US President Barack Obama signed a law that allows companies that make minerals in space to maintain the extracted resources in their own ownership after their delivery to land, as well as dispose of them at their own discretion. This is written by Engadget. In general, the law is aimed at developing private companies engaged in space transport, in particular, SpaceX, Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries.

Your device is your responsibility In the section “Digital Etiquette”, LOOK at Me argues how best to behave on the Internet. This week we explain why you should not be offended by people who look at the screen of your smartphone or computer. If you do not want to look at the screen of your device, create conditions under which it will not be possible. Everyone faces this from time to time.

The 69-year-old American Otis Johnson, who was in imprisonment since 1970, and freed himself only in August 2014, shared with the Al Jazeera channel impressions of life in the 21st century. At the age of 25, Johnson was convicted of attempted murder and armed attack on a policeman. He spent 44 years in prison, and when he was released, it turned out that most of his relatives were no longer alive. “Neither sisters, nor brothers, nobody with whom I could chat,” he says.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recognized the FLINT House of the authorship of the Skeene Catling de La Pena Bureau with the best private house of Great Britain in 2015. The house was built for the curator of the archive on the territory of the Waddesdon estate, which belongs to the Rothschild family. It includes two buildings of a triangular shape and with a stepped roof.

Scientists from the University of Texas reported the creation of a self-healing gel that also has electrically conductive properties. Gizmag writes about this. The study was published in the journal Nano Letters. The gel is created from a polymer hydrogel with electrically conductive properties mixed with a self-forming metal ligand gel. This makes the mixture elastic and stronger than regular hydrogel.

The web developer from Paris Tim Carrie compiled a test in which it is necessary to distinguish the names of Pokemon from the technology of working with great data. The test is simply arranged: it shows the random name of Pokemon (or the name of the technology) and two buttons. After the answer, the site in several sentences will tell about Pokemon (or technology), and sometimes he will clarify with which technology it would be possible to confuse his name.

New York programmer Robert Hodgin has created a realistic visualization of the Sun. Mashable drew attention to his work. He used the open source library Cinder for C++-based visualization, real satellite images of the Sun, and music by Justin Messina , which included sounds from Voyager, Cassini, SuitSat 1, and radio broadcasts. You can see more of Hojin's visualization work on his website .

The editors of Wikipedia have made changes to all articles about drugs that the Federal Drug Control Service complained to Roskomnadzor, Vedomosti reports . The agency will not yet issue an order to block articles, but will send the amended articles for approval to the Federal Drug Control Service.