Amazon voice assistant will learn to identify different users by their voices. About this writes The Time with reference to sources. According to the publication, Amazon has been working on this opportunity since the summer of 2015. The option has a working name Voice ID. It is assumed that Alexa will, using this function, perform certain commands given to a specific person.

A session of the Sochi Investment Forum (today completed work), dedicated to financing infrastructure projects in Russia, it seemed that it did not promise the assembled anything but boredom. The audience patiently prepared to listen to a hackneyed record about the importance of building modern roads and high -speed railways in the country and urgency of renewal of housing and communal services funds.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ordered the Presidium of the Kurgan Regional Court to revise the case of the teacher Evgenia Chudnovets, convicted of repost, the video. It is reported by RIA Novosti. In February, the Prosecutor General’s Office asked to cancel the verdict in February. The Armed Forces considered the arguments of the “deserving attention,” the representative of the court told RIA Novosti.

Visa began the development of a privilege program for bonus cards. This was told to Vedomosti by the director of the Department of New Products of VISA in Russia Anton Krasnenkov. He did not reveal the details to the publication, but said that the company also works on a new loyalty program, which may be built into the processing of the payment system.

The court in the United States sentenced the American Alexander Posobilov to 11 years and three months of prison for illegal export of microelectronics to Russia at $ 50 million. This was reported on the website of the US Ministry of Justice. As Reuters explained, Podozobilov moved to the United States in 2001, in 2008 he received American citizenship. He worked as a procurement director at Arc Electronics Inc.

The head of the Ministry of Labor, Maxim Topilin, in an interview with RBC, announced the “man -made” deficiency of the Russian pension system. In his opinion, additional functions of the Pension Fund (PFR) and government benefits to the insurance premium tariff lead to this.

The YouTube video service announced the launch of its own online TV for US residents. This was announced by the director of the company Susan Vojitsky, reports The Verge. The service is called YouTube TV. With its help, you can connect both to the four main broadcasting networks of the country (ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC), and to cable. At the same time, the service does not access Comedy Central, MTV, CNN and Discovery Communications. YouTube TV will be launched in a few months.

The number of Russian children adopted by foreigners in four years has decreased by three times. This was announced by the chairman of the Supreme Court (Sun) of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev, reports TASS. “In 2016, the courts made 13.5 thousand adoption decisions. At the same time, the priority of adoption by Russian citizens is withstanding. During the year, 430 decisions on adoption by foreign citizens were made - three times less than in 2013, ”Lebedev said.

The court in the Vladimir region sentenced a resident of Gorokhovsets Mikhail Palchuk by one year in prison and a trial period of one year for the initiation of hatred of anti -fascists. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office.

Primorye governor Vladimir Miklushevsky, head of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin and the head of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko can resign until the end of 2017. This is stated in the report of the political consultant Valentin Bianchi, which is referred to by Kommersant. The author of the report calls Miklushevsky because of his conflicts with local elites, corruption surrounded and complex relations with the envoy.

Russia is interested in providing direct support for the Belarusian economy. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Bishkek, Interfax reports. “If you look at the numbers that the IMF provides, you will see very impressive numbers in the hidden and direct support of the Belarusian economy [from Russia]. But we do not regret it, because what is called “long”, and the Russian economy will receive this benefit, ”said the Russian leader.

Since 2017, online cinemas will have to receive rental certificates, Vedomosti write . This is indicated in the decree of the government, which entered into force. It states that certificates should receive distributors showing films in cinemas, material medium and “other technical methods”. What are other technical methods, the resolution is not specified, the Vedomosti notes.

By the century of 1917, we asked the specialist historians in that era to tell about the causes and circumstances of the development of revolutionary events that remain relevant to now. The leading researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kirill Soloviev, explains how the public political culture of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century formed the ground for the revolution.

The head of the Supreme Court (Armed Forces) of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev agrees with the idea to cancel criminal punishment for repeated violations at rallies, RIA Novosti reports . “If we talk about my personal point of view, then I agree,” said Lebedev. He clarified that this is not the position of the Armed Forces, since the court did not discuss this issue collegially.

South Korea turned to Russia with a request to intercept four North Korean citizens suspected of involvement in the murder of the half -brother of the DPRK leader Kim Jong Nam, but was refused. About this with reference to the diplomatic source writes "Chunan Ilbo." According to the publication, the Malaysia police found that four DPRK citizens who observed the murder left the country with flights through Jakarta, Dubai, Moscow and Vladivostok.