Yandex co-founder dies of cancer in London hospital ? RT News

Published time: July 28, 2013 12:23
Edited time: July 28, 2013 13:27

Russia's largest search engine Yandex has announced the death of co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Ilya Segalovich. The technical creator behind one of the world?s leading IT companies died of cancer at the age of 48.

Ilya Segalovich died on Saturday afternoon in one of London?s hospitals after his artificial breathing machine was switched off by doctors who on Thursday diagnosed their patient with brain death.

On Sunday, the news was confirmed by Yandex?s spokesman. The company?s co-founder and CEO Arkady Volozh explained in a blog post that Segalovich was diagnosed with stomach cancer metastases in September last year, but miraculously recovered from the disease, having undergone chemotherapy.? However, just last week Segalovich?s doctors found a tumor in his brain, which, complicated by meningitis, proved fatal.

?I was friends with Ilya since school; we sat behind the same desk for four years. And then we created Yandex together. Last night he died. Everything happened too quickly and unexpectedly,? one of Volozh?s posts reads.

Ilya Segalovich and Arkady Volozh founded Yandex in 1997. After 15 years of development the company became the leader of the Russian internet search market, beating American rival Google locally.

It was Segalovich who thought up the name Yandex, which stands for ?Yet Another iNDEX? and also contains Russian letter ? which means ?I? the company?s website informs.
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According to Alexa.com, Yandex is the most popular Russian website and 20th most-popular internet portal in the world, providing over 50 services including internet search, news, mail, weather forecasts, maps, traffic information, etc.
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An oversubscribed Yandex IPO in New York in 2011 raised $1.4 billion, more than any other internet company IPO since Google?s in 2004. Today company market value is estimated at $10 billion.
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Member of the Yandex board of directors, where his voice ?weighted? 6.87 percent of the shareholder voting rights, Segalovich owned 2.5 percent of the Yandex shares worth $250 million.

Criticism of Google and Apple

In 2012 Ilya Segalovich lashed at Google, maintaining that the American company is anticompetitive.
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In April interview to The Guardian chief technology officer at Yandex accused Google of overindulgent use of its dominant position on the market to shut out rival companies in cyber space.
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Google?s primary weapons to hinder competitors are its Chrome browser and Android platform, Segalovich said last year.
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The California giant's mobile platform Android is a "strange combination of openness and not openness," Segalovich added.
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"You cannot contribute to [Android], it's semi-open source?If you download an application it does not work if it's not Android marketplace. So that's an interesting question," Segalovich pointed out.
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In the same interview Russian IT specialist shared he did not believe in the Apple business model because it creates a "closed ecosystem".
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?I myself don't like the closed platforms; I think it is important that you have choice.??

Philanthropist and opposition sponsor

Born in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) in 1964, Segalovich went to school in the then-USSR?s Kazakhstan, but finally graduated from Moscow Geological Exploration Institute where, he studied geophysics.
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Segalovich and his wife Maria Yeliseeva, with whom he had several children, founded Maria?s Children charity helping Russian orphans to adapt to society. The family had six children, three from Yeliseeva?s previous marriage, one child of their own and three foster girls.
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In an interview to Forbes he revealed that worked as a volunteer election observer during the 2012 presidential elections in Russia. Segalovich was also sponsoring opposition Coordination Council, announced opposition blogger Aleksey Navalny on Thursday.
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?I don?t know what can replace his encyclopedic knowledge of technology, and his pure vision of the product," Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh wrote in a statement. "But he has left behind a whole new generation of programmers, a whole school. And his ethical standards are a benchmark for us all.?

Source: http://rt.com/news/yandex-founder-segalovich-dies-703/

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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Calls Egypt?s Military Chief Worse than Pharaoh, Compares Him to ?Zionist Enemies and Their Treacherous Agents?

The Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Leader is accusing Egypt's military chief who forced former President Mohammed Morsi out of power of acting worse than Pharaoh, comparing his behavior in recent days to "the bitter Zionist enemies and their treacherous agents."

This latest tirade from Supreme Leader Mohammed Badie comes on the heels of bloody weekend clashes between supporters of Morsi and security forces that claimed the lives of 72 people, according to the Health Ministry, Egypt Independent reports.

Badie is accusing Defense Minister and Commander of the Egyptian Military Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of "committing massacres the likes of which we have only seen committed by the bitter Zionist enemies and their treacherous agents."

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Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammad Badie (File photo: AP)

He also accused Israel of pulling the strings behind the scenes of the so-called Arab Spring protests that have gripped the Arab world for the past two years, attributing to the Jewish state expansionist ambitions. "Zionist fingers are at play in countries of the Arab Spring, so as to fulfill the vision of the Great Israel."

Badie continued with his theory, accusing the "Zionists" (i.e. Israel) of planting assassins in Libya and Tunisia to target more secular political activists opposed to Islamist rule.

Ynet reports that Badie suggested that Gen. Sisi is worse than the biblical Pharaoh. Badie said that Pharaoh killed children of believers and let women live, while Sisi and the security forces "are worse; you kill everybody."

The Egyptian presidency says it is "saddened" by the weekend bloodshed but linked the killings to "terrorism."

Al Arabiya reports that Mostafa Hegazy, an adviser to interim President Adly Mansour, told reporters, "We are saddened by the spilling of blood on the 27th." But he added "we cannot decouple this [incident] from the context of terrorism."

For their part, demonstrators and Morsi supporters accuse security forces of having used live fire against unarmed protesters on Saturday. Al Arabiya reports that the Interior Ministry insists security forces fired only tear gas.

An investigation has been launched into the circumstances behind Saturday's bloody events. Hegazy says the Egyptian leadership will "be taking a stance after investigation ends, regardless of whoever is found responsible."

But even before the investigation ends, he is calling the protest site in Cairo a "terror-originating spot," adding "There is a wave of terror and we will break this wave."

Besides Badie, other Brotherhood officials are also firing back against the new Egyptian leadership. Ynet reports that senior Freedom and Justice Party [linked with the Muslim Brotherhood] official Essam el-Erian posted on Facebook, "They will not be content until they bring back everything from the era of the corrupt, murderous security and intelligence state."

"They've stepped up their efforts to do so by committing massacres never before seen in Egyptian history," he added.

Badie has made a variety of anti-Israel statements in the past including a call for Muslims to wage "Holy Jihad" to conquer Jerusalem from Israel.

He has also referred to Jews repeatedly as "apes" and "pigs" in his speeches.? Here is one example cited by the Investigative Project: "The Zionists, the West and the lackey rulers conspired together. If the Muslim Brotherhood had remained in the field, the Zionist Entity would not have stood not its flag raised. Of old God forced the Jews to become pigs," Badie said in a 2010 sermon.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-brotherhood-leader-calls-egypt-military-chief-worse-153824233.html

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Gov. Brown hopes to shutter California's notorious youth prison system; Santa Cruz County facility not set up for long-term offenders

SAN JOSE -- After years of failed attempts to better serve juvenile offenders and the public's safety, California's once-sprawling youth corrections system may soon bow to a final, unprecedented strategy: shutting its locked gates for good.

Budget pressure in a system with annual costs of $200,000 per ward drove Gov. Jerry Brown this week to propose halting all new intakes at the Division of Juvenile Justice. If approved by state legislators, beginning next year the state's three remaining prisons would then shrink themselves to oblivion, as current inmates complete their terms. Under the plan, county probation departments would assume the custody and treatment of all juvenile offenders -- an expansion from current practice where only the most serious and violent are housed by the state.

But Brown's vision represents far more than just belt-tightening. Already, it's being described by youth crime experts across the country as a historic proposal given the state's size and the notorious history of its youth prisons. Mesh cages, 23-hour cell confinement and brutal staff beatings are all a well-documented part of that legacy.

"California is at the front end, cutting edge of what is going to be the huge trend going forward," said Bart Lubow, who directs national juvenile justice reforms for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. "And that is the policy embrace of the fundamental truth that kids do better when they are near their homes and in their communities."

Santa Cruz County is a relatively low user of the state's juvenile incarceration system, with just three county youths currently in the state system, said Scott MacDonald, chief of the county's Juvenile Hall and probation department.

That could be partially attributed to the county's higher-than-average rate of trying juvenile offenders as adults for serious crimes. A study released last year by the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice found that Santa Cruz County's rate of using the practice was 31.4 filed per 1,000 cases, compared to the state average of 25.4 per thousand.

Strong partnerships with local organizations have also helped keep a lot of the county's lower-level youth offenders out of the state system, MacDonald said.

Still, the change will come with fiscal implications, said MacDonald. The county's Juvenile Hall, which has 42 beds and currently houses about 20 youths, wasn't designed for keeping violent offenders or high-need offenders for long periods of time.

"Capacity isn't as much as an issue," he said. "We're not a facility geared toward accommodating that long-term custody for serious offenders."

The Casey Foundation's Lubow and other juvenile crime experts said they are unaware of any other state that has entirely eliminated its youth corrections system.

Corrections chief Matthew Cate described the Brown administration's plan to ultimately shutter the system -- save for a newly formed oversight board -- as a boon to public safety. "The biggest benefit is it keeps wards close to home," Cate said. "The evidence shows, especially with young people, that it eases the return to communities and reduces victimization."

California's state system has already reached milestones that youth advocates could only have dreamed of a decade ago. The in-custody population has plunged from more than 10,000 wards in 1996 to just 1,100 today. And for the first time in recent history, conditions inside the youth prisons have finally begun to improve, said the system's longtime chief rival, Donald Specter of the Marin-based Prison Law Office.

Specter and others who have spent decades attempting to overhaul the state's mammoth warehouses say they never imagined the reforms would ultimately become so costly, and the population so shrunken, that the institution would ultimately fold. But they share concerns about the county alternative: that absent a state option, more youth offenders will be sent into the adult prison, or housed in facilities even less equipped than those run by the state.

Unlike adults, juvenile offenders have a legal right to treatment, education and training, and the short-term model of a juvenile hall does not meet those needs. Likewise, county ranch programs are generally not secure enough to provide for maximum security.

Acknowledging accommodations will be needed, the Brown Administration has proposed giving counties one year and $10 million to prepare.

The change cannot come soon enough for Maria Sanchez, a typist from Santa Clarita whose 18-year-old son has spent the past year in the state's youth prison system after a robbery arrest. The teen began getting in trouble at age 13, attracted by gangs in his low-income neighborhood.

Sanchez said the state prison experience has battered her son. In visits, he has limped, sported a black eye and showed her bruises on his ribs, she said. And he has been spent 23 hours a day in his cell for as long as four months at a time, she added, emerging for a recreation hour shackled at the hands and feet.

Sanchez's observations are echoed in volumes of state-sanctioned reports prompted by a Prison Law Office lawsuit. Under a resulting 2004 settlement agreement, the state has labored to overhaul education, safety, treatment and mental health care programs. By all accounts, broader changes took years to even begin. That has led the state system's most dedicated reformers to now question whether counties will be able to create better alternatives for the high-end offenders in question, who typically suffer from severe mental illness and childhood trauma.

In Santa Clara County, Deputy Probation Chief Robert DeJesus said despite a highly-regarded ranch program and a juvenile hall with bed space, the county will struggle without the state option. Currently there are 14 county juvenile offenders in state custody, including three admitted last year.

"With only one year, that's going to be extremely difficult for Santa Clara County to respond," DeJesus said.

The changes won't impact some counties, such as Santa Cruz County, as much as others, but that doesn't mean the transition will be just smooth sailing.

Jessica M. Pasko of The Santa Cruz Sentinel contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_19694374?source=rss_emailed

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Open: This is Face the Nation, July 28

The latest from Egypt with Clarissa Ward, insight from Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., plus political analysis from David Gergen, Michael Gerson, and Dee Dee Myers. Finally, a midsummer look at baseball and possible suspensions with Bob Nightengale and Bill Rhoden.

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by Paul Kitchen on July 28, 2013

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Leaked Samsung Galaxy Note III specs include 5.7-inch display, LTE-Advanced, Android 4.3

Galaxy Note 3 Specs

Samsung?s upcoming Galaxy Note III is among the most highly anticipated smartphones of 2013. While sales of the third-generation flagship phablet won?t approach handsets like the Galaxy S4 or Apple?s iPhone lineup, Samsung?s Galaxy Note handsets have regularly been among its top-selling high-end devices. We have seen plenty of leaks thus far and while some reports suggest there are still a few wrinkles to be ironed out, South Korea?s Business Daily claims to have gotten its hands on the device?s final specs.

[More from BGR: Samsung smashes Apple as smartphone explosion continues in Q2]

According to a new report on Friday, the Galaxy Note III was initially supposed to include a 6-inch display but Samsung reworked the device and opted for a 5.7-inch panel instead. Other highlights include a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor (some versions may carry Samsung?s Exynos 5 Octa processor), 3GB of RAM, a metal-look insert wrapped around the edges of the phone like the one on the Galaxy S4, the new Android 4.3 operating system and support for newer LTE-Advanced networks capable of delivering data speeds twice as fast as current 4G LTE networks.

[More from BGR: How Samsung?s ?gadget spam? is crushing Apple in the world?s top smartphone market]

Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy Note III at a press conference on September 4th ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany. An image said to be pulled from the Galaxy Note III?s specs sheet follow below.

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/leaked-samsung-galaxy-note-iii-specs-5-7-151535031.html

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Junk Squad Helps Politicians Text Their D*ck Pics Safely (VIDEO)

Finally, there's a squad out there who can help our greatest politicians solve their most insurmountable problem: safe d*ck-pic texting. Thanks to Team Coco for forming the Junk Squad... too bad they weren't here in time to deliver Carlos from Danger.

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