A fitness service has been launched in the United States, whose clients pay less if they exercise more often. reports Mashable . The business model of most fitness clubs is based on “dead souls” - clients who paid for a subscription, but are too lazy to go to training. The Fitmob service, launched on January 23, turned the existing system upside down and began offering users discounts for each lesson that took place, thereby motivating them to visit the gym more often.

The largest taxi companies in St. Petersburg boycotted the Yandex.Taxi service: the number of available vehicles in it decreased by more than 10 times. This was reported by Fontanka.ru . On January 23, residents of St. Petersburg began reporting problems with the Yandex.Taxi service on social networks, noting the abnormally low number of available cars. Today, something is wrong with my beloved Yandex Taxi. There are only 2 cars on the map and no one responds to the order.

A high school student parodies American presidents on his Instagram An American high school student parodies US presidents on his Instagram. reports Mashable . High school student Chaz Rorick from New York State on his Instagram account created a gallery of portraits of American presidents . Each frame in the series consists of two parts: a portrait or photograph of the president and a selfshot of Chaz in a similar pose and with homemade makeup.

The FBI has arrested Hunter Moore, the creator of the "revenge porn" website, and his assistant Charles Ivens on computer crime charges. magazine reports this Time . Hunter Moore created the website isanyoneup.com, where users could post so-called “revenge porn”—explicit photos of people they had previously dated. This was done “in retaliation” for the breakup and usually without the permission of those depicted in the frame.

The founder of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, confirmed the sale of company shares. He reported this on his page . Durov said that in recent years he has been “actively getting rid of” property and he is “glad” to sell 12 percent of VKontakte shares to his friend, Megafon CEO Ivan Tavrin. According to Durov, the deal will not affect the social network in any way, since the board of directors listens to his opinion, regardless of whether he has a share.

Facebook responded with its own “scientific work” to a Princeton University study, according to which the social network will lose 80% of its users between 2015-2017. The results of the “research” were published on his page by Facebook employee Mike Develin, who is engaged in data analysis. A study by Princeton University researchers that made the rounds in the media over the past few days analyzed the growth of social networks based on the frequency of related Google search queries.

The cover of the New York Times Magazine became the source of photoshopped images The cover of the New York Times Magazine with a portrait of Hillary Clinton in the form of a planet became the starting point for the emergence of a new meme. On January 23, 2014, New York Times Magazine editor David Joachim tweeted an image of the magazine's upcoming Sunday issue featuring Hillary Clinton as a smiling planet.

How users reacted to the sale of Pavel Durov’s share in VKontakte On January 24, the Vedomosti newspaper reported that VKontakte CEO Pavel Durov sold his stake in the company. Official confirmation of this information arrived only a few hours later, but panic and fears for the future of VKontakte immediately began on social networks. The only source of news about the sale of the Durov share was Vedomosti.

How a math genius hacked the OkCupid dating site to find true love Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya 's Kevil Paulsen Wired told the story of 35-year-old mathematician Chris McKinley, who decided to apply statistical methods to a dating site, "hacked" its algorithm, and found love after a long string of failed dates. TJournal publishes a translation of this incredibly touching but instructive story.

Medvedev was photographed with a hipster haircut Medvedev came to a meeting with students at MISiS with a strangely shaved head in the style of fashionable hipster haircuts. Kommersant correspondent Alexander Chernykh published a photo with the Prime Minister’s unusual hairstyle on his Instagram. Journalist Alexander Chernykh managed to photograph Medvedev at the moment when he had just entered the room and had his back to him.

Black gummies, wreaths and stolen Viagra Author: Zalina Marshenkulova In the most dramatic news of the week, gummy bear maker Haribo was forced to withdraw black candies from sale, which the European Tolerance Commission says discriminates against people with black faces. It is not clear why, according to the logic of experts, gays cannot be banned, but black candies can be banned and discriminated against.

The founder of the social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, sold a stake in his company to Ivan Tavrin, CEO of Megafon. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper , citing anonymous sources. Updated: Pavel Durov confirmed the sale of his share to Ivan Tavrin. Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov and Pavel Durov at the Megafon party, June 2013 According to Vedomosti, Durov sold his stake back in December 2013.

The video service Vine celebrated its first year since its launch by presenting a special page with the best videos published on the service during this time. The videos selected by the creators of the service were published by a single flight directory, but they were sorted not by the number of views, but by categories.

Dutch charity Alzheimer Nederland has come up with an original way to explain what people with Alzheimer's feel. To do this, they placed photos of real Facebook users on third-party images, and then published these pictures on their wall. The image specialists took user photos, cut out people in Photoshop, and placed them in photos from popular events, working in collaboration with several companies. The resulting images were published in Alzheimer Nederland's own album.

The Odnoklassniki social network has temporarily blocked the ability to post links to LiveJournal blog hosting. Representatives of the social network explained that this was done due to an increased flow of spam. Blogger Ilya Varlamov drew attention to the fact that you cannot put links to LiveJournal in Odnoklassniki. He actively writes on LiveJournal about events in the center of Kyiv, posting links to his posts on other social networks.