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Yandex to use in-house lidar for self-driving cars

The self-driving company founded by Russian technology giant Yandex said its new generation of vehicles will rely on an in-house lidar system to better see the road in the country’s often harsh driving conditions. The software-defined lidar solution is capable of seeing 500 meters (547 yards) away and operating in frigid weather will be the main sensor on new cars from the Yandex Self-Driving Group, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. Yandex said its cars were previously equipped… Source link

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Why Yandex Stock Crashed 10% Today

What happened Russian tech stock star Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) fell 10.2% through 3:15 p.m. ET on Monday — and you can probably blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for that. As the English-language The Moscow Times said this morning, currently both the Russian ruble and Russian stocks are “in the red as talk of military confrontation spooks investors.”  Image source: Getty Images. So what For weeks, diplomats have been warning that the Russian… Source link

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Nvidia Releases AI Painter Translating Words to Landscapes

on November 22, 2021 at 9:00 am Nvidia has unveiled a new AI tool that translates words into art. The GauGAN2 upgrades the GauGAN text-to-image model for transforming a written description into a realistic painting like the one seen above. Word Painting GauGAN2 takes any descriptive phrase and the AI will start drawing it. The real-time digital painting will shift based on additional adjectives and other descriptions, so the landscape can appear in… Source link

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Should You Buy Yandex NV (YNDX) Stock Monday Morning?

Yandex NV (YNDX) has fallen Monday morning, with the stock losing -1.88% in pre-market trading to 79.53. YNDX’s short-term technical score of 54 indicates that the stock has traded more bullishly over the last month than 54% of stocks on the market. In the Internet Content & Information industry, which ranks 130 out of 146 industries, YNDX ranks higher than 82% of stocks. Yandex NV has risen 7.07% over the past month, closing at $77.05 on… Source link

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Grubhub, Yandex Bring Robot Delivery to College

Food ordering and delivery platform Grubhub is rolling out its services to the University of Arizona using Yandex Self-Driving Group’s delivery robots — also known as rovers — following a similar launch at Ohio State University in September, according to a press release. The 35,000-plus University of Arizona Wildcats will be able to order from on-campus dining locations — IQ Fresh, Einstein Bros Bagels, On Deck Deli and Sabor — using the Grubhub app. The third-generation robots… Source link

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Yandex tests servers produced in Russia

Russian internet search engine Yandex has with some partners brought out the first delivery of servers produced in Russia, reports Telecomdaily.ru. The servers will be used in data centres for the expansion of cloud platform Yandex.Cloud and supercomputers from Yandex. The servers are currently being tested on Yandex infrastructure. Source link

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Yandex Taxi driver carries patrol officer on bonnet

Yandex Taxi driver carries patrol officer on bonnet AKIPRESS.COM – The driver of the Hyundai Sonata taxi of Yandex Taxi carried a patrol policemen on the bonnet, eyewitnesses filmed the incident. The incident took place on November 18 at about 11 am at the intersection of Gorky and Elebaev streets in Bishkek. Patrol officers stopped the Hyundai Sonata, who violated the traffic rules. “However, the driver did not obey the demands of officers and tried to resist. At the… Source link

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Russian tech giant Yandex launches its home delivery service for food delivery via messenger robots at the University of Arizona

The Russian tech giant Yandex, in collaboration with Grubhub, has begun offering its food delivery service at the Arizona State University campus, using for the first time in the United States the state-of-the-art robots it has developed for such end, he pointed the signature through a statement. According to the company, known as ‘Russian Google’, the food will be distributed by autonomous vehicles characterized by a more functional design, greater capacity and better performance, in… Source link

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