The automatic interplanetary station "Messenger" fell to the surface of Mercury, completing a mission that lasted more than 10 years. The device crashed into the planet at a speed of 3.91 kilometers per second. According to NASA calculations, as a result of the collision on the surface of Mercury, a new crater with a diameter of 16 meters was formed. "Messenger" fell on the opposite side of Mercury from the Earth - it was impossible to observe the moment of the collision.

Screenshot: How-old.net Microsoft has launched the How-old.net service, at which the computer evaluates the age of people in the photograph. It is enough for the user to download the picture with persons so that the system is informed by the alleged gender and age of each person. The system is often mistaken, and also changes the assessment depending on the facial expression. In addition, sometimes she tries to determine the age of not quite people.

Photo: Teodor_thecat / Instagram The designer and illustrator from New York Denis Sazhin created the Theodore-a cartoon cat who walks around the city and sometimes gives fitness lessons. Theodore has his own Instagram , Tambler and Twitter , the content of which is mostly repeated. On Instagram, Theodore sometimes demonstrates how he plays sports. But for “full -fledged” sports, there is a Mycatfit.com site: in them the user can choose which exercise will demonstrate Theodore.

More than 100 people have been arrested in New York who took part in a demonstration of solidarity with the residents of Baltimore, where riots took place after the death of 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray, who was detained by police. Protesters in Manhattan blocked roads and clashed with police. One officer was injured during a New York demonstration when a bottle hit him in the face.

16-year-old Michael Singleton from Baltimore, who got on the camera while his mother screamed at him, gave an interview to ABC News and CNN .

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case in connection with reports of forced hospitalization of children in psychiatric hospital No. 15 in Moscow.

Russian citizens who have accounts abroad are not yet required to report on the movement of funds on these accounts to the Russian tax authorities. A representative of the Federal Tax Service told RBC that the government has not yet approved the form and procedure for such reporting.

Activists from the youth wing of United Russia, the ruling political party in Russia, are demanding that Google remove from its Maps service information about various X-rated locations.

Photo: Blue Origin Blue Origin, belonging to the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tested the NEW Shepard suborbital spacecraft. The rocket started from the landfill in Texas. The ship was brought to a height of 93 kilometers, after which it landed safely on parachutes. Blue Origin First Flight Blue Origin is developing a complex of reusable use - not only a capsule with astronauts, but also an accelerated unit should return to Earth.

The fire in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been extinguished. This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Mykola Chechotkin. According to him, there are no open fires near the nuclear power plant. Until May 2, the State Emergency Service intends to complete monitoring of the fire area in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Roskosmos and the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) will provide loans to Fundservisbank totaling 66 billion rubles, the Central Bank of Russia said in a statement. In particular, it was decided to re-register the bank's liabilities to its largest creditor, Roskosmos, in the amount of 27 billion rubles, into a subordinated deposit for a period of 10 years.

Screenshot: Prince of Persia In old games under MS-DOS, published on the website of the Internet archive, you can now play right on Twitter. To do this, it is enough to insert a link to a specific game on a tweet-and an expanded “card” will appear in the web version of the service, allowing the user to launch the application and start the game without switching to a new page. So, now on Twitter you can play in the original Prince of Persia. Or in Wolfenstein 3D.

Twenty pictures of Sergey Maximishin. Photo gallery "Medusa" Photo: Sergey Maksimishin On May 15, the exhibition “100 photos of Sergey Maksimishin”, which will be held as part of the modern photo festival 31 Days Fotofest, opens in the Artplay Design Center.

The Russian government has blocked a Twitter account parodying Igor Sechin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin and the head of state oil giant Rosneft, saying the account violated Sechin’s personal data. Twitter appears to have notified the account in question, “IgorSechinEvilTween,” that it received a complaint, though the notification did not make it clear why the account is now blocked inside Russia. The parody account has more than 27,000 followers.

Accomplices in assassination attempt on human rights activist Malala Yousafzai have been sentenced in Pakistan. 10 defendants received 25-year prison terms. They were found guilty of preparing an assassination attempt. It was not possible to detain the direct perpetrators of the crime. “Those who shot fled to neighboring Afghanistan and are now with the Taliban,” a Pakistani intelligence official said. NBC News Malala Yousafzai was assassinated on October 9, 2012, when she was 15 years old.