The architect Gonzalo Vaillo Martinez presented the concept of a residential building, whose appearance is based on discoveries in the field of biogenetics. The concept of the code name 2217NPL involves the construction of a house with a modular system and biological forms. The building built on such a project will be able to accommodate on any site and reach based on the features of the landscape.

On March 20, Facebook programmers published a message in which they presented their own Hack programming language. It is reported that the language was developed by Facebook engineers when the capabilities of the PHP language (used on Facebook since 2003) have not become enough. In particular, programmers noted the inability to quickly correct errors in the code and the need to contain a large number of servers in the case of using PHP for large -scale projects.

Even convinced cynics will think about taking part in the hour of the Earth by watching the new Durex video. After a short video, in which pairs over and over again, they have dates, buried with his nose into a smartphone or tablet, inexplicably becomes ashamed of their own behavior. “Turn Off to Turn On,” Durex suggests. In other words, tear yourself away from the devices, so that in your life something to happen to happen.

Active users of Pinterest know that this site allows you not only to create numerous mood boards and wish lists, but also to track fashion trends in real time. Rosario Gomez took advantage of this when compiling her infographics . The girl analyzed the photos that people saved and liked and found out which looks, shows and designers were the most popular. Thus, the most shares were linked to the website Style.com . Mark Jacobs and Ralph Lauren lead in the number of mentions.

Pepsi scared the residents of London in a new viral video, writes Sploid . To achieve this, the glass of a bus stop located in a crowded area of ​​the city was replaced with a display. The camera screen showed the daily hustle and bustle of the city, but augmented reality technology made Brits believe in a meteorite crash, a robot attack, a UFO invasion and more. A similar advertising prank was created by LG.

A year ago, I started working at LOOK AT Media, on the project of redesign of this site. A lot of beautiful and interesting pieces have accumulated over the year, so I decided to systematize them and put them on my page on Behans . I will put a small part of the pictures here. Illustrator: Andrey Smirny .

A terrifying robot girl has appeared at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York. An extremely realistic figure of a stripper dancing in one of the halls is the result of a collaboration between contemporary artist Jordan Wolfson and special effects studio Spectral Motion . The robot stripper frightens gallery visitors rather than delights: the dancing girl’s body is crowned with the head of either a witch or a goblin, and a metal pole sticks out of her chest.

Zakha Hadid presented her new project in Seoul, reports Dezeen . The Cultural Complex of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) with an area of ​​38 thousand square meters opened on March 21, on the day of the beginning of the fashion week in Korea. DDP has become the first public building in Korea, built using parametric modeling. The facade of the building consists of 45 thousand aluminum panels, which allows you to arrange an animated light show in the dark.

The operating system, on which more than one generation of users has grown, will completely stop maintaining on April 8. This means that old lovers have only two weeks left to download all the packs service and the Microsoft Security Essentials installation. At the moment, more than 20% of users of stationary computers have not been updated. Microsoft promises that all of them will become tapeen prey for numerous malware after the termination of service.

The Rostec State Corporation acquired 25 percent of the shares of YotADEVICES, which develops the Yotaphone smartphone. It is reported by RBC with reference to the Financial Times. The General Director of YotADEVICES, Vlad Martynov specified that the stake was provided to Rostec as an option for the participation of the state corporation in the restructuring of the SCARTEL provider (former owner of YotADEVICES).

A chair for those who like to always have everything at hand. Lost in Sofa fits all the things a modern person needs: a book, an iPhone, a tablet, a notepad, a remote control, etc. - in general, this is a real armchair-home. When creating it, the designers thought about the “sofa holes” where half of our things usually disappear, and figured out how to solve this problem. The chair is made entirely of small plush cubes, which is why it is so convenient to store things in it.

Mail.Ru Group has published a study by the audience of the most popular social networks in Russia. It was affected by demographic and geographical indicators of the traffic of services. According to the study, the most popular Russian social networks are VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. Their monthly audience is, respectively, 52 and 42 million people.

Since last year, Google began actively buying robot manufacturers. Among them were Boston Dynamics and Schaft, participants in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) competition to create a humanoid robot with a $2 million prize. According to The Verge , Google is refusing to fund its developments from the US Department of Defense. The activities of Google and DARPA are similar in many ways. However, both sides are not interested in cooperation.

Apple is working on creating its own streaming music service, Billboard reports , citing sources familiar with such negotiations. According to insiders, Apple has begun negotiations with the heads of music labels, which must provide their music for streaming. Sources also said that the American company is considering releasing an iTunes Radio application for the Android operating system. Negotiations on both issues are still at an early stage.

New Zealand researchers have concluded that the psychoactive compound MDMA, also known as ecstasy, could be a cure for ringing or tinnitus, reports Mixmag . Preliminary research by academics at the University of Auckland has shown that people suffering from the symptom of tinnitus got rid of tinnitus after taking MDMA.