Telegram, Wickr and other secure WhatsApp alternatives On February 20, Facebook announced the purchase of the popular instant messenger WhatsApp. After it turned out that along with employees and infrastructure, Mark Zuckerberg’s company also acquired data on users of the popular application, the latter began to migrate en masse to more secure solutions from competitors. In this regard, TJournal decided to understand the market of instant messengers that care about the privacy of correspondence.

American lice specialist Marcy McQuillian said that the sharp rise in the popularity of selfies has increased the risk of infection with these parasites among teenagers. reports SFist . In 2013, “selfie” experienced an explosive growth in popularity: photographing oneself in public finally ceased to be a shameful activity, and the Oxford Dictionary chose “selfie” as the word of the year.

Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg on Google maps turned out to be designated as Maly Prospekt of the Petrograd Side. The error was noticed by readers of the St. Petersburg publication Fontanka . According to Google maps, there are two Maly Avenues on the Petrograd Side in St. Petersburg, one of them is located on Petrogradskaya, and the second is in the city center from Sadovaya Street to the Neva.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ordinary users were outraged by the photo in the Euronews community A photograph of a desecrated monument to the Soviet army published on the Euronews channel's Facebook page caused a flurry of negativity both from ordinary users and from the Russian Foreign Ministry. As a result, the channel had to apologize, and the dissatisfied moved to the Lenta.ru community, which joked about the incident.

The Pont du Gard is the tallest Roman aqueduct still standing, built in the 1st century AD in what is now France and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the Pont du Gard aqueduct that is depicted on the 5 euro banknote. #Micropost #Instagram #photo #place_of_the_day #Pont_du_Gard #Pont_du_Gard #France

One of the oldest Bitcoin exchanges, MtGox, deleted its website and disappeared. The company behind the exchange is expected to file for bankruptcy soon, Re/code reports . The MtGox website stopped opening on February 25 at approximately 7:30 am Moscow time. The Bitcoin community reported via social networks that the exchange had stopped trading the cryptocurrency. Don't touch the mtgox. This has been a PSA.

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories album has been uploaded in its entirety to YouTube. This was reported by The Daily Dot . On February 24, ten tracks from the album Random Access Memories by the French duo Daft Punk were published on the duo's official YouTube channel . Each entry is provided with a list of links to stores where it can be purchased. The compilation does not include the track Horizon, which was released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Random Access Memories.

How legendary representatives of the world of technology look in movies, TV series and cartoons How legendary representatives of the world of technology look in movies, TV series and cartoons. Taking the Mashable collection as a basis , TJournal supplemented it with its own examples. Mark Zuckerberg In David Fincher's film The Social Network, the role of the founder of Facebook was played by the not very famous actor Jesse Eisenberg at that time.

Netflix has released a parody video mocking the Amazon Prime Air service, which will deliver goods using drones. reports this Engadget . Especially for the annual meeting of the still operating DVD division, Netflix employees prepared a video in which quadcopters deliver discs to customers. For comic effect, drones drop packages directly on the recipients' heads, fly into the toilet after them, or even set off explosions.

Cubic Robotics, a company that creates home assistant robots, has raised $500,000 to produce its first production batch. This was reported in a press release received by TJournal. The main product of Cubic Robotics is the home robot assistant of the same name, which can understand human speech, the context of phrases, and even needs unspoken by the owner.

The official Twitter of HTC published two teaser images of its new flagship smartphone mocking the Samsung Galaxy S5 and its potential buyers. This is reported by BGR . HTC did not mention specific characteristics of the Samsung Galaxy S5, which was officially unveiled on February 24. The first picture says that owners of the new Samsung flagship will soon suffer “buyer’s remorse”, and the S5 itself will be “One-upped” (from the name HTC One and the word “surpassed”).

Italian artist Francesco Francavilla created a series of artworks featuring famous superheroes taking part in the Winter Olympics. He published his work on a blog on Tumblr. Francavilla's project lasted for 8 days. Every day he drew one poster from the Winter SUPER Olympics series featuring one of the popular superheroes. Francesco's works include Batman on skis, Flash on a short track, and Captain America using his shield as a sled.

Surfingbird will invest in mobile applications and B2B services Surfingbird, a collective recommendation service, received $2.5 million from Yuri Zhukov’s Klever investment group. TJournal spoke with Surfingbird founder Sergei Shalaev and found out what the funds raised will be used for.

Torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has joined a research team at Lund University in Sweden to study file-sharing norms and how users are responding to increased censorship, online monitoring and stricter legislation. This was reported by TorrentFreak . The Pirate Bay has temporarily renamed itself The Research Bay and changed its logo to conduct an anonymous user survey on people's content sharing habits and views on copyright issues.

MegaFon launched an LTE Advanced wireless network in the center of Moscow, the connection speed of which is limited to 300 megabits per second. Digit.ru reports this. MegaFon Business Development Director Mikhail Dubin spoke about the launch of the new network during a teleconference between a press conference in Moscow and a presentation in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress exhibition.