On November 21, the Apple website posted a vacancy of engineer for virtual reality applications. Its text says that the company requires a "software engineer who will create a user interface and the next generation application." The responsibility of the employee will include the development of "high -performance applications for integration with virtual reality, creating prototypes and testing." In December 2013, Apple received a patent for virtual reality glasses of its own development.

The Russian online store Apple Store opened after it was offline for two days. After the opening, it turned out that the prices of the company's equipment rose by almost a quarter. The basic models of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are now worth 39,990 and 46,990 rubles, respectively. This is 8 thousand rubles more compared to the initial price.

"This building is interesting because no one knows what it is" Look At Me continues an interview with young architects. This time we talked with Artyom Ukropov, one of the three founders of the Megabudka Bureau, whom we photographed against the backdrop of a mysterious wooden building in the center of Moscow.

In the National Research Center, miniature drones are being developed for use during combat operations, according to the US Army website. Dronov wants to be used on operations involving small combat units. It is assumed that they will provide soldiers at close range and provide more data on the situation on the battlefield. For example, drones can fly in the nearest pass or explore several rooms in the cleaned building. Relatively large drones are not suitable for such purposes.

Twitter conducted negotiations with the developers of the SHOTS Selfie application, CNBC reports with reference to sources close to the creators of the application. The network of microblogs is allegedly going to purchase EPP for an unnamed amount. For the first time, rumors that Twitter was going to purchase something, appeared on November 24. Then the financial director of Anthony Nomo wrote in his profile: "I still think that we should buy them." Noto added that he has a “plan”.

A coder who is fighting with the bureaucracy In the heading "New Hero" Look At ME talks about young and promising representatives of creative industries. The new heroes will be those who will form the agenda in the world of technology, design and art. In the new issue - a programmer and an adept "Open Web" Max Ogden. Ogden was born in a small town in Oregon, moved to Newport, and then to San Francisco.

The creators of LittlebigPlanet 3 about how user content rules video games On the prefixes PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, the LittlebigPlanet 3 video game is published. This is an example of an affordable designer where user content is no less important (or even more important) than previously created by developers. Littlebigplanet players are building thousands of levels, which are not inferior to professional: from chamber work to the grand imitations of the games of other genres.

Yandex launched a beta version of the crowdsourcing platform to improve the search results of Tolok . Its participants will receive money for choosing the best result for any request. On the platform, it is proposed to complete several types of tasks: to determine whether some page is useful for a certain search query; note pages with adult content; Choose the best page from several proposed (also for some specific request).

Voice assistant Siri was used to record a cover version of the song “Know How” by rapper Young MC. The corresponding recording appeared on SoundCloud. The duration of the track is about four minutes. Siri performs slightly modified lyrics to "Know How". At the end of the song, Apple’s assistant did not miss the opportunity to poke fun at Cortana, her “colleague” made by Microsoft.

Ungalled people are increasingly calling me “snob” and “hipster”; This is upset (because experiencing emotions is normal, hello), so I decided to figure out what was the matter, and I came to the conclusion that in 2014 it is almost impossible to be a real snob. Over the past few weeks, I have been called Snob and Hipster (in a bad sense close to Snob) more than in the entire previous life.

ABBYY has launched the Lingvo Live service. This is a site with ABBYY dictionaries, where you can also ask the meaning of a foreign word or phrase. Lingvo Live offers 130 dictionaries for 19 foreign languages ​​(as well as Russian). In addition to meanings, translations, sounds and transcriptions in the dictionary section, on the site you can see examples of the use of the word in texts and phrases, as well as its various forms.

The head of Telegram, Pavel Durov, posted a photo of the Freemasons Hall building in London on Instagram. In the description of the photo, he noted that such a place could become an office for his team. This building could have made an excellent London HQ for our team. I wonder whether there are office centers of this kind in London. Photo published by Pavel Durov (@durov) Nov 11, 2014 at 3:45 PST “This building would make a great London headquarters for our team.

The Machinima channel posted a video about the clash between Batman and Darth Vader. The video was shot as part of the Super Power Beat Down series, which pits superheroes from different universes against one another. According to the plot of the video, Batman flies to the Death Star to free Superman. On the space station, he finds a lightsaber, after which he demands Darth Vader to release the Kryptonian. The Sith does not agree to Batman's terms, so the two heroes meet in battle.

Designer Artemy Lebedev said that his blog was blocked by MGTS. The “plug” appears when trying to come from Moscow state institutions (including Moscow City Hall). At the screenshot he gave, it is reported that the blog was blocked as a “site for adults”. The Livejournal user, under the nickname of Lyonia, said that Lebedev’s blog also does not open. At the time of publication of the note, the blog Artemy Lebedev was not listed in the register of blocked resources of Roskomnadzor.

How "meow" turns into "nya" Every week, Look At Me finds an answer to one unexpected question. This week we find out why native speakers of different languages ​​perceive the sounds that animals make. Why do animals sound different in human languages? Gary Nann Columonist The Guardian “In English, pigs grunted as“ OINK ”, in Japanese -“ BU ”, in the Swedish -“ NEF ”. And so not only with pigs: onomatopoeia is very different in different languages.