A project has been included in the State Duma, which should ensure the independence of the Russian Internet from the United States. In practice, it is unlikely to be implemented A bill on a “sovereign Runet”, which the geopolitical opponents of Russia, is the idea, is an idea, invented in the summer of 2014, in the midst of the conflict with the West, has not been able to disable the “sovereign Runet”.

Key sectors of the Chinese economy, despite the stimulus measures of the authorities, are demonstrating a serious slowdown in growth, follows from official data published on Friday by the Chinese statistical bureau. Against the backdrop of negative news from China, stock markets around the world began to fall, writes the Financial Times. More.

Facebook reported that apps from other companies had access to photos that weren't posted on the user's timeline. This was the result of a technical error. The failure affected 6.8 million users. Read more . Applications gained access, in particular, to photos posted in stories (Stories), as well as to those pictures that were uploaded to Facebook but not published (for example, the user changed his mind about publishing a post).

Sberbank has created a special structure that will unite all the company's businesses into a single ecosystem. The name of this structure - SberX - echoes the name of Alphabet's division - Google X, which is engaged in the development of promising technologies. Read more . Lev Khasis, the first deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, told . RBC that SberX will coordinate the development of the Sberbank ecosystem Now this is being done by the Digital Business Development Directorate.

to the State Duma A draft law has been submitted providing for the creation of an infrastructure for the autonomous operation of the Russian segment of the Internet. Read more . The document was prepared by a group of parliamentarians led by Senator Andrey Klishas, ​​who earlier this week proposed fining for fake posts and for showing disrespect for authorities on the Internet. Another author is deputy Andrei Lugovoi.

The Central Bank raised the key rate for the second time in a year - from 7.5% to 7.75%. In addition, the regulator decided to resume currency purchases from January 15. Read more . The decision was at odds with what many market participants expected. The majority of analysts surveyed the day before expected the rate to remain at 7.5% per annum, and only a few experts did not rule out its increase by 25 basis points.

There is at least one company in France that the yellow vest protests benefited from , writes Bloomberg. Demonstrators are blocking department stores and malls, forcing shoppers to move online for Christmas shopping. The main player in this area in the French market is Amazon. Online is safer. “Go back to the small shops. We are enriching American platforms like Amazon and killing small businesses,” Labor Minister Muriel Penicot said on the radio to the French on Wednesday.

Food delivery service Postmates showed its robot in the form of a cart that can bring orders from restaurants to customers. Details. The Serve robot, created in the Postmate X lab, will work in key markets. It will launch first in Los Angeles. Postmates expects the delivery cart will help reduce the cost of ordering for customers and improve the startup's position in the super-competitive food delivery business. Niche.

Prisma Labs, which created the same name for transferring artistic styles to the pictures, is now engaged in retouching, writes Techcrunch. Read more. The new Lensa application is positioned as a “single -button Photoshop” that improves skin color, whitening teeth and emphasizing the eyebrows at unsuccessful selfies. What can it know? The algorithm creates a three -dimensional model of the face, erodes the background, removes lens distortions. All this is done using machine learning tools.

State-backed Iranian hackers have carried out a series of attacks on individuals linked to economic and military sanctions against the country. Politicians, civil activists, human rights activists and journalists around the world became their victims, write researchers from Certfa . They named the attack "The Return of the Adorable Kitten". How many people were attacked in total, the report does not say.

Sberbank's biometric database already contains "millions" of samples of biometric data from customers, said German Gref . This is ten times more than in the state biometric database with several thousand samples, which was launched by the Central Bank this summer. From January, customer service of Sberbank will begin with the delivery of biometric data, bank managers told Vedomosti.

The State Duma unexpectedly changed the new scheme for financing shared construction. Developers threaten to increase prices by 20% The State Duma unexpectedly for developers decided to transfer to a new financing scheme through special banking escrow accounts all Russian new buildings, and not just those that will be started after the law entered into force on July 1, 2019.

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The profile committee of the State Duma adopted amendments to the law on shared construction, which provide for the transfer of all projects of Russian new buildings from July 1, 2019 to the financing scheme through escrow accounts, which, by law, should replace equity participation agreements. Contrary to the expectations of developers, the transfer to the new scheme will affect not only new projects, but also those that have been or will be launched before July 1, 2019.

On Thursday, 30-year-old Maria Butina pleaded guilty, but only to one of the charges against her. She made a deal with the investigation and stated that she acted in the United States as an unregistered foreign agent, and admitted that she was driven not only by personal motives. What she confessed to.