On May 7, the capital was covered in snowfall, and social networks were filled with an avalanche of photographs of falling snowflakes. On the morning of May 7, snowfall began in the south and southwest of Moscow, covering the entire city by 11 o’clock. Forecasters have been predicting warming all week and attribute the snow to cold air in the high layers of the atmosphere.

Several Russian banks immediately began blocking the cards of their clients who paid for tickets on the Russian Railways website in the period from April 7 to April 14. portal reports this The Finanz.ru . Updated: VTB24 comment added. Blocking cards is associated with a possible leak of data about them to the Internet. The leak, which became known in mid-April, is believed to have been caused by a vulnerability discovered in an OpenSSL data packet called Heartbleed.

Microblogging service App.Net announced good financial results, but admitted that the company would have to fire all employees. The corresponding statement appeared on the official App.Net blog . The App.Net blog post starts with good news. It says that the first major round of subscription renewals was successful - the money received from users is enough to consider the service profitable and self-sustaining.

On May 5, Dr. Web published on its official website an entry about a new type of fraud - remote blocking of an iPhone after its user used someone else's App Store account to download applications. In practice this scheme does not work. An entry on the Dr.Web website reports that in early May, cases of fraud directed against users of Apple smartphones and tablets have become more frequent.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has reversed the decision taken earlier by one of the departments to block the WhatsApp messenger in the country. , citing the words of Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi This was reported by the Iranian news agency Mehr . On May 1, the Iranian working group for detecting illegal content on the network decided to restrict access to the application.

The developers of the anonymous search engine DuckDuckGo, which does not store user data, have presented an updated version of the service. It is described on the DuckDuckGo forum . Design of the new version of DuckDuckGo The new version of the search engine is currently available on the page next.duckduckgo.com . The developers plan to enable it by default within a month, after all the innovations are finalized.

An artist became an internet celebrity thanks to his inventive way of destroying anthills An artist from the United States has become an Internet celebrity thanks to his inventive way of destroying anthills. An Alabama resident has come up with a new way to combat red ants, which farmers usually use special poisons to kill. He finds one of the entrances to the anthill in its upper part and pours molten aluminum inside.

The US Navy has released a reader called NeRD, designed for reading books on submarines. This was reported by The Verge . The US Navy is banning the use of conventional tablets and readers on board submarines because they could give away the vessel's location and become a spy tracking device, putting people in mortal danger. If one of the crew members wants to read, he goes to a small library with paper books and selects one or several volumes from the meager repertoire.

Music service Spotify has removed Vulfpeck's album Sleepify, which consists entirely of silence, from its library. In mid-March, Michigan indie band Vulfpeck came up with an unusual way to raise funds for their new tour. She released an album called Sleepify and published it on the music service Spotify, which pays creators about $0.007 for each stream.

Footage that conveys the essence of famous films was collected into one Twitter The author of the Twitter account Perfect Shots collects footage that, in his opinion, conveys the essence of famous films. 36 thousand people have already subscribed to his blog. Filmmaker Jeff Todd of Portland posts several stills from famous films a day, choosing them so that just one image conveys the mood or content of the film.

Crowdfunding platform CarbonStory, specializing in financing environmental initiatives, launched the World Under Water project. The main goal of the project is to draw attention to the problem of global warming by showing what the world's largest cities would look like if their streets were flooded by the seas and oceans. On WorldUnderWater.org , Chrome browser users can search for a city or a specific address.

American artist reinterprets the plots of Disney cartoons every day The American artist daily publishes illustrations that reinterpret the plots of Disney cartoons. Artist and animator Jeff Hong works at Nickelodeon and in his free time draws alternative sequels to Disney stories. Once a day, he posts one new picture to his Tumblr blog Unhappily Ever After , where each image receives hundreds of comments and shares. In case you were wondering, I'm actually a huge fan of Disney animation.

The managing editor of the publication Reedus, Sergei Tuvakin, was fired because of a Facebook post about Ukraine. He announced this on his page on the social network. Sergey Tuvakin According to Tuvakin, who worked at Reedus from the moment of its founding, the official reason for the dismissal was described by the phrase “numyzhall adults.” However, in fact, he is sure, he was fired for refusing to delete posts in support of the people of Ukraine from his personal Facebook page.

The space agency NASA launched an Internet broadcast from the International Space Station. The video is available on the live streaming service Ustream . Four HD cameras were installed on the ISS, the images from which are broadcast live on the Internet. True, from time to time the image turns black - this does not indicate problems in data transmission, but that the ISS is flying over the night side of the Earth.

LG has launched a group of household appliances for sale, united by the Homechat service, which allows the user to communicate with equipment using the Line messenger. She announced this on her official website . The development of the Homechat service was announced at the end of December 2013, and the first devices with its support were demonstrated at the January CES exhibition, held in Las Vegas in January 2014.