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Russia is one of only a handful of countries to have developed its own internet, including its own search engines, e-mail systems, and social networks. To get to the roots of this sovereign internet, I spend a day hanging out with Dmitry Grishin, co-founder and chairman of Russian internet giant Mail.Ru Group. Grishin is a technology legend in Russia. We cruise Moscow in his Tesla, check out his gadget collection at the Mail.Ru offices, and dine at the highest restaurant in Europe, because that's what Russian techno oligarchs do.
As for the budding tech oligarchs, well, there are plenty of those running around Moscow, too. Over the past few years, Russia's wealth of smart, aggressive entrepreneurs has yielded a new generation of world-class technology companies. There's Prisma, which uses artificial intelligence to turn your photos and videos into works of art, and Group-IB, one of the world's top cybersecurity firms, which has an unmatched track record when it comes to hunting down hackers.
But the most stunning—and creepiest—software developed in Russia is something called FindFace. It's an app that lets you take a picture of a stranger and then almost instantly, using a facial-recognition algorithm, find the person on a social network. If you're hoping the software doesn't work that well, you'll be disappointed: When I tested the app, it found the right faces all the freaking time. Privacy is so 2015.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:19AM
This is an article about a couple of Russian websites and applications. These all use the same internet we use everywhere else. This is not at all about creating a new or innovative internet. I was expecting an article about some new decentralized network (aka internet) tech, like maybe some neat use of software defined networking, a replacement for the IP protocol, or maybe a solution to the DDOS inherent problem we have due to unlimited unsolicited traffic delivery: you know, something about a new internet technology, not some random sites.
While I find this article interesting, I find the title incorrect. We are technical people who come here for news: you don't need to come up with important sounding misleading titles for legitimately good and interesting content.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:44AM
There was a story about efforts toward a national computer network in the Soviet Union.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:11AM
Thank you. Was about to post the same but noticed you already had. Words have meaning and selecting right ones does matter...