The head of Tesla, Ilon Musk, announced the creation of an electric pickupa following the Model Y crossover, which is planned to be launched into the market in 2019. He reported this on his Twitter page. “The main design elements and engineering solutions have been spinning in my head for five years,” Musk wrote. “I can’t be patient to build it.” He will have a Tesla pickup for his words a little more popular in the USA Ford F-150.

Some Chinese users will soon be able to confirm their identity using the WeChat messenger, which will replace the usual document. According to Engadget , a pilot project to test the new WeChat function was launched this week in one of the districts of the city of Guangzhou, and in January the possibility of using the application is planned to be distributed throughout China instead of a certificate.

From January 1, the Russian authorities, as expected , terminate the execution of certain paragraphs of bilateral agreements to facilitate US flights over the territory of the Russian Federation under an open sky agreement.

The Swedish company Koenigsegg published on the network a video from the crash tests of its Hypercar Region , released by 80 copies and sold at a price of $ 1.9 million. The video posted on the manufacturer's page on Instagram shows various types of possible collisions. The video also shows the strength of the body of the machine, which is applied by a series of beats with a hammer, Autonews notes.

The Face ID Face ID FACE IPHone X Face X Finds a variety of applications. So, recently, the first games began to appear in the App Store store, which is controlled by facial expressions. However, Face ID capabilities are not limited to this and, as practice has shown, allow you to create something frightening.

The oppositionist and the head of the Corruption Fund (FBK) Alexei Navalny filed a complaint to the Supreme Court to the decision of the Central Election Commission to refuse to nominate a candidate in the 2018 presidential election, RBC reports.

In the Mexican state of Nuevo-Leon, a 27-year-old citizen of Venezuela Andrein Elisabeth Escalon Leisaga was killed. The girl’s companion was also seriously wounded, with whom she was in the Mercedes car. The deceased Andrein Escalon was a fashion model, which, in particular, starred for men's magazines. The car in which the victims moved was fired from firearms, reports El Universal .

The International Coalition, led by the United States, does not prepare the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group* at the Syrian military base of ET-Tanf, according to the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces. This was announced on the eve of the representative of a group of troops participating in the operation "Unshakable determination". "First of all, the United States personally do not carry out any operations in Iraq and Syria.

Italian President Sergio Mattarell, using the 88th article of the Constitution of the country, decided to dissolve both chambers of the country's main legislative body: the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. This was reported on the official website of the head of state. In addition, the president signed a decree on the holding of new parliamentary elections on March 4, 2018. The first meeting of the parliament of the new convocation is amended on March 23.

Composer Vladimir Shainsky, who passed away on December 25, will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. The People's Artist of the RSFSR died at the 93rd year of his life in the city of San Diego in California, where he lived in recent years. The fact that the composer’s dust will be buried after cremation at the Troekurovsky cemetery, said Alexei Nemeryuk on Thursday, December 28.

The Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed support for Russia in connection with the explosion in the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the incident of terrorists. At the same time, law enforcement agencies have yet qualified the incident as "an attempt to kill two or more persons." "France condemns an attack on a supermarket in St. Petersburg on December 27. We express our support to all the victims and their families.

The Russian base Khmeimim in Syria was an attack. Two missiles were knocked out by the militants of the missile (ZRPK) "shell-C1", reports Al-Masdar . The head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu, reporting on the work of Russian air defense in Syria, said that dozens of missiles were neutralized. According to preliminary information, the militants who were in the village of Bdam in the province of Idlib launched a volley of several missiles towards the air base.

A group of developers from Google introduced a system of speech synthesis, which is able to convert the text into speech as close as possible to human. The description of the algorithm called Tacotron 2 is available on the Arxiv.org website, and examples of its work can be found on the company's website . According to N+1 , Google has long been developing in the field of speech synthesis. The new algorithm works on the basis of two neural networks.

The famous 200-year-old magnolia, planted on the lawn of the White House seventh US President Andrew Jackson in memory of his deceased wife, lost a significant part on Wednesday, CBS reports. At the same time, the whole tree, apparently, decided not yet to cut down, contrary to recent fears . According to the television channel, the specialists of the National Dender set to work on the crowning of the historical tree on Wednesday, December 27.

About one and a half million foreigners will visit Russia of the World Cup matches, said Mikhail Degtyarev, head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs. Almost half of the applications for the purchase of tickets for the mundial matches was submitted by foreign citizens. "The number of applications for the acquisition of tickets for the mundial matches indicates a great interest in the World Cup and among our fans and among the guests of Russia.