Famous Canadian musician and director Neil Young, as part of the SXSW festival, taking place in the Texas city of Austin from March 8 to 17, announced a fundraiser for a portable music player, PonoPlayer, created for the most demanding sound connoisseurs. reports this Pitchfork . Young plans to finance the production of PonoPlayer through the crowdfunding service Kickstarter. Fundraising will begin on March 15: the price of the device for those who support the project will be $399.

Designer Sam Beckett released a video in which he presented his own version of Apple's next smartphone, the iPhone 6. According to Beckett, it will be called the iPhone Air, similar to the MacBook Air and iPad Air. Beckett presented his concept on The Verge forum . According to him, the next iPhone will be 8% larger than the previous model, the iPhone 5s, to accommodate a larger screen, according to earlier reports , completely covered with sapphire crystal.

Unknown hackers hacked the blog of the head of the oldest Bitcoin exchange, MtGox, which declared bankruptcy, and posted a large amount of data related to the organization’s activities. reports this Forbes . On March 9, a post appeared on the blog of MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles on behalf of hackers who accused the exchange leader of lying and deceiving the Bitcoin community.

Google's online spreadsheet editor can be used to launch powerful DDoS attacks on websites. This is described in the blog of a programmer hiding under the pseudonym chr13. The method of organizing an attack on a site is tied to the function of the table editor, which loads an image from the specified link.

Apple has released the long-awaited update to its mobile operating system to version 7.1. This is reported on its official website . Most of the changes in iOS 7.1 concern the stability and speed of the system (including the speed of animations for opening and closing applications and folders). External differences are mainly related to the dialing and answering screen: some rectangular elements on them have been replaced with round ones.

Monster girls, Shakespeare's murder, fruit bowl music and other Kickstarter projects Monster girls, Shakespeare's murder, fruit bowl music and other Kickstarter projects. Type: Schimmel Steampunk Pens Chad Schimmel from Arizona has combined his love of steampunk and beautiful stationery to create a line of designer writing pens. My pens are always created to the highest standards and I assure you, you will get a pen that will last you a lifetime (as long as it doesn't get stolen from your desk).

Chinese officials were banned from playing mobile games during long meetings under threat of losing their positions. Kotaku reports this with reference to the local publication People's Daily . Every spring, the Chinese Communist Party meets in Beijing to discuss critical issues regarding the country's immediate future, including how much money will be spent on national security.

Before Apple brought the iPad to market, the company's management didn't know exactly how it should be used. Marc Andreessen, a partner at the investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, spoke about this. Andreessen spoke with Andreessen Horowitz employee Benedict Evans about the process that both new products and new companies go through: after they hit the market, they look for their application, focusing on user reaction.

The UK will finance research in the field of the Internet of Things, and will also implement the 5G standard to provide the country with a high-speed Internet connection. about this at the CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany. spoke British Prime Minister David Cameron British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the country's government will invest 45 million pounds sterling (about 2.7 billion rubles) in researching Internet of Things technologies.