Twitter has rolled back a feature that allowed users to receive private messages from all people registered on the microblogging service. This is reported by The Next Web . Traditionally, users could only write private messages on Twitter to those who followed them. In mid-October, the service included an item in the account settings that made it possible to “invert” this restriction: users who enabled this option could write to anyone who subscribed to it.

The site of closed collective blogs “ Leprozorium ” opened the opportunity to buy invitations for new users for a day. Existing users can purchase an “invite” for 1,000 rubles and send it to anyone. about the introduction of temporary sales of invitations Jovan Savovic, spoke The founder of Leper Colony, . According to him, the “test legalize” will last one day. As of 16:30, 74 new participants have registered at the Leper Colony.

Mail.Ru launched the my.com portal with services operating under the company’s international brand of the same name. This was reported on the my.com blog . The my.com portal offers foreign users two new applications: the myMail email client and the myChat mobile messenger. In addition, the myGames gaming service was previously launched, and in the near future the company plans to introduce the myCamera photo editor, which allows you to process pictures and apply “filters” to them.

The social network VKontakte is going to legalize its video service, giving copyright holders the opportunity to upload licensed videos and replace pirated videos uploaded by users with legal ones. newspaper reports this The Vedomosti . \ \ \ \ VKontakte has signed a contract with Gazprom-Media Digital, which will become an exclusive partner for a year. It will sell video advertising in all major formats, including non-standard placements such as branded and interactive videos.

The Power Gear Cap can serve as a power source for a flashlight or a dead phone. The fundraising campaign for its development will end on November 26. The American company NRG Products LLC has developed an improved headgear that can be used as a regular baseball cap, charger or flashlight.

A YouTube user posted a short film on the Internet, the plot of which takes place in the world described in the Harry Potter book series. writes about this Mashable . The events depicted in The OMEn Chronicles take place 15 years after the Battle of Hogwarts described in the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. None of the characters are characters created by Rowling, but they use spells taken from her books.

The number of photos and videos uploaded per day on Snapchat has surpassed the number of photos posted daily on Facebook. This was reported by Business Insider . According to a Snapchat representative, users of the service upload more than 400 million snaps every day, which include both videos and photos. Business Insider reports that Facebook has 350 million photo uploads per day and 55 million on Instagram.

The largest Russian Internet provider Rostelecom partially blocked the VKontakte social network due to a technical error. This was reported in a statement published on November 19 on the operator’s website. Access to the social network has already been restored. Rostelecom blocked VKontakte in accordance with the decision of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow, issued on December 3, 2012.

Apple registers two trademarks with the Russian Rospatent: “Yabloko” and “Apple”. reports this The newspaper Izvestia . \ \ \ \ According to Izvestia, Apple has applied to register trademarks in several categories related to computers, educational materials, education, and also, for some reason, soft drinks and beer. However, in Russia there is already an organization that has a trademark in related categories - the Yabloko political party, whose leader is Sergei Mitrokhin.

The story of how Sony beat Microsoft with the help of GIFs and Antonio Banderas While Sony reports that its PlayStation 4 game console sold 1 million units in the first 24 hours of sales in North America, and Microsoft is about to launch its Xbox One, TJournal looks into how and why the Japanese managed to defeat the Redmond giant in forum wars and what place GIFs and Antonio Banderas took in them. Beware of traffic!

Bitcoin jumped in price after the positive outcome of a hearing on virtual currencies in the US Senate. This was reported by The Verge . The virtual decentralized currency Bitcoin has risen sharply in price after a hearing in the US Congress on the topic of such means of payment. In less than 24 hours, it rose in price by more than three hundred dollars and reached its absolute price maximum - 900 US dollars.

Internet company Yahoo will encrypt all user data in early 2014. The company's CEO Marissa Mayer announced this in a blog post on Yahoo. By the end of the first quarter, Yahoo will begin encrypting all data transferred between its data centers. Also, until the end of March, users will have the opportunity to encrypt all information that they transmit and receive when working with the Internet company’s services.

The company 2GIS (DublGIS) presented a new version of its mapping service. Among the innovations are a one-click call, collection of information about buildings, including the management company and entry location. This was reported by CNews . The updated map service has been updated with several functions and is currently available in beta version . Thanks to independently collected information about buildings, 2GIS can show on the web version where the entrance is located.

The artist put Grumpy Cat into the world of Disney cartoons Artist Eric Proctor, better known as Tsaoshin, brought Grumpy Cat into the world of Disney cartoons. series The Grumpy Disney consists of seven illustrations published on the author's blog. In each of the pictures included in the Grumpy Disney series, the main character is replaced by the cat Tartar Sauce, known on the Internet as Grumpy Cat or simply Grumpy.

Yandex has launched the Post Office service , which allows owners of newsletters to adapt to the interests of their audience. This was reported on blog . the Yandex “Mail Office” allows you to track the reaction of mailing recipients: which letters are immediately sent to spam, which are deleted as soon as they are opened, and which are read to the end. Yandex expects that this tool will allow users to receive fewer unwanted and uninteresting letters.