The company Bittorrent, the developer of the information exchange protocol of the same name, has placed banners in several American cities with slogans about the unfreedom of the Internet. The promotion is described on the company's official blog . In early October, Bittorrent put up white billboards with black text in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Author: Andrey Stavitsky The laptop, positioned by its creators as an inexpensive and mobile solution for active users of Google services, was presented today on the HP website . that has leaked online Rumors that have been spreading on the Internet based on HP documentation have now found official ground. Google, together with Hewlett Packard, will indeed introduce a new laptop to the market with an 11-inch display, thereby displacing the line of 14-inch devices.

John McAfee spoke about a hundred-dollar device that will protect users from surveillance Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya The eccentric John McAfee, who once created an antivirus named after himself, announced the creation of the D-Central device, which should protect users from government surveillance. Very little is known about the hundred-dollar device; during the announcement, he was more willing to talk about drugs.

On October 8, a doodle (celebratory picture) appeared on the main page of Russian Google in honor of the birthday of the architect Shchusev, who built the Kazan railway station. However, due to the inexperience of the Californian designers, the doodle depicted a station not in Moscow, but in Kazan. For several hours, a festive doodle with an image of the Kazan Station hung on the main page of the Russian version of Google search.

Deputy General Director of VKontakte Ilya Perekopsky witnessed the incident on October 8, as a result of which the police removed deputy Andrei Isaev and his assistant from an Aeroflot flight. Perekopsky told TJournal about this. Updated : Deputy Andrei Isaev submitted his resignation from the post of Deputy Secretary of the General Council of United Russia and took responsibility for the incident on the plane, Interfax reports.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, in a conversation with analyst David Willis at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference, made a sharp statement about the level of security of the iOS and Android operating systems, reports ZDNet . Gartner analyst David Willis spoke with Eric Schmidt and said that Android is not a secure operating system. If you ask a lot of people in this audience, they will say that Google Android is not their main platform...

Author: Alexey Smirnov Some relay participants have not yet reached their turn, but they are already creating advertisements on the Internet for the sale of torches, the website NEWSru.com reports with reference to Sports.ru. Vladimir schoolboy Timur Rakhimzyanov , who was supposed to solemnly run with the Olympic flame through the streets of his city on October 16, put his torch up for sale on Ebay a week before the start of his relay.

HTC has introduced a version of the flagship smartphone HTC One with a gold body. The new device is described on the HTC website . The characteristics of the gold HTC One are no different from a “regular” smartphone. However, its case is made using 18-karat gold (which corresponds to 750 gold). A total of five copies of the device will be released, which will become the most expensive among all HTC smartphones: its price will be 2,750 pounds sterling (4.4 thousand dollars).

In the new version of Yandex.Market, users will be able to make purchases without going to external sites. Yandex representatives spoke about this at a press conference in Moscow. As representatives of the Yandex.Market service explained, this innovation eliminates the need for users to register on additional sites and speeds up the purchasing process.

The rivalry between Facebook and Twitter has reached the television industry. writes about this The Wall Street Journal . Facebook did not miss the opportunity to remind about its advantage over Twitter.

The famous American astronaut Buzz Aldrin wrote a review of the film “Gravity” by Alfonso Cuarón for the American publication The Hollywod Reporter , in which he admitted that he was impressed by the film, but made several small quibbles about the authenticity of the events shown on the screen. “I was amazed by the film's depiction of zero-gravity conditions. The heroine moved around the space station exactly as people did in reality,” says the 83-year-old astronaut.

Kaliningrad Facebook users took part in a flash mob aimed against the ban on the import of dairy products from Lithuania to Russia. One of the main “characters” of the action was the Lithuanian cottage cheese “Svalya”. As Kaliningrad blogger Roman Yukhnovets said , a large number of his local friends changed their avatars on Facebook, replacing their own photos with an image of Svalya and Vilvi cottage cheeses.

Many sports stars, Russian and foreign, use Twitter for a variety of needs: interaction with fans, charity, and so on. Washington Capitals forward Joel Ward used the service to get out of a difficult situation, writes Mashable . Shortly before kickoff in Dallas, Joel Ward found himself trapped in a restroom, unable to open a jammed door. With the help of his teammates, he sent out a plaintive tweet.

Scarlett Johansson's fall has become a meme The photograph of Scarlett Johansson falling has become the source of numerous jokes on the Internet. A significant part of them were collected on a specially created site Scarlett Johansson falling down . While filming the film Under the Skin, actress Scarlett Johansson fell on the street and was caught in a paparazzi frame.

Author: Mikhail Kafanov On October 8, camera manufacturer Leica published on its blog the first images of the Leica M model, which Apple Vice President Jonathan Ive worked on together with another famous designer Marc Newson. Among the features of this Leica model are the signature minimalism that its creators love so much, and a one-piece aluminum body. According to Leica representatives, the development of this model took 85 days of hard work.