The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has begun work on a new type of USB connector that can be inserted in either direction. This was reported in a press release from the organization. The new connector is called USB Type-C and will be developed based on USB 3.1 and USB 2.0 technologies. Its key features are its smaller size, faster charging and a symmetrical device that allows it to be inserted into the connector on either side. The appearance of USB Type-C is still unknown.

The former Facebook executive and head of Instagram advertising has become Snapchat's chief operating officer. This was reported by AllThingsD . In an interview with AllThingsD, White said she couldn't ignore the opportunity to take on a key leadership position at a growing startup.

Every Wednesday TJournal invites interesting Internet personalities to visit us. This time we talked with the author of the popular Twitter account @FakeNTV - “the official fake Twitter account of the NTV television company”, which became famous for its oppositional satirical photoshoots. It all started with a video about “Surkov’s propaganda” ? It all started when I decided to start a Twitter.

Film.com editor-in-chief David Ehrlich presented an eleven-minute clip compiled from fragments of the best films of the year. writes about this Mashable . In the list of the best films of the year, Ehrlich included such films as “The Great Gatsby” by Baz Luhrmann, “Jasmine” by Woody Allen, “Elite Society” by Sofia Coppola and others.

What bloggers say about the dual-screen YotaPhone On December 4, the Russian smartphone YotaPhone with two screens went on sale. TJournal followed the reaction of ordinary bloggers and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who became one of the first owners of the new product. YotaPhone will cost 19,990 rubles. For this money, buyers will receive an Android smartphone with an additional black-and-white screen with “electronic ink” and LTE support.

Photographers spot human faces in familiar objects The authors of the anonymous Twitter account @FacesPics collect photographs of objects and interiors that resemble human faces. Catalog slogan: “Admit it, you see a face.” The Faces in Things page appeared on Twitter in early November, and within a month gained an audience of 245 thousand subscribers. According to the idea of ​​its creators, a face can be seen anywhere and anytime: in a coffee cup, in a thrown towel or in a cut onion.

Yandex has provided 200 gigabytes of cloud storage for eternal use to everyone who installed a version of Yandex.Disk with a critical malfunction. This was reported in the official blog of the service . On the evening of December 3, some Yandex.Disk users began to report that the search engine gave them 200 gigabytes of cloud storage for unlimited use for problems caused by this service. Information about this also began to appear in comments on the Yandex.Disk blog and social networks.

Google has acquired seven robot companies for former Android CEO Andy Rubin's secret project. This is reported by The New York Times . Andy Rubin In mid-March, Google announced that Android chief Andy Rubin was leaving his post for a “new chapter” at the company. Seven months later, The New York Times published an interview in which he said that he was working on a secret project related to robots.

The world's media spread a fake quote from Vin Diesel about the death of Paul Walker Vin Diesel's representative told the Associated Press that the actor's phrase about the death of his friend and colleague Paul Walker, distributed by the press on December 1, is not real. This was reported by Yahoo News . The text was published by the accounts therealvindiesel on Instagram and @REAL_VinDiesel on Twitter a few hours after it became known that Paul Walker had died in a car accident.

Two famous athletes staged a competition for the coolest selfshot as part of an advertising campaign for Turkish Airlines. Basketball player Kobe Bryant and football player Lionel Messi starred in a commercial for Turkish Airlines, which flies passengers around the world. In the story, athletes take self-shots in unusual and extreme situations and send them to each other, with Bryant using a Lenovo smartphone, and Messi taking pictures on a Samsung.

Musician Daniel Kim compiled the main pop hits of 2013 into one video. reports Mashable . Canadian author and performer Daniel Kim published a video called Pop Danthology 2013 (from the name “Dan” and the word “anthology”). The video, which is just under 6 minutes long, mixes 68 tracks, all of which have been high on the Billboard charts over the past 12 months.

Former football coach Franz Beckenbauer discredited Samsung's massive advertising campaign by sending one of the involved iPhone tweets. Apple Insider reports this. A month after launching a massive Samsung advertising campaign, former soccer coach Franz Beckenbauer found himself in hot water by tweeting #Galaxy11 from his iPhone. The caption was later deleted, but a screenshot of the original post circulated in the media.

SpiderLabs specialists found about 2 million passwords of users of the largest web services on the command server of a large botnet. The company's report was published on its blog . The Pony command server, located in the Netherlands, contained about one and a half million login data for major sites, 320 thousand logins and passwords for electronic mailboxes, as well as tens of thousands of passwords for FTP (file transfer protocol), RDP and SSH (remote control protocols). computers).

Yota Devices has announced the start of sales of YotaPhone smartphones with two screens. The devices will appear in retail in mid-December, ITAR-TASS reports . From the middle of the month, YotaPhone will be available for purchase in Euroset and Svyaznoy stores. The smartphone will cost 19,990 rubles - 10 rubles cheaper than the pre-order, which opened at the end of November.

A black squirrel suffering from an unexplained disease has become an internet celebrity thanks to a viral YouTube video. writes about this The Independent . The Tippy the Fainting Squirrel video collected 300 thousand views in a week thanks to the unusual behavior of the animal depicted in it: the squirrel falls flat every few seconds.