News of the week: neural network and photoshopped images, growth of Yandex shares, Huawei claims $ 1 billion for patents

In this issue read:

• Huawei requires more than $ 1 billion from Verizon for its technology;
• Mail.ru introduced Marusya;
• in September, the first smartphones and tablets on the domestic Astra Linux OS are on sale;
• rules of isolation of the Runet are prepared;
• Enigma simulator created;
• Yandex shares rose to historic highs;
• Microsoft releases the children's designer laptop;
• neural network taught to detect edited photos.

$ 1 billion for Huawei patents

The company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, against which the United States is taking measures, has demanded a license fee of $ 1 billion from the American telecom operator Verizon and its partners. According to representatives of the Chinese company, Verizon is obliged to pay the funds in accordance with the provisions of international law. The technology rights to which belong to Huawei, relate to network equipment, infrastructure, IoT and other industries.
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According to a Verizon spokesperson, the dispute with Huawei is much wider than the conflict between the two companies. The questions raised during the trial affect the state interests of the United States, China and the entire technological sphere in general.

Mail.ru Group introduced a voice assistant named Marusya

Mail.ru Group recently introduced a digital assistant named Marusya . This program is currently available only by invite in test mode. To activate, you must leave a request on the site or ask for an invitation from those users who already participate in the program.

The development of Marusya cost Mail.ru $ 2 million. The assistant helps the user to enter search queries, knows how to talk about the weather, the schedule of cinemas, and launch radio and music. In the future, Marusya will work with other Mail.ru projects, including news feeds, taxis, food delivery, third-party services of partner companies.

In September, tablets and phones on the domestic Astra Linux OS will be available for sale.

This fall in Russia will appear the first mobile devices that run on the domestic operating system. First of all, devices are not intended for private users, but for corporations, military organizations, and industry .

According to market participants, in the public sector there is a demand for mobile solutions without sanction risks. Based on the domestic OS, one smartphone and two industrial-grade tablets will be released. Tablets are designed for "intensive use in harsh environments." Order gadgets will be available in September this year.

Roskomnadzor presented the operation of the law on the isolation of Runet

This week, Roskomnadzor laid out for discussion the procedure for implementing the law on the isolation of Runet . The draft order was called “On the approval of telecommunication message routing rules in the case of centralized management of a public telecommunications network”.

The rules are applied “by telecom operators, owners of technological networks, owners of traffic exchange points, owners of communication lines crossing the state border of the Russian Federation and other persons having an autonomous system number in the event of centralized management of a public telecommunications network with regard to telecommunication messages, if the recipient or sender of such messages is a user of communication services in the territory of the Russian Federation ”.

Designed by the Enigma simulator

The participant of the sixth annual competition of industrial design Hackaday Prize 2019 presented simulators of encryption machines Enigma and Enigma Z30 . Previously, the encryption machine was released in several versions, including commercial use. The existence of the Z30 version became known only in the early 2000s.


The craftsman was able to repeat the principle of operation of emulators in more modern devices. One of them is a device based on Arduino Nano. Keyboard encryption machine displayed on the touch screen.

Quotes of the shares of the company "Yandex" rose to historic highs

Yesterday, Yandex employees got a pleasant surprise. Options of the company increased in price due to the fact that the President of the Russian Federation on the air said he was proud of the company . True, the growth was a little more than 1%, but this was enough for the securities to become more expensive than ever.

Immediately after the end of Vladimir Putin’s speech, Yandex’s shares were traded on the Moscow Exchange for 2,499 rubles each. per paper, and at 15:03 reached a historic high of 2,532 rubles. for paper (1.3% more than the opening price of the auction).

Microsoft and start-up Kano released a designer from which to build a laptop

Educational startup Kano has entered into a partnership agreement with Microsoft . Both companies will present a designer for older children in the fall, which is designed to create a laptop with a touch screen.

The system is called Kano PC, its design is similar to the design of the device from Microsoft, which is called the Surface PC. The system consists of a tablet with all the necessary electronic components inside and the keyboard into which the tablet is inserted. The diagonal of the tablet screen is 11.6 inches.

In addition, the designer allows you to learn programming, or rather, the basics of programming.

The neural network was taught to identify photos processed in Photoshop

The Adobe team has begun work on a project that is being implemented with the University of California. It is about creating an artificial intelligence that can identify content that is edited using company products . This is the first development in the series, the CNN neural network can distinguish between images that have been applied to Adobe filters, not all, but the most popular. The neural network determines the influence of the graphic editor is almost twice as effective as the average person.

In the process of sampling, the developers selected several thousand images from the Web and processed each of them using a script in Adobe Photoshop. A professional artist was also invited, who made additional adjustments to some of the photos. The distortions were varied: the position of the eyes was changed, the nose or cheeks were made thinner, the lips parted wider in a smile.