At the end of December 2017, the mathematician Jonathan Pace opened a new super -large simple number: 277232917–1. For ordinary people, not mathematicians, can not fully understand its entire value and even more so to use it for comparison. Although there are difficulties with much smaller numbers. The world-famous statistics specialist Hans Rodling to one of his lectures once brought ten rolls of toilet paper.

Former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz. Photo: KACPER PEMPEL / Reuters The Polish Sejm, not quite calculating all the consequences, approved on January 26 amendments to the Law on the Institute of National Memory, which unexpectedly put the country on the line of serious diplomatic complications with Israel.

Alexey Miller and Igor Sechin. Photo: Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant The US Department of Finance on January 29 published the so -called “Kremlin list” - a list of officials and individuals who are considered a support for the “Russian regime”. The list consists of two parts - open (with a list of defendants) and secret, which contains “additional information” and a list of individuals who are not large businessmen or officials.

Facebook once again over the past few weeks will change the tape ranking algorithm: now priority will be given to local news. The corresponding changes were announced by the founder of the network Mark Zuckerberg. “The new update today is the promotion of local news. People constantly say that they want to see more news from local sources on Facebook. They help to understand the problems that matter in our communities and affect our lives, ”Tsuckerberg wrote.

The US Treasury published the Kremlin Report - a list of people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is reported by TASS. The list included 210 people, including billionaires of Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska. In total, there is almost a hundred entrepreneurs on the list. Among them are the head of Kaspersky Laboratory Evgeny Kaspersky, Alisher Usmanov, Peter Aven, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Alexander Mamut, Arkady and Boris Rotenbergi, Mikhail Fridan, Gennady Timchenko and Oleg Tinkov.

The Public Organization “KinoiSuz” will sue the Ministry of Culture “on the fact of using rolling certificates as a censorship tool”. This is stated in the statement of the company that Medusa received .

More than 7 thousand people decided to join the collective lawsuit of Roskomvoboda to the FSB. This is stated on the project website. The reason for the claim is the requirement of the FSB for the Telegram messenger to provide keys for decryption of messages. “We are going to defend our right to encrypt in all legal ways.

Pavel Durov at a conference in Munich. Photo: Nadine Rupp / Getty images This is an adapted translation of the article by the Columnist Bloomberg View Leonid Burshid. Messengers have already proved that they can be in demand by the payment platform (take, for example, trillions that are spent in China using WeChat). But will this work with cryptocurrencies? Pavel and Nikolai Durov - the brothers who founded Telegram are going to find the answer to this question.

Investigators of the capital's head of the UK released the mathematician Dmitry Bogatov from under house arrest. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “The investigation released Bogatov out of house arrest in connection with the lack of grounds for extending a preventive measure,” the agency’s interlocutor explained.

All detainees in Saudi Arabia as part of a campaign to combat corruption were released. This was reported by the Saudi official by Reuters . Liberation conditions are not called. According to WSJ, the authorities hoped to confiscate the detainees up to $ 800 billion (3 trillion rials). In this amount, they appreciated the illegal acquired assets. The richest businessman of the kingdom, Prince of Saudi Arabia Al-Valida Binla Bin Abdulaziz al-Sau was released from the imprisonment on January 27.

The expansion of virtual and augmented reality continues. Drones gradually appear in the sky of the largest cities. These technologies are increasingly affecting our everyday habits and rituals. We have already talked about how VR changes medicine - helps to fight diseases, phobias, prepares doctors for difficult situations, how AR will soon make us abandon smartphones (all the necessary information will be in glasses). Revolutionary decisions did not bypass the industry of food.

Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / TASS The report expected in Moscow with such a great trepidation of the US Treasury with the “List of the Kremlin” and measures to implement the American Law “On Countering U.S. opponents through sanctions” (Caatsa) finally published. What we saw in the short term is positive for the Russian leadership and will not lead to a deterioration in the situation for Russia.

Ten years ago, on January 30, 2008, then little -known in extra -church circles, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) struck the audience of the Rossiya TV channel with the film “The Death of the Empire. Byzantine lesson. " Over the past years, Archimandrite has managed to become a bishop. Now it is widely known throughout Russia, and its ideas are embodied, if not in life, then in popular historical and educational projects.

The Presidium of the Moscow Government approved the procedure for buying apartments with a larger area by residents of houses that fell under the demolition program, Interfax reports. Residents will be able to buy a dwelling with an area of ​​up to 100 square meters. The program participants will be given a 10%discount. The deputy mayor Marat Khusnullin said that later the rules for increasing the discount for some categories of citizens can later determine.

The ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal granted the lawsuit of VKontakte against Double Data and the National Bureau of Credit Stories (NBKI). The social network demanded that companies collect user data. About this writes "Kommersant". Double Data has created a technology on the basis of which you can evaluate the creditworthiness of users of the social network.