The New York Police Department has begun testing Google Glass smart glasses. This was reported by VentureBeat with reference to a senior law enforcement official. The department's intelligence and analytics department will evaluate the points. At the same time, the source clarified that Glass will be used during investigations and “for patrol purposes.” It is not reported what tasks the glasses will perform.

Italian naval sailors rescued more than 1,100 illegal migrants who were heading to the Apennine Peninsula on nine large rafts with motors, reports Reuters . Several coast guard helicopters and four warships took part in the operation. According to existing rules in Italy, migrants will be housed in special camps where they will await the consideration of their asylum claims. It is not reported which countries the illegal immigrants came from.

The initiator of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, former member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Vasil Bilyak, died in Slovakia. This was reported by the Associated Press with reference to the Slovak Communist Party. Biljak died on Tuesday, February 4, in Bratislava. He was 96 years old. Nothing has been reported about the cause of death.

The addition to Assassin's Creed 4 will be made into a standalone game. As reported by VG24/7, Ubisoft will release a version of Freedom Cry that will not require installation of the main part of AC 4. The release is scheduled for the end of winter. The game will go on sale in the US first. There it will be released on February 18 on PS3 and PS4. A day later, a version for the same consoles will become available in Europe. On February 25, the project will appear on PC.

Activists 21-year-old Bogdan and 25-year-old Yulia got married in the columned hall of the Kyiv City Hall, where the opposition headquarters is currently located. reports this Vesti.ua . The couple met at a medical center on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, where a rally in support of European integration and against the current government has been taking place for several months.

Mozilla announced in its blog that it is developing an application called Firefox Launcher for the Android platform. The program is a bootloader (launcher) and changes the appearance of the OS “home screen”. The company did not provide details about Firefox Launcher, saying only that the program “makes it easy to find the content you need at the moment” and “adapts to the way you use your phone.” The company EverythingMe is involved in the creation of the application.

An explosive device went off in the House of Trade Unions in Kyiv, where the opposition headquarters is located. This was reported by Segodnya with reference to activists. The incident occurred on February 6 at 9.30 am local time. According to the oppositionists, unknown persons allegedly handed them a package with the inscription “Medicines”. An explosion occurred when trying to open it. As a result, one person was injured; his hand was torn off. He is now in the hospital.

Sony has agreed to sell its Vaio computer division to the investment fund Japan Industrial Partners (JIP). This was reported on the Sony website. The deal, the amount of which is not disclosed, will be closed by March 2014. Sony has abandoned the development of new computers under the Vaio brand. Production and sales of the devices will cease in the spring. JIP, the new owner of the business, will create a separate company to manage the asset.

More than 500 billion of enterprise funds flowed from private banks to public banks last December. This as reported by ITAR-TASS . was stated by the Executive Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Alexander Murychev, “This does not suit us, we are for fair competition,” said Murychev, commenting on the tense situation in the country’s banking sector.

Hackers of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) took over the domain of the social network Facebook for several hours. this SEA representatives announced on their Twitter on February 6. “Happy birthday, Mark! “Facebook.com now belongs to us!” says a tweet posted by hackers addressed to the founder of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg. The post is accompanied by a screenshot of Whois data with information about the facebook.com domain.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow rejected the complaint of journalist Oleg Kashin about the inaction of investigators investigating the case of an attack on him in November 2010, Interfax reports . Kashin complained that over the past two years there had been no active efforts to solve the case and search for the criminals, and the investigation refused to allow him to familiarize himself with the materials of the criminal case in full.

A monument will be erected in Reykjavik in honor of the game Eve Online. This was reported on the website of the developer studio CCP Games. The opening of the monument is scheduled for April 30, 2014. The authors of the monument are artist Sigurd Gudmundsson and CCP art directors Borkur Eiriksson and Ásgeir Jón Ásgeirsson. The monument, whose height exceeds five meters, will consist of three main parts. On the left will be a black aluminum block with a quote from the game engraved on it.

The former owner of My Bank, Gleb Fetisov, intends to file a lawsuit against the structures to which he sold the financial organization. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to a statement by unnamed official representatives of Fetisov. With the help of the lawsuit, the former shareholder plans to compensate for the losses he suffered as a result of the bank's shutdown.

Texas has carried out the death sentence for 59-year-old Suzanne Basso, who was found guilty of abusing and killing her disabled fiancé, reports the Associated Press . The sentence was carried out by lethal injection. Basso became the 14th woman executed in the United States since a temporary ban on executions was lifted in 1976. During this time period, approximately 1,400 male criminals were executed in the United States. Suzanne Basso was sentenced to death in 1998.

The Parliament of Georgia adopted in its final reading a new code of self-government, according to which direct elections of mayors and heads of communities are introduced everywhere in the republic. This was reported by Civil Georgia . The document was supported by 77 deputies, seven were against. According to the new code, residents of “self-governing cities” have the opportunity to elect mayors. This status is given to settlements where at least 15 thousand people live.