The Polish publishing house Wydawnictwo Otwarte (literally “Open Publishing House”) placed an advertisement for the book in the subtitles of the series, which volunteers post on pirated resources. This was reported by Torrentfreak . \ \ \ \ Open Publishing House is distributing in Poland a localized version of the book Carrie's Run by David Kaplan, which describes the events that precede the content of the Homeland series.

Designer Ilya Birman compares cryptocurrency with gold Author: Ilya Birman Designer Ilya Birman talks about bitcoins not as a cryptocurrency, but as gold: a substance limited in quantity, the value of which is constantly growing. Ilya published his thoughts on his blog ; TJournal publishes the author's post with his permission. They say that Bitcoin is a virtual currency. But this is a bad definition: it seems as if it is a currency, but not real, but virtual.

Apple did not offer discounts on its products in stores in the US and Australia on November 29. This is reported by BGR . The fourth Friday of November, following Thanksgiving Day, is traditionally considered a day of massive sales - “Black Friday”. Previously, Apple participated in such promotions, but in 2013 the company did not reduce prices for its products. Instead, Apple offered customers gift cards for future purchases at the company's store.

A bag of baby feces and worries about nonsense Author: Zalina Marshenkulova One of the most dramatic stories of this week was the message about Prokopyevo fighters against gray everyday life who decided to make a bomb according to instructions on the Internet and test it right at their workplace. The experiment ended sadly: the main entertainer was given 2.5 years, one of the amateur chemists had his hand torn off.

A team from Moscow raised money to release a board game Game “Evolution. Random Mutations” at the time of publication on Boomstarter had collected over 210 thousand rubles with a set minimum of 50 thousand. Using the funds received, the team plans to speed up the release of the game and ship it to backers by the end of December. Popular science board game “Evolution.

Electroninks Incorporated has introduced a ballpoint pen with silver ink, with which you can quickly and inexpensively create a fully functional electrical circuit. The Circuit Scribe pen contains electrically conductive silver ink that can be used to draw circuit diagrams on plain paper, without a soldering iron or wires. They do not spread and dry instantly.

Moscow developers talk about a game that is rapidly gaining popularity A team of Moscow developers from the Empatika company has released a browser game “ Word Grabber ”: the player needs to capture enemy cells on the field by making words from letters. The company's third-party project is gaining popularity and may well become a major project. To play with a random opponent, the game offers a square field of 5x5 cells.

Parodies of Volvo advertising: from the mayor of the city to the Colossus of Rhodes The Volvo truck commercial starring Jean-Claude Van Damme hardly left anyone indifferent. Like any good thing on the Internet, the advertisement with the actor gave rise to many parodies and jokes. TJournal selected the best of them. The original video, in which Van Damme does the splits between two reversing trucks, appeared in mid-November and received more than 50 million views in two weeks.

Nike launched the Play Russian advertising campaign on social networks. To get on the promotional website of the world's largest company, you need to post a photo of yourself while training in the cold. Nike has launched a special advertising project on the Russian market that plays up the realities of the Russian winter. To do this, she made a video in which traditional winter sports are placed in the “harsh” Russian realities.

Google Nexus smartphones reboot and lose network if a large number of special types of SMS are sent to them. This was reported by PC World . The flaw was discovered by system administrator Bogdan Alecu from the IT company Levi9. During the experiments, he found out that Google Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 smartphones on all firmware older than Android 4.0 are in the vulnerable zone.

Major adult film distributor SugarDVD has announced a video app aimed at the Xbox One and other gaming consoles. This was reported by Mobile Entertainment . Despite the fact that game consoles are closed systems, the platform holder cannot prevent the appearance of porn applications running through the browser on them. The SugarDVD solution is developed for the version of Internet Explorer built into the operating system of the Xbox One console from Microsoft.

The story behind the strange commercials of the Lithuanian mineral water “Vytautas” Author: Olga Efimova In recent days, a commercial for mineral water from Lithuania has gained popularity on social networks. TJournal found out that behind the creation of the unusual video - screams, dubstep, rabid animals and even a mention of the famous Chelyabinsk meteorite - is a young Lithuanian director and video maker, but in fact it is advertising the film. Mineral water “Vytautas”: have a blast!

Last Thanksgiving was a record-breaking day for Instagram . This was reported in the official blog of the service. Thanksgiving Day, which was celebrated on November 28 in the United States in 2013, is traditionally the busiest day for Instagram. According to the official blog of the service, this time the holiday set another absolute record for the amount of published content. The new holiday entry, unlike last year's , is not supported by numbers.

The rate of the Litecoin cryptocurrency, an analogue of Bitcoin, has increased approximately fivefold in a week. reports this CoinDesk . On November 25, the Litecoin rate was about $9.7 per unit. And on November 28, as follows from the graph , the cost of one virtual “coin” reached $48. Over the next 8 hours, the price dropped to $42, and on November 29, the Litecoin rate was already $37.

Online cinemas Ivi and Play have stopped the legal screening of the film “The Geographer Drank the Globe Away” at the request of the film’s producers. Vedomosti reported this. The premiere of the Russian film “The Geographer Drank the Globe Away” became a precedent for Russian distribution: the film was simultaneously shown both in classical cinemas (on 500 screens) and on the online platforms Ivi and Play.