Today, May 23, the Yac 2019 conference started, at which Yandex introduced Yandex.Module. This is a media player with a built-in Alice voice assistant that can connect to a TV. The novelty, in fact, is a proprietary version of the set-top box. Yandex.Module allows you to watch movies from Kinopoisk on the big screen, broadcast videos from Yandex.Air, listen to tracks using Yandex.Music, and so on. The novelty is estimated at 1990 rubles.
At the same time, we note that Yandex.Efir is another novelty of Yac 2019. This is a free streaming service with a recommendation system and advertising, due to which monetization will go. The first exclusive show on it will be the new season of "The Other Day", produced by the host of the early seasons, Leonid Parfenov. You can watch the video broadcast of Yac 2019 below.
Do not forget in "Yandex" and about transport. In 2019, the company will put 100 unmanned vehicles on the roads, and the Yandex.drive carsharing service will be launched in Kazan. There are currently 10 cars in the fleet.
Another new service from the Russian search engine is “a network of cloud restaurants”. At a price of 250 rubles per dish, you can order breakfast and lunch at home or at work. The project will start in the summer in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Finally, the company shared the results of the work of Yandex.Music and Yandex.Zen. The music service started working in 9 new countries within a year, including Israel. And the number of subscribers is approaching 2 million. The daily audience of Zen is 11 million people. On average, users spend about half an hour a day there.
Source: 3dnews.ru
