At the end of September, the Islamic State terrorist group announced that she captured two Russians. At the official level, the authorities have not yet confirmed this information. Republic says what is known about this at the moment. For the first time that the Russians were captured by ISIS militants became known on September 28. Then the SITE agency, which monitors the activity of terrorists in the media, reported this with reference to the AMAQ News controlled by terrorists.

Alphabet (Google maternal organization) turned off the Russia Today channel from the premium advertising package. This was announced by a representative of the holding, writes Bloomberg. The channel was presented on the Google Preferred service. He allowed advertisers to choose the most popular content to place their advertisements there. It is noted that the channel was disabled after a recent renewal of the service.

From October 3 to 7, events of the Russian Energy Week are held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. On Wednesday, October 4, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke at the forum with a great speech. In it, he spoke out on a very wide range of questions. Electric cars. Putin said that he had already tried to drive electric cars and he likes this type of transport, since electric cars are “receiving, nimble, fast, effective”.

The dialogue of economists, Ruben Enikolopova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Rash) and Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago, NRU HSE), about what is happening in economic science and about everything else. The blog retsilizes on the Facebook page Ratioeconomica , on Twitter and on a telegram . KS: An increase in computer capacities allowed economists not only to work with large databases, but to organize such projects, about which when the data was processed manually, it was difficult to dream.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny announced plans to hold protests in Russia on October 7. He wrote about this on his blog. In 80 cities of Russia, it is planned to apply for pickets, he wrote. The Moscow authorities refused to agree on a rally on Pushkinskaya Square, without proposing an alternative site. According to the politician, this means coordination of the action. The action on the Marse Field in St. Petersburg is also not agreed.

The City of The City of Salonika decided to issue the US Russian Alexander Vinnik, whom the American authorities accuse $ 4 billion of the BTC-E Cryptocurrency Exchange of legalizing. It is reported by RIA Novosti. “I have nothing to do with the HTS website. I am neither the owner, nor the manager, nor the accountant. I am a technical expert - an independent technical expert. This is one of my clients, ”said Vinnik at the beginning of the meeting.

Ujet electric pip. Photo: ujet.com On October 3, the head of RUSNANO Anatoly Chubais announced the start of the production of the “most perfect personal vehicle on the planet” - Ujet smartfents. He wrote about this on Facebook.

Smartphones of the military, which are on the bases of NATO in the Baltic countries and in Poland, were subjected to a hacker attack. WSJ writes about this. The military suspect that Russian hackers made attacks. In particular, the IP address from which they tried to hack a smartphone indicated to Russia. The newspaper did not submit other confirmations of Russia's involvement. The military at the bases in Estonia, Latvia and Poland were subjected to attacks.

A referendum in Catalonia - as, however, and any crisis in Europe, the USA or Ukraine - is a kind of “meaning of life” for Russian propaganda. The intonation that has developed in the state media in recent years, almost know-how: they learned to waste, combing any wound and savor the details of someone else's mistake or tragedy under the guise of an “objective retelling” or even “sympathy”.

In 2013, hackers gained access to all 3 billion Yahoo accounts. This was reported in the company. Earlier, the company estimated the number of victims of hacking of 1 billion. Hackers received a name, date of birth, phones, email addresses, hash passwords, as well as questions and answers to restore password. At the same time, they failed to get information about credit cards.

Butler robots. Photo: Greyorange.com This is an adapted translation of the Bloomberg Quint article. Other materials of the publication can be read at the link . The squirrel orange robot Butler is lucky with a whole stand with goods taken in the warehouse - from smartphones to shampoos. He takes an hour for the fact that the average employee performs in five.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry became Jacques Dubosh, Joachki Frank and Richard Henderson. This is stated on the Prize website. The award was awarded for a contribution to the development of cryoelectronic microscopy to determine the structure of molecules. It allows you to observe molecules after very fast frost, so their natural structure is preserved.

Despite the contradictions in Syria and Iran, the leaders of the two countries really have something to discuss Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. Photo: Reuters On the evening of October 4, the king of Saudi Arabia Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz al-Saud will arrive in Moscow on a three-day visit.

Alfa Group is working on creating its own digital bank, which will be specialized in remote maintenance. This is written by "Vedomosti" with reference to sources. The bank will belong to Alfa-Group and will become a competitor to Alfa Bank. It is reported that he will not repeat the model of existing digital banks. As the interlocutor of the publication, close to the group, said, remote maintenance is not suitable for all Alfa Bank customers, but some of them will switch to a new model.

The European University has changed the status from a university to a research institute (research institute). This was announced by the head of the apparatus of the rector of Alla Samoletova, reports TASS. The university stopped studying students. Of these, 10% were transferred to other universities, and the rest were expelled. “We will try to get a license to infinity, but we don’t know how much time it will take,” Square added.