Jigsaw, a company owned by Alphabet (Google's parent company), has introduced a free service called Assembler, designed to determine the authenticity of photographs and recognize traces of editing on them. The program can detect both photo merging or copying of objects, as well as deepfakes created using neural networks. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Maryland, and the University of Naples in Italy were involved in the development of Assembler.

The Democratic Party has announced preliminary results from the Iowa caucuses . With 62% of the votes counted, Pete Buttigieg is in the lead with 26.9% of the delegates. Bernie Sanders is getting 25.1%, Elizabeth Warren is getting 18.3%, Joe Biden is getting 15.6%. Party spokesman Troy Price, announcing the results, called the delay in publishing them "unacceptable" and apologised for it.

The Kaliningrad Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has filed a lawsuit against the publication "Novye Kolesa" over publications about the death of Ivan Vshivkov in a police station due to burns. The department believes that the articles were published with the aim of "damaging the business reputation" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and demands that the articles be removed.

FSB agents reportedly interrogate the administrators of a popular Telegram channel known for spreading ‘kompromat.’ Apparently they wanted to cash out. In a media landscape starved for information about the byzantine goings-on of officialdom, public channels on the instant messaging service Telegram have grown immensely popular in Russia.

Teodor Shanin, who modernized Russia’s higher education system for the humanities, dies at 89 Alexander Utkin for Meduza On February 4, the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES), more commonly known as “Shaninka,” announced the passing of its founder, sociologist Teodor Shanin. Irina Kravtsova asked Anatoly Kasprzhak, who succeeded Shanin as MSSES rector, how his mentor changed higher education in the humanities in Russia.

In 2011, an English-language forum called IronMarch.org appeared online. Within a few years, it had become what the British tabloid The Sun called “Facebook for Nazis.” The forum’s users organized a number of neo-Nazi groups, including the Atomwaffen Division in the U.S. and the Antipodean Resistance in Australia.

The European Court of Human Rights has communicated the complaint of Alexei Navalny and Mediazona about censorship by the Russian authorities due to the ban on the publication of an investigation into the vacation of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko on the yacht of businessman Oleg Deripaska. The complaint is communicated under articles on freedom of expression and the limits of using restrictions on rights.

According to the Baza publication, on January 27, the FSB economic security officers detained, but soon released a resident of Moscow Alexander Gusov and another man, whose name is still unknown (according to the source of Medusa, close to the special service, the FSB Constitutional Service Office may also be involved).

Theodore Shanin died - the founder of Shaninka. His successor Anatoly Kasprzhak explains how Shanin made a Russian humanitarian education to modern Alexander Utkin for Medusa Theodore Shanin. July 2018 On February 4, the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) announced the death of its founder - sociologist Theodore Shanin.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets will go to work at Sberbank. RBC writes about this, citing three sources. According to the publication, on February 4, Golodets was already introduced to the team. At her new job, she will oversee social and medical programs. Olga Golodets, who has held the position of Deputy Prime Minister since 2012, resigned along with Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet on January 15, 2020 and did not get into the new government of Mikhail Mishustin.

In 2011, an English-language forum called IronMarch.org appeared online. Within a few years, it had become what the British tabloid The Sun called “Facebook for Nazis.” The forum’s users organized a number of neo-Nazi groups, including the Atomwaffen Division in the U.S. and the Antipodean Resistance in Australia.

The Product Manager of the Committee Publishing House Denis Shiryaev released the updated version of the short film of the Lyumier brothers “The arrival of the train to the La-Sota Station”, the premiere of which took place in 1896. Denis shiryaev Using neural networks, Shiryaev improved the image quality: raised resolution to the modern 4K (using the Gigapixel AI algorithm) and increased the frame rate to 60 per second (using the Dain algorithm). He also added a sound “for the atmosphere”.

Melina Mara / The Washington Post / Getty Images candidate of president from the Democratic Party Elizabeth Warren welcomes Aiova voters before the first coks. De-Momin, Iowo, February 3, 2020 The first stage of the nomination of the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, held on February 3 in Aiov, ended in failure: the party could not summarize the coats. Presumably, this will be done only in a day.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay more than a million euros in compensation to 50 Russian citizens who complained about experiencing torture and illegal searches at the hands of police. MBK Media first reported on the ruling in Russian, citing four different ECHR orders . 835,000 euros were awarded to 29 Russians who had been tortured by police.

Four officers of the Russian FSB Special Purpose Center who died in Syria came to the country to ensure security during a meeting between the top leaders of Syria and Turkey. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta, citing sources. The officers were snipers and were in Syria on a so-called "legendary mission", that is, not under their real names.