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German authorities shut down world's largest darknet marketplace, seize $25 million in Bitcoin

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billion) in 2020 alone, despite its customers being located mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, The Frankfurt prosecutors' anti-cybercrime unit said it generated sales of 1.23 billion Euros ($1.35

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Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

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Founded in 2017, Armenia-based DeepCraft specialized in video and image processing and was the country’s first unicorn. Abroyan previously held positions as the Deputy Minister for the Ministry of High Tech Industry Republic of Armenia, Lead AI Architect at RedKite, and Senior Software Developer at Synopsys.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

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Both from Armenia, the two went in different paths for college, with Shatakhtsyan staying in Armenia and Sloyan coming to the U.S. Co-founder and CEO Tigran Sloyan got the idea for the company from an experience his co-founder and friend Aram Shatakhtsyan had while trying to find an engineering job. to study at MIT.

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Math Test? No Problems: NVIDIA Team Scores Kaggle Win With Reasoning Model

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team would pass the baton to teammates waking up in Armenia, Finland, Germany and Northern Ireland, who would spend their day testing, modifying and optimizing different model versions. Theyd wait a tense five hours before learning how well the model tackled a sample set of 50 complex math problems. After seeing the results, the U.S.

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Can this startup solve the HR headache that is digital nomads? It just raised $12M to try

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The company will use the new funding to grow its teams in the US, UK, Armenia, and India. Benivo says it competes on various levels with ‘Assignment Management Systems such as Equus, Topia, KPMG and ‘Relocation Management Companies’ such as SIRVA, WIchert, Cartus, BGRS, AIRES, Altair), but addresses both issues with a single platform.

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Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020

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.” Baghdasaryan was also emphatic in his satisfaction with the team in Armenia, where he and his co-founder Arto Minasyan are from, and where the company has focused its hiring, including the 25-strong research team. “By the end of 2021 it will be a 45-member team, all in Armenia,” he said.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

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It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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