American science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who wrote the script for the episode "City on the Edge of Forever" of the television series Star Trek, died on June 28 in California at the age of 85. The official Star Trek website, citing the writer's wife Susan, reported that "Ellison, who turned 84 last month, died in his sleep this morning at his home in California." Ellison is one of the leaders of the "new wave" of American authors who came to science fiction in the 1960s.

The popular Instagram photo service, the audience of which has recently exceeded 1 billion users, intends to continue to develop further. In order to attract users from countries with a weak coating of mobile Internet and expensive traffic, the company released a lightweight version of the Android mobile application, called Instagram Lite.

The first crypto investment bank will appear in Russia. It will be launched by Qiwi Blockchain Technologies (QBT), a subsidiary of the country's largest payment service provider Qiwi, registered in Russian jurisdiction. The bank will operate under the HASH brand, writes the Kommersant newspaper.

The head of the administration of the Lipetsk region, Oleg Korolev, resonatedly commented on the departure of the German national team from the World Cup in Russia after the group stage, which happened to Bundestim for the first time in history. In his opinion, the German fiasco at the 2018 World Cup is a punishment for wars on Russian land.

Ukraine is ready to transfer to Russia 23 citizens convicted of various crimes. About this, as TASS reports, said Lyudmila Denisova, authorized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights. "We are ready to transfer the Russian Federation 23 Russians convicted in Ukraine for the preparation of terrorist attacks, espionage and hostilities, in exchange for 23 Ukrainians from Russian prisons," Denisova said on Friday, June 29, at a press conference at the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow.

Having barely warned the France 24 channel about the possibility of suspension of its activities in the Russian Federation, the Russian authorities have already reported the possibility of another similar ban. The Federation Council allowed the cessation of broadcasting of the German media company Deutsche Welle (DW) in Russia.

Former Minister of Economic Development, Alexei Ulyukaev, convicted of a bribe, contrary to reporting reports , still has not paid a fine of 130 million rubles imposed on him by sentence. This became known on Friday, June 29, during a meeting in the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, where Ulyukaev’s request was considered to remove his arrest from his property. The prosecutor's office opposed this.

The Japanese company Honda announced the termination of the release of its Humanoid robot Asimo, which has repeatedly attracted the attention of the public and the media. Now the company intends to focus on the development of robots that can bring more practical benefits, writes Nikkei Asian Review . As the publication explains, we are talking about autonomous wheeled robots and robots that can help patients. At the same time, in Honda they intend to use the technologies implemented in Asimo.

In the Kirov region, a 58-year-old teacher of the local art school was a pedophile and was under trial. For sexual violence against minor students, the teacher will go to bars for eight years. The teacher was found guilty of committing a sexual violence against persons who have not reached the age of 14 (paragraph "b" of part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court sentenced him to eight years in prison.

Engineers from Walt Disney Imagineering have developed a humanoid robot capable of performing complex acrobatic jumps. Details about the robot, called Stuntronics, gives TechCrunch . Stuntronics is the third generation of Disney robots, which can make tricks in flight after separation from the acceleration cable.

The South Korean team returned home from the World Cup in Russia on Friday, where she could not leave the group. About 500 fans gathered at the Incheon International Airport, some of them threw the players with eggs. The players of the South Korean team did not forgive the early flight from the mundial, despite the sensational victory in the last round of the group stage over the current world champions from Germany.

Russia filed a lawsuit in the World Trade Organization (WTO) to appeal the additional duties of the United States for steel and aluminum, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Earlier, the EU, China, India, Canada, Mexico and Norway sent the same claims.

The Coaching Headquarters of the Spanish national football team does not exclude the possibility that the fate of the meeting of the 1/8 finals of the playoffs against the Russian national team at the World Cup will be decided by post-match fenals, the AS publication writes.

The Russian government shifted by a year the deadlines for the annual indexation of the Plato Stateista Tariff - from July 1, 2018 to July 1, 2019. Now the Plato tariff is 1.9 rubles per kilometer. Thus, the preferential size is preserved, which was planned to be canceled back in 2017, the fee per kilometer was supposed to amount to 3.06 rubles.

The efforts of Roskomnadzor to block Telegram, which has been going on for 2.5 months, have had virtually no effect on the size of the Russian audience of the messenger. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to data from the analytical company Mediascope. According to analysts' findings, in May of this year, the Telegram mobile application was used on average by 3.67 million people living in cities with a population of over 100 thousand people.