Potato bouquets, MTS is working on the creation of 4G / 5G base stations: the main thing on September 1

World

• Binance Labs incubator launched Web3 ColLabs investment community. Club members will be able to access the incubator’s portfolio of companies, as well as “discover new transaction opportunities.” You can only join Web3 ColLabs by invitation from one of the current members.

• NASA has shown the possible crash site of the Russian “Luna-25”. A new 10-meter crater appeared in the area where the automatic station was to land. The space agency compared two images, before and after the accident, and concluded that the crater likely formed as a result of a collision and not a natural impact.

• Tesla has presented an updated version of its most popular car, the Model 3. The new modification costs 12% more than the previous version (35.8 thousand dollars) and will be produced for the markets of China, Japan, Australia, the Middle East and Europe.
  The Model 3 has a range increase of 9% and the mileage on a single charge will be 606 km. Also, the design of the front body has changed somewhat, and the rear seat is equipped with its own screen.

Russia

• In September, a series of new laws come into force in Russia: an experiment with Islamic banking begins, new rules for the sale of prescription drugs are introduced, fines for not labeling digital advertising and a new law on taxis is introduced. Let’s talk about the main things for business.

• IT specialists under the age of 36 will have the opportunity to obtain a preferential mortgage regardless of minimum wage level requirements. Previously, to get a soft loan, IT specialists in cities with a million inhabitants had to earn at least 120 thousand rubles a month, in other cities and towns – 70 thousand rubles, in Moscow – at least 150 thousand rubles.

Business

• One in ten employers are unaware of the penalties for not labeling online ads, according to a Kokoc Group survey. These sanctions take effect on September 1, in accordance with the updated law on advertising. Now organizations and individuals must transfer data about their advertising campaigns to a single accounting system.

• Wildberries allowed buyers to contact the seller directly to issue a return on a purchase if a defect is discovered during the use of the product. The company said it was “erasing the barriers between buyers and sellers” and “removing the unnecessary intermediate link between them.”

• According to Vedomosti, the X5 Group is trying to defend its Green Line and Chef Perekrestok brands in court. You have difficulties registering the results of the rebranding with Rospatent due to similarities with other trademarks.
• The Russian chain of fast food cafes “Kroshka Kartoshka”, together with the “Very good” store, launched bouquets of potatoes on September 1. All proceeds from bouquet sales will go to the Education for the Future charity.
• The Svyaznoy chain of stores, which is in bankruptcy proceedings, notified employees that it could no longer pay their salaries on time, Vedomosti reported.

Services and technologies

• VKontakte began testing a tool for marking ads in posts, clips, stories, and videos. When creating a post and story, you can now add the “Author Announcement” tag. In a special service on the VK Mini Apps platform, it will be possible to automatically receive a token for dialing.

• Russian mobile operators are offered to ban missed calls from unregistered SIM cards.
• Sberbank, which this year introduced the GigaChat generative neural network, has developed a GigaCode development and code completion tool, Kommersant reports.

• Odnoklassniki will update the News Feed image and algorithms. The Moments and Pastimes services will be combined into a common block and the Recommendations tab will appear next to the feed. Algorithms will take more factors into account and retrain faster based on how the user interacts with posts.

telecommunications

• The MTS Irteya subsidiary will create 4G/5G base stations for mobile communications with OpenRAN open architecture.