The competition Global Virtual Hackathon to combine technological solutions to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, held on April 10-12 by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, the United Nations Development Programme and the SUP.VC Acceleration Center, has come to an end.
The competition aroused great interest at the international level. Thus, more than 600 applications from 45 countries...
The first global virtual hackathon was held in Azerbaijan to combine technological solutions to combat the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to support the "Stay at Home" motto. The winners have already been announced.
It is no coincidence that the competition, which gathered a large audience, along with the local mass media, also attracted special attention of foreign media,...
Robots providing services to guests appeared in the hotels of Hong Kong in order to minimize contact of guests at hotels.
Due to the pandemic COVID-19, owners of the hotels in the world cut staff, but Hong Kong hotel operator, by contrast, hired a new employee.
Its name is Genie: this is the first of the three robots with artificial intelligence,...
The Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies joins the initiative “Stay at home, create at home” (Evdə Qal, Evdə Yarat), announced by the Ministry of Culture and the portal “Creative Azerbaijan” and invites citizens working in the field of creative technologies to take part in this campaign.
As is commonly known, the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), spreading around the...
Because of the quarantine regime declared in the country in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, in order to fulfill the obligations arising from the well-known order of the President of ANAS, academician Ramiz Mehdiyev, director of the Institute of Chemistry of Additives academician A.Guliyev academician Vagif Farzaliev has made an order. The order states that laboratory managers are given...
France’s health minister Olivier Véran and digital minister Cédric O have officially announced that the French government is working on a smartphone app to slow the spread of COVID-19. The government is putting a stamp of approval on the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) project but remains cautious about what to expect from an app.
Using mobile apps to track...
The Institute of Chemistry of Additives of ANAS has expanded scientific cooperation with the Irkutsk A.Favorsky Institute of Chemistry of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the institute, the scope of international joint research conducted within the cooperation agreement has been expanded. Under the agreement, the antioxidant and enzyme-isoenzyme inhibitory properties of 8 substances synthesized...
While some work that has been taken home can often be done solo, employees in more collaborative offices often need more than just email or text messages to communicate. Sometimes even real-time team chats aren’t enough, especially for those used to looking for visual cues on their teammates’ faces. Video conference services are, of course, a dime a dozen...
Google has launched a new website that uses anonymous location data collected from users of Google products and services to show the level of social distancing taking place in various locations.
The COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports web site will show population data trends of six categories: Retail and recreation, grocery and pharmacy, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential. The data...
According to the relevant decree of the President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, academician Ramiz Mehdiyev, distance learning sessions and consultations for first and second year masters are conducted at academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives. According to the Institute’s Education Department, starting March 29, 2020, 5 days a week, the leading scientists of this scientific institution...