who Can Download the Most 3G Data
Angry that your carrier put a cap on your data? Maybe you should move to beautiful Russia, where the data flows like caviar and carriers actually encourage people to hog more bandwidth.
That’s what Russian carrier MegaFon did. …
Worst Cyber-Criminals in the World: China and Russia, Claims U.S. Report
Forget Anonymous and LulzSec, according to a new U.S. report compiled from research by over a dozen spy agencies and area experts, the world’s worst cyber-criminals are China and Russia. The Chinese in particular are in the U.S.’s crosshairs, accused in the report of being “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic …
Malware Gangs Using Banner Ads to Hire Coders in Russia
While the job market here in the U.S. is far from recovered, according to security columnist Brian Krebs’ latest piece, at least one overseas “industry” is doing well enough to recruit new employees: malware coding.
In Russia, Krebs states that employers are utilizing a new recruitment tool to lure programmers, offering base …
Why Do Most Online Shoppers in Russia Still Pay in Cash?
Last year, it’s estimated that Russians spent about $8.5 billion shopping online. Not bad, until you compare it to the $32 billion Americans spent on the web in 2010 — and that’s just from November to December alone. Part of the e-commerce discrepancy appears to be a fundamental difference in how the culture thinks; the short story is …
Fly Me to the Moon: Off-Planet Tourism Looms
Still not convinced the moon landings weren’t faked? That the moon isn’t made out of cheese? That it’s not a giant disembodied man-face, floating free of earthly tethers? Why not hop a space capsule and see for yourself?
You’d have to be filthy rich to spring for a ticket, but say you’re flush and fearless: private space tourism …
Russia, U.S. in Space Anniversary Double-Header This Week
NASA’s probably breathing easier this week after last’s near-catastrophic government shutdown, and what better way to pop a celebratory cork (or two) than with a couple big anniversary events.
Tomorrow marks both the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first trip into space, as well as the 30th anniversary of NASA’s first ever Space …
NASA, Russian Astronauts Touch Down Safely in Kazakhstan
From the International Space Station to the snowy stretches of central Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts have safely returned to earth.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly and Russians Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri touched down today (March 16), a few minutes before 0800 GMT, bringing to …
Russian Spies Used Digital Image Files to Hide Messages
The Russian spy scandal that’s been making headlines this week has briefly crossed over into the realm of technology with news that the accused spies hid secret messages and data inside the code of seemingly-ordinary digital photos–the above picture apparently “has the map of an airport hidden in its data,”