As part of the Chrome Experiment, the developers presented a detailed map of the world described by John R.R. Tolkien and director Peter Jackson. writes about this The Verge . The project is intended for fans of the book and film “The Hobbit” and is called “ Journey through Middle-earth ” (fully Russified). The map is viewable on any device that supports Chrome, including smartphones and tablets.

The New York Police Department announced that 14% of the crimes occurring in the city involve iPhone thefts. This was reported by Fox 5 New-York . The New York Police Department reported that in 2012 there were 16,000 thefts of Apple equipment in the city. This is 20% of all cases of theft and 14% of all crimes that occurred in this area during the specified period.

European porn mogul Marc Dorcel promised to temporarily make his site free if the French team qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and he kept his promise. Metro reports this. On November 19, French porn magnate Marc Dorcel promised to open free access to films on his website dorcel.com to everyone if the French team defeats the Ukrainian team in the decisive play-off match for the opportunity to go to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The tweet with this news received more than 3,400 retweets.

Yandex.Money users can now make transfers using regular email, and any Internet user can receive money. This was reported in a company press release received by TJournal. To send a “money letter” you will need an account in Yandex.Mail and a wallet in Yandex.Money. It is sent in the same way as a regular one, only the amount from your Yandex.Money account can be attached to the message. Anyone can receive a translation, regardless of their email domain.

Microsoft has launched an online store selling mugs, caps, hoodies and T-shirts featuring the Scroogled campaign, which highlights Google's shortcomings. reports this Marketing Land . The publication notes that a special section on the Microsoft store website cannot be found by entering the words “Scroogled” or “Google” into the search. The link to the special section is on the company's blog on Scroogled.com.

The incredible adventures of the Winamp player and its creators. On November 20, the developers of the Winamp player announced that they had stopped working on it. In a month, the project website will be closed, and the application will be removed from public access. TJournal recalled the difficult history of Winamp and its creators. Start In 1997, University of Utah student Justin Frankel decided to create an MP3 player for Windows.

How Runet reacted to the “Runet Prize” On November 21, the winners of the annual “Runet Prize” were awarded in Moscow. This time the tenth anniversary ceremony took place. TJournal looked at how the results of the award aroused feelings in Runet. The Runet Prize is positioned as the main award in the Russian segment of the network. However, year after year, users have questions: “What kind of project won?” and “what was he awarded for?” This year was no exception.

Why the scale of a sensational service may be much smaller than it seems Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya 's John Herrman Buzzfeed questioned the success of Snapchat: Despite regularly publishing stories about the astronomical billions of dollars that Facebook and Google are offering for the two-year-old startup, Snapchat does not publish accurate statistics. TJournal has prepared a translation of this material. Every few months since late 2012, Snapchat has released a new figure.

A video featuring Justin Bieber sleeping became a YouTube hit and sparked a flurry of parodies. A short video from Brazil featuring an unknown girl and a sleeping Justin Bieber became a hit on YouTube and caused a flurry of parodies on the Internet. In early November, a video appeared on the Internet, spoiling Bieber’s already flawed reputation.

Odessa programmers have released an online game in the style of Space Invaders, where a smiley face in the colors of the Ukrainian flag shoots “enemies of Ukraine” with a machine gun. This was reported by the online publication “ Route E-95 ”. According to the publication Highway E-95, the game is called “Nationalist Simulator - Defend Ukraine!” A smiley bun (meme “ PeKa-face ”) with a forelock, painted in the colors of the flag of Ukraine, fires back from the invaders with a Kalashnikov.

The Invisible Girlfriend service is designed for men who, for some reason, do not have a girlfriend, but want to demonstrate the opposite to their relatives and friends. writes about this The publication RFT . , a startup Invisible Girlfriend designed to provide reliable, fake evidence of a girlfriend's existence, was a winner at November's Startup Weekend in St. Louis, causing the internet to start talking about it.

Founder of the startup Earlydays Yuri Lifshits about the future of studying on the Internet Author: Yuri Lifshits Yuri Lifshits left St. Petersburg for San Francisco to launch the educational startup Earlydays. Why no one is succeeding in the field of online courses yet, he explains in his first column on TJournal. Everyone I know needs cool specialists. Marketers, designers, sales people, mobile developers. Universities operate according to programs that were outdated ten years ago.

One of the developers of the TCP/IP protocol stack, Vinton Cerf, said that privacy on the Internet may only be a temporary phenomenon, but, nevertheless, it is necessary to fight for it. This was reported by The Verge .