Photo: Kurtbraunohler / Instagram The comedian Kurt Brownouler installed a sculpture in the form of a giant ass on the truck and drove it to the United States-from Las Vegas to the east coast of the country. Brownouler explained that he was trying to make people's lives brighter with sculpture. “The world is a rather tough place. So we thought that we can illuminate people's lives with a small portion of chance. That's why I go everywhere with a giant ass, ”he said.

The state search engine "Sputnik" decided to make a browser for computers. First, the application will be made for Windows, then for other platforms. The main audience of the browser, calculated in Sputnik, is children, their parents and pensioners. It will implement the same filter that is already working in the search engine - the browser will not allow access to "dangerous" pages with pornography and drug information.

American Serena Williams defeated Belarusian Victoria Azarenka in three sets (3:6, 6:2, 6:3) in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. In the semi-finals, she will face Russia's Maria Sharapova, who beat Coco Vandeweiy of the United States a few hours earlier (6:3, 6:7, 6:2). Williams is seeded at the tournament under the first number, Sharapova - under the fourth. In the other semi-final, Garbine Muguruza from Spain and Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland will meet.

Pobeda Airlines has banned customers from chewing gum on board their aircraft. According to the press secretary of the low-cost airline Elena Selivanova, the ban was introduced in mid-June. On July 3, the general director of Pobeda, Andrey Kalmykov, said that chewing gum greatly increases the company's costs. “In order to tear off one chewing gum and bring the equipment back to normal, the airline sometimes has to spend up to 100 thousand rubles,” he complained.

In the Moscow City Court, Ilya Goryachev began to interrogate the “leader of Bourn”. Reporting Andrei Kozenko Photo: Sergey Bobylev / Kommersant In the Moscow City Court on July 7, Ilya Goryachev began to testify, who was considered one of the organizers and ideologists of the “combat organization of Russian nationalists” (BORN).

The South Carolina Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that would remove the flag of the Confederate States of America from the flagpole outside the State Houses of America. This document was supported by 36 senators. Only three voted against, all of them members of the Republican Party. After the vote in the Senate, the bill will be sent to the State House of Representatives for consideration.

On the website of the Rotor football club, a message appeared about the nomination of the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko for the presidency of the Russian Football Union. According to a press release, Mutko was nominated by the Football Federation of the Volgograd Region. Earlier, Mutko spoke about his readiness to head the RFU. The former head of the football union, Nikolai Tolstykh, was dismissed on May 31.

In the United States, an F-16 fighter jet collided mid-air with a small Cessna aircraft. The collision occurred 18 kilometers from Charleston (South Carolina). The pilot of a military aircraft managed to eject, but he has not yet been found. The pilot and possible passengers of the Cessna are not reported. According to an eyewitness, he saw how the planes collided in the air and the subsequent explosion, which looked like a fireball.

Russia, Brazil, China, India and South Africa have signed an agreement on the establishment of a monetary fund, the funds of which will be used for lending to countries participating in the agreement. The volume of the fund is 100 billion dollars. Most of all - 41 billion - will provide China. Russia, Brazil and India will invest $18 billion each, and South Africa $5 billion.

The Levoberezhny Court of Voronezh sentenced a family of entrepreneurs to prison who sold baked goods at their Ochag cafe, including poppy seed buns. On charges of selling drugs on an especially large scale, Evgenia Polukhina received eight and a half years in prison, her father Alexander Polukhin was sentenced to 8 years and four months in prison. Pensioner Maria Polukhina, Alexander's wife, and her sister Nina Chursina were sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

Paul McCartney - about John Lennon, Yoko it, Elizabeth II and incredible coincidences: Esquire Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Scanpix Paul McCartney - 73, almost his whole life he plays music and does not plan to stop. One of the most famous and influential pop companies of our time, who entered himself in history not only as a participant in The Beatles, but also a solo musician, is not going to retire, sit at home, watch TV and play golf.

Orthodox activists clash with local protesters over church construction in a Moscow park Photo: Anton Belitskiy / Kommersant In a northeastern district of Moscow, locals have been fighting against the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in Torfyanka Park. Ever since the project was proposed, it was met with some resistance, but lately the conflict has entered a whole new “militant phase.” Some of the local residents have come out in support of the church, while others remain staunchly opposed.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Svyatoslav Ponurov, the former financial director of the Rosnano state corporation, who is involved in a case of embezzlement of 220 million rubles. The court agreed with the arguments of the investigation, which claims that the suspect could abscond and interfere with the investigation. The defense asked Ponurova to choose a preventive measure not related to deprivation of liberty.

A deputy from the Radical Party of Ukraine, Oksana Korchinskaya, introduced a bill to the Verkhovna Rada banning calling the Russian Federation Russia. The explanatory note to the bill states that Russia and Rus are the historical names of the territory on which modern Ukraine is located.

Shot: Roelof Pieters / YouTube In June, Google showed what his neural networks are capable of: algorithms designed to recognize objects in the images can be used to write extremely psychedelic paintings . In short, the essence is this: the neural network is asked to recognize in the photo something that she is familiar with, and to highlight this object brighter. The network that learned to recognize animals will find animals everywhere.