A representative of the VKontakte press service, Georgy Lobushkin, commented on the “anti-piracy” law and Snowden’s invitation to work for the company at a meeting with subscribers of the LIVE public. This was reported by Cossa . Press service representative Georgy Lobushkin spoke about VKontakte’s position on the “anti-piracy” law at a meeting with subscribers of the LIVE community in St. Petersburg, held on Sunday, August 11. tweet “Dies, plugs - this will not help.

The Prosecutor General’s Office’s arguments about signs of foreign financing of Navalny’s election campaign based on the IP addresses of the senders became a reason for jokes. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation checked payments to the accounts of Navalny's headquarters employees at the request of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and discovered that the IP addresses of over three hundred senders are located outside of Russia.

Author: Igor Chelotkanov In this issue: 70% of news in the feed, 2 complaints and 100 thousand signatures. Last week, Facebook decided to finally change the Edge Rank mechanism and now users will only miss 30% of news instead of 43%. The company also updated its subsidiary photo service Instagram, which now has the ability to correct a littered horizon and import videos from the smartphone’s memory, and unexpectedly added integration with the social network VKontakte.

Right before the release of the latest episode of Breaking Bad, Donna Nelson, a professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma and the series' scientific consultant, spoke to GigaOm about why meth won't actually turn out blue and what the best way is to quietly get rid of a corpse.

Megafon has applied to register two trademarks and is holding a competition for a new logo. reports this The newspaper Izvestia . As the Izvestia newspaper learned, in July of this year MegaFon submitted two applications to Rospatent for trademark registration. The applications indicate variations of two images of the company’s new logo: in one case, a stylization of the “@” symbol is used to resemble the current logo with a person’s face, in the other, two units form the letter “M”.

Elon Musk, a famous American entrepreneur and investor, is going to present Hyperloop technology, which will allow people to be transported over long distances in a very short period of time. Even though Musk has been partially revealing details over the past year, very few Hyperloop specifications are known with certainty. The solar-powered technology transports people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in half an hour.

A couple from Indiana has come up with entertainment for those who believe in spirits. They made an app to transcribe ghost speech. Keen paranormal investigators Roger Pingleton and Jill Beitz have stated that by tracking "certain elements of the environment", ghost messages can be isolated and deciphered.

The most popular torrent tracker has released a special build of Firefox with integrated access to Tor networks and an anonymizer that allows you to bypass site blocking. This was reported on the tracker's blog . The creators of the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay have released a special “pirate” browser that allows you to bypass Internet censorship, for example, those associated with restricting access to sites with illegal content or blocked at the state level for political reasons.