A group of engineers from the University of Chicago developed a prototype of a bracelet, which prevents listening to conversations with voice assistants and recognizing their speech, writes N+1 . A massive white bracelet is equipped with 23 ultrasonic emitters, and a microprocessor, a signal generator and a battery are installed inside. You can activate the device using a switch on the housing.

The Organizing Committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo has announced the motto for the upcoming competition. The official slogan of the main sports forum of the four-year anniversary was the phrase: United by emotion - “United by emotions.” “Very soon the moment will come when people around the world will want to share their emotions, which will be inspired by the Olympics.

Forward Petersburg Zenit Alexander Kokorin, as a lease, moved to the Sochi football service. According to the press service of the Black Sea Club, the lease agreement with a 28-year-old football player is designed until the end of the season. Kokorin has already arrived at the location of Sochi at the training camp in Turkish Belek. At the end of January, the leadership of Sochi and Zenit already announced the reached agreement on the lease of Kokorin until the end of the season.

The countries of Northern and Western Europe suffered from a powerful storm, which British meteorologists named the Dennis, and in Germany he received the name "Victoria". The element affected Iceland, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and at present the cyclone has reached the north-west of Russia. The first to hit the storm was Iceland.

The Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA), which is part of the Rostec State Corporation Aviation Closure, is working on a commercial project for the delivery of postal items using drones. It is assumed that the tests of drones as part of this project will be held in the Sverdlovsk region in the next three years. According to RBC , a representative of the Uzga, the purpose of the project is to build infrastructure for the civilian unmanned aviation industry, like a network of regional airfields.

The author of the YouTube channel under the nickname Ezryderx47 , which creates videos using the Deepfake methodology, published a fragment from Robert Zemykis's cult film “Back to the Future”, in which instead of Michael J. Fox (Marty McFlay) and Christopher Emmet Brown) Intelligence inserted two avengers-Tony Stark (Robert John Dauni Jr.) and Spider-Man (Tom Holland). To replace the faces of the main characters, such tools as DeepFace Lab and Hitfilm Express 13 were used.

The Simonovsky court granted the lawsuit of the Moscow Metro against the employees of the Corruption Fund (FBK) Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov in the amount of 311 thousand rubles per protest on August 3, 2019, TASS said in court. According to the position of the Moscow State Medical University, the Moscow Metro, Alburov and Sobol organized an unauthorized rally, and therefore the metro was forced to call 30 workers on Sunday, among which there were several station chiefs.

Coronavirus Covid-19 outside the PRC affected only a small share of the population, so total security measures would be unnecessary, Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) program, said on Monday. His words are given by Euronews and Interfax . “This is a very serious outbreak, and it has a growth potential, but we must balance (response measures. - Approx. Interfax ), given the number of infected persons.

The head coach of Gazprom, the St. Petersburg Zenit, Sergei Semak, shared his opinion on how domestic football should develop, urging the state to completely leave sports. “Theoretically, football can be business in Russia, but for the minimum number of clubs. In any business, you need to understand what this business will live. In football it is television, fans, deductions for participating in European competitions,” the Fontanka quotes Semak's performance in St.

Aeroflot Boeing 777 crew commander of the Russian airline, which on December 18, 2019 operated a flight from Shanghai to Moscow and almost crashed into residential buildings in the city of Lobnya near Moscow, was dismissed from the service, and the second pilot was reprimanded. According to the Baza portal, on December 18, at about 16:00 Moscow time, several residents of Lobny, Moscow Region, saw how a huge Boeing flies straight to their homes.

Former presenter of the most popular British reality show "Love Island" Caroline Flack committed suicide at the age of 40 amid accusations of attacking her boyfriend, tennis player Lewis Burton. She was due to appear in court in the case next month. According to the BBC , Caroline was found dead in her London apartment on February 15. Her family's lawyer announced that she had committed suicide.

Fashing the seat belt in a car in Russia will soon be able to remote remotely. According to Yaroslav Fedoseyev, a representative of the Glonass and NTI NTI and NTI, from 2022, information about this will be mandatory to be processed by the Avtodat platform designed to collect automobile data. “Of course, we are talking about depersonalized data, so the penalties will not follow the penalties for an unsaturated belt.

On February 17, a law entered into force in Russia, which exempts from payments for overhaul of residents of apartment buildings located in the so -called closing settlements. About this writes the "Parliamentary Gazeta" . We are talking about amendments to the Housing Code, according to which houses located on the territory of settlements recognized as closed will not be included in the regional overhaul program.

The head of the Synodal Department for the Relations of the Church with Society and the Media, Vladimir Legoyda, called the words of the head of the Patriarchal Commission on family affairs, Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, who called the women living in a civil marriage , "free prostitutes" and "temporary comfort" for men who do not see women in such companions. Legoada noted that in the strict sense of the word, a civil marriage is a non -church marriage registered by the state.

Alexey Roshchin “Here is another pop - the Tolokonnaya forehead blurted out the defiant stupidity , this time he called“ free prostitutes ”of all women who are in a“ civil marriage ”...