The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Italian University Ka-Foscari. At the same time, the mantle and diploma ceremony was held "in spite of sanctions." Medinsky said this by RIA Novosti . Initially, the minister was supposed to receive the title of May 12 in Venice, but then the political leader’s plane could not leave the airspace of Moldova.

Microsoft showed all the beauty of big data with the help of a hall of mirrors and several hundred lamps: as part of the presentation of SQL Server 2014, the corporation held a performance, a recording of which was published yesterday by Freearm studio. Microsoft/Infinity Room from Freefarm - Sound Design & Music on Vimeo . In time with the speaker's story, the LED spheres formed various patterns and shapes, showing viewers how beautiful large amounts of data can be.

All intersections This week the last episode of the first season of “agents“ Sch.I.T. ”was released - The series, united with the Marvel studio cinematic studio (by the way, we recommend it hotly to watch it). “Agents”, films about an iron person, Hulk, Thor and others, all of them are interconnected, sometimes obviously, sometimes not too much. Look at ME compiled a visual table explaining how.

In honor of the anniversary of Diablo III, which will be held on May 22, Blizzard published a new game guide representing the series retrospective up to the expansion of Reaper of Souls. The creators of the guide warn that he is full of spoilers (this is not surprising) . The “ Diablo History ” itself is available on the game page, but in order to get acquainted with it, you will need to enter your date of birth.

Despite all the noise around smart glasses, the cost of Google Glass and the technological specificity of the novelties stop many potential buyers. To tell how glasses can come in handy in ordinary life and how cool they actually look on the owner, Google hired an Ivy Ross design and marketing expert, who previously worked in Calvin Klein, Swatch, Gap and other fashion companies. This was announced today by The Verge .

The developers of the Foursquare geosocial service released the SWARM application. In the near future, all the functionality of the creation of Chekins in institutions and other places will be transferred to it. The original Foursquare application will be converted to a recommendation service . This was reported in the developers blog . Swarm allows you to celebrate in institutions, apply comments and photos to the Chekins.

Microsoft published an announcement of the fifth part of the Halo game franchise. The game Halo 5: Guardians will be released in the fall of 2015. The 343 Industries development studio promised to completely process the mechanics of the game to the capabilities of the Xbox One console. The first details about the new series of the 343 Industries will report at the E3 exhibition in June 2014.

Dynamite Entertainment Publishing House is preparing a new comic book series inspired by the popular Doodle Jump Mobile Game. According to Polygon , drawn stories will talk about why and why the main character of the platformer Dudler jumps. Dynamite Entertainment Director Rich Young said that at one point the company decided to create a comic book on a mobile application. After studying the famous games, the publishing house decided to dwell on Dooodle Jump.

Kickstarter introduced a new Antvr virtual reality helmet. Its main advantage is cross -platform. Unlike Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus, Antvr is suitable for use on different platforms, including PC, Xbox, PlayStation, iOS and Android mobile devices and other devices with HDMI output. According to TechCrunch , the Antvr project managed to interest many gamers immediately after the announcement. In two days, the device collected half of the required 200 thousand dollars.

Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of Roskomnadzor, spoke in an interview with Izvestia about preparing for the use of the “Law on Bloggers” and interaction with foreign services. In particular, he touched the relationship between the department with Facebook, Google and Twitter. Ksenzov noted that with the leadership of the latest service, Roskomnadzor has the most stressful relationship.

The organizers of the IgroMir exhibition announced that in parallel with the next event they will launch “an international exhibition for fans of pop culture Comic Con Russia.” It is clarified that Comic Con Russia is “based on the format of the legendary American show Comic Con.” The organizers promise that the exhibition will feature premieres of new films, TV series, computer and board games, as well as books, comics, anime and manga.

How to survive in conditions of strict control Today, Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor, Maxim Ksenzov, reporting the possibility of blocking Twitter, once again reminded us that Russia resembles China more and more regarding the freedom of the Internet (and not). In this regard, Look At ME legalized Leslie Anna Jones's report for Aeon Magazine - how journalists work in conditions of strict control, why the number 64 scares censors and at what cost it is necessary to bypass the prohibitions.

If you happen to have an iPhone 5S and an iPad Air lying around at home, you can go right now and film an advertising spot for Bentley: these are the gadgets that the creators of the Intelligent Details video, shot on an iPhone and edited on an iPad, used . Intelligent Details is the case when the making of the video is much more interesting than the spot itself (after all, we see expensive cars, roads stretching into the distance and thoughtful men in suits during every commercial break) .

The CW has published an extended five-minute trailer for the Flash series, the main character of which will be a comic book character from DC Comics. The trailer tells the origin story of the superhero, introduces his friends and briefly recounts the events of the first episode of the series. In particular, it shows one of the antagonists who is able to control the weather.

Musical puzzle inside the synthesizer Look At Me launched a new heading in which once a week will talk about the recently released good indie games and about the people who have made them. Today is the musical game FRACT OSC from the Canadian studio Phosfired Systems. FRACT OSC Puzzle, PC, Mac $ 14.99 FRACT OSC is a musical puzzle with an open world in which you need to explore a huge synthesizer in the literal sense from the inside.