The TNT television channel released a commercial in which characters from famous films take out a smartphone and take a selfie. Characters from popular films including 300, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as well as the Indiana Jones and Harry Potter franchises appear in the short video. \ \ The video advertises the “Big Cinema on TNT” section.

The St. Petersburg construction company Lenstroytrest organized a raffle for an apartment for publishing the most realistic video of a ghost. To participate in the competition, you must film a manifestation of paranormal activity at home, publish the video on YouTube or VKontakte and send it to the competition. A jury consisting of a computer graphics specialist, a doctor of technical sciences and an expert in rituals will select the most plausible work.

A British modeling agency has launched a competition on Instagram, the winner of which will be awarded a working contract. The modeling agency Models 1 from London has announced a casting call for ordinary plus size girls who would like to try themselves in the modeling business. In order to participate in the competition, British women just need to post their own photo on Instagram with the tag #MakeMeACurveModel and tag or mention the official agency account @models1curve.

Apple will host a live video broadcast of its WWDC event on June 2. She announced this on her official website . Despite the fact that millions of people watch Apple presentations every year, the company quite often prefers to hold them closed to the press, but with the arrival of CEO Tim Cook, it has increasingly begun to change its habits.

Google has changed its logo by adjusting the position of two letters in the name. reports Gizmodo . The logo changes took place over the weekend of May 24-25, Gizmodo notes. In the multi-colored word “Google,” the position of the letter “g” was shifted one pixel to the right, and the “l” was moved down and to the right. Before these changes were made, the lower bounds of the letters "l" and "e" did not match. You can see the changes in the animation below.

The user can “force” Windows XP to receive free updates despite the fact that Microsoft has officially stopped supporting the operating system. reports this The Register . Updated : Added a warning from Microsoft not to use this method. \ \ A method to "trick" Microsoft into obtaining updates for Windows XP is described on the German forum Sebijk.com .

Less than a week after Russian users were able to register with the Secret app, advertisements for domestic brands appeared in it. MTS was the first on this platform, playing up both the nature of the service and its slogan. As commentators on Secret note , judging by the location of the post, it was published from the BBDO advertising agency, and not from the MTS office.

The new crew of the International Space Station took a group selfie before their flight. According to RIA Novosti , this is the first such photograph taken by astronauts. On May 27, Roscosmos cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reed Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst met with journalists. During this meeting, Suraev announced that he would conduct a microblog from space. We will tweet and post photos.

An unknown designer under the pseudonym “Name Last Name” proposed the idea of ​​a service that allows you to find people with hot water that has not yet been turned off and who are ready to provide their shower. He blogged about his concept on Medium .

Google's smart thermostat division, Nest, is considering buying Dropcam, a company that makes continuous security cameras for the home. This was reported by The Information . Google continues its steps to enter the smart home market. The publication's sources at Google said that the Nest division, which produces smart thermostats, is going to accelerate its expansion of its presence in the Internet of Things by purchasing Dropcam.

The website of the low-cost airline Dobrolyot, owned by Aeroflot, has opened the sale of tickets for flights from Moscow to Simferopol and back. In the very first hours, the reservation system on the website began to periodically go offline and display an error message. Ticket sales at dobrolet.com began on the night of Tuesday, May 27.

Another famous cat on the Internet is the pet of a climber who taught his pet to go to the mountains. The cat owes its popularity to the Reddit portal . Mountaineer and rock climber Craig Armstrong adopted the cat Millie from a shelter, and when she grew up, he began to take her with him when going to the mountains. Millie got her own equipment in the form of a harness with a carabiner, and hundreds of photographs taken by Craig himself and his friends.

Google-owned antivirus software company VirusTotal has released an application for the first time for the Mac OS X operating system. A message about this appeared on the official VirusTotal blog on May 26. You can download the antivirus, called VirusTotal Uploader , from the company’s website. The program works on all versions of operating systems older than OS X 10.7.

The Instagram service was unavailable to users around the world. Problems with the applications began to be observed on May 28 at about 00:30 Moscow time. At first, only the web version of the service did not work, then the mobile application also had problems: neither feeds nor user profiles were updated. The problems were noticed by many users who immediately began complaining on social networks.

Chairman of the Board of Sberbank German Gref became a member of the board of directors of Yandex. reports this ITAR-TASS . Yandex confirmed Gref's appointment to TJournal. At the beginning of May, we announced that Gref was nominated to participate in the board of directors. Last week the annual meeting of shareholders took place, at which Gref was elected. There are currently nine people on the board of directors.