A duck that lost its paw was able to walk again with the help of a 3D printed prosthesis. This was reported by CNET . A duck from the Canadian city of Sicamous, named Dudley, lost his paw when he was still very young: after an attack by a chicken with whom he was in the same pen. The design of the prosthesis, with the help of which she regained the ability to walk, was developed by Terence Loring of 3 Pillar Designs, a company specializing in 3D printing of architectural models.

Instead of the departed Ilya and Igor Perekopsky, new managers from the structures of the social network shareholder Alisher Usmanov came to VKontakte. This was reported by Hopes&Fears . On January 23, it became known about two new appointments on VKontakte. Boris Dobrodeev, the son of VGTRK director Oleg Dobrodeev, will be involved in interaction with investors.

Netizens compared clashes in Ukraine with games and films Users of social networks compared the fierce street battles between the opposition and the Ukrainian authorities with computer games and films. Photos of clashes in the center of Kyiv began appearing on social networks on January 20. Images of crowds of people fighting against the backdrop of fires and columns of black smoke rising from them evoked associations among many with post-apocalyptic films and computer games.

How Apple was advertised in the 80s January 22 marks exactly 30 years since the release of the legendary Apple commercial, based on George Orwell’s novel “1984.” On this occasion, TJournal remembered what other notable advertising the Steve Jobs corporation did in those years. Apple's "1984" commercial is often cited as the best, or at least the most memorable, ad to air during the Super Bowl, the final game of the National Football League in the United States.

Bill Gates starred in a viral video to draw attention to his website gatesletter.com . The viral video featuring Bill Gates was first aired on the entertainment show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. According to the plot, only Gates himself is present in the frame, pronouncing the name of his site, while his costume, hairstyle and props change. Within seconds, he appears on screen wearing a tin foil hat, a toy top hat, a tennis visor, a chicken suit, and a large lollipop in his hand.

The Google search engine will display additional information about the sites found and the organizations to which they relate. This was reported on the official Google blog . In some cases, in search results, next to links to found sites, gray text with the name of the corresponding organization will be displayed. By clicking on it, the user will see additional information about the organization without leaving the search page.

Yandex has launched a new service that allows you to synchronize address phone books between smartphones based on iOS and Android. This was reported in a press release received by TJournal. For those users who are planning to switch from iOS to Android (or vice versa), Yandex offers to use a cloud service instead of rewriting contacts manually. You should start migrating from the Yandex.Moving website , where you need to enter your phone models.

Facebook paid Brazilian programmer Reginaldo Silva $33,500 for a vulnerability found in the social network's code. This is reported by The Next Web . The award received by Reginaldo Silva was the largest since the launch of the Facebook vulnerability payment program due to the scale of the vulnerability found. The problem he discovered in the XML code could lead to attackers gaining access to almost any files stored on the social network’s servers.

Photos reproducing recognizable scenes from the film and taken with the participation of elderly Germans are gaining popularity online. reports this BuzzFeed . Residents of a nursing home from the city of Essen in Germany took part in the filming of a photo calendar based on recognizable scenes from famous films, one photo for each month of the year. Professional stylists and photographers were involved in the process.

The largest news agency, Associated Press, reported on its official blog that it fired one of its photographers because he used Photoshop in one of his photographs from Syria. The Associated Press terminated its contract with freelance photographer Narciso Contreras after he said that in one of the photos taken in Syria in September 2013, an editor used it to hide a colleague's camera from the frame. This type of image modification is considered unacceptable by AP standards.

This week, “paired” toilets from Sochi became the subject of news in a number of the world’s largest media outlets. Yesterday, a representative of the press service of the 2014 Olympics on her page explained the situation by saying that the toilet was going to be converted into a utility room. But it’s too late - bloggers turned the now famous toilet into an international meme.

For a new advertising campaign for Old Spice deodorant launched on the Internet, nine fake websites were created, allegedly selling certain products. This was reported by TechCrunch . A few seconds after the user enters the fake site (or if he clicks on any of the links), the entire page design “collapses”, giving way to an Old Spice commercial.

The media believed the fake criminal case against Navalny An employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Georgy Alburov, illustrated Navalny’s new agenda with a comic screenshot of the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with the “fish” of a new case against the oppositionist. Some media outlets, including the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, believed the fake screenshot without recognizing the irony.

Escort agency 007 Escort , operating in Amsterdam and a number of other cities in the Netherlands, announced that their clients can pay for the services of prostitutes using bitcoins. Those wishing to order the services of 007 Escort prostitutes can pay for them using the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. To do this, you must contact the administration in advance and obtain a special address for transferring bitcoins .

As part of World Social Communications Day, Pope Francis made a statement in which he called the Internet “a breakthrough for humanity, not for technology” and “a gift from God.” Two years earlier, Patriarch Kirill expressed a markedly different point of view on this issue. Legendary selfie of the Pope in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican According to Pope Francis, the network "breaks down barriers" between different groups of people, giving them a platform to discuss their differences.