BlackBerry is no longer for sale: Fairfax holding will invest a billion dollars in the smartphone manufacturer and replace its CEO. The company announced this in a press release . Thorsten Heyns Instead of buying the entire company, Fairfax financial holding will invest $1 billion in the corporation at the expense of attracted investors. In addition, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins will leave his post.

A cat named Gucci is gaining popularity online, which her Swedish owner dresses up in tights and photographs. blog reports this Buzzfeed . The owner of Gucci has two more cats, whose names are Zappa and Iggy, in honor of Frank Zappa and Iggy Pop, but only one of the three pets agrees to wear tights. It was Gucci who became the main character of the blog “Meofit of the day” (Cat outfit of the day). In 2013, photographs of animals wearing elements of human clothing became a trend.

11 Horror Movie Houses on Google Street View Places where Halloween never ends thanks to cinema: Eleven houses from horror films on Google Street View, a selection of BuzzFeed . "The Amityville Horror" The film is based on the real testimony of an American family that they allegedly began to be haunted by voices of evil after moving into the house where a year before Ronald Defeo shot his family members. Location: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY .

Smartphones based on Windows Phone began to be sold more actively in Italy than the iPhone. This is evidenced by a report from Kantar Worldpanel . According to the results of a study reflecting smartphone sales in European countries for July-September 2013, Italian buyers chose Windows Phone devices in 13.7 percent of cases. The share of iOS was 10.2 percent. Over the year, Windows Phone managed to gain 2.9 percent and overtake iOS, whose popularity decreased by 4 percent.

The first public exhibition and art show of Emoji symbols in art and design will take place in the United States from December 12 to 14. This is reported by CoDesign . The organizers of Forced Meme Productions invited artists whose work is somehow related to Emoji to collaborate: “We are looking for diverse interpretations and embodiments of Emoji that exist both online and offline.

Video hosting YouTube held the YouTube Music Awards ceremony on November 4. The rapper Eminem became the musician of the year, according to the service’s blog . The winners of the YouTube Music Awards were determined in two stages: in October, YouTube selected finalists in six categories, after which users could vote for their favorite musician or video clip they liked by posting a link to them on social networks.

The websites of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the British Phonographic Industry Association (BPI) used third-party scripts in their work in violation of copyright. This was reported by TorrentFreak . Both the RIAA website and the BPI website violated the copyright of scripts for the jQuery Javascript library.

have appeared online . The first reviews of the Steam Machine prototype, a compact gaming computer from Valve running the SteamOS operating system, At the end of September, Valve announced its own operating system Steam OS , a line of Steam Machines computers and the Steam Controller game controller , designed to replace the mouse and keyboard even in specific genres such as strategies and simulations.

Henri Lamiraux, the head of development of the iOS operating system, who worked at Apple for 23 years, has decided to leave the company and retire. This was reported by 9to5mac . Lamiro left "a couple of weeks ago" after the release of iOS 7.0.3, he told the publication via email. He decided "some time ago" that the iOS 7 release would be his last at the company.