The startup Eterni.me offered users “eternal life” in the format of a virtual avatar that can chat after the owner’s death. This was reported by CNet . The founders of US startup Eterni.me say they have developed a means by which identity can be recreated after death using digital technology. The service is built around a technique for creating a portrait of a person based on his activity on the Internet, photographs, emails, information from social networks and correspondence from chats.

Fast driving, singing animals, presidential dialogue and more in the best cubes of the week Author: Alexander Sobolev A fast, cartoonish, naturalistic and slightly humorous selection of coubs from a TJournal columnist. In today's episode: fast driving, singing (and other) animals, presidential dialogue and cinema. Music Animals singing along. Need For Speed No, this is not at all about the upcoming movie with Aaron Paul. Everything is much more real here. Animals Traditional section.

The chief creative producer and author of the script for the opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi, Konstantin Ernst, admitted the use of footage from rehearsals in the live broadcast of the ceremony. The pre-recorded fragment was quickly shown to hide the incident with the stalled ring. General Director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst told project that problems with the ring at the opening of the Olympics in Sochi only strengthened the impression of the quality of the rest of the production.

Information security expert Robert Graham exposed a story on the American NBC channel about hacker attacks on guests of the Sochi Olympics. According to Graham, only the journalist himself is to blame for the hacking. The expert's post was published on the Errata Security group blog . On February 4, NBC aired a story by Richard Engel in which the reporter said that his computers and smartphone were hacked by hackers upon his arrival in Sochi.

Netizens joke and argue about whether the snowflake opened at the Olympics opening ceremony An overlay with a snowflake that did not open during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi has become a popular subject of controversy, jokes and hoaxes on the Internet. The opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, as planned by the authors, was supposed to end with a scene in which five huge luminous snowflakes turn into Olympic rings, but during the movement one of them got stuck.

BTC-E, one of the most popular Bitcoin exchanges in the world, has changed its policy on depositing and withdrawing money in rubles due to actions of the Central Bank and law enforcement agencies. This is reported on the exchange website . The BTC-E administration stated that work with QIWI and other Russian payment systems has been suspended indefinitely. BTC-E users cannot top up their accounts with rubles, but can still make payments in dollars and other currencies.

Google and others spoke out before the Olympics against discrimination against gays in Russia On February 7, the Google search engine replaced its logo with a rainbow doodle. The media immediately interpreted this step as an expression of protest against discrimination against gays in Russia. TJournal recalled who and how expressed solidarity with the Russian LGBT community on the eve of the Olympics. Updated: Added reactions from The Guardian and the Lotus racing team.

Popular tweets, jokes, photoshops and photos from Instagram On February 7 at 20:14 Moscow time, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games began at the Fisht stadium in Adler. TJournal conducts a live text broadcast with tweets and photos from spectators and ceremony participants.

Electronic Arts has built a mechanism into the Android version of its new game Dungeon Keeper that prevents users from giving it a low rating in the app store. reports this Eurogamer . On February 4, the mobile division of publisher Electronic Arts released on the App Store and Google Play . a new version of the popular game Dungeon Keeper, released in 1997, After some time, owners of Android smartphones began to report an aggressive promotion system built into the application.

One of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, MtGox, has temporarily suspended cash withdrawals. This is reported on the exchange website . According to MtGox representatives, the volume of funds withdrawn on the exchange has recently increased significantly. The overload began to lead to technical problems and made the exchange difficult to operate. MtGox has temporarily suspended cryptocurrency cashouts to investigate the cause of the problem.

The sports portal "Sportbox" accidentally published a prepared note about the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympics. It described the full contents of the ceremony script. At 16:42, a note appeared on “Sportbox” with the headline “Hot, winter ones, yours (do not put)” have opened. It talks about the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympics as an event that took place.

Singer Zemfira stated that her song was used during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games without permission. The information appeared on the musician’s official website . Zemfira’s website published an appeal to “Bones” - apparently Konstantin Ernst, creative director and author of the script for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. the first channel ignored all possible agreements and used my track without consent. This is a direct violation of copyright.

The administrator of the official account of the Sochi Olympics on YouTube liked recordings of women’s fights that were prohibited on the video hosting site. drew attention to this User @Dominaz . The 2014 Olympics have official accounts on several social networks: in addition to the “traditional” Twitter, Facebook and VKontakte, the Games are also presented on Google+, Flickr and YouTube.

VKontakte stopped working on February 7 at about 15:25 Moscow time. Both the website and mobile applications remained completely unavailable. At about 15:30, VKontakte partially returned to working order: personal messages, photos, user profiles and communities began working. The news feed, video and audio recordings are still unavailable. Forty minutes after the problems began, a VKontakte press secretary said that the company was working to fix them. VKontakte is temporarily unavailable.

Can new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella “reboot” the company? Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya On February 4, Microsoft announced the name of its third CEO in the company's 38-year history: Satya Nadella, a former cloud services executive and vice president of the corporation. Tom Warren from The Verge figured out why Nadella is so interesting and what he can bring to Microsoft. TJournal publishes a translation of this material.