Facebook and Twitter were blocked in the DPRK, TASS reports . Information reports, writes Lenta.ru , his own correspondent of the agency in Pyongyang. Previously, only foreigners who work in diplomatic missions and humanitarian organizations could enter both social networks. The causes of locking are not called. It is also not known how much it can last.

Microsoft has officially introduced the Microsoft Band fitness tracker and the Microsoft Health platform, which stores all information about the owner’s health and achievements. The company spoke in detail about the device on its blog . The Band is equipped with ten sensors that allow you to track your heart rate, sleep quality, and even measure skin conductivity and determine the amount of sweat. The bracelet has a built-in voice assistant, Cortana.

HeadHunter specialist about 5 alternatives to ordinary resumes Recently, employers often add the phrase “Do not send out” to the descriptions of the vacancies of the sphere of creative industries. Within the framework of the weekly section “Experts advise”, we asked the questions whether the standard CV is really irrelevant, what alternative resumes exist and how to use them correctly. For answers, we turned to Ivan Tyutyunji, candidate of sociological sciences, representative of Headhunter.

What to do with strangers from Facebook and VKontakte In the section “Digital Etiquette”, Look At Me talks about how to behave on the Internet correctly and politely. In a new issue, we talk about whether it is worth adding strangers to friends on social networks. Do not accept applications for adding to friends From strangers: Appreciate your personal space on social networks.

The first trailer for the film “Ex Machina” by Alex Garland (screenwriter of “Inferno” and “28 Days Later”) has been published online. The main character of the film is programmer Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), who wins a competition in his company and gets the opportunity to spend a week in the country house of the head of the company.

A group of hackers “Anonymous International” (also known as “Shaltai-Boltai”) published a correspondence that supposedly belongs to Yuri Gazaryan, secretary of the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. “Starting in the spring of 2014, negative scenarios in the Russian banking sector began to appear in correspondence,” the hackers write.

Aeromobil showed the flying Flying Roadster 3.0 car at a Vienna conference. Thanks to the mechanism of sliding wings, the machine can move both along the ordinary road and by air. Aeromobil prototype has been developed for 25 years. Now the vehicle is at the test stage. They are led by the chief designer Stefan Klein, who previously worked in BMW and Audi. The machine accelerates to 160 km/h on the ground and over 200 km/h in the air.

The popular photo editing app Instagram has released its first official promotional videos. Adweek reports this. Instagram's first advertisers included Disney, Activision, Lancome, Banana Republic and The CW. In particular, Disney advertising is dedicated to the upcoming animated film “City of Heroes.” Lancome launched an ad for new mascara and perfume, and Activision launched an ad for the game Call of Duty Advanced Warfare.

Organizers of protests in Budapest posted on the Internet a recording of the second demonstration, which took place on the evening of October 28. About 100 thousand people came to the second protest, they say. According to the government, about 30-40 thousand people protested on October 28. The protesters walked across one of the bridges in the city center and stood in front of the Ministry of National Economy.

Nintendo is working on creating a device for tracking sleep. This was announced at the meeting of investors today by the head of the company Sator Ivat, reports The Verge. The device will use radio waves in order to monitor the behavior of the user in a dream, and will be part of the Quality of Life platform, which Nintendo reported in January of this year.

-CEO Apple wrote a letter to Bloomberg Businessweek , in which he admitted that he was a homosexual, and also told why he made a camming out and how homosexuality influenced his work. Tim Cook Apple CEO “Throughout my career, I tried to maintain a sufficient level of privacy in my personal life. I come from a modest family and do not strive to attract attention. <...> I like to pay attention to our products and incredible things that buyers were able to achieve with them.

YouTube videos now support 60 frames per second. Plans to introduce such an FPS became known last summer. Videos with a similar frame rate have appeared on hosting before - this applies to trailers and clips. Now the mode is available to all users. To appreciate the significant improvement in picture quality, you should watch videos in 720p or 1080 HD.

The Parliament of Spain approved a bill providing for the introduction of a fee, which news aggregators, in particular, Google News, will be deducted to newspapers and news agencies for the use of articles in the formation of news stories. It is reported by Associated Press. The new bill enters into force on January 1, 2015.

Oppo at presentation in China introduced the thinnest smartphone in the world - Oppo R5. Its thickness is only 4.85 mm, writes Engadget . R5 operates on a 8-core processor from Qualcomm. During the presentation, the technical characteristics of the novelty were not disclosed. The creators separately spoke about the cooling system, which is necessary for the smartphone with such performance. In the phone case there is a cooling element similar to liquid metal: it picks up heat, and then gives it.

The actors who play the central characters in the “Game of Thrones” signed a contract for shooting in the seventh season of the series, reports The Hollywood Reporter . In April 2014, it became known that he was extended for the fifth and sixth seasons. However, officially HBO has not yet given the “green light” to the seventh season. The publication notes that the actors sign new contracts and receive promotion by "categories".