Google has invested $ 542 million in Magic Leap, a startup developing "innovative methods of interaction between a computer and a person." It is reported by Business Insider. Magic Leap does not disclose the details of the projects that works on. However, it is known that the company is developing technologies for creating the so -called augmented reality (in the Magic Leap itself, they prefer the term “kinematographic reality”).

The Meduza website was blocked in Kazakhstan. Media employees reported this on his Facebook page. The publication's staff noted that Meduza can continue to be read through applications for iOS and Android. They did not disclose the reasons for the blocking. It is worth noting that the day before, Ilya Azar’s material “ Ust-Kamenogorsk People’s Republic ” was published on the website about the possibility of a repetition of the Ukrainian events in Kazakhstan.

The PRC authorities arranged a large -scale attack on Apple gadget owners. When you try to go to the ICLoud cloud service, users are transported to a fake site that steals their logins and passwords. The non -profit organization Great Fire confirmed that it was state structures that are behind the attack. According to its representatives, requests are crossed at the level of the “Great Firewall”-the Chinese Internet content filtering system.

On October 18, Rostelecom posted on the public procurement website an order for the development of the communicator service, which provides voice communications via the Internet. The order describes a service that will provide users with a “local telephone service”, as well as “an additional opportunity to carry out outgoing and accept incoming calls using a software application”. For the "communicator" you need to develop a desktop application, as well as Epp for iOS and Android.

James Bond's car from the film “The Spy that Love me” (1977) is exhibited on Ebay . The Lotus Esprit S1 car is known, first of all, by the fact that it was able to transform into a submarine. The author of the lot indicated that in reality, the machine is not only not able to work under water, but could not drive at all. The hybrid for sale is one of the seven cars that were used during the filming of the film about agent 007. One of them was a real submarine in the Lotus Esprit S1 case.

The Mashable and the Column Five organization conducted a study on the pronunciation of some technical terms in different English -speaking countries. Researchers were interested in which of the two most common pronunciation native speakers use more often.

Chia, Coji, Asai and other over -esteemed products Universal insanity on healthy food is reached a new level every year. In the food blocks, information regularly appears about a completely new or well-forgotten old product, which has fantastic usefulness characteristics in combination with low calorie content. We decided to figure out what these super -products are, and whether they are so useful as they write about them. What is superfood?

A 28-year-old Japanese man was sent to prison for making pistols using a 3D printer. The Yokohama District Court sentenced Yoshimoto Imura to prison on charges of illegal weapons possession. According to local media , law enforcement agencies became interested in the young man after the video recording. On it, he shot a manufactured weapon in the forest and talked about its characteristics. The court found that the practice of 3D printing handguns endangers the safety of others.

A collection of songs heard in the film “Guardians of the Galaxy” Awesome Mix vol.1 will be released on audio cassettes. Billboard magazine reports this. Previously, the album was released on CDs, electronically and on vinyl. Note that the cassette with the songs recorded on it plays an important role in the film - the main character receives it, along with the cassette player, as a gift from his late mother at the end of the film.

The creators of The Simpsons series portrayed Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and their dog Santa's Little Helper in the style of characters from other series. The segment was released as part of Treehouse of Horros, which is the name of the three series that are filmed every year around Halloween. These episodes usually involve the Simpson family in some sort of supernatural event. In the above episode, Lisa says: “One thought worries me.

The Copter Express company, which transported pizza using a drone for an advertising campaign of the Dodo Pizza pizzeria in Syktyvkar, was fined 50 thousand rubles. General Director Oleg Ponfilenok announced this on his VKontakte page. The company was accused of violating Class C airspace (under instrument flight rules and visual flight rules) and transporting cargo without a license.

Ancient steam engine, electric battery and other surprises It is generally accepted that we live in the most technologically developed time, and everything that remains in the past is backward, and developed technologies are never forgotten. In fact, this is not always the case. In the history of mankind, there are a lot of examples of inventions that were undeservedly forgotten and which humanity came up again several times.

Dutch designer Annet Bruil created a plate that helps not to overeat, according to Fast Company. The surface of the plate is divided into sectors, which show how much space various groups of products should occupy: fresh vegetables or salad, meat or fish, as well as cereals, pasta and potatoes. The plate was created in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Health of the Netherlands.

It seems that no one has ever argued with the fact that video games are a form of art. But the chief editor Anton Mukhataev in his blog doubts that the game community deserves this recognition. The thesis "Video games - art" always seemed false to me. Not because the video games themselves do not deserve to be called art (this happened back in the 80s), but because of the immature and disarmed game community. Speaking “Video games are art”, gamers are simply asserted.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, reports Interfax , spoke out for turning off the Internet in the republic. According to him, this is necessary to combat radical moods among young people. Ramzan Kadyrov The head of Chechnya “Previously, it was easy for us to work when a person read a sermon, and now there is an Internet everywhere, and young people like to listen to sermons from there.