Google blocked the entrance to the website of the RIA Novosti news agency during the weekend. On December 21, users entering the site through the Google Chrome browser and Google search engine saw a plug with a message about potential malicious software. On the graph of Liveinternet.ru, the dynamics of the fall of views and visitors of Ria.ru this weekend is visible compared to the previous month.

Primo designers came up with a set for teaching children to coding. A set for future programmers consists of a Cubetto robot, a dashboard and a set of wooden parts. The purpose of the game is to make the robot move (left, right, forward and backward), performing the simplest sequence of actions.

They are going to stage a play based on the Harry Potter universe, which will be a prequel to the famous literary franchise, Deadline writes with reference to JK Rowling’s Facebook page . It is known that theater producer Sonya Friedman and former HBO Films president Colin Callender will lead the production. “I have received many offers for a theatrical adaptation of Harry Potter. However, Sonya and Colin's idea was the only one that had the right level of sensitivity, tension and intimacy.

In the new section, Look At Me Chokes the most popular find on the Internet for a day and talks in detail about the "lyca" site, meme, picture, video or service. The Spaniard Genis Carreras explained the main philosophical concepts with the help of simple geometric figures. The works of the graphic designer are included in the book Philographics. The collection with 95 illustrations will become available in April next year.

Sergey Vasilevsky makes a rebranding metro All year we waged a Redizin Redizin section, in which Anton Schneider (and later Alexei Ivanovsky) changed the logos of famous companies in two hours. We carefully read all the comments and decided at the end of the year to arrange among readers-designers the Redizin contest with the main prize-the new Xbox One game console. It is time for readers to choose the winner who will receive the Xbox One for the New Year.

Teleza has released the device of the same name that turns the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone into a phone with two SIM cards and adding distance control functions. The two types of two types are already on sale: you can choose a more suitable modification - compatible with the iPhone or with iPad, iPod Touch and most devices for Android. Teleza costs $ 129, has a built -in battery, looks like a small control panel and comes in two colors - silver and gold.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47, has died at the age of 94. Since November 17, Kalashnikov has been in the intensive care unit of the clinical diagnostic center of Udmurtia, Lenta.ru reports . The AK-47 is one of the most common small arms in the world and one of the most famous Russian industrial design objects. In second place after the Kalashnikov assault rifle and its modifications are the American M series rifles.

French surgeons transplanted the first artificial heart, Carmat, consisting of cow tissue as well as mechanical elements, into a person. This implant became the first long-term heart with a lifespan of up to five years, reports Reuters . The Carmat transplant operation took place in a Paris hospital.

Sasha Ardabiev is rebranding the coffee shop network All year we waged a Redizin Redizin section, in which Anton Schneider (and later Alexei Ivanovsky) changed the logos of famous companies in two hours. We carefully read all the comments and decided at the end of the year to arrange among readers-designers the Redizin contest with the main prize-the new Xbox One game console. It is time for readers to choose the winner who will receive the Xbox One for the New Year.

We summarize the results of the year We summarize the results of the year: scolding, criticizing and dousing with mud - one of the main entertainment on the Internet, whether it be Miley Cyrus frank dancing or a global system of monitoring people around the world. This is done by Internet media, bloggers and commentators. We collected 10 things that criticized the most fierce all.

Cars on electric motors will not be widespread in the next 25 years. This is stated in the Forecast of the Department of Energy Information of the US Department of Energy. According to the energy department, writes The Verge , by 2040 the number of electric vehicles will not exceed one percent of the total number of vehicles. Another percentage will be occupied by hybrid engines, and another five percent - hybrids of the system similar to Toyota Prius.

Oleg Michahopar makes a rebranding juice All year we waged a Redizin Redizin section, in which Anton Schneider (and later Alexei Ivanovsky) changed the logos of famous companies in two hours. We carefully read all the comments and decided at the end of the year to arrange among readers-designers the Redizin contest with the main prize-the new Xbox One game console. It is time for readers to choose the winner who will receive the Xbox One for the New Year.

Time magazine named the best Instagram blog of the year. The winner was the photo blog of David Guttenfelder, a seven-time winner of the World Press Photo Awards, head of the Asian department of the Associated Press , who covered elections, wars and natural disasters in more than 75 countries. David is one of the first (and few) foreign photographers to have permission to shoot in North Korea.

Filmmaker James Houston from Glasgow prepared a video greeting for his former school. In it, a group of vintage computers performs the Christmas song of the Ukrainian composer Nikolai Leontovych Carol of the Bells, known as “Shchedryk”. According to Dezeen , Houston collected his children's Christmas gifts for the filming of the video. These included old Apple Mac computers, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum + 1 and SEGA Mega Drive.

Pussy Riot topped the ranking of the most influential artists in Russia in 2013, compiled by Artguide magazine. According to the creators: “The annual rating has never been a vanity fair for us - rather, it is an attempt to analyze the artistic events of the year.” The rating was compiled based on voting by experts, which included art critics and journalists.