project The Pocket Drone was launched on Kickstarter so that the developers could raise the $35 thousand needed to produce small drones. At the time of publication of the note, over 250 thousand have been collected, 51 days remain until the end of the campaign. The Pocket Drone is the world's first multicopter powerful enough to hold and carry a GoPro camera, yet small enough to fold into a footprint smaller than a seven-inch tablet. The project was developed by AirDroids from San Diego.

The price of shares of Nestor jumped sharply against the backdrop of the announcement of Google's acquisition of the startup Nest. This was reported by SFGate . \ \ Nestor, based in Providence, Rhode Island, sells automated traffic control systems to government agencies. The company's shares are traded on stock exchanges with the ticker (short symbol) NEST. On January 13, Google announced the purchase of Nest, a company that develops smart home technology and is not related to Nestor.

The wife of an Indian politician popular on Twitter hacked his account and made his personal correspondence with his mistress publicly available. reports this AFP . Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda Update 18 January 1:30 : Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a hotel room in New Delhi on the evening of 17 January, reports The Hindu . According to the medical examiner's ruling, the 52-year-old woman died this afternoon.

The French artist reimagined the images of famous characters from children's books, games and films, revealing their “dark side.” The illustrations instantly became popular on Western forums and blogs. writes about this CoCreate .

The creator of the PGP email encryption package, Philipp Zimmermann, joined the working group to create the Blackphone smartphone, the main task of which is to ensure user privacy. talks about the new smartphone Forbes . smartphone The Blackphone runs its own operating system, PrivatOS, based on Android. The device will come with a set of applications that allow users to make secure calls and video calls, send encrypted messages, securely share files and surf the Internet anonymously.

The Eviterra Travel company, which sold air tickets via the Internet, did not buy the site with negative reviews, Kidalovo from Eviterra.com. Lawyer Ilya Novikov, representing the interests of Eviterra, told TJournal about this. Lawyer Ilya Novikov told TJournal that the management of the Eviterra Travel company has nothing to do with the deal to sell a site with negative reviews and statements published on it.

For the FIFA World Cup, which will begin in June 2014 in Brazil, the Coca-Cola Corporation has prepared an application for fans of social networks and mobile communication. Coca-Cola has introduced a line of mini bottles designed in the national colors of the countries participating in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. There are twenty bottles in the series, eighteen of which are dedicated to national teams.

The BBC has begun producing experimental news videos specifically for publication on Instagram. This is reported by The Next Web . The new service was given the name Instafax. The BBC's vision is to keep users up to date with the most important news on the go. Each “Instafax” is a 15-second video set to music, which shows news headlines against the backdrop of related phenomena or people.

Facebook has introduced a “Trending” block, which displays the most popular topics discussed on the social network. This was reported by TechCrunch . A new block has appeared in the upper right corner of the news feed. It displays several topics with headlines from the media and blogs revealing them. By clicking on one of the keywords, you can get to a separate feed with popular posts associated with it.

The US Federal Trade Commission has demanded that Apple refund money to all users whose children inadvertently spent hundreds to thousands of dollars on in-app purchases in the App Store. ArsTechnica reports this. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began investigating the Apple-related in-app purchases issue about three years ago.

Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia turns 13 years old January 15 marked the 13th anniversary of Wikipedia, the most famous online encyclopedia and source of knowledge for millions of people. TJournal recalled how it all began and how Jimmy Wales experimented with encyclopedias. This pedia, that pedia Wikipedia was far from the first Internet encyclopedia, so it’s first worth remembering the events that one way or another led to its creation.

In Russia they propose to legalize marijuana following the example of the United States Inspired by the example of the American state of Colorado, well-known bloggers on the RuNet propose legalizing marijuana in Russia. On January 6, Internet expert Anton Merkurov published a post on Facebook in which he presented his readers with a step-by-step plan for legalizing marijuana in Russia.

A ten-minute documentary about an unprecedented campaign to support a leukemia boy who became Batman's "sidekick" for a day has been posted on YouTube. A short documentary about the preparations for saving Gotham in November 2013 was published on the official channel of the Make-a-Wish charity foundation, which prepared and implemented “The Best Day of the Year,” as it was dubbed on social networks.

Reddit ignored Gabe Newell until he joked about Half-Life 3 and posted his photo Valve CEO Gabe Newell took to Reddit to draw attention to the Heart of Racing charity project. However, users noticed his post only after he made an ironic reference to Half-Life 3, reports the Kotaku blog . Gabe Newell joined Reddit under the name GabeNewellBellevue and tried to attract community attention to the Heart of Racing charity racing project , which he co-funds.

LifeNews called the terrorist who blew up the train station in Volgograd a hipster LifeNews published an article about the investigation into the explosions in Volgograd with a killer headline. According to the publication, the suicide bomber who blew up the station on December 29 disguised himself as a hipster student to enter the building.