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crawling around in the country's thermal and nuclear power plants. these truly purpose built bots can perform all kinds of tasks and repair. unlikely. they did have another very good reason. on the first a total of ten russian companies were singled out at the tech success . and organizers designed the competition to acknowledge the country's fastest developing and most innovative small and medium sized businesses as well as boost their profile on the world stage coming into the ceremony the list had already been to thirty companies which represented the entire spectrum of industries and regions
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across russia to. create a company hardware maker enter school and a handful of medical firms on the lookout for the next device are made to keep us all on our feet another one of those in the. electronic archive. catalog it's also one of the. partners l r co-produce is. all about documentation files for. you can also be used for some of the more cool. for example the push to museum of fine art in moscow is in the process of digitizing many of its most treasured works capturing the timeless beauty of the
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paintings and objects that grace its walls and hollows requires more than just a simple. two thousand. to improve the city there on the me to thousands. proved to the point. as far as we know everyone switched to digital devices. there is a wide range of devices he. presents. unmatched anywhere in the world. digitization needs the pushkin museum has turned to a. company specializing in super high resolution images they claim their system
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is the best way to get a top notch completely objective representation of priceless pieces of art. don't have to take the paintings down through the walls they do need to set up and calibrate the light just right doing so ensures the resulting image is an entirely accurate reproduction of the painting as it is in real life but today the resolution of even the best. exceeds twenty megapixels. purposes simply isn't enough. to develop an entire set of technologies that allows their technicians to boost picture resolution without being the image or losing any data through stitching software. this requires a bit more ingenuity than you might think. instead of just snapping the whole painting at those takes individual pictures of each section to avoid distorting the original demands what's called the shift. at the root is
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a camera with the usual c.c.d. sensor which is what converts to incoming photons into a digital image however the lens itself is made to rotate around the center following light and information to the stationary c.c.d. sensor the more separate pictures it snaps the higher the resolution. a painting for twelve sections yields a two hundred forty megapixel picture such a clear image. damage. to the conclusion the different pieces of og need to be filmed using different color palettes typically this consists of two hundred fifty six color feels just that this may be insufficient for example when we work with complex pieces of the plane. in such cases we use extended. to fifteen hundred color fields. to ensure that we give the best possible match. the resulting images are so precise in terms of detail and color that they can
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serve as the master print against which future potential fakes could be compared these kinds of super high rez unbelievably accurate reproductions are the first word when it comes to archiving masterpieces and even for the creation of high quality catalogs. or two dimensional scanning methods do the job for paintings and pictures like these they only give us one side of the story when we talk about three d. objects that means all kinds of additional information is hiding just out of sight in places like the fair a pint of monastery technology ensures that no detail is left behind the aging interiors of this beautiful example of medieval russian art has been filmed and put on display for all to see and treasure. here still use the same shift when set up to take additional steps to ensure light is properly evenly cast on the segment that they're filming the images they get are indispensable for stores as they study and understand what exactly needs to be done to keep things like the dionysus
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fresco around for future generations to enjoy. and the technology employed here has benefits if you never make it out to the fair part of monastery yourself. as pictures you can explore the walls of survive centuries and you can rest assured knowing that you're seeing the frescoes exactly as they are in real life the color palette is a difficult the lighting presents the image as it was intended. crucially the proper perspective of the arcs and curves are kept intact as a result of the shift lens. therefore you could almost feel the glare of heavenly inspiration jumping out through your screen. but there's another kind of scanning out there that involves a near constant monitoring of the skies this is the most cool ground station of a company called scan x. which is recognized as one of the top thirty innovative companies at the tech success center more than we mentioned earlier it all started with rather simple computerized weather stations worked out by moscow state university researchers in
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one thousand nine hundred one the company developed these helix shaped weather data reception stations which proved useful for schools and state agencies alike but their big breakthrough came in the mid ninety's when they decide to revolutionize the field of data reception. was. designed and built a so-called personal data reception station but it was unlikely that it was much smaller for example as there is so three satellite reception stations measure twelve. one like this one which is about three metres and needed while one hundred people to maintain it. want to achieve that is that even a person who is not very good with computers. parade the system in the course of two days but it can also be installed on many roads and streets small size and weight. as satellites pass overhead images from space are being down to scale x. is receivers for this company the main idea is to be able to get the pics in real time and they have to set up
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a network big enough to spend the entire country. in russia itself to scan this equipment the sky is full force its own centers as provide the kid for universities as well as state weather emergency and natural resource monitoring agencies in total schelling's has played over two hundred fifty stations across the globe. many doesn't operate its own satellite. what it does do is allow for the images to reach those who need them faster and more conveniently than otherwise possible but they're more than just space imaging middle men there technicians have to rework the pics to highlight just what they're looking for. their images which can be a static the stunning in their own right can serve a myriad of purposes many of the space snippets are for government watchdogs but they can also be used by concerned citizens in groups to spot illegal deforestation or even track poachers over their most recognizable alternative applications is
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likely internet mapping services which they provide for russia's donat online matchmaker yandex scanning says presence on the market has been driving the industry forward with their strategy having been dictated by financial constraints early on their no helping push a slimmer more effective approach to space imaging was basically demonic belies the market access to data in the process and data went to one big national center then it was either sold all distributed freely or depending on whatever the government policy was and by the way in many countries it still works that way and we have given you this want let's say particularly well off that what you need to to get this data on their personal computers is a fundamental change whether good or bad people are going to use it to their benefit depends on us. and how we teach people to use it but it's for the best way we can't ignore the problems that the old faces in a war. that mantra lies at the heart scan axis cause muslims are you web
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sites where anyone can monitor potential environmental problems they've created a similar site especially for government agencies to keep an eye on emergency situations for space there's nowhere for forest fires to hide and scan it's going to also help both the authorities and anyone really capture things like oil spills which may not necessarily be obvious to the untrained eye on first glance. then of course some of their shots can be used to simply check up on how construction is progressing in preparation for the olympic games in sochi with two years left until the opening ceremony you can witness the landscape being changed right before your eyes. over the years scan it has accumulated a sizeable archive of all the uploaded data all told they've got more than two hundred terabytes of space images on record all of which they hope the world a more transparent place. through their attention to open innovations forum given
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that it was spread out over some twenty thousand square meters of exhibition space and there were more than one thousand display we probably could have done several shows just on the company's technology present so over the coming months don't be too surprised to see more about some of those innovators mentioned at the top. meeting from moscow there were quite a few other important bits of news items in the world recently as well more on them right after the break. an issue free cretaceous and free transport charges. coming to terms free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media. dot com.
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oh and welcome back to technology update in recent weeks there's been a veritable avalanche of big announcements in the world for that reason we've had it out to the newly opened skolkovo cube were many of the world's biggest players. currently setting up shop we've come out here to see just how all the latest from a russian point of view. to see. enthusiastic fans. can be found. something. basically market is getting more competitive with.
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change the whole. to account for one hundred percent of the. very very small sliver of control. however in russia. has a little. entertainment . content. the microsoft surface for creating.
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a very convenient cover. that is. well everyone is probably well aware of the major. in terms of traditional desktop . systems. computers out there. doesn't always translate into the coming months. as the world becomes. they can't sit on the sidelines in the. early one nine hundred ninety s. the company has pared its surface tablet launch. version of windows.
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on the mobile device. hard to reverse. it is hard to say if they'll be successful. to showcase their new operating system the company parties across the globe at the end of october. for the company though is the fact that in recent years microsoft has shown that it's able to branch out from its traditional strongholds and still find success early lead in terms of gesture recognition software it's connects and related gaming systems proved a major hit for. the real thing to see at the launch party unveiling of windows along with the much touted surface tablet the company has totally revamped its windows operating system from the ground up. developers have ditched their iconic start button all together one thing probably everyone can agree upon is that a total retool this client. company employs.
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engineers. for the first. over twenty years ago today. the overarching theme of this new system is to. create a similar experience across all devices that means that the way you interact with your home p.c. will be the same as how you surf on your mobile gadgets. coming from abroad. russian companies also announced a number of big projects. the one that made the biggest headlines. no less important their announcement. now. will be able to reconfigure devices.
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as well as replacing the google. of course. they won't even need it says they will have. this newly launched gateway to the web is another optimized quote me a base for hours or the developers have incorporated the presser which prescience the incoming traffic to allow for faster surfing what used to be just a. combined address and search tool crucially this ought to be another warning sign to google which as you can see by comparing the two companies offerings directly compete on many fronts. with this latest move appears to be trying to expand its so-called ecosystem. is one of the country's two largest email servers and dominates the search engine game its own
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browser the app store to help all of their online products together more seamlessly . the web the stillbirth rumors about potential partnerships with apple and microsoft providing that these services in russia new products and back channel chats. side producers are confident that they have an ace up their sleeve when it comes to keeping one step ahead of the competition and its biggest and most important markets in a world where information is power looks to be in the pole position. of information about how people use the internet that's helps us make confident predictions page. this enables also to deliver the data to user. there's a lot of competition in this. kind of like.
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there is a serious challenge on the russian market. which is also recently come out with a whole range of announcements starting with its own browser. go to an overhaul of its interface and services. showing that it's not just a one horse race in terms of russian internet mail or you gathered bloggers and tech heads alike for a big event of its own. conference the company seemed to differentiate itself from the likes of you by focusing much more on the lighter perhaps funder side of our online world and the main thing that i took away from the presentations and the event as a whole was the c.e.o. is focused on the intersection of entertainment and information. through appears to be quite comfortable with its focus on the entertainment minded internet users you . three percent of mail. if i'm not mistaken. network services.
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or clear demonstration. with. the online company providing entertainment. to be no real surprise that one of the biggest pieces of news from. the world. pace this. has been made available in russia before. by crytek has been billed as the only free online first person shooter of its kind so far more than four million people have signed up to join the action. elements of the game mechanics has been tested to perfection the thing is. you can't make any mistakes if a game is. exploited to their advantage. that the virtual world is built upon will collapse straight away the reason. to be good is it has to go through full in detail checks. of all game mechanics created by developers that never even reach
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the game. ever imagined in addition to those game mechanics everything from the interface to physiological responses get tried out for starters they check to see if things like maps and extra information are easy to see on the screen. heart rate and sweat all measure to make sure gamers are properly games throughout various stages additionally the developers want to ensure that the little training sessions adequately prepare you for real time action but with me are you having already lost your face the game designers of the world famous team have been tasked with a new blockbuster they expect gamers around the globe. i. develops its own games to be working on a so-called triple a great. game over brand new generation
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it won't be ready for release years but will already. its budget is a big. blockbuster hit every company can afford games only five or six of the biggest market players are able to spend as much as twenty to thirty million dollars. fifty billion dollars. payoff. time.
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the. line. would be soon which brightened if you knew about some move from funds to impression. these clues don't totty don't come. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know what i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.
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