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Leaked HTC T8290 Has Touch HD Resolution, WiMax, Sharp Corners

These images of a new HTC handset from Nedge2k reveal a surprising addition to the Taiwanese company’s line: a half Touch HD, half Touch Diamond handset for which WiMax — of all things — is the most salient feature. Such a product might not make sense in most places, but Russia already has more than…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 10

Russia’s Space Program Could Crush the U.S. Over the Next Decade

When NASA retires its three space shuttles in 2010, US astronauts will have to rely on the Russian space program to gain entry to space and the International Space Station. Until 2015, when the Constellation program is scheduled to begin launching the Orion spacecraft, the US plans to purchase seats on the Russian Soyuz craft.…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 6

The Moscow That Never Was

As America descends into anarchy and destruction, the Russian president has declared the era of the U.S. over. So what are we in for? Soviet architecture in the 1930s and 1940s was cloud-touching stuff, as this exhibit of unrealized Soviet architectural fantasies proves. With the tables turning, can we expect to see the result of…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 4

Massive Emblaze Edelweiss Poised to Take On iPhone (In Russia)

Having received a tacit endorsement from President Medvedev, the iPhone might have won the political battle for Russian touchscreen dominance, but Emblaze has a more traditional plan to take on Apple: with price and features. Emblaze’s Edelweiss is an impressive slab of phone, with an HTC-trumping 480 x 854 touchscreen, 3G, GPS and 8 or…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 30

Baikonur Cosmodrome in Big, Beautiful Pictures

I am so drawn to all things Baikonur. It’s been Russia’s primary spaceport since 1955—the world’s oldest. Maybe it’s the sharpness of the pop in my mind when considering many of humankind’s most stunning moments of excelsior have originated from the dusty, rusty Kazakh steppe. Maybe it’s because Sergio Leone should have made a movie…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Sep 24

Russian President Has Poor Etiquette With Black Market iPhone

As you can sort-of see in the video, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev picks up an iPhone and plays with it during a press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Rude! But keep in mind that the video is fuzzy and there are no guarantees that the device in the video is actually an iPhone. Could…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 22

Open-Source Posse Bands Together to Investigate Mysterious Russian Hacker Squads

Remember when news came out that Russia had begun their military campaign in South Ossetia with a far-reaching hack attack on Georgia’s government computer systems? Well, security experts are still having a hard time figuring out exactly what happened, who was responsible, and whether it could happen again. Now, Danger Room is reporting on a…

Privacy & Security John Mahoney Sep 9

A Message From Russia: Turtles Are Reluctantly USB Compatible

In what is apparently an advertisement for a Russian mobile internet provider, a creative young HSDPA fan experiments with his modem in ways some might frown upon. The ad doesn’t follow the viral convention of surprising viewers with an unlikely result following from normal circumstances, because the setup – a violent turtle rape – is…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 27

Russian Astronaut Uses ISS to Take Photos of Ossetia Invasion while NASA Looks to the Other Side

According to the NASA International Space Station status report, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko used a digital camera with 800mm telephoto lenses and a video camera to take images of the “after-effects of border conflict operations in the Caucasus.” In theory, this seems to have violated the non-military use clause of the station, but Russia has…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Aug 26

Six Fun Things to Do With Serious Military Hardware at a Russian Armaments Show

The International Defense Exhibition of Land Forces went down in Moscow this past weekend, and it seems like it was a pretty a great time, judging from these photos sent in to our good friends at English Russia. First stop, obviously, is to strap on the Tevas and nautical print Hawaiian shirt for a quick…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 25

iPhone to Cost $990 in Russia: Yakov Smirnoff Has New Material

If you thought this post was going to contain a “in Soviet Russia” joke-think again. Besides, spending a whopping $990 on an iPhone is hardly a laughing matter. Actually, the price is a bargain compared to the 600,000 or so iPhones that have hit the market through unauthorized sales-but it is still well out of…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 25

12 Examples of Abandoned Space Technology

Looking for a space shuttle to convert into a funky dwelling? Believe it or not, there are quite a few pieces of once cutting edge space technology that have been left to rot. For example: there is a Russian Buran space shuttle lying abandoned in the Arabian desert, a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab sitting in…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 25

A Look Inside Russia’s Star City, Where Cosmonauts Are Made

Wired has a great feature on Richard Garriott, the father of MMORPG OG Ultima and the latest millionaire to get blasted up to the ISS as a paying tourist. More specifically, the grueling 8 months of training Garriott must first endure at Zvyozdny Gorodok, (Star City), a.k.a. Yuri’s house, a.k.a. where space flight was born.…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Aug 20

Giant Cold-War Era Russian Proton Rocket Successfully Launches Giant Satellite Into Space

The Inmarsat-4, or I4-F3 broadband satellite to its friends, is a big satellite. Almost as big as a double decker bus and with an unfurled solar wingspan as wide as a football field, it needed an appropriately big ride into space. And so it hitched onto a Proton Rocket, a 58m-high, 700-ton monster used for…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Lam Aug 19

Love Is Like a Rocket Smashing to Earth on a Steep Ballistic Reentry Course

Nothing like the smoking ruins left behind after a rocket smashes to Earth on a fast, steep reentry course. I love this set of images showing the results of the Russian Soyuz rocket’s return to Earth in April of this year. Recently uncovered by Dark Roasted Blend, the images show the rocket’s burning tear through…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 14

Russian Hacker Mob Takes Over Georgian Web During Invasion

Coinciding with the conflict in South Ossetia, the Georgian government is claiming they have lost control of many, if not all, of their governmental web sites and are incapable of using them to update its citizens or the international community. The blog RBNexploit is claiming to be an unofficial spokesman for the Georgian web, and…

Privacy & Security John Mahoney Aug 11

Gadgets Blamed For Dozens of Deadly Lightning Strikes in Russia

It appears that the gods hate gadgets, which is why they have been striking down citizens in the new, westernized Russia left and right with lightning. The fact that many of these individuals were outside using gadgets at the time has lead people to believe that the devices themselves are to blame. These incidents include…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Jul 18

In Soviet Russia, Space Opera Really Was Operatic

Look at the Russian cover for Robert Heinlein’s Stranger In A Strange Land: It’s like one of Caravaggio’s Bible scenes: lurid, fiery, over-the-top and awesome. It should surprise nobody that Heinlein and Philip K. Dick were fantastically popular in the U.S.S.R., with their sharp social commentary and crazy plot devices. The Russian Science Fiction page…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 16

Russian Ravers Blinded By Best (and Last) Laser Show They’ll Ever See

Another reason I’m glad I was never a rave kiddie whenever it was trendy in the US: Trippy lasers beamed into your eyes will blind you. A gaggle of Russian ravers at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival discovered this after tents erected to deflect heavy rains partially refracted lasers intended for skyward illumination…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 14

Geiger Counter PC Casemod Looks Good In Places That Can Kill You

This Russian Geiger Counter casemod (technically an Ion Detector) won’t let you know if you’re standing waist deep in nuclear radiation, but flick the power switch and the meter jumps to life, letting you know the relatively weak CPU housed inside is working properly. As for the specs inside the box, there’s a 300 MHz…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jun 21

Leaked HTC T8290 Has Touch HD Resolution, WiMax, Sharp Corners

Russia’s Space Program Could Crush the U.S. Over the Next Decade

The Moscow That Never Was

Massive Emblaze Edelweiss Poised to Take On iPhone (In Russia)

Baikonur Cosmodrome in Big, Beautiful Pictures

Russian President Has Poor Etiquette With Black Market iPhone

Open-Source Posse Bands Together to Investigate Mysterious Russian Hacker Squads

A Message From Russia: Turtles Are Reluctantly USB Compatible

Russian Astronaut Uses ISS to Take Photos of Ossetia Invasion while NASA Looks to the Other Side

Six Fun Things to Do With Serious Military Hardware at a Russian Armaments Show

iPhone to Cost $990 in Russia: Yakov Smirnoff Has New Material

12 Examples of Abandoned Space Technology

A Look Inside Russia’s Star City, Where Cosmonauts Are Made

Giant Cold-War Era Russian Proton Rocket Successfully Launches Giant Satellite Into Space

Love Is Like a Rocket Smashing to Earth on a Steep Ballistic Reentry Course

Russian Hacker Mob Takes Over Georgian Web During Invasion

Gadgets Blamed For Dozens of Deadly Lightning Strikes in Russia

In Soviet Russia, Space Opera Really Was Operatic

Russian Ravers Blinded By Best (and Last) Laser Show They’ll Ever See

Geiger Counter PC Casemod Looks Good In Places That Can Kill You

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