russia
Robots
I Want A Broad-Shouldered, 7ft Tall Robot To Rear My Children, Too
10:00AM Kat Hannaford | Buried in a site devoted to early robots is my dream man, Electron. Russian, born in 1967, he has 4ft-wide shoulders, waltzes, plays chess, and while he only understands 112 commands, his steely gaze is reassuringly paternal. More »
Design
17 Modern-Day Gadgets Dragged Back To The USSR
6:00AM Adam Frucci | For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to turn today’s user-friendly gadgets into cold, utilitarian Soviet-era relics. It’s probably for the best that these don’t actually exist. More »
Online
Travel The Trans-Siberian Railway From Your Sofa
11:40PM Kat Hannaford | Travelling on the Trans Siberian Railway has always appealed to me, but it’s difficult finding a spare eight days to ride the 9259km long journey. Now I can complete the journey using YouTube and Google Maps… in 150 hours. More »
Hardware
Patent For Hardware Antivirus Device Granted To Russian Inventor
11:20AM Kyle VanHemert | Kaspersky Labs, a cybersecurity group based in Russia, was recently awarded the patent for a hardware antivirus device that aims to keep your computer secure by attaching directly to the disk drive, below rootkit access. More »
Software
Russian Botnet Steals From Another, Replaces Virus With Its Own
7:40AM Kat Hannaford | Nevermind the war against viruses -they’ll kill each other before we even update AVG. A Russian Trojan horse program, known as Spy Eye, has stolen data from its competitor Zeus and replaced PC infections with its own botnet-badness. More »
Vehicles
First Video Of Russia’s T-50 Stealth Fighter Jet
10:20AM Rosa Golijan | Russia’s been testing its new T-50 “Sukhhoi” stealth fighter jets and so far they’re a success. This video shows the first test flight and is supposedly also the very first time the public is getting to see the bird. More »
Design
Long Exposure Animation Brings “Magic Forest” To Rhapsodic Life
6:40AM Brian Barrett | From Russia’s Freezelight comes one of the most beautiful uses of long exposure I’ve ever seen (that is, aside from all of your slow-shutter shooting challenge submissions). It’s honestly just wow. More »
Science
Russia Considering Mission To Deflect Apophis
6:45AM Jesus Diaz | Russia’s Federal Space Agency may try to deflect Apophis, the 880-megaton asteroid that can bring hell to Earth (for comparison, the total power of the entire deployed US nuclear arsenal is around 1400 Megatons). There’s only one problem. More »
Phones
HTC Russia Claims Only The HD2 Will Get A Windows 7 Upgrade
5:08AM Sean Fallon | HTC Russia claims in a recent twitter post that the HD2 will be the only HTC phone to get an upgrade to WinMo 7. All other phones will remain on Windows 6.5. More »
Design
10:25AM John Herrman | What you see here says a lot about you: A man contemplating his failures? A construction worker enjoying his lunch? A lucky bastard about to launch down the most amazing zipline on the planet? More »
The View From The Top Of Kiev’s Moscow Bridge
10:25AM John Herrman | What you see here says a lot about you: A man contemplating his failures? A construction worker enjoying his lunch? A lucky bastard about to launch down the most amazing zipline on the planet? More » 
