Today, on US Independence Day, about a thousand American sites will take part in a protest against the US National Security Agency, reports TechCrunch . Protesters include major sites such as WordPress.org , Reddit and Mozilla .

In Japan, Amazon uses real goats to care for the territory of its distribution center in GIF. The most interesting thing is that Amazon is far from the first Internet company that uses this method of “haircuts” of the lawn and weed fighting. According to Doshin Web , the goats are launched into the company once a week until the onset of autumn. It is believed that such natural care for the territory is the most environmentally friendly - plant roots remain intact.

The other day, the largest building in the world was opened in the southwestern province of China Sichuan-the New Century Global Center. As the official representatives of the center say, the Sydney Opera Theater could fit 20 times inside this building. According to CBS News , the New Century Global Center is approximately 500 meters in length, 400 meters wide and 100 meters high.

The iOS version of the Vine mobile application, which allows you to create short (duration of 6 seconds) video has been updated. In the light of starting video support on Instagram, developers tried to improve their product. In the updated version there were new tools for the camera, a mesh, as well as a focus control. Vine also presented 15 thematic channels that allow you to more conveniently navigate and view the videos of interest. Each channel has the "Popular" section.

Advertising agencies often use images of Rube Goldberg machines - mechanical systems that work like dominoes and perform very simple functions. A good example is the Honda advertisement The Cog , which won many awards in 2003. However, dog food brand Beneful has introduced a complex mechanism by adding dogs to the action. A commercial in which more than a dozen dogs appear probably took a long time to film, even if the video used cuts.

The study conducted at the Australian University of Kvisland showed that there was no connection between cruel video games and antisocial behavior. During the experiment, it was revealed that the subject’s behavior remains as pro -social as before, regardless of that he played in cruel or not cruel games. The study included three separate experiments in which a total of 160 people participated, most of which are men aged 17 to 43 years.

All the films of the Wachowski sister and brother, starting with the Matrix trilogy, are real graphic attractions. Among the underrated masterpieces, if not of film art, then at least of design, we should note “Speed ​​Racer” (its VFX video is here ). "Cloud Atlas" can be viewed from several angles - several teams worked on the film at once. One is with credits , the other is with makeup, the third is with graphics.

There are many things in the world that pose a clear threat to our physical and mental health, and in this case, fear is a very obvious and normal reaction. But why can masks, darkness, humanoid robots or, for example, clowns scare us? The creator of the Vsauce YouTube channel, Michael Stevens, offered his own gradation of frightening phenomena and tried to explain what makes them so creepy.

3D printers are gradually becoming familiar-thanks to many ways to quickly and cheaply print their object or projects like The Buccaner, which reduce prices for devices several times. It is likely that soon everyone can get such a gadget. Look At Me continues to explore the 3D printing and understands which 3D printers are worth buying.

IKEA and the UN Refugees Department of UN Refugees have united to create a dwelling on sunny batteries for refugees living in temporary camps. The facades of such houses are blocks designed from the light and durable polymer Rhulite and quite simply attached to the steel frame. Such dwellings will be twice as many conventional refugees, they will also reduce energy costs due to solar batteries installed on the roof.