Game developer Ben Porter and a friend named Dario completed the first year of a project for which they drew pixel art illustrations every day. Porter attached his favorite works to his anniversary post. He and Dario started it on June 24 last year. Their goal was to “make at least one pixel art per day.” They posted the results on Pixel Dailies Twitter and a Tumblog with selected tweets. Later, the project turned into a community of pixel art lovers.

French taxi drivers organized a series of protests in Paris and other large cities of the country, directed against the service of the Uber taxi and its option for car-sharing Uber Pop. It is reported by The Verge. Update from 06/25/15: The Minister of Internal Affairs of France said that he turned to Paris Prefecture with a request to prohibit Uber Pop in the capital. He made this statement while in Marseille, reports RTL.

Dropbox reported that 400 million people use its service. Below is a graph that shows how the service's audience grew from 75 thousand people who signed up before Dropbox launched in September 2008 to 400 million. How Dropbox's audience grew over almost seven years | Create infographics The head of the company, Drew Houston, said in the summer of 2012 at a speech at Stanford University that his colleagues understood the importance of advertising, so they hired SEO, PR and AdWords specialists.

How we are made attentive and disciplined If it is inconvenient for you to use any thing or interface, then this does not always mean that the designer did not work well on it. Rather, on the contrary: sometimes objects are intentionally done by such. Look at me figured out why. To scare away some people According to the ideas of modern urbanism, the cities are divided into zones that differ not only in size and functions, but also by what people prefer to be in them.

On the Google Cloud platform, the beta version of the hosting of the Cloud Source Repositories hosting project has launched, Venture Beat reports . Google hosting on the GIT version control system is associated with the resources of the Google Cloud cloud platform. The representative of Google told the publication that the Cloud Source Repositories keeps the source code in the protected storage. The service can also be associated with storage facilities on GitHub and Bitbucket.

In the UK, testing of artificial blood consisting of red blood cells grown in the laboratory began. It is reported by The New Scientist. Blood is obtained in the laboratory, growing blood cells from stem cells. Stem cells producing blood are obtained from the bone marrow of volunteers who sacrificed it for the sake of testing. Another source of stem cells producing blood can also be blood taken from the umbilical cord.

YouTube user Blackhawk posted a video on his channel about the “war” between Australian bats and freshwater crocodiles, waged using laser and firearms. As the author of the video said, it was based on a fragment of a BBC educational program about the life of the Australian rainforest during the monsoon period, in particular, about the hunt of crocodiles for large bats. He added visual effects to it, as well as sounds from the game Halo 4.

The Bloomberg publication has published infographics about the influence of various factors on climate change on Earth. Journalists used the observations of the Institute of Space Research of Goddard, which have been carried out since 1880. They relate to the observed deviations from the average air temperature and the oceans. For other graphs, the data received from the calculated model of climatic changes to the institute.

The attention of your followers is not endless In the section “Digital Etiquette”, LOOK at Me argues how best to behave on the Internet. This week we explain why Twitstorm is not the best way to attract attention. Twitter is not the best platform for long messages. Twitstorm is a series of messages on Twitter, a long monologue of one of the users. Tweets are most often united by a common topic (this can be either a reaction to the news, or simply the author’s thoughts) and emotionally painted.

The Windows YouTube channel posted a video about the creation of new wallpapers for Windows 10, which will be released on July 29. To do this, the company hired designer Bradley Mankowitz and rented a studio in San Francisco. Mankowitz worked as lead designer on Oblivion, Tron: Legacy and others. For the Windows 10 wallpaper, the studio used light diverging at a certain angle (to cover the Windows logo), as well as various projections onto the logo and lasers of different colors.

The World Gallery campaign, which was made for Apple at the TBWA \ Media Arts Lab agency, took the Cannes Lions Grand Prix of the outdoor advertising category, Fast Company reports . As part of the Apple campaign, I hung out pictures that professionals and lovers from all over the world on the iPhone 6 made. “Shot on iPhone 6” was signed in all images. The company also posted the same pictures on its website, and the video on the YouTube channel.

The Microsoft application has been released for Android smartphones, The Verge reports. Previously, the application package appeared on tablets with this OS, and the version for smartphones was in the testing stage. This version does not have all the functionality available for the tablet version, but it allows you to create and edit simple documents in Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The version also has support for DropBox and OneBox.

Warner Brothers has stopped selling the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight. Company representatives reported this on Steam, adding that an updated version of the game will go on sale after some time. Previously, the PC version of the game received "mostly negative" user reviews on Steam less than 48 hours after its release, although the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of the game received mostly positive reviews from customers.

In the new issue of the blog about programming, I go to where, perhaps, I should start - what tools are needed to write code on Python and how to use them. Previous issue I'm learning to program On Python: Classes and Objects We started writing the game, but I completely forgot to talk about the tools for working with Python, which I was asked about a few weeks ago.

The publication Co.Design asked the 40-year-old illustrator Christophe Szpajdel to redraw the logos of 11 candidates in the US presidency in the 2016 election in the style of groups of the Black-Metal genre. Shpidel painted his first logo in 1990. For 20 years, he created logos for about 7,000 musical groups of varying degrees of fame that Black-metal play.