Google has launched the Helpouts service, which allows you to find helpers to solve life's problems. The new service is described on the Google blog . Through Helpouts, a user can find a person who will tell him how to fix a computer, cook a dish, teach him to play the guitar or teach him a foreign language. Communication with the “teacher” is carried out through the Hangouts video calling service.

Heroes of famous paintings turned into The Simpsons characters Students of Dmitry Karpov, an illustrator and teacher at the Moscow British Higher School of Design, combined famous paintings by Russian painters and the TV series The Simpsons by Matt Groening. The best of the resulting works were published on the DesignCollector portal .

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tried to acquire Twitter twice: through official channels and through microblogging service co-founder Jack Dorsey. This is reported by TechCrunch with reference to a book by journalist Nick Bilton about the history of the creation of Twitter, published on November 5. At the end of October 2008, Jack Dorsey was removed from his post as CEO: he became a member of the board of directors and lost control over the company.

Apple's iPad Air tablet operates on Russian LTE networks, Ferra.ru reports . The device went on sale on November 1 in 39 countries, the list of which did not include Russia. Ferra.ru reports that the iPad Air tablet, which went on sale on November 1 but has not yet been officially released in Russia, is not covered by the blocking of fourth-generation networks found in the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.

The Pirate Party proposed a concept for reforming the copyright system in Russia. Its main provisions are outlined on the party’s website . The Pirate Party held a press conference on November 5, dedicated to the year since the start of the register of banned sites in Russia (the party calls this event “the anniversary of the introduction of Internet censorship”).

At the Norwegian Nordic Hotel, guests are offered to use a device that projects a full-length image of a rock musician onto the bed. The Guardian writes about this. Guests at Norway's Nordic Hotel can choose between Magne Furuholmen (A-Ha), Guy Berryman (Coldplay), Jonas Bjerre (Mew) and producer Martin Teref as their sleeping partner - together the four make up the supergroup Apparatjik. True, you will have to limit yourself to a projection created using a special device.

Vladislav Tsyplukhin about personal data, security and paranoia Vladislav Tsyplukhin about the increasing frequency of performances by Pavel Durov with his new product Telegram, about personal data, privacy and paranoia. And about where, in his opinion, security is hidden. If we try to analyze Durov’s latest performances, I would call them successful.

Apple, together with GT Advanced Technologies, will build a large artificial sapphire production facility in Arizona. The transaction cost was $578 million. Sapphire, which is so strong that it can only be shaped using diamond saws, is used as the camera glass on the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.

into the Google search application for the iOS platform for six months now The Google Now intelligent assistant, which has been built , has received most of the functions that have long been available in the Android version. This was reported by The Next Web . The app now has notifications (for example, “your flight is delayed”), reminders (“don’t forget to buy a pack of coffee when I’m at Starbucks”) and new cards (tickets, boarding passes, etc.).

Apple has received a patent for technology that allows users to switch devices depending on the user's location, including within the same building. Appleinsider reports this. Published on November 5, the patent, titled " System and Method for Determining the Location of Persons or Wireless Devices for Managing or Configuring Devices Based on Location ," describes a method for using geolocation data from mobile and stationary devices to determine a user's current and future location.

The social network VKontakte has opened an exchange of advertising posts for all advertisers. The commission that the social network charges for the cost of each advertising publication ranges from 20 to 45 percent. The price for posting an advertising post is set by community administrators. VKontakte states that the exchange will serve as a tool for advertisers to access advertising in thousands of communities.

The Webmoney payment system has released an Android application that allows users to make confidential calls. This was reported in a press release received by TJournal. Webmoney Voice does not work as a standalone application: it expands the functionality of the Webmoney Keeper electronic wallet client, adding the ability to make secure calls to other users.

Streaming video service Netflix has unveiled the trailer for its first documentary, The Short Game. This was reported by The Verge . The Short Game follows a group of seven-year-old golfers competing in the World Junior Golf Championships. The film will be available to Netflix users on December 12. Following Short Game, in early 2014, Netflix will release its next documentary, The Square, about the protests in Egypt.

Nineteen-year-old Canadian singer Justin Bieber has invested money in a new social service for teenagers, which is due to launch in the first half of November. writes about this CNN . Bieber invested $1.1 million to launch Shots Of Me, a social service aimed at teenagers. The service team has previously developed a number of popular social games for mobile phones under the RockLive brand.

Thoughts and forecasts about the future of the VKontakte advertising market Today VKontakte presented its long-awaited exchange of advertising posts, but this does not make the old ones go away. TJournal spoke with representatives of the social network, competing exchanges and market participants to find out what the emergence of an official exchange means for the future of advertising on VKontakte.