Places where lovers of clowns, cats and horses meet blog The Buzzfeed published a list of highly specialized or simply strange dating sites. TJournal selected the ten best of them. 1. Cat lovers On a site called Purssonals you can meet people who love cats. That is, more or less with all normal people on this planet. 2. Only beautiful ones The creators of the Darwin Dating portal , as its name suggests, are not too politically correct and implement strict face control during registration.

What VKontakte was like before: retro review TJournal On October 10, Pavel Durov turned 29 years old, and the social network VKontakte he created entered its eighth year. TJournal decided to remember what one of the main Runet sites looked like before. The alpha version of VKontakte has existed since the summer of 2006, but it was on October 10 that the first functions were introduced to the resource .

Google bought two cars of the legendary Sydney monorail and installed them in its Australian office, reports The Next Web portal . The company was prompted to make this gesture by a joke from one of its employees. Google often pampers its employees with unusual vehicles: for example, a circular bicycle for seven people . Now the search giant also has a monorail, or rather, two cars from it.

Nokia may present its own laptop, among other new products, at a conference on October 22 in Abu Dhabi. This is reported by the Chiploco website . A photo showing a Nokia Lumia, a Windows tablet and a laptop appeared in the announcement of a future conference broadcast on the Conversations by Nokia website .

Yandex.Maps users discovered that a detailed map of Moldova had disappeared from the service. They suggested that in this way the Internet company supported the embargo on the import of Moldovan wines to Russia. Yandex denied such rumors. Moldova on Yandex.Maps really looks deserted - in the “Schemes” mode there are no roads or cities on the map. Users noticed the absence of Moldova on the map back in early October.

The godfather of Apple design identified 4 new trends in technology development Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya 's Kyle Vanhemert Wired spoke with Hartmut Esslinger, who has been with Apple since 1982 and defined the design style and clean colors the company has been known for ever since. Esslinger spoke about four main trends in technology development. TJournal publishes a translation of this material. Before there was Jony Ive, there was Hartmut Esslinger.

The popular social network will have a special button that will allow you to control the viewing of TV programs. American cable operator Comcast announced the signing of an agreement with Twitter and the NBCUniversal network, reports Engadget . A button called “See It” will appear in tweets that mention a particular NBCUniversal show.

Romantic video on Instagram turned into an Internet meme The video, posted on Instagram , became an online hit within a week and provoked a flurry of parodies. Instagrammer djbroc told a story on his blog about how his friend met a young man in a cafe who took her number and sent her a short video. In the week since this video was published, several dozen parodies have appeared on the Internet, both on Instagram and beyond.

Fox News' "Giant iPads" Became an Online Meme A fresh technical solution introduced by Fox News has caused a stir among Internet users. portal writes about this Buzzfeed . The renovated Fox News studio now features touchscreen devices for editors, reminiscent of an Apple tablet computer. They differ from the iPad in size: each diagonal is 55 inches (about 140 centimeters).

More than a thousand Chinese students were involved in assembling PlayStation 4 game consoles at the Foxconn plant, reports the Polygon portal . Their labor was used by the factory absolutely free of charge with many severe violations. Students from the University of Technology in the Chinese city of Xi'an spent two months, starting in mid-August, doing internships at the Foxconn plant near the port of Yantai.

Zlata Nikoleva about awkward situations arising from social networks Author: Zlata Nikolaeva Communications editor of the united company "Afisha-Rambler-SUP" Zlata Nikolaeva about openness in social networks and what awkward situations this often leads to. “Tell me, does your popularity on the Internet somehow affect your everyday life?” - Christina asked me, and I, of course, answered that what the hell is popularity, who knows.

Author: Andrey Stavitsky Google updated its maps on October 10, completely changing the design and adding the ability to create a chain of routes. This was reported in the official blog of the Lat Long service . One of the main innovations of maps is aimed at travelers with their need to plot tourist routes consisting of several points. This feature is now available for both motorists and those walking or riding bicycles. You can test its work in Russia now .

Richard Hernandez takes photos using Google Glass. drew the attention of the Runet to his work The official blog of Google Russia . Richard Hernandez photographs everyday street scenes on Google Glass and posts the resulting frames and collages assembled from them on his Instagram koci_glass . He himself calls his photographs experiments with photography. From time to time self-portraits appear in the frame.

Author: Ivan Yuminov The microblogging service's new experiment, the Event Parrot account, allows users to receive breaking news alerts via private messages. This was reported by TechCrunch . account The description of the @eventparrot says that this is an experiment by Twitter, which allows you to keep abreast of world events. For example, Event Parrot has already announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Alice Munro - however, half an hour after it became known.

Microblogging service Twitter has announced an application for Android tablets that allows you to use more capabilities of wide screens, but at first it will only be available on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The company announced this in its official blog . Thanks to the partnership with Samsung, the application has several unique features. For example, Twitter can share the screen with another application, allowing you to control music or browse pages while reading a microblog feed.