Friday, September 30, 2016

Scientists have discovered why dogs are friends with people – the Russian Newspaper

dogs Have identified five key genes that are associated with their ability to make contact with a man – this is stated in a scientific paper published in the journal Scientific Reports.

In the study, Swedish scientists from the University of linköping conducted an experiment with participation of 437 dogs Beagle, specially grown in the laboratory.

Each of the dogs for a short time ran into the room, where the three plastic container of treats, two of which she could open herself, and to “open” third, she’s needed help people were in the same room. However, he was unfamiliar animal.

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Scholars interested in how subjects behave in such a situation, will they start asking a stranger for help, or will act independently.

“We know that wolves do not seek help, they will try to fix the problem yourself, and some dogs actually behave the same – they do not give up and attempt to open the lid,” says one of the researchers Per Jensen. – But the most common reaction of animals is at some point in time to contact the person.”

According to the results of the experiments were selected 95 dogs are most prone to human contact, and 95 the least interested in social interaction with the person. Then they took samples of DNA for comparison and detection of correlations between features in the behavior and specific genetic variants.

In the end, scientists were able to identify five genes that are closely correlated with the tendency of dogs to seek the help of a man. “There are probably many other genes that interact with these five,” admits Jensen. According to him, it is not yet clear precisely how the identified genes can affect the sociability of dogs.

it is also Noted that four of these genes have previously been associated with increased risk of development of various social disorders in humans, including autism, writes The Guardian.

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In Turkey found created in the era of the Urartu Kingdom to the city sewer system – Krasnoyarsk news – krasnews.com

This underground gallery of the drainage pipes were found in the province of van in the area of the castle Cavustepe, which is a historical monument.

Archaeologists Turkey discovered an ancient sewer system that was created in the era of Urartu.

the City is in the center of which was a fortress, was a kilometer in diameter and was surrounded by impregnable walls. The structure consists of 2 parts — top and bottom, and they were both built by king Urartu Sarduri II in 764-734 BC

sewer with a diameter of one meter was built of carefully fitted to each other and permeated the urban area under the ground for significant distances at a depth of several cubits.

Professionals say, at the site found traces of once equipped with palaces, temples, storage of water. In particular, starting the construction of the city, the ancient architects carefully worked through the project. They built all the buildings strictly in accordance with the project. This is especially important for us.

According to Dr. the Department of archaeology of the University of the province of Yuzuncu Rafet Cavusoglu, the state of Urartu carefully thought and where to build. The state in certain periods of its existence, played a dominant role in relation to the neighbors in front of Asia. In the nineteenth century French archaeologists first discovered cuneiform inscriptions near the shores of lake van in the territory of the former Ottoman Empire, is not in Assyrian, as originally meant, in the Urartu language. In General, Urartu remained virtually unknown Kingdom from the 5th century BC until the previous 20th century. Excavations in the area, according to the expression relevant for today archaeologists are still in “its infancy”.

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The mission of the probe “Rosetta” was completed – the Radio station ECHO of MOSCOW

According to the official website of the project, he was faced with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The camera went into space in March 2004. He revolved in orbit around a celestial body more than two years. Clash of Rosetta with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been planned by the researchers.

Even during a collision with a comet “Rosetta” produced a number of studies — TASS said the academician of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky Alexander Zheleznyakov.

“the mission Itself was designed up to 2015, and those nine months, the probe was processed in the area of the comet, so it was a bonus that was awarded to the scientists specialists. The collision is also a scientific experiment, which were obtained and new images of the surface of the comet’s nucleus, and conducted new measurements in the immediate vicinity. The fall did not occur rapidly, but rather slowly, and the plot were measured, and this information will be passed to the Ground and then studied. This is probably the most correct decision.”

In 2014, the probe landed on the space object apparatus Philae. His research allowed us to obtain more information about the origin of the Solar system.

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Used in the Institute of eye diseases, the drug has not been approved by the Ministry of health, the City’s all-news channel

Drug “Avastin” is, presumably, caused the loss of vision of nine patients scientific research Institute of eye diseases named after Helmholtz, was not approved by the Ministry of health. About it on air of TV channel “Moscow 24″ said the ophthalmologists.

the Doctors confirmed that the drug has long been used in ophthalmology, although not licensed for this field of medicine. His action coincides with the action of a more expensive drug Lucentis, which must be used to prevent tumors vessels.

According to the Professor, doctor of medical Sciences Vyacheslav Kurenkov, “Avastin” is used in ophthalmology in the world, but Russia has not yet received permission of the Ministry of health.

Kurenkov stressed that “the drug is good and has positive results use.

“I think this incident is not connected with the action of the drug. Most likely, there are some other factors”, he added.

According to one version, the cause of the accident at the scientific research Institute of eye diseases named after Helmholtz could become non-sterile during the procedure the injection or the marriage of the drug itself.

the health Ministry organized a check on the fact of vision loss in patients research Institute on behalf of the Minister of health Veronika Skvortsova after appearing in media reports about the side effects of the drug “Avastin”.

According to Skvortsova, the information is very ambiguous, and conclusions on this point can not be done.

His testing was also organized by the Investigative Committee. Investigators, in particular, interviewing hospital staff, including officers responsible for the acquisition and storage of drugs.

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The lawyer assessed the prospects of the blinded patients of the eye clinic of the Moscow – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, 30 Sep — RIA Novosti. Patients who, according to media reports, was blind in one eye care clinics in Moscow, can count on compensation in the amount of 300 thousand to 3 million rubles, and the perpetrators of the use of substandard medicines must be brought to criminal responsibility, said the famous Russian lawyer Oksana mikhalkina.

According to media reports, nine patients one of the capital’s eye hospitals have lost sight while providing them with medical services. From the information, it also follows that a possible cause of vision loss citizens was the introduction of poor-quality medicines, said RF IC. This fact has been investigating the health Ministry and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Negligence or deliberate damage

“this fact should be prosecuted at least under article 293 of the criminal code (negligence). If the damage was done intentionally and to restore people’s vision will be impossible, it must be qualified under part 3 of article 111 of the criminal code (infliction of grievous bodily harm), the maximum penalty for which is up to 12 years of imprisonment,” — said mikhalkina.

the Lawyer called the case “egregious,” noting that this clinic is a very respected medical institution of world renown. “We need to conduct a comprehensive investigation, to appoint an expert examination to establish a cause-effect relationship is harmed health of patients through the fault of employees of the hospital or the drug was originally of poor quality. In the latter case, the fault lies with the manufacturer,” — said mikhalkina.

In her opinion, even if the fault for the poor quality of the drug lies in the pharmaceutical company, it does not remove all responsibility from the leadership of the clinic, the head of which should incur disciplinary liability.

Possible compensation

the Victims, said the lawyer also have the right to compensation of damages. “Because it is a matter of causing harm intentionally or negligently, we are not talking about a civil case, but the statement of claim in a criminal case,” — said mikhalkina. She added that in this case the material is the responsibility of the clinic.

“the Issue of recovery of the damage is extremely painful. If Europe and the US we are talking about multi-million dollar lawsuits, we have the life of patients is valued much less. In General practice, patients can expect to be compensated in the amount of 300 thousand to 3 million rubles. Three million can be recovered only in case of disablement”, — said the lawyer.

the Lawyer explained that the practice on this issue is not regulated, the decision about the amount of compensation is left to the discretion of the courts.

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NVIDIA may release an updated version of Pascal – 3DNews

Graphics architecture NVIDIA Pascal has been very successful. Graphics cards based on it rightly dominated today in the market of gaming discrete graphics. And one of the nice features of the new GP is their high frequency potential. But, it seems that “green” enough already achieved success in the world wide web circulate interesting rumors that NVIDIA may release an updated version of Pascal with an even higher frequencies. Such rumors are not groundless: the first GP Pascal was released using 16-nm process technology by TSMC, which was at that time in its infancy.

She TSMC is constantly working to improve its latest technology and plans to optimize it in order to increase the ratio of yield of crystals Pascal. Why NVIDIA thereupon to release a new version of the already sensational graphics cards, offering consumers an even higher clock frequency, and hence performance? While rumors say that the update will affect the flagship games of the kernel, GP102, which is the heart of the latest version of Titan X. As you know, even in this active not all physically present at the crystal cores CUDA, so Pascal Refresh can mean not only an increase in frequency, but also the use of the full potential inherent in the design GP102.

In the end, this tactic is not new for NVIDIA: previous the Maxwell architecture is also divided into two generations, and before it the company has released an updated version of the graphics core Kepler. It is not yet known whether the touch update GP104 less expensive and therefore more popular core, which is the heart of the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070. Foreign sources believe that an updated version of the GP102 can “out of the box” to offer users the frequencies 2 GHz and to support them even when running under load. For comparison, the current version of the Titan X is the original frequency formula 1417/1531 MHz without the use of extreme measures accelerates until about 1620 MHz in normal mode and only in the peak crosses over around 2 GHz.

As the first version, the updated Titan X will have the memory GDDR5X; currently, the company Acer is working to increase the yield of chips of this standard. It is expected that the entire updated line of Pascal will get GDDR5X, the shortage will have passed. The exception would be the CPU entry-level GP107. This will give a major increase in memory bandwidth, and hence increase performance in modern games that run at 4K resolution (3840 × 2160). If the changes affect models such as GeForce GTX GeForce GTX 1070 and 1060, this will make them more popular, and the situation for AMD Radeon Technologies Group worsen, because “red” is no answer even on current versions GP104, not to mention the GP102. The update in question, to be held in the next, 2017.

There is also information concerning the next architecture NVIDIA codenamed Volta. This successor of Pascal should be announced at the conference the GPU Technology Conference in 2017, just a year after the appearance of the earlier architecture. As in the case of Pascal, the first processors Volta GV110 will be used to market superficialty (HPC) and get a layered memory HBM2. But the consumer version of the Volta may appear only in 2018. If you believe the rumors, the standard amount of video memory will be 16 GB, and will use the standard GDDR6, not HBM2 HBM3 or, as previously thought. In comparison with GDDR5X, GDDR6 will be able to offer a 1.6-fold increase in bandwidth at lower energy consumption. New analog Titan X on the chip GV102 get more memory — 24 GB in the first iteration and, possibly, 48 GB in the second. 384-bit bus access is stored as a 256-bit analogues GeForce GTX 1080/1070.

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Space probe Rosetta began a rapprochement with the comet – Komsomolskaya Pravda

Today, September 30, the Rosetta spacecraft will cease to exist. It is reported by the European space Agency (ESA).

Now the unit is on convergence with a comet NRT-books, and will make a controlled descent, but rather face it and then it will cease to sushestvovanie. Confirmation of the end of the mission expected about 13:20 CET (14:20 GMT), says the blog of the mission on the ESA website.

Previously, the ESA (ESA) has created a computer rendering of the landing on the comet nucleus.

the Rosetta spacecraft nears the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The Rosetta spacecraft nears the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Thanks to the automatic station Rosetta astronomers have a large amount of data about the comet, which scientists will study for years.

Recall That the “Rosetta” was sent into space to study the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 12 years ago, in March 2004.

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Rosetta spacecraft sent on a collision course with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko – Ntgi

the Rosetta Probe completes its space mission that lasted nearly 12 years. Spacecraft 2 was in orbit around comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and follow it for 6 billion kilometers, becoming the first space probe that was able to enter the orbit of the cosmic body.

the European space Agency decided to complete the mission, as the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, orbit of which works Rosetta approaching the edge of the Solar system. There is a battery of a spacecraft no longer can be charged from solar energy.

Recall that in 2014 the Rosetta was launched on the surface of the comet module Philae to collect samples. This was the first such operation in the history of earth science. Because of this, the professionals found on the surface of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko oxygen and molecules of organic compounds.

the European space Agency reported that according to scientists, a collision with a comet must occur the day September 30 at 10:40 GMT (13:40 Moscow time).

the impact of the Rosetta with the comet’s surface in real time can be observed НТВ.Ru that will broadcast live this event.

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Android smartphone BlackBerry DTEK60 will present October 11 – 3DNews

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Media reported about the intention of audiocasting Spotify to acquire SoundCloud – RBC

the Swedish online music service Spotify has been negotiating the acquisition of the German audiocasting SoundCloud. Reported by the Financial Times, citing people familiar with the content of the talks.

Interlocutors did not specify the approximate cost of the transaction. The publication noted that although the negotiations had gone far enough, but at any moment the deal could be derailed.

Representatives from Spotify declined to comment to the edition, SoundCloud was not available.

In mid-July, a stake in German competitor Spotify has acquired the microblogging service Twitter. Interest in hosting American company showed after the closing of a private streaming Music online Twitter. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but according to some media reports, Twitter has paid for SoundCloud almost $ 100 million While the cost of the German company was estimated at $ 700 million.

In July, Bloomberg, citing its own sources reported that the leadership of SoundCloud began to analyze the possibilities for the future development of the company and considered the option of selling for $ 1 billion.

In early July, employees of several major music companies told the newspaper “Vedomosti” about that the Swedish audiocasting Spotify is considering the possibility of returning to the Russian market after an absence of a year. The sources stressed that the negotiations are at a very early stage, so the details of the transaction too early to say.

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Tomsk scientists have developed a unique medicine for hypertension – REGNUM

Tomsk, September 29, 2016, 13:04 — REGNUM Scientists of the Siberian state medical University together with the Moscow colleagues to develop a cure for high blood pressure with a fundamentally new mechanism of action. As told to the correspondent of the REGNUM the press service of innovative organizations of the Tomsk region, such drugs on the world market did not appear the last 10-15 years.

“All medicines that lower the pressure are approximately the same, affecting the long-known target. Our team of chemists were able to synthesize a substance with a new mechanism of action, therefore, the drugs that we’re working on, it has no analogues”, — said the rector of the Siberian state University for research and postgraduate training Svetlana Gusakova.

the Substance on the basis of which created the drug, is a chemical precursor of platelet-activating factor. The FAT scientists synthesized more in the second half of the last century, describing its ability to lower blood pressure. But this substance acts very quickly, giving us a momentary effect almost instantly and greatly increases blood clotting. To obtain an analogue of PHOSPHATE, suitable for the creation of medicines that tried research teams in many countries. Scientists of the Siberian state medical University and Moscow state University found another solution, not synthesizing the FAT, and the “previous” stuff. Unlike FAT, it lasts for a long time, does not affect blood clotting and may become the basis for the drug.

“This is a Russian drug that is not created as an analogue of existing, — said Svetlana Gusakova. — He has a brand new mechanism of action, new target. Over the last 10-15 years is the only newly synthesized drug for the treatment of hypertension, and no combination of already known”.

Preclinical tests, which lasted three years, proved that the drug is non-toxic. It is valid for 24 hours so a person need to take one tablet a day. In addition, the new drug does not lower the pressure if it is normal, thus normalizing elevated.

“There are suggestions that the drug will act on the form of hypertension that is currently not amenable to correction. Another plus is that the drug is not addictive, that is continues to operate even after prolonged use”, — added Svetlana Gusakova.

According to rector of Siberian state medical University, a year the developers will be spent on the preparation of documents and registration of the drug, nearly three years to conduct clinical trials. The drug will enter the market not earlier than in five years — the exact timing dependent on project funding. It is expected that the cost of the medicine will not exceed the price of existing funds from hypertension, and in the case of successful clinical trials, it will be exported.

see also: Isotopes of lutetium for cancer treatment planning to produce in Tomsk

according to REGNUM, this is not the first scientific discovery in the field of medicine, which said from the beginning of the year of Tomsk scientists. So, among the developments of the analgesic without any habituation effect, new isotopes for cancer treatment and a new drug to protect the brain from stroke.

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Business online: raek gave the growth forecast for the economy of Runet – RIA Novosti

29.09.2016

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MOSCOW, 29 Sep — RIA Novosti/Prime. the volume of the economy of Runet in 2016 will amount 1,581 trillion rubles, which is by 16.7% more than at the end of 2015, the forecast contained in the study “the Economy of Runet 2015-2016″, prepared by the Russian Association for electronic communications (RAEC).

By the end of 2015 the volume of the economy of Runet totaled 1,355 trillion, and the volume of the market of electronic payments — 588 billion, a total equivalent to 2.4% of Russia’s GDP (in 2014 — 2%). The volume of Internet-dependent markets is comparable to 19% of Russia’s GDP, the study said.

“on Runet Economy will grow by almost 17% in the crisis year, is very positive. Positive we also believe that an increasing proportion of the Internet economy in the GDP of the country. If the forecasts come true, that 2017 is the year of exit from the crisis, it gives hope that in 2017 we will overcome the bar of 3% of GDP”, — said Deputy Minister Alexei Volin during the presentation of the paper.

According to the forecast, the audience of the Runet in 2016 is 86 million people aged 12 years. While in Russia, about 33 million broadband subscribers. Monthly mobile Internet audience has about 62 million users. The mobile Internet users generate 25% of all income Headings.

“the Penetration of smartphones and affordable applications and services in Runet, a year is not comparable with the penetration of personal computers, the audience of the Runet is growing almost exclusively by mobile users,” said raek.

In this regard, user preferences have undergone significant changes in the field of content consumption and order various kinds of services. Virtually all segments of the mobile component is at least the fourth part of the market and in some segments — such as services or digital content — share up to 80-90%. The share of users or customers with mobile devices steadily closer to 40%, showed the results of the study.

the impact of the crisis

In the study, the RAEC had also interviewed industry experts on the impact of the economic crisis on the industry.

“the Experts mostly agree that there is a crisis in the online industry, but agree that it is somewhat softer in comparison with other areas of the domestic economy,” said raek.

the Fifth part of experts is sure that the “bottom” of the economic crisis in the industry is expected in the second half of 2016, and every tenth believes that the bottom has already passed in 2015. While 35% of respondents find it difficult unambiguous answer to this question.

Speaking about the release date of the online economy to pre-crisis rates, 40% of the experts have difficulty with the assessment.

According to the results of a similar survey in mid-2015, restoration of the online economy a third of the expert community (32,7%) predicted by the fourth quarter of 2017 and later. The fifth part of the audience was determined to be more optimistic with the possibility of an end to the crisis by the end of 2016.

According to the results of the current survey “Crisis barometer — 2016″, about 30% of respondents believe 2017 to be the year of recovery. Thus, the stagnation of the online economy will occur for about a year.

Personnel

the Study also showed the labor market recovery in the Internet industry.

If at the end of 2014 or early 2015, the company practiced staff reductions (although not as significant as in other sectors), the second half of 2015, the restoration of the number of vacancies.

For the first nine months of 2016 RAEC observes the growth of demand in Russia for it professionals, 39%, and in Moscow — 31%, outpacing the overall market performance. Assessment RAEC, today the industry employs around 2.3 million people.

“the labour Market in the IT-industry up to 2020 will remain stable indicators of demand for staff. The development of information technologies, their applicability to nontraditional earlier directions, the automation of processes will retain IT specialists as one of the most popular on the labor market”, — said raek.

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BlackBerry will charge the development and sale of smartphones partners Overclockers.ru

Quarterly report conference smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry hinted that it is now a canadian company cannot be considered as not only a manufacturer but also a developer of its own smartphones. More specifically, a status the company intends to lose in the foreseeable future, and to start the reform solved the Indonesia market, the biggest for the brand product.

a Joint venture with a branch of the largest Indonesian Telecom operator will take care not only for the sale and manufacturing of BlackBerry smartphones in this country, but will order them from the development of specialized professionals. Itself BlackBerry in this situation remains the only provider of software solutions and the recipient of the royalties from each sold smartphone brand. BlackBerry has long translated to the production of devices for contractors, with time she will completely refuse and their development. Losses from these reforms is estimated at one hundred people. The remaining experts of the relevant division will be busy in software development.

revenue From the second quarter of the 2017 financial year, which is calendar BlackBerry recently ended, the share of software solutions and services accounted for $ 156 million, which is two times more than a year ago. However, devices have brought the company $ 105 million, but the rejection of their independent sales will allow BlackBerry to increase the rate of profit, which has now reached a historical high of 62%. Not to lose huge amounts in write-off stock – here is just one of the benefits of refraining from the production and sales of smartphones. However, as admitted by CEO John Chen (John Chen), in some markets, BlackBerry is ready to help partners in the implementation of the smartphones of this brand.

In software development BlackBerry is betting on the automotive segment and the operating system QNX, as well as secured version of Android, which for some time used its smartphones. The company determined to withdraw from the production of older models of smartphones. And all new ones will be created by the partners of the company, though, and will continue to use the trademark BlackBerry. In addition to Indonesia, the new distribution model will soon be implemented in China and India.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

BlackBerry will stop developing smartphones, but will give the opportunity to do it to others – 3DNews

the BlackBerry Company announced the termination of development of own hardware and plans for outsourcing the creation of devices to their partners. Although smartphones under the brand name of the BlackBerry remain on the market, the company is totally focused on the software and will not invest money in the development apparatus. The move signals that the company becomes a step closer to completely withdraw from the smartphone market, what is she talking about for several years.

“the Company plans to stop internal development of hardware and transmit this work to their partners,” — said John Chen (John Chen), Executive Director and Chairman of BlackBerry. the “This allows to reduce the investment and increase the profitability of investments.

Less than three years ago BlackBerry had signed a strategic partnership agreement with Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry), under which the companies jointly developed certain BlackBerry smartphones. While Foxconn was responsible for the production and management of material and production reserves, which significantly reduced the participation of BlackBerry in the process of creating their own devices. Now the company plans to cease all research and development activities relating to smart phones, and focus on developing secure versions of the Android operating system (the company has recently introduced its own version of Android 6.0 that is used on the smartphone DTEK50), and applications with enhanced security available through the service BlackBerry Hub.

In addition to Foxconn, BlackBerry is working with other equipment manufacturers. So, released earlier this year, the BlackBerry smartphone DTEK50 is very similar to the phone Alcatel Idol 4, developed by Chinese Corporation TCL. Thus, BlackBerry has at least two partners who can create mobile phones and who already have experience with the canadian company. It is interesting to note that the deal with BlackBerry gave the opportunity for TCL to develop and produce smartphones under three famous brand names: Alcatel, BlackBerry, and Palm. While Foxconn for some time engaged in the development and production of BlackBerry devices, and Nokia (in this case we are talking only about production and sales).

in Addition to the plans to discontinue the development of its own hardware BlackBerry announced on Wednesday and first licensing agreement. Joint venture PT Merah Putih BB will produce and sell their own smartphones with the BlackBerry logo that will be running the protected version of Android 6.0. Though not entirely clear to what extent PT Merah Putih BB develops their own devices and relies on some ODM partners, it is very likely that the device manufacturing is performed by companies like Foxconn or TCL.

BlackBerry is considering a complete withdrawal from the smartphone market for several years now, ever since John Chen became its CEO. The CEO has repeatedly said that software and technology secure communications are key for BlackBerry. At the same time, Mr. Chen cautioned that the company may stop selling their phones if they can’t do it with profit. As you can see, BlackBerry will cease development of its own spacecraft, but will offer to do this for other companies. Thus, the device under the brand name of the BlackBerry remain on the market, but the company will not spend big money on their development. While in some countries, BlackBerry will continue to sell smartphones on its own (USA, Canada), and in some (Indonesia) prefer to give such business partners.

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The colonization of the red planet: Elon Musk will launch a “train” on Mars Вести.Ru

Sensational news that blurs the line between fiction and reality came from Mexico. The ambitious plan to colonize Mars introduced the CEO of SpaceX Ilon Musk. On the red planet, a businessman is going to create the cities and start a space “train” between Earth and Mars.

It was like a fantastic movie, but the author assured: soon, the spacecraft will cruise between Earth and Mars, with the regularity of modern cruise liners. And carry on a hundred or even two hundred people.

“the journey Time may be initially 80 days. But this figure, of course, we will improve. You will see: the flight to Mars will require not more than a month,” says chief Executive officer, chief designer of SpaceX Elon Musk.

the upper stage vehicle can return to the launch site and take off again with a new capsule. To fuel enough to the red planet, the rocket will refuel in orbit.

“Our two planets are actually surprisingly close in many ways. And if we warm Mars, we would have had a thick atmosphere and the same as on Earth, the oceans,” continues to dream of Musk.

Mars is similar to Earth only partially. In a day almost 24 hours, there is water, but it is not drinkable; in some places 20 degrees Celsius, but more often a frost in a minus 150. But Elon Musk is sure that in 100 years there you can create self-sufficient cities where the elected will be able to move in the event of the death of the Earth.

the Idea of colonising Mars a hundred years. Researched this planet and national scientists. And they recall that all these projects have remained on paper.

“Mars is an adverse planet. There is strong radiation. And man is not able to work there more than a year. So, on arrival, it is imperative to have underground homes”, says senior researcher of the State astronomical Institute named after P. K. Sternberg Vladimir Surdin.

the Project of colonization of Mars was presented by the businessman, who stood at the base of the global system of electronic payments and Tesla — she made just a revolution in the automotive industry. While the cost of one ticket to Mars — 10 billion dollars, but the entrepreneur is going to reduce the price to 200 thousand. And it is a little more expensive than the famous electric cars, which are manufactured by his firm.

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Products ASUS ROG graphics GeForce 10 officially presented in Russia – 3DNews

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The media talked about the possibility of refusal of banks from foreign encryption – Lenta.ru

Russian banks could be required to abandon foreign encryption information. On Wednesday, September 28, the newspaper “Vedomosti” with reference to the opinion of industry experts.

“Banks and some state organizations use of cryptographic tools with the American certificates, but they can be revoked at any time,” said one of the members of the working group on the use of the Internet in the economy at administration of the President. Another source told the publication that the initiative is supported by the FSB.

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members of the group do not exclude the appearance of the bill, which will oblige them to use domestic encryption. On users this should not be affected, they stressed.

Government agencies now are required to use cryptography certified in Russia, said a security expert at one of the companies. Banks with mainly foreign cryptography as they work with the Western payment systems. The transition to Russian cryptography will introduce them in additional spending, he warns.

July 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws Spring and asked to calculate the financial costs for the organization of production of domestic software and equipment necessary to store information in accordance with it.

the anti-terrorism package of laws developed by the MP Irina Yarovaya, the head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Viktor Ozerov, in particular, provides for the obligation of Telecom operators, messengers and social networks to store all the information about the content of the conversations and correspondence of the users within six months.

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Mexico was the first in the history of the child from three parents – Moskovsky Komsomolets

in Addition to the genes of the mother and father he received the mitochondrial DNA of another woman.

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With the help of a special medical procedure that involves “transplant” the embryo mitochondrial DNA from the donor in Mexico appeared first in the world “a child from three parents”. It happened back in April of this year, however, the media learned about the event only recently. The boy was born healthy and at five months feels good. While many scientists are inclined to consider the incident a genuine scientific breakthrough, a number of public figures are concerned about the ethical aspect.

В  Мексике  родился  первый в  истории  ребенок  от трех  родителей

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Technology, which was used by American experts for help living in Mexico Jordanians, allows in-vitro fertilization to use not only the genetic material of the father and mother, but also mitochondrial DNA from the second woman. In some cases, this allows to save a child from serious hereditary diseases transmitted on the maternal side, otherwise not too “meddling” in the genome of the embryo. In fact, of the 23 thousand, which makes man as he is, in the mitochondria contains just 37 genes. Moreover, in the case of the birth of the boy intervention in the genome should in no way affect his own children — as already mentioned, mitochondrial DNA is passed to children exclusively from the mother.

the Jordanian couple, who turned to scientists for help, faced difficulties due to the fact that the woman was a passive carrier of Leia’s syndrome — a genetic disease affecting the Central nervous system. Although the woman is the carrier leading to the disease, she does not suffer from the disease, two of her children died at an early age, and another pregnancy ended in miscarriage. The couple decided to refer to specialists with the request to solve their problem the latest and somewhat experimental method.

At the time when professionals under the direction of surgeon John Chan consented to help the pair, the technology of integration of mitochondrial DNA into the genome of the embryo was permitted only in the UK. However, the legislation did not contain as explicit approval and direct prohibition on such practices because of what scholars consider it permissible to apply the technology to this country.

In June that clinical testing of the technology the advent of children from three parents at the moment are successful, said British experts suggested that in the future, this procedure can start practicing in the country.

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Mexico was the first in the history of the child from three parents – Moskovsky Komsomolets

in Addition to the genes of the mother and father he received the mitochondrial DNA of another woman.

Today at 12:32, views: 2744

With the help of a special medical procedure that involves “transplant” the embryo mitochondrial DNA from the donor in Mexico appeared first in the world “a child from three parents”. It happened back in April of this year, however, the media learned about the event only recently. The boy was born healthy and at five months feels good. While many scientists are inclined to consider the incident a genuine scientific breakthrough, a number of public figures are concerned about the ethical aspect.

В  Мексике  родился  первый в  истории  ребенок  от трех  родителей

photo: pixabay.com

Technology, which was used by American experts for help living in Mexico Jordanians, allows in-vitro fertilization to use not only the genetic material of the father and mother, but also mitochondrial DNA from the second woman. In some cases, this allows to save a child from serious hereditary diseases transmitted on the maternal side, otherwise not too “meddling” in the genome of the embryo. In fact, of the 23 thousand, which makes man as he is, in the mitochondria contains just 37 genes. Moreover, in the case of the birth of the boy intervention in the genome should in no way affect his own children — as already mentioned, mitochondrial DNA is passed to children exclusively from the mother.

the Jordanian couple, who turned to scientists for help, faced difficulties due to the fact that the woman was a passive carrier of Leia’s syndrome — a genetic disease affecting the Central nervous system. Although the woman is the carrier leading to the disease, she does not suffer from the disease, two of her children died at an early age, and another pregnancy ended in miscarriage. The couple decided to refer to specialists with the request to solve their problem the latest and somewhat experimental method.

At the time when professionals under the direction of surgeon John Chan consented to help the pair, the technology of integration of mitochondrial DNA into the genome of the embryo was permitted only in the UK. However, the legislation did not contain as explicit approval and direct prohibition on such practices because of what scholars consider it permissible to apply the technology to this country.

In June that clinical testing of the technology the advent of children from three parents at the moment are successful, said British experts suggested that in the future, this procedure can start practicing in the country.

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Judge: Elon Musk is able to prove the case promises to colonize Mars – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, 28 September — RIA Novosti. American businessman Elon Musk, announced the start of an ambitious program for future colonization of Mars, it is able to prove the announced promises, said RIA Novosti member of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky Andrew Jonas.

the head of the company SpaceX has promised to turn earthlings into “interplanetary species” and for several decades to send to Mars about 1 million people who will build there, “self-sustained” city. According to him, the journey will take two years and the ticket will cost about 100 thousand dollars — like a car Luxury or cheap American home.

“Certainly, it is Grand plans for decades. It is important that to implement these plans offers Elon Musk, who has already proved that space is serious. Currently, he is not just a member of the space market, and I would even say that an ideological leader, so his words are weighty. It is also important that the plans to colonize Mars says the man is young enough, and it is the project of his life: the Mask will have to implement the intentions myself. When these people claim in age, it is clear that they can not survive,” — said the expert.

however, according to him, the considerable part of technologies for launchers and the construction of a colony on Mars is still to be developed and tested.

“Some of them Mask works now: the return landing of the first stage to the platform with the help of the jet is Martian rehearsal. But the main technology is yet to develop, and they are connected with the life and development of man on other planets,” said Jonas.

According to him, “deliver humans to Mars is far more simple than it is to build a hassle-free functioning of the colony there”.

“And most important of all, the Mask is unable to provide funding for the project. He is primarily a businessman, and understands that developing technology for Mars, you can make good money and the Earth. Who will be the leader in these technologies, will earn trillions of dollars. So I believe in the project, as I see it the real sources of the funding,” said the Jonah.

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The colonization of Mars: company SpaceX promises to the cities and cheap tickets – Вести.Ru

the head of the company SpaceX Elon Musk presented the plan for the colonization of Mars. A businessman wants to create on the red planet absolutely Autonomous cities. The first people to deliver to Mars planned for 2025. It is necessary in the event of the Apocalypse, which, according to the Mask, is inevitable.

Elon Musk conquering not only space but also energy. The businessman is one of the chairmen and principal shareholders of the company SolarCity. The main owners are his cousins, brothers Rave. And here it turns out that they are famous alleged alien design. In 2015, the firm set a world record in energy efficiency of solar panels. But it turned out that the know-how owned by the company Cogenra, a subsidiary of SunPower Corporation. In any case, as stated in the lawsuit.

“Know-how are generally very difficult to protect. You need to prove what was known about this know-how and that it is appropriately formalized. Of course, if it is proved the fact that it was a trade secret, but the face, despite this, have used this know-how without the consent of the owner, it is an ordinary violation of the rights of intellectual property owner. Then criminal liability. But it is difficult to prove, must be a strong case for legal action,” says Ivan Bliznets, rector, Russian state Academy of intellectual property.

But arguments from the plaintiff, apparently not. In any case, until they have provided. To understand in this whole situation. The main thing — to prove that the development was recorded. That is, Cogenra should be the relevant documents confirming that they entered into the production of solar modules. If this is confirmed, the Mask is high will be fined.

But SolarCity is that the answer Cogenra. It turned out that recently, one of the employees of the company resigned and moved to the position of senior sales Manager at SunPower Corporation, taking with him from the former work place the disc with confidential information.

“Instead of confess and to return the misappropriated our trade secrets, one of the units of SunPower rushes to court with unworthy suit, trying to divert attention from the actions of head office”, — said Jonathan bass, a SolarCity representative.

the Mask now has better things to do claims — the conquest of Mars. Yesterday in Mexico at the Congress of the International Federation of astronauts he presented his ambitious plan to colonize the red planet. So the colony became self-supporting, according to the businessman, there must be around a million people. Of course, Mars will get they are not overnight. To deliver at a time will be 100-200 people. But is colonization from 40 to 100 years.

“the Main obstacle during the flight to Mars is the presence of man in space for 1.5-2 years. Faster will not fit. Flight to Mars lasts for 9 -10 months one way. Radiation so high away from the earth’s atmosphere and magnetosphere that this is a major obstacle during the flight to Mars,” explains Vladimir Surdin, senior researcher of the State astronomical Institute. Sternberg.

Radiation Mask is not so much frightening. That need protecting, he knows. Hopes to create an artificial magnetic field. Also, be willing to compete in terms, for how many will be able to fly to Mars. Initially, he hoped to keep within 80 days, and later to reduce this period to one month. This will be possible thanks to a reusable transport system. It is now developing in SpaceX. It will consist of the spacecraft and the launch vehicle. After delivering the colonists to the orbit, it will return and the ship to refuel, take a course to Mars. Thus, the price of a ticket to the red planet should be about 200 thousand dollars. For comparison: now to get to Mars for $ 10 billion.

“We have to make missions to Mars affordable. And we think, based on before you plan that first flight to the Red planet will be quite expensive. But over time, a flight will cost less than 200 thousand dollars, maybe even less than 100 thousand, it all depends on how many people will be on Board,” says Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX.

Plans for the Mask is really ambitious. The first settlers to Mars needs to get to 2025. Well, the first spacecraft going to the Red planet six years from now, in 2022. Experts believe that this is indeed possible, but the current timeline is realistic.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Elon Musk spoke about the plans of the colonization of Mars Вести.Ru

the head of the company SpaceX, an American businessman Elon Musk has unveiled a plan for the colonization of Mars. According to him, in order that the colony became self-sufficient on the red planet should live about one million people.

to deliver them there, in the next 40-100 years SpaceX will make a few thousand mezhplanetnykh flights. the planet. To deliver people will be using reusable transport system, working on it right now in the company.

it is Assumed that the spacecraft is first with the help of the carrier rocket, which later will return to Earth, will bring the colonists into Earth orbit, where the ship will be refuelled and take a course to Mars. According to preliminary estimates, the price of a ticket to the red planet should be about 200 thousand dollars. “We have to make missions to Mars affordable. And we think, based on before you plan that first flight to the Red planet will be quite expensive. But over time, a flight will cost less than 200 thousand dollars, maybe even less than 100 thousand. It all depends on how many people will be on Board,” said Elon Musk.

Chapter SpaceX hopes to deliver the first astronauts on Mars by 2025 year. The first flight can take about 80 days, then this term I hope to reduce to one month.

in the meantime, Elon Musk is busy with the exploration of the red planet, against his energy Corporation Solar City filed a lawsuit. Competitors accused the company of stealing intellectual property. We are talking about the theft of proprietary technology Kagera, which allegedly allowed Solar City set a record for efficiency of solar panel. Representatives of Mask deny all charges. They are confident that the court will reject the claim, given that neither actual nor legal justification for the claim.

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Head of SpaceX has promised to send to Mars about 1 million people – View

Head space company SpaceX Elon Musk has stated intention over several decades to send to Mars about 1 million people who will build there “self-sustaining” city

According to him, the journey will take two years, and the ticket cost about 100 thousand dollars — as a luxury car or a cheap American home, reports RIA “Novosti”.

“We want to make Mars a reality and do it in our lives,” said Musk the participants of the International Astronautical conference (International Astronautical Congress) held in Mexico.

According to his observation, people need to become “interplanetary” because it is not excluded that in the future the Land can survive the catastrophe, after which the existence will be impossible.

the company plans manned flights to Mars will become possible in the next ten years.

“we may fail, but we will try,” promised the head of SpaceX.

He confirmed the plans, according to which created today for landing on Mars, the Dragon 2 will be launched in “a couple” of years. Martian Dragon next flight is scheduled for 2020.

Of all the planets of the Solar system is Mars, according to SpaceX, the most suitable for colonization by earthlings. First of all, it’s closest to Earth, but more importantly, “was once very similar to Earth, it could be liquid oceans, sufficient sunlight and atmospheric composition, potentially allowing you to grow plants.

Musk involves not just forwarding the flight to the Fiery planet, and the permanent residence there of people in “self-sustaining” town.

today, the entrepreneur, his company is working on a space ship on the Red planet at the same time will be able to go about 100 passengers and 450 tons of cargo. In the future to reduce the cost of flights number of passengers can reach 200.

“You can’t build a self-sustaining colony if the ticket costs $ 10 billion, but if it will cost approximately as the average home in the United States, about 200 thousand dollars… then everyone who wanted it and saved for it, will be able to afford to fly to Mars and live and work there,” said Musk.

He expects that in the next 40-100 years on such ships to Mars will be delivered over 1 million people.

Musk has promised that in future the flights will drop to about 100 thousand dollars.

To achieve its goal, the company is developing a range of technologies, including the ability to refuel on-orbit, reusable spacecraft and on Mars, renewable fuel.

For delivery of the spacecraft into orbit, the company is developing a “Mars rocket” bigger than Saturn V, with its thrust and other parameters are several times higher.

the First stage of the rocket as the launch vehicle, the Falcon 9 will return to the launch site on the Earth after the withdrawal of the ship to an intermediate orbit. Then tier will load extra fuel tank to “catch up” a ship in orbit and to carry out its refueling. And after that the ship will depart at two-year flight to Mars.

Despite the confidence in the success of your project, the businessman who is the main designer in the company, admitted that is unlikely to be “the first people on Mars”. He explained that he wanted “to see how to grow (his) children.”

to Finance the ambitious project the company is going through commercial flight contract with NASA. Musk also announced that it plans to invest in the Mars exploration program all their savings and did not rule out that it will collect donations.

“It’s possible, it’s a reality.” – assured potential investors in Armenia.

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Xiaomi introduced its new flagship smartphone Mi5s and Mi5s Plus – 3DNews

the Flagship smartphone Xiaomi Mi5 was very successful — it is not surprising that the Chinese company were quick to improve this device in the new model Mi5s. This device supports two SIM-cards have replaced the glass cover on the full metal body and got an even more powerful single-chip system Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 821, which in addition to the enhanced performance provides support tri-band aggregation, LTE frequencies. As a bonus, the smartphone is equipped with up to 128 GB of fast flash storage UFS 2.0, and up to 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM. But that’s not all the improvements Xiaomi Mi5s.

the First thing to say about the new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor hidden under the front glass. Xiaomi was considering the integration of this technology since October 2014, when the planned Mi5: ultrasonic sensor allows you to not cut a hole in the glass or body, which is a bit cheaper, aesthetically more pleasant and safer. Ultrasonic sensors also work better with sweaty or dirty fingers, which was a big problem in capacitive sensors.

unfortunately, Mi5 had to use a more traditional fingerprint sensor: only this year the ultrasound modules began to be produced massively. By the way, although the sensor (the manufacturer does not specify whose it is — Qualcomm, Samsung or Synaptics) is hidden under glass in Mi5s, Xiaomi has designated it a little notch, so it was easy to find.

the Second key innovation — of course, camera. The manufacturer decided to use 1/2,3-inch CMOS-matrix Sony with IMX378 reduced compared to Mi5 resolution at 12 MP, but bigger pixels. The camera is equipped with a 6-element lens with an aperture of f/2, dvuhtonnoy led flash, phase detection autofocus, support to shoot HDR photos and 4K video. Probably preserved 4-axle optical stabilization, although the manufacturer does not mention this. Xiaomi boasts a new camera, so I even posted a whole gallery of pictures showing the quality. Wide angle front facing 4-Megapixel camera (viewing angle — 80 degrees) is equipped with a f/2 lens and support for recording videos up to 1080p with automatic quality improvement in real time.

Like its predecessor, Mi5s uses a 5.15 inch display from JDI with a resolution of 1080 × 1920 pixels, but it became brighter (600 nits) and can display up to 95% color range of NTSC. Another important innovation — a pressure-sensitive screen (for the first time among the devices Xiaomi): this ability will certainly be involved in the interface of MIUI OS. There is support for GPS, NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.2. Finally, it is worth to mention the battery is 3200 mAh, and also some increased weight to 145 grams with dimensions 145,6 × 70,3 × 8,25 mm.

In China, pre-orders for the device will be on September 29. The base model (3GB of RAM and 64GB of flash memory) will cost 2,000 yuan (about $ 300), and a more expensive version (4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of flash memory) is 2300 yuan (about $ 345). Available in four color versions: dark gray or gold colored metal and silver or pink matte finish. For 80 yuan (about $ 12) you can buy a case that obscenely much like the HTC Dot View.

At the same event Xiaomi announced and more expensive machine Mi5s Plus, which is equipped with the same Snapdragon chip 821, but with a higher frequency of 2.35 GHz vs of 2.15 GHz), the dimensions are 5.7-inch display from Sharp (Full HD, 550 nits, 94% NTSC, no sensitivity to pressure), more capacious battery 3800 mAh and a slightly different design of the metal case (without the clear plastic lines for antennas with conventional fingerprint sensor on the back side), and a dual 13-Megapixel camera.

the latest innovation is to emphasize. As in the case with smartphones Huawei P9 and P9 Plus, Mi5s Plus to achieve higher image quality is the combination of RGB sensors to obtain color information) and black-and-white matrix (with higher ISO), in both cases — Sony IMX258. Each of the chambers can be used independently, for example, if you want to make an artistic black-and-white photo.

the size of the phone reach 154,6 x 77,7 x 7.95 mm and weighs 168 grams. Other characteristics and color schemes correspond to the apparatus Mi5s. In China taking pre-orders for Mi5s Plus will start in one day with Mi5s, and with 4 GB of RAM and 64-GB flash drive will cost 2300 yuan (about $ 345), and version with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB flash memory — in 2600 yuan (about $ 390).

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The first child from three parents were born in Mexico Lenta.ru

In Mexico in April 2016 was born the child, the conception of which occurred with the mitochondrial DNA of a third person. This writes the magazine New Scientist, on the ethics of reporting a good experience until now.

the Method of “three parents” is to transplant the mitochondrial DNA from a woman donor into the egg of the mother. As a result, the child receives mitochondrial DNA from a third party. Scientists believe that it allows to avoid the influence of mutations from the mother, which can lead to diseases such as the syndrome of diabetes and deafness.

the Operation was conducted in Mexico American surgeon, John Chan (John Zhang). The site was chosen due to the fact that the laws of the States prohibit the application of the methods.

Chane turned a Jordanian couple whose two children died from the syndrome Leia is a hereditary disease, which is accompanied by a neurometabolic syndrome. The necessity of conception from three parents due to the presence of responsible for the development of the disease genes in the maternal mitochondrial DNA.

during the operation, Chan moved the mitochondrial DNA of the female donor into the egg of the mother, securing it thus from the syndrome Leia. At the time of publication the child was five months, and negative health factors it is not fixed.

the Procedure “three parents” was first successfully performed on a healthy human embryos in early 2016.

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