Spotify streaming service is going to update its Android applications with a radical redesign. This was reported in the official Spotify blog . The redesign will bring the application interface in line with recent updates to the service web version and its application for iOS. In particular, the interface is now made in dark colors, translucent effects have appeared in it. In addition, a function has been added that will allow users to organize selected playlists and albums.

Google can change the value of its social network Google+. About this writes The Verge with reference to developers' messages. They informed the publication that on some sites in the design of the authorization button using the Google+ account, the entry buttons using the general account of Google services are replaced. Visitors to these sites continue to see the authorization button using Google+.

Lucasfilm's studio announced the names of the actors who will play the main roles in the seventh episode of Star Wars. This was reported on the official website of the franchise . The film will be played by John Boyeg (“Alien in the area”), Daisy Reidley (the series “Mr.

Google can curtail the production of Nexus smartphones for the new line of devices with the "original" Android operating system. It is reported by The Information with reference to four informed sources. Sources reported that Google plans to launch a program under the code name Silver instead of Nexus. Within its framework, the company is going to increase the production of smartphones and tablets with the “original” Android operating system.

Twitter has published its financial report for the first quarter of 2014, writes Bloomberg Businessweek . From January to March 2014, the company was able to earn $250.5 million. This is 117% more than in the first quarter of 2013, and $9 million higher than market experts’ forecasts . Then the company received income of $114.3 million. Moreover, about 90% of the income is provided by the sale of advertising.

Google was accused of fraud. The anonymous user Pastebin, who introduced himself as a former employee of the search corporation, said that the managers of the ADSENSE contextual advertising service in a sense were robbed by publishers. According to the prosecutor, the company began to carry out illegal operations in 2009. “We were ordered to start banning accounts that were close to the payment deadline (which is why the accounts of accounts were never made immediately after payments).

Ahead of its ninth birthday, social news site Reddit is preparing to release its official mobile app. This became known from a vacancy that The Daily Dot wrote about. “The world is going mobile, and so is Reddit. "We're looking for developers to help us build and maintain apps to bring Reddit's great content to a wider global audience," the post reads. To create an application, Reddit is looking for programmers working with iOS and Android, designers and specialists in recommendation systems.

Microsoft, HP, Symantec and Oracle stop cooperation with Russian organizations that are under the second wave of US sanctions. This was reported to "Gazeta.ru" by sources in the IT units of two banks that fell under US sanctions. At the moment, the publication reports with reference to sources in Russian banks, American organizations have not ceased to support their products. Nevertheless, an employee of one of the banks said that HP has already stopped supplying its equipment.

Photo report by Markela Redondo with dazzlingly beautiful solar power plants A week ago, Apple has released a new advertising video in which the camera flew over the farm of solar panels, and a male voice talked about the environmentally friendly production of corporation gadgets. We contacted the photographer Markel Redondo, living in Spain, one of the leading countries in the world in terms of the number of installed solar panels for energy.

DC Comics Publishing House began work on the second part of the superhero fighting injustice: Gods among us. This was reported by Furious Fanboys with reference to the statement of representatives of the publishing house on Wondercon. The application was made after refuting the previously appeared information that the game Batman: Arkham Knight will not be released in 2014.

Hotel booking site Booking.com talked about the benefits of vacationing without your other half in a Booking Brianless promotional video. The video was a continuation of the Booking.com advertising campaign - Booking.Yeah. The young woman can finally indulge in her favorite pastimes: eating as many oysters as she wants, riding along the beach on horseback and dancing as if no one is watching - in general, doing everything that Brian doesn’t like to do.

Representatives of Google on Wednesday reported that the company refused to monitor the student Gmail student accounts with the aim of targeting advertising. The reason for the refusal was the recent trial against the company: the activities of Google's advertising mechanisms violated the American law on privacy in the educational field. An analysis of incoming and outgoing mail is necessary to configure targeted advertising in the user account.

Specialists about Profzhargon in his own office Every week, Look At Me asks for various companies from creative industries to collect frequently used words in the office. It can be “inside”, professional jargon or special words used only in this particular industry. In the new issue of the "Dictionary" - a team of 2x2. 2x2tv.ru Bibigon Any inappropriate associations with children's channels.

The Singapore designer Luis Fabra and his team rethought the flags of 106 countries, presenting them in the form of a separate font of the Multinational Typeface. According to Designboom , the project was created to rally people of different nationalities. All the letters of the Multinational Typeface were obtained by experiments with the main geometric forms of national flags. In this case, the characters have preserved the corresponding colors.

Twitter, Selfie and Smuses fall into the dictionary Whether you want it or not, a lot of borrowings have recently penetrated the Russian language and completely new words have appeared that we constantly use, without noticing it ourselves. Look at Me talked with the linguists and learned about how to navigate this huge verbal stream and how dictionaries and the Internet can help us in this.