Parrot, the company that produces the popular Wi-Fi-controlled AR Drones, has introduced a new model called Bebop. reports this Engadget . One of the main improvements of the new device was the camera: the manufacturer placed a 14-megapixel matrix on board the Bebop with the ability to record video in 1080p resolution. The camera is equipped with a fisheye lens that allows you to shoot with a field of view of 180 degrees.

Apple will make the largest acquisition in its history ($3.2 billion) in order to use the developments of Beats in the field of music streaming. reports this in its report Bloomberg . Apple was interested in Beats Electronics in the streaming music service, and not in the production of headphones, as many media outlets had previously assumed.

The microblogging service Twitter has introduced the ability to completely disable the flow of tweets from unwanted users. This was reported on the company's blog . The new “Mute” button in the Russian interface is called “Ignore”: it can be found in the user’s profile or by clicking “More” on one of the tweets in the feed. It is available on the web version of Twitter, as well as in mobile applications on iOS and Android (application updates required).

The authors of the blog Spurious Correlations find strange connections between various statistical calculations blog The Spurious Correlations finds meaningless connections between various statistics to show that the presence of correlation does not equate to the presence of causation.

Russian news agencies conveyed conflicting information about the creation of cyber troops The Russian army has created information operations troops to protect computer systems from cyber attacks, the ITAR-TASS agency reported , citing an anonymous source in the Ministry of Defense. soon However, RIA Novosti denied this information.

Using phones on airplanes, Silicon Valley after the dot-com boom, and unusual scenarios for using common programs Over the several years of its existence, the question and answer site Quora has become one of the main platforms for discussing everything related to startups, the Internet and information technology in general. TJournal is launching a new regular column in which each week it will select and detail several of the most discussed topics on Quora.

Fraudsters began “collecting” bitcoins to support “militias” in southeastern Ukraine On May 12, Russian Internet users began receiving emails calling for them to donate bitcoins to support the “militia of the southeast” of Ukraine. In fact, the newsletter turned out to be a fake of a real ad.

Author: Alexey Ermolaev Apple intends to use NFC technology for contactless payments in the iPhone 6. This is reported by the MacRumors blog with reference to the BrightWire agency . Passbook app on iOS According to agency sources familiar with Apple's plans, the company has entered into a contract with the Chinese payment system UnionPay to integrate banking services into the Passbook application.

Valve has released versions of Half-Life 2 and Portal for the Nvidia Shield gaming console running Android. This was reported by Android Police . appeared in the Google Play Store On May 12, Half-Life 2 and Portal . Both games cost 352 rubles (or $10), but are not available for all Android devices, but only for owners of the Nvidia Shield console. Other Android devices (even those based on the same chipset) do not support this version of the game.

From the end of May, Rostelecom will begin blocking sites included in the register of prohibited resources by their URL, and not by IP. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper , citing a source inside the company. As Rostelecom explained, the traffic filtering mechanism being implemented has nothing in common with the DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) system used by a number of other large providers in Russia (for example, VimpelCom and MTS).

Mail.Ru has released a television commercial to promote its mobile mail application. In a short video, the release of which coincided with International Mother's Day, the main character lies to his mother about how he is preparing for his diploma, but in fact he is riding a bicycle with a charming blonde. Mail.Ru Group CEO Dmitry Grishin published a 15-second advertising video on his Instagram.

TJournal has collected dedications to Mother's Day in different genres, from video clips to Vine videos In many countries of the world, including Denmark, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan and the USA, Mother's Day is celebrated on a grand scale on the second Sunday of May (in Russia this holiday is celebrated on every last Sunday of November). Special advertising is often released for Mother's Day, many artists dedicate their work to it, and brands organize tributes and special campaigns.

Hackers have posted an extension for iOS 7 online that allows you to work on your iPad with several applications at the same time. The tweak, called OS Experience, can be downloaded for $10. “Hacking” the operating system changes the way the multitasking mechanisms used in iOS 7 work. After installing the tweak, iPad users can minimize and maximize windows of open programs, drag them to the left or right side of the screen, and also work with several active applications at once.

A court in Kharkov sentenced a 27-year-old local resident to imprisonment for sending a porn video in a personal message. This was reported on the website of the GUMVD of the Kharkov region. At the end of 2013, a local resident contacted the Kharkov police. He complained about a personal message he received on a social network that contained a pornographic video. The police identified the sender of the message: it turned out to be another Kharkov resident.

Sisters Phoebe Stevens and Nikki Flowerday created a board card game called Query, based on the most popular queries on Google and other search engines. reports Gizmodo . Query authors Stevens and Flowerday, like many netizens, have been repeatedly surprised by how Google offers to complete their queries. It was the comical incidents that often arise when using such services that inspired them to create a board game.