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Audi Ditches Russian Doll Car Design So That You Can Differentiate All Its Model

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You don’t have to be a design expert to easily see that Audi’s designs have been quite repetitive in recent years, but all that is about to change. Plenty of automakers fall into the pattern of creating many different cars with the same look which makes it easier for the public to recognize the brand. Audi’s chief executive said the repetitive design process was used to make Audis more recognisable in newer and emerging markets. “Now we are well known in major markets like China, we can begin to change this philosophy and give each car its own look.” By getting rid of the internal combustion engine to adopt a fully electric powertrain, Audi’s designers believes the biggest step forward for design will come when the marque launches more electric cars after the E-tron quattro SUV, which will give them more freedom to alter the proportions and pave the way for a new design that will go in a very different way. Audi began the process of design differentiation

Facebook and Twitter: Nine Russian Brexit ads found by inquiries

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Image copyright Facebook says its investigation into Russian attempts to influence the Brexit vote has determined the activity amounted to just three adverts. Twitter says its own inquiry has linked six ads promoting referendum-related content on its platform to Russian sources. The Electoral Commission had asked the social media giants for the data. But an MP who had also demanded the review has said he is dissatisfied with Facebook's response. Skip Twitter post by @DamianCollins 2) It would appear that no work has been done by Facebook to look for other fake accounts and pages that could be linked to Russian backed agencies and which were active during the EU referendum, as I requested. — Damian Collins (@DamianCollins)  December 13, 2017 Report End of Twitter post by @DamianCollins Facebook said it had looked into activity by accounts and pages it had previously tied to a Russian organisation called the Internet Research Agency. It said the Brexit

Tech Tent: How cats and Russia are using the blockchain

What do virtual cats and a Russian voting system have in common? They both depend on the blockchain, and on Tech Tent this week we discover why this technology is becoming hugely fashionable as the value of crypto-currencies which depend on it soar. Plus we hear from Taiwan, a high tech nation that is still struggling to create a start-up culture. Blockchain for the masses? 'CryptoKitties on the Ethereum blockchain' When I read out the above headline at a BBC editorial meeting, suggesting this was an important story, people looked at me as though I had lost my mind. But a new online craze where you buy virtual kittens with the crypto-currency Ethereum is a serious matter. CryptoKitties is based on Ethereum, the crypto-currency second only to Bitcoin in popularity, and uses the Et

Fancy Bear Russian hackers' UK link revealed

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Some of Fancy Bear's activities had previously been identified  by the cyber-security company Crowdstrike When Russia's most notorious hackers hired servers from a UK-registered company, they left a trove of clues behind, the BBC has discovered. The hackers used the computers to attack the German parliament, hijack traffic meant for a Nigerian government website and target Apple devices. The company, Crookservers, had claimed to be based in Oldham for a time. It says it acted swiftly to eject the hacking team - dubbed Fancy Bear - as soon as it learned of the problem. Technical and financial records from t:Crookservers seen by the BBC suggest Fancy Bear had access to significant funds and made use of online financial services, some of which were later closed in anti-money laundering operations. Fancy Bear - also known as t:APT28, Sofacy, Iron t:Twilight and Pawn Storm - has been linked to Russian intelligence. Russian hackers spent well over $6,000 at Crookse

Facebook to expose Russian fake news pages

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t:Facebook plans to let people see if they had "liked" pages created by "foreign actors" to spread propaganda during the US presidential election. The social network has previously said as many as 126 million Americans may have seen content uploaded by t:Russia-based agents over the past two years. It is building a tool to let people see whether they had followed now-deleted pages made by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency. The tool will be launched in December. The Internet Research Agency was behind hundreds of Facebook, t:Instagram and t:Twitter accounts and posted thousands of politically-charged messages. Many of the pages such as Heart Of Texas, Being Patriotic and Secured Borders were designed to look like they were created by US citizens. In November 2016, t:Facebook founder Mark t:Zuckerberg said it was a "pretty crazy idea" to suggest misinformation spread on the social network influenced the US presidential elect

SERGEY LETOV RUSSIAN MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHY

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Sergey Letov was born in Semipalatinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan, in 1956 and then lived in Omsk, Siberia, where lived his brother Egor Letov(1964 - 2008). Sergey Letov resides in Moscow since 1975. First public performance took place in The Central House of Artist in 1982 in Moscow (as a soloist with Percussion Ensemble of Mark Pekarsky). 1983-1993 - collaboration with Sergey Kuryokhin(duo, combo and big band 'POP MECHANICS'). Concerts with POP-MECHANICS and Sergey Kuryokhin - all over Soviet Union, Finland, Italy, France, Denmark. Since 1986 - collaboration with the Gypsy singer Valentina Ponomareva. Duo Ponomareva-Letov performed in USSR, Switzerland. In 1985 Sergey Letov has founded winds ensemble TRI-O(Arcady Shilkloper - French horn, Arcady Kiritchenko - tuba, euphonium, vocal, later - Alexander Alexandrov- bassoon, Youry Parfenov- trumpet). TRI-O performed at almost every jazz festival in USSR, since 1988 TRI-O played in Poland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Lithuania (Vilnius J