MTS in a different reality – Newspaper Kommersant No. 16 (7461) of 01/28/2023

Telecom operator MTS is investing $100 million in creating its own metaverse — a virtual environment where the company intends to promote its own and partner digital products, including tariffs, subscriptions to a book service and an online cinema. Abroad, metaverses are considered a promising technology, but investments in projects have not yet paid off, … Read more

Differences between headphone outputs on amplifiers and DAC/amps

Amps and DAC/amps are much more affordable than they were 10 years ago, that’s a fact. If, on the one hand, technology has helped bringing the possibility of having a higher audio quality with these devices, on the other hand, it has created very new users in this field, who are not aware of the … Read more

Russian corruption Europe is not a decree – Newspaper Kommersant No. 2 (7447) dated 10.01.2023

Russia withdraws from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. This step is a natural consequence of our country’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe. Legislators argue that we do not need advisers in the fight against this phenomenon: we will already give odds to other countries where they still do not know what it is … Read more

The Russian football union stumbled on the transition

In the coming days, the Russian Football Union (RFU) will have to resolve, apparently, the most pressing issue for it now – the transition from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). His idea was born in connection with the UEFA sanctions, which for a long time deprived both … Read more