Several residents of Yekateringburg went to Paris for the start of sales of new iPhones to buy several smartphones and later resell them in their city. At the exit from the Apple store, they were robbed by a group of Chechens, one of the Ural residents told the Ura.ru portal . The Ura.ru portal published a story from Ekaterinburg resident Valery about a trip to France to buy iPhones.

Time columnist on unreasonably high demands on Apple Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya Skeptics were not satisfied with record sales of new iPhones and the stock price, which finally began to rise after a long decline, blaming Tim Cook for everything, not being able to completely replace Jobs.

Brazilian illustrator Butcher Billy has reimagined retro photographs of several pop celebrities, replacing their facial expressions with original emojis. This is reported by the blog Gizmodo . With the development of SMS and text messengers, people increasingly began to express their emotions through emoticons. An unexpected combination of special symbols allows you to express emotions that are sometimes indescribable in words.

American TV presenter Jimmy Fallon performed a skit with actor and musician Justin Timberlake on his show Late Night, showing how stupid the excessive use of hashtags sounds. This is reported by the blog Gizmodo . Infatuation with hashtags rarely brings real benefits and is most often just annoying.

Freelance developer Natalia Rojas has created a website that collects profile images of all users of the social network Facebook. reports Mashable . The creator of the website Faces of Facebook claims that there are 1.2 billion avatars collected on one page. At first they appear in the form of a matrix of multi-colored dots. By clicking anywhere or scrolling the mouse wheel, the user can “enlarge” the matrix to a size at which several dozen user photos fit into the screen.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates admitted that using three separate keys to log into Windows was a mistake. He said that the decision not to make a single button for this function was made by the creator of the IBM keyboard, The Verge reports . Remembering the old days of Microsoft, Bill Gates finally admitted that using the Ctrl-Alt-Delete combination was a mistake. about this He spoke in an interview at a meeting dedicated to the Harvard University charity campaign.

Author: Mark Gutman Visitors to the Igromir exhibition of computer and video games will be able to see live the new generation consoles, Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4. An informed source close to the organizers of the event told TJournal about this. UPD: Sony confirmed information about the PS4 demonstration at Igromir. \ \ Microsoft representatives confirmed to TJournal that the Xbox One will be presented at Igromir.

The largest Russian online media will hold rallies on Friday, September 27, in support of photographer Denis Sinyakov, who was arrested for two months. Sinyakov was detained along with Greenpeace activists who tried to get to the Russian oil platform Prirazlomnaya. Photographer and civil activist Mitya Aleshkovsky made a proposal to the media to organize a rally against Sinyakov’s arrest on Friday.

What were the first Yandex, Rambler and Google: Tjournal retro review The end of September turned out to be a significant date for three search engines at once: Rambler, Yandex and Google. TJournal decided to recall how these resources looked at the beginning of his path. On September 26, 1996, the Rambler.ru domain was registered. The search engine himself appeared on the Internet a couple of weeks later, on October 8: for several years he will become one of the leading Runet resources.