Blogger Ilya Varlamov explained participation in the Olympic relay through cooperation with Coca-Cola The journalist published a list of runners for the Olympic torch relay in Grozny, among whom he singled out blogger Ilya Varlamov. This provoked a new round of discussion about the blogger’s connection with the authorities, despite the fact that Varlamov himself openly announced the invitation back in August, when no one paid attention to it.

The hacker group evad3rs, which hacked iOS 7, removed the Chinese TaiG app store from its version of the operating system. The hackers also denied receiving a million dollars from the Chinese. As the hackers behind the iOS 7 jailbreak stated on Twitter, the TaiG app store was removed from the new firmware version at the request of the user community of the modified operating system. They emphasized that TaiG was installed only for Chinese users, so others do not need to install the update.

In 2013, selfshots penetrated into all spheres of life and ceased to be the lot of girls on Instagram. One of the relatively new trends, described by The Daily Dot , is called felfies and refers to a selfie taken on a farm. The concept of the "selfie" was brought online by the Irish Farmers Journal's Farm Selfie competition. The winner was determined by the largest number of likes - Irish farmer PJ Ryan, who photographed himself against the backdrop of cows grazing in a meadow.

Taiwan's anti-monopoly authority fined Apple 20 million New Taiwan dollars (about 667 thousand US dollars) for trying to influence iPhone prices. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal . The company was subject to financial penalties for attempting to influence the pricing policies of Taiwan's three main mobile operators - the country's largest operator Chunghwa Telecom, as well as FarEasTone Telecommunications and Taiwan Mobile.

Western athletes raise money to participate in competitions using crowdfunding Author: Gennady Zavolokin European and American athletes often resort to a special crowdfunding platform to raise money to participate in competitions. In February 2014, Sochi will host the Olympic Games. Not only millions of sports fans and a certain number of gays dream of going there , but also the athletes themselves.

One of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency online wallet services has undergone a large-scale hack. This was reported by TechCrunch . cryptocurrency On December 25, the Dogecoin , named after a popular meme featuring a Shiba Inu dog, suffered the largest hack in its history. Users of the online wallet service Dogewallet lost a total of 21 million dogecoins. The first complaints from people who lost money in their accounts began appearing on December 25 on the Doges.com forum .

The iPad Air was the most commonly listed tablet for sale on UK eBay on the day after Christmas. This is reported by The Next Web . According to the UK division of eBay, more than 100,000 listings for the resale of unwanted gifts will be published around the world during the holidays. On December 25, the number of tablets listed on eBay.co.uk jumped by 25 percent and toys by 8 percent.

“Game of Thrones” from the American cable channel HBO has become the most popular series on torrent trackers for the second year in a row. This was reported by TorrentFreak . The finale of the third season of Game of Thrones was downloaded from torrents about 5.9 million times. More than half of these downloads occurred in the first week after the episode aired. At the same time, the legal audience of the series, who watched it on HBO, amounted to only 5.39 million people.

What did employees of Runet Internet companies receive for the New Year? The closer December 31st comes, the more photos of New Year's gifts are posted on social networks. TJournal decided to find out what employees of Internet companies in RuNet received for the New Year. "In contact with" The Look At Media holding presented macaroons to the main Russian social network , and VKontakte partner manager Tatyana Plutalova showed the Pebble Watch, which she was given for the New Year at work.

Kolta.ru announced the results of voting for the main intellectuals of Russia On December 26, the cultural portal Kolta.ru, which continues the traditions of OpenSpace, published the results of voting for the most influential intellectuals in Russia. Social networks reacted at least sarcastically to the list of winners, as well as to the idea of ​​holding such elections in general. The main intellectual, according to readers of Kolty.ru, was opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

A video with a good prank organized by a popular video blogger for the holidays collected 1.5 million views on YouTube in one day.

On the reaction of Runet to one of the most resonant road accidents in history On December 26, it became known about the release of the girl who became famous throughout Russia with the SMS message “Zaya, I killed a cop” - Olga Melnichenko, who shot down a traffic police officer in 2009. TJournal recalled what conversations were going on in RuNet about the accident. On the night of April 30 to May 1, 2009, traffic police officer Dmitry Chulkov was shot down to death in Novosibirsk.

Mail.Ru Group, under pressure from users, changed the clauses of the license agreement for the Cloud@Mail.Ru service concerning content rights. Vice President of Mail.Ru Group Anna Artamonova spoke about this on her Facebook . Product manager at Samsung Russia Oleg Artamonov noticed , following a tip from other bloggers, that the licensing agreement for the Mail.Ru cloud service contains rules that are not typical for similar services from other companies.