Twitter users en masse take part in a new flash mob under the hashtag #johning A new flash mob on Twitter started in early May under the hashtag #johning. It owes its name to the name of a popular video blogger, whom the entertainment authors propose to parody. To take part in a flash mob, you need to lie on the floor with a laptop, book or other object on your stomach and put your feet on any elevated surface, then send a photo taken by an observer to social networks with the hashtag #johning.

A meme has emerged on the Internet that can displace the position of “sad Keanu” Following the “sad Keanu” meme, the “sad Kanye” meme is gaining popularity, thanks to one photo from Instagram. At the end of April, photographer Alex Yenni published a photo on his Instagram account with a smiling Kim Kardashian and a sad Kanye West sitting behind her. The photo was probably taken in the summer of 2012, and for two years it was never published online.

Yandex nominated German Gref, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, to its board of directors. reports this ITAR-TASS . Gref's candidacy will be put forward for a vote on May 21, when the annual general meeting of Yandex shareholders will take place. If the vote is positive, the head of Sberbank will join the board of directors of the Internet company for three years.

The creators of the Oculus Rift virtual reality helmet, with the help of Facebook, plan to create a multiplayer online game with a billion people simultaneously online. This was reported by The Verge . After Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion, the media wondered why the social network needed a startup specializing in computer games.

Russian users of the social network VKontakte now have the opportunity to indicate cities located in Crimea as being part of Russia. This was announced on May 6 by VKontakte press secretary Georgy Lobushkin. Now users from Russia can find all settlements located on the peninsula in the list of Russian cities both in the social network search and in the list displayed when editing their own personal data (place of birth or place of residence).

CEO of gaming publisher Activision Blizzard Bobby Kotick said that his company plans to spend about $500 million on the development and promotion of the Destiny project from Bungie, the studio behind the cult shooter series Halo. reports this Reuters . Bobby Kotick spoke openly about his grandiose plans for the development of the sci-fi shooter Destiny during the Milken Institute conference, held in early May in Los Angeles.

A vulnerability was found in the iOS 7 operating system that allows access to the user's full list of contacts without entering a password or unlocking the phone using a fingerprint scanner. A video describing the “hacking” technology was published on YouTube by an Egyptian neurosurgeon, Sherif Hashim. The video appeared online on May 4. Judging by the post posted by the Egyptian, the Siri voice assistant built into the operating system is used to bypass the security settings of iOS 7.1.1.

Microsoft has promised Russian companies and banks subject to US sanctions not to disable support for previously purchased versions of the Windows operating system. newspaper reported this on May 6 The Vedomosti , citing anonymous sources within the companies. Representatives of the American IT corporation informed their partners from Russia that the companies that became targets of sanctions will continue to be able to use Windows and other Microsoft products.

All previously published e-books that were in the public domain were removed from the official page of the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky on the Russian Science Fiction website. this in a letter to readers on May 5 Relatives of the Strugatskys reported . It was decided to leave only a bibliography of works by science fiction writers on the site.

The rumor about new Apple EarPods with pulse and blood pressure sensors, which appeared in a number of world media, turned out to be a joke from a user of the anonymous Secret application. This was reported by TechCrunch . The author of the false rumor created an anonymous blog on Tumblr, in which he spoke about the origin of the message, which was passed off by major media outlets as a leak from Apple.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) published a tweet on May 5, the contents of which were encrypted. In this way, the American intelligence service intends to attract the attention of specialists looking for work. On Monday, a post with gobbledygook appeared on the @NSACareers microblog, which usually posts vacancies at the NSA. After seeing this message, Gizmodo suggested that someone at the agency was drunk.

A selection of Russian analogues of popular Western gadgets and services In May 2014, it seems that almost no one remembers that two months ago the Winter Olympics were held in Sochi, with the help of which the country tried to show itself to the world as modern and open. After the referendum in Crimea and the events in Ukraine, Russia and the West are mired in both real sanctions against each other and empty threats.

Cloud file hosting service Dropbox has fixed a vulnerability that allowed unauthorized users to find and open links to documents that were not intended for them. A message about fixing the bug appeared on the official website of the service. A bug in Dropbox was associated with links to files and documents uploaded to the service. Dropbox users can generate such links automatically with the click of a button.

The creators of the dog gaming device CleverPet have launched a campaign on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to raise $100,000 to bring the device to market. In the first five days they collected exactly half of the required amount. CleverPet is a gaming console for dogs that allows your pet to earn treats by completing special tasks.

Rovio studio has released a mobile game called RETRY, made in the spirit of the global hit Flappy Bird. This is reported by The Next Web . The iPhone and iPad game RETRY is a 2D airplane simulator that the user must navigate through a series of levels. Just like the acclaimed game Flappy Bird, RETRY requires the player to constantly avoid hitting obstacles. Whether in Flappy Bird or RETRY, completing the task is not so easy.