Google has officially announced the Nexus 6 smartphone, Nexus 9 tablet, Nexus Player and the full name of the Android 5.0 Lollipop OS, formerly known as Android L. In confirmation of leaks that appeared on the network earlier, the Nexus 6 turned out to be a 6-inch smartphone manufactured by Motorola with a 13-megapixel main camera and a 2-megapixel front camera, stereo speakers and a display with a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels.

The Mobile Inform company has released the MIG ST1N2 tablet based on Motorola Symbol ET1N2 and the Android 4.1 operating system with increased shock resistance and frost resistance. This is stated in a company message received by TJournal. The tablet's 7-inch frost-resistant and shock-resistant screen is protected by Gorilla Glass, and the body has a built-in metal frame that protects against 26 drops from a height of 1.5 meters on each side, even when turned on.

An American woman accused an Uber taxi driver of kidnapping, the company has its own version of events A Los Angeles woman has accused an Uber driver of kidnapping her, but the company calls the two-hour drive into the desert an "inefficient route" and says the deviation from the planned route was made at her request. This is reported by Gawker .

The Hungarian company ClipDis is preparing to release a messenger application of the same name for iOS, which will allow users to communicate using quotes from movies, TV series and games. On October 14, a promotional video for the messenger was published on the YouTube video hosting site.

American doctors treated the first patient with symptoms of addiction to Google Glass smart glasses. As Time magazine writes , the man spontaneously raised his index finger to his head, imagining that he was controlling a gadget, and also had dreams in which all surrounding objects seemed to be behind the lenses of his glasses.

In 2015, State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans will launch an application and a social network in which it will be possible to meet people and check in on buses. reports this The publication M24.ru . In the social network from Mosgortrans, you can make friends while traveling, build routes, discuss transport services with other users, read books in free online libraries or listen to free music.

The leader of the Irish rock band U2 apologized for adding a new album to the libraries of all Apple users after the company's September presentation. U2 frontman Bono has apologized for adding U2's free "Songs of Innocence" album to all Apple users' music libraries. This happened while recording a video interview with answers to questions from Facebook.

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Australian security experts have developed a device that can open most standard combination locks used on ATMs and small safes in a matter of minutes. According to The Register , the estimated cost of the gadget may be no more than $150.

The AMIK company, owned by the head of KVN Alexander Maslyakov, will begin to receive profit from displaying advertising in video recordings of the club’s games posted on VKontakte. The Izvestia newspaper reported this on October 15. AMIC representatives entered into a cooperation agreement with the content monetization system Pladform.

Apple ahead of schedule published online screenshots of instructions for using the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 based on iOS 8.1. reports 9to5mac . Despite the fact that the official instructions for using Apple's iPad itself have not been updated since September 17, on October 15, appeared in the iBooks store.

A photo report from a trip on which travelers took a sofa with them became an Internet hit. Three friends went on a trip to the USA together with a small sofa, and their photo report about the trip quickly became popular on the Internet. reports The Daily Dot . Friends Andy Fuhrmann, Dave Fine and Becca D'Agostin took two dogs and a sofa with them on a trip to the United States, on which they took photographs at every opportunity.

A Muscovite woman pretended to be the editor of Afisha in order to eat in restaurants for free. On October 14, the editor-in-chief of the Afisha-City publication, Ekaterina Dementyeva, spoke on her Facebook page about a certain Olga Bubnenkova: according to her, the woman ate for free in Moscow restaurants, promising “a spread in Afisha” for the services provided. TJournal spoke with both sides of the conflict.

The attention of Western online media and tech blogs helped a group of developers from China raise money to produce an “invisible umbrella” that protects against rain using air. After publications about the project appeared online on October 13 and 14, users of the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform invested more than 18 thousand dollars in an unusual gadget, several times beating the minimum required amount set by the creators of the device.

How the main social network of Russia celebrated its birthday Author: Georgy Lobushkin On Friday October 10, VKontakte turned eight years old (and Pavel Durov - 30). Employees of the social network gathered in the new office in St. Petersburg to celebrate the company's birthday. VKontakte spokesman Georgy Lobushkin at the request of TJournal shared his impressions of the event and showed how it passed. The author of the photos is Nikolai Lyubushko . Last Friday we had a birthday.