An algorithm developed by researchers from the University of California will identify a goth, a hipster or a representative of another modern subculture by analyzing his photo. writes about this CoCreate . The program, created by scientists from California, is able to analyze such distinctive features of a person in a photo as his haircut, hair color, makeup, jewelry and tattoos, as well as the colors and textures present in the picture.

Apple has presented a list of the most popular iOS applications for 2013. A list of all applications is provided by Mashable . The most popular free app on both iPhone and iPad this past year was the game Candy Crush Saga . The top paid applications for iOS were also topped by the mobile version of Minecraft .

The head of Surfingbird, Sergey Shalaev, explains why the service is ceasing to be a traffic generator Author: Sergey Shalaev On December 17, Look At Media executives announced that they were removing the Surfingbird recommendation service buttons from their sites due to changes in its operating policies. LAM was supported by several other sites, including Sports.ru and Habrahabr. The head of Surfingbird, Sergey Shalaev, explains why the service is ceasing to be a traffic generator.

On December 17, a Swedish court sentenced a local resident to a fine, probation and correctional labor for piracy distribution of films on the Internet. This was reported by TorrentFreak . The sentenced man was a moderator of the private torrent tracker Swebits from 2008 to 2011. At the beginning of March 2011, the police arrested him, and a few days later the resource was closed . According to court documents, the former Swebits moderator uploaded 518 movies and TV shows to the site.

In 2013, Instagram became not only a service for publishing private photos, but also a source of exclusive information about high-profile events. Some of the most memorable moments of the year through the prism of photo filters are collected on the service’s official blog. 1. Catholics said goodbye to Pope Benedict XVI and greeted Pope Francis 2. Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square and rebelled against President Morsi 3.

Pavel Durov is ready to provide all the traffic of his correspondence in the Telegram messenger and pay 200 thousand dollars to anyone who can decrypt it. He announced this in the comments of the Roem.ru community on VKontakte. Pavel Durov made an unprecedented proposal: he can publish all his correspondence in the Telegram messenger and pay someone who provides a full transcript with an explanation of the hacking method.

About the legal proceedings due to the blocking of a tweet in Russia Last November, the editor-in-chief of TJournal, then still working at Lenta.ru, wrote a comic, provocative tweet to test the absurdity of the law on the register of prohibited sites. But what happened next around this tweet turned out to be much more absurd than initially expected. Out of court The night of November 1, 2012 seemed special to me, like dozens of my friends.

Rumors about the death of Mikhail Gorbachev were again spread on Twitter. A rumor spread on Twitter about the death of the first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. Despite the fact that this is not the first time such rumors have arisen out of the blue, some again believed them before official reports. But Gorbachev is still alive. The death message appeared on an account signed by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. A terrible news. Former Soviet President M.S.

A Shanghai company has started fundraising for a replica Iron Man suit using metal parts costing $1,999. On December 17, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to create an exact replica of the Mark III suit from the Iron Man film series. To begin production, the Shanghai-based company needs to receive at least 50 pre-orders worth $1,999 each. The new version differs from cheaper copies of the suit created using a 3D printer in the presence of metal parts.

Google summed up the results of 2013 in the format of a special website dedicated to the main search queries and a video based on it. In 2013, Google users most often searched for information about such events as the birth of the heir to the British monarchy, the permission of same-sex marriage in a number of countries, the Boston Marathon bombings, and others. The top global trends were headed by the names of Nelson Mandela and Paul Walker.

Publishing house Look At Media (LAM) will remove the Surfingbird recommendation service buttons from all its projects. LAM General Director Alexey Ametov told TJournal about this. Alexey Ametov explained that the abandonment of Surfingbird buttons is due to the new principles of operation of the recommendation service. In mid-December, the project began to take over the content of materials, cutting out advertising and not forcing the user to go to the content owner’s website.

At the end of the public debate on the topic of buying traffic in the media, the editors of TJournal received a letter on December 17 from a representative of the Russian Planet. Oleg Shmyrin, who does PR for the publication, responded to Roman Fedoseev, who cited Russian Planet as an example of an “unscrupulous” platform.

The microblogging service Twitter will allow you to make small changes to tweets after they are published. reports this The Desk . The function of editing posts has become a priority for Twitter employees. After its launch, each user will be able to make edits to their tweet once after publication. In this case, the changes will be immediately displayed both in the feed of the author himself and in the feeds of those users who shared the post with their readers.

TJournal sums up its 2013 results In mid-December, you always get the feeling that a good two-thirds of the materials published online are “results,” “tops,” and other “selections.” TJournal decided to take a step aside and publish a selection of selections - the most interesting, unusual or unexpected tops on various topics.

The new version of Facebook messenger has a “dislike” sticker. Facebook has updated its mobile app with a set of new “Like” stickers. Among others, it contains an image with a so-called “dislike” - a thumbs down. The mirrored like icon managed to become a meme, but has never appeared in official applications or documents of the social network. Stickers first appeared in the Facebook app in April, and on July 3 they became available in the web version.