Apple now has an official page on VKontakte at vk.com/apple . It does not yet have a verification checkbox, but its official nature was confirmed to TJ by Apple representatives. “The vk.com/apple page belongs to Apple,” the company said. The question of how exactly they managed to obtain this address was ignored by Apple. Previously, at vk.com/apple there was a community for the company Apple Jesus, which sold Apple equipment imported from abroad.

Instagram developers reported on their blog about the further development of the recently announced web version of their service. Now users will be able to view their friends' photo updates. The new update feed works exactly like the feed in the mobile app: the user can scroll through new photos of people he follows one after another. The controls remain unchanged: you can like a picture using a special button or double-click, comment on a post, and endlessly scroll through the update feed.

Electronic readers Moon+ Reader and “Reader” were withdrawn from the Google Play and App Store after a complaint from representatives of the resource Litres.ru. The reason for the complaint was the presence in the applications of links to pirated Internet libraries, Vedomosti reported . Litres.ru is a paid online library, as well as the developer of the popular FB2 e-book format.

Author: Alexey Elfimov A number of Afisha-Rambler services will be closed. Some of them do not fit into the company’s new strategy, Rambler representatives said in a press release . In addition to Maps, such Rambler projects as “Dictionaries”, “Photo” and “Rambler-Plus” will be closed. Work on the Rambler-Avia service will also be suspended. They promise to continue development after raising funds from third-party investors.

The social network is looking to expand its mobile app with a program that tracks users' movements, capitalizing on the growing use of Facebook on smartphones with GPS. This was reported by Bloomberg , citing two sources familiar with the problem. The application will help users search for friends nearby and will work even if it is not running on the phone.

Author: Evgeny Antoshkin Waking up in the hospital after a party, MIT student Dhairya Dand remembered only the beginning of the evening. Three weeks later, a 23-year-old student invented LED ice cubes called “Cheers!” As Dhairya himself says, at that party he stopped counting cocktails after the third, which was the cause of alcoholic fainting and temporary memory loss.

Author: Alexey Elfimov Wine developers are going to port their program to Android. A test version of the project was presented at the FOSDEM conference. The developers of the famous Windows emulator for Mac OS and UNIX announced the porting of their program to the Android OS. Alexandre Julliard, one of the creators of Wine, demonstrated the capabilities of the test version of the application at a conference in Brussels.

Author: Gennady Zavolokin The successful social advertising “Dumb ways to die” of the Melbourne metro did not please the Russian guardians of morality and order. Designer and LiveJournal icon Artemy Lebedev in his online diary cited a quote from Roskomnadzor’s appeal to the LiveJournal administration: “...We inform you that based on decision No.