Virgin billionaire Richard Branson invested in Hyperloop One. After rebranding, the company will be called Virgin Hyperloop One, writes CNBC. Branson will enter the board of directors of the company, the amount of investment is not specified. According to the TV channel, in the previous month the company attracted $ 85 million, the Virgin Group investments are included in this amount.

The Russian geoinformation service 2GIS will return the addresses of the campaign headquarters to its cards politics Alexei Navalny. This is stated in the official report of the company. The company called the removal of the headquarters in Vladimir a mistake. 2Gis representatives emphasized that only officially registered organizations are placed, but after users' appeals they decided to change the rules.

Photo: Klaus Vedfelt / Getty images The Internet has radically changed not only ways to get acquainted with a potential partner, but also the relationship itself. Evidence appeared that sites and dating applications also influenced the number of interracial marriages and even the stability of marriage, writes Mit Technology Review.

The Russians are most trusted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the army and the FSB. This is evidenced by the data of the survey conducted by the Levada Center, writes Rain. At the same time, after the accession of Crimea in 2014, the level of trust of the security forces increased several times. So, in 2017, the army is considered a worthy of trust in 69% of Russians, which is four times more than the result of 2013.

One of the claims to modern Russian authorities, which manages to formulate with maximum intelligibility, is associated with the destruction of social elevators. Society is getting fire. The social structure is becoming more estate. It is impossible to understand the principles by which any boss (and any boss is precisely what it is assigned, the elections have become a pattern) is impossible. Perhaps they simply do not, these principles.

The Central Bank plans to spend 800-820 billion rubles for the reorganization of the “discovery” and Binbank. This was told by the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Vasily Pozdyshev on the air of the Russian 24 television channel. “In general, about 450 billion rubles will be needed for the financial recovery of one banking group, and the second is about 350–370 billion rubles,” he said.

Today, the Nobel laureate turns 85 years old. In an archival interview, he talks about Putin, referendum in Catalonia and people who make history Mario Vargas Llos. Photo: DPA / TASS Mario Vargas Llos is a rare big writer who not only seriously believes that a creative person should make the world better, but also lives in accordance with this principle. So much so that in 1990 he even put up his candidate for President Peru and won the first tour, but lost in the second.

On the evening of October 11, it became known that the press secretary of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky became a defendant in the fraud case. Now he is under house arrest. Republic briefly tells what is known about the case by this hour. There are three defendants in the matter. Together with Ampelonsky, the head of the Roskomnadzor apparatus Alexander Vechelchakov and the head of the legal department of the department Boris Nidin are held on it.

Kaspersky Antivirus was looking for on computers where it is installed, secret data. About this writes The Wall Street Journal with reference to sources. The program in the process of work scans documents for the presence of viruses, the newspaper writes.

Large economies promise one after another to switch to electric cars. Recently, China announced this, which accounts for more than a third of world sales of cars (according to forecasts, 29.4 million cars will be sold there in 2017). The same plans were made by India , Great Britain , France and some other countries. They plan to remove from the market of the machine on traditional fuel by 2040. For auto industry, in particular, this may mean a reduction in personnel.

Rostelecom invited the Moscow government to introduce a biometric identification system to pay for public transport. This was stated by the president of the company Mikhail Oseevsky, RBC quoted him. According to Oseevsky, a similar system already exists in China, it scans a person’s face, and money is written off from his account without tickets and additional devices. As noted by RBC, in Russia several companies develop people's recognition algorithms at once.

Dmitry Medvedev and Andrey Turchak. Photo: Ekaterina Stucian / RIA Novosti From the editorial office. Oleg Kashin, at that time, the special correspondent of Kommersant, was brutally beaten from his house in Moscow on the night of November 6, 2010. The charges of attempted murder were brought by two guards of the plant included in the Leninets holding, controlled by the family of the Governor of the Pskov Region Andrei Turchak.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak. This is stated on the Kremlin website. The temporarily acting head of the region, he appointed the deputy envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Mikhail Vedernikov. Turchak, reportedly, filed a dismissal of dismissal of his own free will.

An employee of the University of La Sapienza di Roma has achieved a two -day paid vacation to take care of his dog, which was preparing for the operation. About this writes La Repubblica. The woman asked the university about a two -day paid vacation, but there she was asked to motivate her request, since previously vacations were not provided for care for animals.

The leader of the “Christian state” Alexander Kalinin became a defendant in the case of extremism (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). It is reported by Interfax with reference to the source. A criminal case was opened after studying his videos, where he insulted Muslims. Earlier it became known that Kalinin was charged in the case of forcing cinemas to abandon the show of the film by Alexei Matilda.