All posts tagged "Russia"
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FindFace app is like Shazam, but for faces
A new facial recognition app, FindFace allows users to photograph anybody in the crowd and find their identities...
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Russian embassy tweets: Or how not to run an effective propaganda on twitter
“In Putin’s Russia, it is not game developers who use official Government images, but the Russian Government who...
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Russia and Europe have their eyes set on the Moon; will launch mission in 5 years
Russian and European space agencies have set their eyes on the Moon – specifically its South Pole –...
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Europe’s satnav closer to reality with Galileo satellites 9, 10 scheduled for launch
Europe’s next two satellites in the series of Galileo satellites are finally ready for launch after a string...
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Research team trapped on island after being surrounded by polar bears
A team of unarmed researchers have been trapped in their research station on a remote Russian island after...
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Wooden statue found in 1890 said to be 11,000 years old
Egyptian pyramids are one of the oldest man-made structures that we know of, but a new wooden statue...
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Cosmonauts carry out five-hour space walk; carry out maintenance work on ISS
International Space Station (ISS) crew members Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of ROSCOSMOS carried out...
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Commercial fishing in Arctic ocean banned
In a bid to prevent unregulated commercial fishing in the high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean,...
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Astronauts aboard the ISS will be staying a little while longer: NASA
Recent loss of Russia’s Progress 59 spacecraft has forced US space agency NASA and its international partners to...
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Russia’s Progress 59 spotted? Said to burn up in atmosphere this Friday
Astronomers have seemingly captured Russia’s lost Progress 59 spacecraft entering the atmosphere over South Africa using the country’s...