All posts tagged "Russia"
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Ritika Tiwari | 18 May 2016
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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Preetam Kaushik | 16 May 2016
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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Ravi Mandalia | 17 October 2015
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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Megha Kedia | 10 September 2015
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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Megha Kedia | 3 September 2015
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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Ravi Mandalia | 30 August 2015
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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Ravi Mandalia | 11 August 2015
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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Ravi Mandalia | 17 July 2015
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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Ravi Mandalia | 13 May 2015
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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Ravi Mandalia | 6 May 2015
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...