How social networks reacted to another record dollar exchange rate against the ruble On October 6, at the opening of trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar exchange rate broke the 40 ruble mark for the first time. Users of social networks did not miss the opportunity to be ironic on this topic. On the morning of October 6, it became known that the value of the dollar exceeded the historical maximum of 40 rubles.

A group of architects from London have proposed building an 11-kilometer floating cycle path in the city center. This was reported by The Verge . According to the architects, the floating walkway will stretch along the southern bank of the Thames for 11 kilometers: from the Battersea area to the Canary Wharf business district and solve many urban problems at once. London needs creative solutions to solve its deep-rooted traffic and pollution problems.

A 21-year-old student at Stanford University in the USA, Andrew Aude, discovered a function for card-to-card money transfers in Facebook messenger for iOS. reported this on October 5 TechCrunch . Andrew Aude While exploring the Facebook Messenger mobile app using the Cycript developer program, Od managed to activate a hidden option that allows you to link a bank card to the messenger and send money from one user to another.

How to escape the cold, spend a non-existent billion and become hardworking like a Japanese Why evolution could not protect humans from the cold, what to spend a billion on when there is none, and the whole truth about the supernatural industriousness of the Japanese. TJournal has another selection of the most interesting discussions from the Quora website. Let go and grow As October approaches, it gets colder every day outside.

Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming game Assassin's Creed: Unity will feature no visual differences between the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. Owners of Sony consoles were outraged by this company’s decision, which “cut off” the graphical advantages over competitors in one of the most anticipated video games of this year.

An Instagram manager in Russia told TJournal how and for whom regular Instagram photo meetings are held On October 6, the Instagram photo service turned four years old. On the eve of this date, the tenth anniversary Worldwide InstaMeet took place. In honor of both dates, TJournal talked about the relatively new, but already very popular phenomenon of Instagram with Olesya Shayakhmetova, Instagram community manager in Russia. Olesya Shayakhmetova How did Instagrams appear and who organizes them?

Journalist Craig Silverman and the Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University have launched a service called Emergent that automatically debunks rumors and rumors circulating online. reports this Business Insider . Emergent is a news aggregator that tracks recent media stories and organizes them around common topics, monitoring changes in each indexed article in real time.

16-year-old programmer Corbin Davenport launched the Windows 95 operating system on a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch. a video demonstrating the operation of the modified gadget The young man published on YouTube. In the video, Davenport shows the switched-on Samsung Gear screen, on which, instead of the standard Android Wear 4.4 mobile operating system for this watch model, the Microsoft Windows 95 version is loaded.

Crowdfunders raised funds to produce a compact display that can be used in a portable gaming console or smart watch. Boing Boing reports. The next campaign of the TinyDuino platform developers received a resounding success on Kickstarter. 19 days before the end of the fundraising, she had already collected almost 50 thousand dollars with the required minimum of 15 thousand. TinyScreen is a compact OLED display with a size of about an inch and a resolution of 96 by 64 pixels.

Twitter users touched by American football team's support for opposing player Social media users were touched by the American football team's support for an opposing player whose young daughter is battling cancer. spoke about the unusual tribute Business Insider .

The principle of impartiality, publication widgets in iOS 8 and anonymous comments Author: We and Jo Changing the principle of journalistic impartiality in the Internet era, the danger of banning anonymous comments on the site, digests of the best content as a trend, principles of monetization of publications from the Harvard Business Review and other main materials of recent days in the digest from the project “We and Jo. Media and Journalism".

Microsoft has unveiled the second version of its IllumiRoom projection technology, called RoomAlive. This was reported by The Verge . The original IllumiRoom pushed the boundaries of the TV by showing in-game assets outside of it using a projection system, but RoomAlive goes further and ditches the conventional screen entirely, turning the entire living room into a virtual, interactive playground.

What were visitors at exhibitions "Grammir" and Comic Con in 2014 From October 2 to 5, the Moscow Expo Moscow Exhibition Center hosted the main event of the year for all lovers of video games and comics - the Divine exhibition “Gamemir” and the Russian Comic Con. TJournal visited Crocus, talking with the participants and watching the guests, and analyzed that he was attracting guests to such a mass event.

Showtime will release a sequel to Twin Peaks, 25 years after the original aired. As reported in the video announcement on the channel's YouTube page, the new season, consisting of nine episodes, will be released in 2016. The creators of the first two seasons of Twin Peaks - director David Lynch and screenwriter Mark Frost - will write the script and produce the sequel. \ \ The cast of the new episodes and their exact release date are still unknown.