The head of the Japanese company SoftBank Masaesi Song said that in the coming years he intends to create a number of funds that invest 100 trillion yen ($ 880 billion) in technology. This is written by CNN. Now SoftBank already has one investment fund that invests in technology. SoftBank Vision was created in May 2016, and its goal was to attract $ 100 billion. A year later, this goal was 93%.

The Presidium of the Higher Certification Commission (VAK) considered insignificant claims to the dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and recommended that he leave the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences for him. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the source. The information was confirmed by one of the authors of the complaint against the dissertation Ivan Babitsky. Later, the data was confirmed in the press service of the Ministry of Culture.

The cost of shares of the Magnit trading retailer per day fell by 17%. This is evidenced by the data of the London Stock Exchange. At a minimum, the shares cost $ 31.34 per paper. The company's capitalization amounted to $ 16 billion, Bloomberg reports . Earlier on October 20, the company published financial reports according to which the company's net profit was reduced by 2 times and amounted to 6.923 billion rubles.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced to three years the former governor of the Novosibirsk region Vasily Yurchenko, accused of abuse of authority. This is stated in the official message of the UK. Yurchenko was charged with part 2 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority). SK asked him to sentenced him to the four years of the colony. The defense of the ex-governor claimed that there was no corpus delicti in his actions.

A group of archaeologists from Germany said that she found in the vicinity of the city of Eppelsheim, in the former direction of the Rhine, teeth, which most likely belonged to the Afars Australopithecus. The remains of this ancestor of a person before that have never found in Europe. Parts of the skeleton known in archeology as “ Lucy ” were previously found in Ethiopia.

A minor participant in the action on June 12 in Moscow Mikhail Galyashkin pleaded guilty. This was told by Interfax by his lawyer Sergey Badamshin. “My client fully pleaded guilty, but his actions were reflex in nature: he sprayed the pepper spray in order to protect himself and citizens,” the lawyer explained.

Microsoft's market value exceeded $ 600 billion for the first time in 17 years. About this writes "Interfax" with reference to Factset. The last time the company's capitalization exceeded this mark in January 2000. The cost of shares on October 19 increased by 0.4% reaching $ 77.91. Since the beginning of the year, their price has increased by 25.4%. According to experts surveyed, increasing value may indicate a company's revival due to its success in the field of cloud technologies.

On October 20, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced the former Governor of the Novosibirsk Region Vasily Yurchenko for the exceeding authority to three years. For the latest history of Russia, 27 chapters of the regions became the defendants of criminal cases (16 of them at the time of the initiation of the case had current powers). The case against Yurchenko was opened in 2014, after which five more heads of regions became the defendants in criminal investigations.

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Built Robotics introduced a prototype of an unmanned excavator. Wired writes about this. The excavator is a Bobcat mini-loader with a lidar, a camera, a GPS receiver and a wireless module installed in it. Compared to conventional unmanned vehicles, the Built Robotics excavator has a more powerful GPS, which allows the robot to evaluate the location with an accuracy of a centimeter. In addition, the Lidar device is specially designed for large vibrations and blows that occur during construction.

The cost of bitcoin first exceeded $ 6 thousand, setting a new record. This is evidenced by Coindesk. Screenshot of the site Coindesk.com At 18:30 Moscow time, the price of cryptocurrency was $ 6003. During the day, the cost of bitcoin increased by 4.43% ($ 252). @widget type = post-home id = 86994 Cryptocurrency reached $ 5 thousand in early September, but in the middle of the month its cost fell below $ 3 thousand.

The St. Petersburg apartment of the eldest daughter of the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin Anna was arrested due to non-payment of debts. This was reported by Open Media. The project with reference to the discharge from the USRN writes that Anna Sobyanina is now forbidden to perform any registration actions with her apartment of 204.9 square meters in the house on Malaya Konyushenny Street in St. Petersburg.

Bitcoin Banklkomat in the South California store. Photo: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Chris Skinner, perhaps, is the most popular financial blogger in Britain, with greed tracks all the significant events taking place at the front edge of banking and payment technologies. His last book “Valueweb.

The scandal of sexual harassment of producer Harvey Weinstein reached Russia. On Thursday, the head of Roskino and the host of Channel One Ekaterina Mcturidze in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter said that she was harassed by the producer. According to Mcturidze, she first met with Weinstein at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003. The producer invited Mcturidze to the lunch in his room, but she refused. Then he left her his phone number.

The Director General of Roskino Ekaterina Mcturidze was harassed by the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. She reported this in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. She said that she first met with Weinstein in 2003 at the Berlin Film Festival, where she interviewed George Clooney for Channel One. After an interview, Weinstein said that he liked her questions and invited her to lunch in his room in order to allegedly discuss Russian culture.