Photographer Herbert Schröer discovered his photo on the Instagram of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. The author of the photo called Kadyrov a thief and demanded that Instagram remove the photo. On the afternoon of September 4, Ramzan Kadyrov posted on Instagram a photo of sheep grazing in the mountains. The head of Chechnya did not sign the photo in any way, but in five hours it collected more than six thousand likes. Herbert Schroer from the Netherlands drew attention to the photo.

The Huffington Post asked the British Parliament for information on how often porn sites were accessed from local computers. It turned out that parliamentarians' interest in pornography varies greatly from month to month. In total, from May 2012 to July 2013, more than 300 thousand attempts were made to access porn sites from computers located in the British Parliament.

Authentication using voice analysis, fingerprints or iris scanning may become a thing of the past. The company Bionym is ready to take the next step, presenting a bracelet that recognizes the user by heart rate. writes about this The publication BetaKit . The Nymi biometric bracelet is the world's first wearable authentication device that uses heart rate as a password.

Today, Topsy announced that it now has the full volume of every tweet ever sent. Without mentioning the endless possibilities for analytics and research, TJournal remembered the first tweets in the accounts of world stars and their mentions. Every Twitter user can find the first entry in their microblog using the tweet archive .

LG's new advertising campaign once again plays on the hyper-realism of images on new monitors. According to the Huffington Post , in a video filmed in Spain, people were made to believe in the end of the world. The characters in the video are unaware that they are about to become victims of a prank. They are supposedly undergoing an interview, sitting, as it seems to them, in front of a large window. In fact, instead of a window, an IPS monitor was pre-installed.

A collection of inappropriately cheerful selfies (self-portraits taken with a phone) in front of places like a Vietnam cemetery or a 9/11 memorial was published on the blog Selfies At Serious Places . Most of the pictures are taken from personal Instagram or Twitter accounts; the screenshots contain the nicknames of the authors, who, if desired, can be found on social networks.

Sony introduced the flagship smartphone Xperia Z1 on September 4. The device operates on Android 4.3 and is equipped with a 20.7-megapixel camera. According to The Verge , the resolution of the Xperia Z1 camera is one of the largest, available on flagship smartphones. Only the Nokia Lumia 1020 phone has more, however, 41 Megapixel calls the publication “unreasonable”. Xperia Z1 received a waterproof case, equipped with an integral frame of aluminum around the perimeter.

Real criminals and bandits voiced the voices of some GTA V heroes to create greater realism. The famous DJ "Lazlo" Jones spoke about this on the air of the Chicago radio station WGN Radio . DJ Lazlow is a radio host and screenwriter from New York , well known to fans of Grand Theft Auto. Lazlo was a host on the fictional radio station V-Rock in GTA: Vice City, as well as Chatterbox FM in GTA III.

There have been changes in the leadership of Google's mobile OS After stars Andy Rubin and Hugo Barra left the Android development department, a burning question arose: who will lead Google's largest platform? A list of possible candidates was compiled by The Verge . The most popular mobile platform suffers one loss after another. Five months ago, Android founder Andy Rubin left his brainchild to pursue other Google projects.

The company presented the Galaxy Gear at the Samsung Unpacked IFA conference in Berlin. The smartwatch is designed to work in conjunction with other Samsung Galaxy devices and will be sold for $299 starting in early October, The Verge reports . The watch has a metal frame, which is unusual for Samsung's plastic products. There are two microphones on the sides of the dial, a 1.9 megapixel camera is built into the rubber strap, and there is a speaker on its clasp.

app The Spirit for Twitter allows you to set the length of time a tweet remains posted. An ex-Twitter engineer has released an application that allows you to schedule the lifetime of individual tweets. To do this, you need to add hashtags to posts published using Spirit for Twitter, for example, #1m, #2H, #3D (minutes, hours and days). After the specified period, the tweet will be deleted.

The Amedia company will launch its own application on the VKontakte social network in September. According to the company’s idea, it will have to replace the pirated TV series removed from the site, Izvestia reports . The Amedia company owns the rights to distribute all products of the American television channel HBO in Russia. These are, for example, the series “Game of Thrones”, “The Newsroom” and “True Blood”.