Russian senators have prepared a bill obliging the developers of payment applications for smartphones to ensure the integration of programs with the National Payment System "Mir". This was stated by the vice speaker of the Federation Council Nikolai Zhuravlev, reports TASS. "In some cases, customers using the Mir card does not have the possibility of contactless payment using a smartphone.

On the night of November 25, the American space company launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which brought 60 satellites of the SPACEX system of global access to the Starlink Internet orbit. The broadcast of the mission was carried out on the company YouTube channel . This launch was the 16th in a row as part of the Starlink project and hundredth for the Falcon 9 rocket (as well as the second for SpaceX in four days).

The French tax authorities began to send notifications to large American companies about the need to pay a new tax for IT giants. This is written by the newspaper Financial Times . We are talking about 3% tax for technological companies whose annual circulation exceeds 750 million euros around the world and 25 million euros in France. The decision to introduce such a tax was made at the beginning of last year.

The Swiss company New Stream Trading AG filed a lawsuit against the Sberbank of Russia to the Moscow Arbitration Court, the court materials said. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 22, Interfax reports. For all statements, a third party is the antipinic refinery. The Swiss Trading Company New Stream Trading AG belongs to the arrested owner of the New Stream Group of Companies Dmitry Mazurov . The New Stream Trading was created to trade in antipinic refineries.

In the third quarter of 2020, Russian mortgage borrowers prematurely repaid housing loans with a volume of more than 0.5 trillion rubles, 82.2% more than the same period last year. This was reported by TASS with reference to the data of the Bank of Russia. In total, in July-September, the Russians repaid a mortgage of 524.8 billion rubles ahead of schedule. Compared to the second quarter of this year, the volume of early redeemed mortgage loans increased one and a half times.

The Yandex company at the YAC annual conference, which this time turned into a film due to the pandemic of the coronavirus, introduced the "smart" column "Max Station" with Voice assistants to Alice. This was reported on the Yandex blog . “The new device looks the same as the first“ station ”, but inside it is arranged differently.“ Max station ”has five speakers with a total capacity of 65 watts that provide a three -lane sound.

The American IBM technological corporation intends to reduce about 10 thousand employees in its European units. We are talking about approximately 20% of the total IBM personnel in Europe. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources familiar with the company's plans. Basically, the abbreviations will be affected by IBM offices in the UK and Germany, but dismissal is also expected in Poland, Italy, Slovakia and Belgium.

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a decision on the election of a preventive measure in the form of detention against Denis Beltyukov, accused of taking hostages. A drunken man, armed with an ax and a knife, forcibly held six children in the apartment. The crime was committed on November 24 from 12:00 to 16:30 in the apartment of house No. 73 on Proletarskaya Street in St. Petersburg.

Dmitry Milin "Many, including the president, live with myths that the capabilities of the Russian defense industry are approximately equal to the capabilities of the Soviet defense industry and that the Russian defense industry has some magical technologies that will reduce the military production for the production of some competitive products that somehow themselves are suddenly developed.

Spartak and Sochi set a new rate of speed in the next match of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). Opponents spent a minimum amount of time to abandon five goals. The meeting on the ice of the "large" in Sochi ended with a set of 5: 3 (0: 1, 3: 2, 2: 0) in favor of the red and white.

Scotland was the first in the world to adopt a law on free hygiene products for the period of menstruation. According to the document, unanimously approved by parliament on November 24, the government should develop a national scheme that guarantees free access to laying and tampons. You can get them in public buildings, including schools and universities.

Joe Biden, who announced his victory in the election of the US President, said that the first hundred days at the head of the country would devote migration reform and the fight against coronavirus. He also intends to cancel some decrees of the current US President Donald Trump, which, in his opinion, damaged the climate and health of people.

The players of the St. Petersburg Zenit and Krasnodar suffered the next defeats in the matches of the Champions League group stage and early lost the chance of access to the euro-cup playoffs after the fourth round. Russian clubs did not win a single victory in 14 European cub matches of this season. - Dziuba explained the failures of Zenit in the European arena with a cowardly mentality "Krasnodar" in its field lost to the Spanish "Seville" with a score of 1: 2.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) on its website published short lists of nominees for seven individual trophies, which will be awarded on December 17 at The Best Fifa Football Awards online. The awards will go to the best players, goalkeepers and coaches following the results of the outgoing year among men and women, as well as the author of the most beautiful goal.

"China launched an automatic Chan-5 automatic station to the moon, which should fit, take samples of lunar soil and return it to Earth. So far, the lunar soil has managed to deliver only the United States to Earth during the piloted Apollo Expeditions and the Soviet automatic devices" Luna-16, -20, 24 ". On the last" Luna-24 "in August 1976, the Soviet Lunar Lunna ended in August 1976 Program, ”writes an expert in the field of aviation and astronautics on his Facebook page.