Maxim Schweitz Laser weapons are getting closer and closer to getting real use on the battlefields, said the British tabloid The Daily Mail. The US Department of Defense is preparing in the near future to test the Boeing combat vehicle that can destroy the enemy aircraft and missiles directly from the ground using a special laser installation. The machine boasts the presence of a 500-horsepower engine, an axis on eight wheels and a laser gun.

Microsoft intends to become a major manufacturer of computers and such devices. This is stated in the annual report of Steve Balmer. A series of updated Microsoft products will appear over the next year. "Now you should think about Microsoft as a company supplying computer devices and services. Of course, devices and cloud services are driven by programs, but this is a different way to supply programs," warmer warned in an interview with Seattle Times.

In the struggle for the Nobel Prize in literature, the intrigue remained until the very end. Most often, the Japanese Haruki Murakami or Canadka Ellis Monroe was called the favorites. But the Chinese Mo Yan won, in the works of which " breathtaking realism unites folk tales with modernity." Mo Yan - Honorary Doctor of Philology of the Open University of Hong Kong. The name under which he was nominated for the award is actually a pseudonym. In reality, the winner is my name Guan.

The Investigative Committee will conduct a phonoscopic study of the materials of the film “Anatomy of Protest 2”, released on October 5 on the NTV channel. Television workers have already handed over the video to investigators who formed the basis of the film, according to the website of the IC of Russia. Based on the results of the audit, a procedural assessment of the actions of the “Left Front” coordinator Sergei Udaltsov, which is discussed in the film, will be adopted.

The research unit of Microsoft was able to create a new device that allows you to control computers with hand gestures. As the New Scientist publication notes, soon the PC can be controlled in approximately the same way as the conductor controls the orchestra. To do this, you will need to put on a special bracelet (the working name of the gadget - digits) with infrared cameras, which will register the movement of even the fingers of the user.

Lawyers and human rights activists do not exclude that the mitigation of the verdict of Ekaterina Samutsevich, one of the participants in the punk group Pussy Riot, released yesterday by the Moscow City Court, contributed to the change of defense tactics, Kommersant reports. Recall that the judge of the Moscow City Court Larisa Polyakova yesterday decided to free Ekaterina Samutsevich, replacing her with a real term with a conditional one.

On Thursday, the Al-Qaeda militants shot an employee of the Security Service of the US Embassy in the capital of Yemen Sanya, who is a local resident, reports Sinhua with reference to the Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . Kasim Aklan Aklan) was heading to the US Embassy by personal car. The criminals on motorcycles caught up with him and shot him on the street, which adjoined the residence of President Yemen Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi.

The “documentary film” “Anatomy of a Protest-2” posed the question point blank: are the oppositionists betraying their homeland? And if so, should they be punished under the appropriate criminal article? It turns out that it’s not really necessary. The oppositionists are not running away, they are not very afraid of terrible accusations, and they are not going to sue them. The court and the investigation have nothing to do with it at all.

The “Documentary Film” “Anatomy of Protest-2” raised the question with an edge-do the opposition are changing to the Motherland? And if so, whether they need to be punished according to the corresponding criminal article. It turns out that it is not very necessary. Oppositionists do not run away, they are not very afraid of terrible accusations, but they are not going to file a court. The court, the investigation has nothing to do with it.

The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Moscow sent to the metropolitan prosecutor's office the materials of video recording checks, on which convicted participants in the Pussy Riot punk group are captured in the jail chamber, the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the capital reports.

Alexey Muravyov In the blessing given by the rock hygumen S. Rybko on the power shares on behalf of believers, in addition to some kid's army, there is one significant defect. It consists in an incorrectly understood and incorrectly applied quote. The incorrect quoting and understanding of one quote is followed by an incorrect understanding of the Christian task as a whole, as well as the wrong idea of ​​the proper.

Film School named after McGaffin and Portal Polit.ru continue the autumn cycle of public film lectures on Russian film producing In the art park, Museon . Julia Mishkinen will give a lecture on: "Experience in promoting Russian films at international pitching and film festivals." The lecturer will share his own practice of producing the author’s cinema and will tell in detail about the stages of working with international festivals. Julia Mishkinen , producer.

The Oskovsky police announced the federal wanted list of the alleged culprit of the death of actress Marina Golub, reporting the official website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The police offers the dumber Alexei Alekseevich Rusakov, born in 1980, registered in the city of Moscow on Shipostrostruitnaya Street, house 23, building 2, voluntarily come to the section for testimony.

The sappers found almost 1.3 thousand unexploded shells on the territory of the Donguzsky training ground near Orenburg after an uncontrolled undermining of 4 thousand tons of ammunition to dispose of ammunition, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the power structures of the federal district. According to him, after an examination of 68 hectares out of 254, 1.25 thousand ammunition was discovered. The mine clearance operation is involved in 16 groups, which include 128 sappers.

The daily world is permeated with unlocking messages. We send and read them dozens every minute. Without them, social life would have lost its connectedness and non -prosperity. To understand the architecture of human interactions, sociologists have to move away from them, to make it clear incomprehensible. Actually, the sociology of everyday life began with this. The legend says that she owes her emergence to Prince P.A. Kropotkin. Once in London, the young anthropologist A.R.