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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started using a new system for recognizing faces, silhouettes of people and cars in Russia. "The system is already being used in five regions of the country," Andrey Telenkov, CEO of the Ntechlab developer company, is quoted by TASS. - The solution for silhouettes causes serious interest of our customers, we have a lot of requests."

The instruments are intended for the Chinese mission to study the asteroid Kamoaleva

TASS, June 23. Specialists of the Institute of Space Research (IKI RAS) plan to develop three instruments for studying the plasma shells of asteroids and comets. They can be used in the Chinese space mission starting in 2024 to study the asteroid Kamoalev and comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro. This was told by the director of the ICI RAS Anatoly Petrukovich at an online meeting of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on space.

Terrorists create computer games that involve users in game situations of committing terrorist attacks, said Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB of Russia.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense published a video demonstrating the capabilities of an air-based combat laser system. The tests, according to the agency, were successful, and the drone was shot down.

Earlier it was also reported that Admiral Vinogradov will receive new missile weapons and air defense systems

The new ship's automated control system (CASU) 3R-60U-1155 will be installed on the frigate of the project 1155M "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet.

The command of the Colombian Navy has initiated the process of acquiring new navigation radars for its light frigates FS-1500 of the Almirante Padilla class.

In addition, contracts are being prepared for the creation of coastal infrastructure for the maintenance of electronic weapons installed on ships of a foreign customer

Concern "Granit-Electron" (part of the corporation "Tactical missile weapons") in the near future will upgrade all ship-based automated control systems (CASU) 3R-60UE on ships of a foreign customer.

It monitors the surface and air situation and provides information about it to the command posts of the coastal surveillance system and the national Coast Guard forces

The over-the-horizon radar station (ZG radar) "Sunflower-E" was presented at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) in St. Petersburg.

The widespread use of unmanned vehicles: flying, surface and underwater, is an important part of the modernization of the Russian Navy. Drones will rid the ships of some intelligence tools, providing in return more advanced and powerful tools for monitoring the situation, and will allow the fleet to successfully resist new threats - for example, hypersonic weapons.

Russian specialists will work together with their colleagues from the United States in the field of detecting ransomware hackers-this will be facilitated by the agreement concluded by the presidents of the two countries. This was announced on Wednesday at the IX Moscow Conference on International Security by the director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov.

Russia is working on the issue of supplying Belarus with new radar stations, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) of Russia told Interfax.

It seems that Tesla has acquired one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. At the moment, the installation has a performance of 1.8 exaFLOPS, and the bottom line is that this is only a third of the future Dojo supercomputer. 

Elon Musk's company plans to deploy a total of 12 thousand satellites with a total cost of about $10 billion, according to Reuters]

Elon Musk's company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) plans to provide wireless Internet around the world by September using the Starlink satellite system. This was reported on Tuesday by Reuters with reference to the president of the American aerospace corporation Gwynne Shotwell.

The Israelis conducted a series of tests of a powerful laser system installed on the aircraft. With its help, it was possible to destroy the drones.

NSU signed a long-term partnership agreement with the State Corporation Roscosmos and the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring

Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Roscosmos and Roshydromet will launch satellites created at the university to monitor "space weather" - phenomena in near-Earth space. This was reported by the press service of the NSU.

Washington has imposed so many anti-Russian sanctions that it has almost completely lost the ability to exert pressure on Moscow by this method, former Pentagon chief and former CIA director Robert Gates said on Tuesday, June 22, speaking at a virtual event organized by the Ronald Reagan Institute.

NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope stopped working a week ago, on the evening of June 13, due to a failure of the memory module of the onboard payload computer. Attempts to fix the problem have so far been unsuccessful, so the device can not yet conduct scientific research. This is reported by the publication Astronomy Now.

Expected for more than six months, the deal to acquire a controlling share of the developer of the line of Russian processors "Baikal" is closed. The details of the transaction are not known, but it is obvious that the share of the arrested owner of "T-platforms" in this organization has been reduced to a minimum, and possibly to zero.

The agreement is aimed at the comprehensive development of the joint communication system, said the head of the Main Communications Department of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin

The agreement on the joint (unified) communication system of the armed forces of the CIS member states is aimed at improving the stability of the management of the troops of the parties in solving joint tasks. This was stated on Monday by the head of the Main Communications Department of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin.

Self-driving cars will be able to become full-fledged road users in five to ten years, current communication technologies are vulnerable to hacking and do not allow this, Dmitry Peskov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of digital and technological development, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.