On October 21, a video was published online, the author of which captured how a waterfall on a mountain river in Derbyshire, due to strong winds, dissipates in the air without reaching the ground. The video was filmed on the River Kinder, which flows through the highlands of the Peak District in north Derbyshire in the UK.

A fantastic television series about the civil war between all 50 states will be filmed in the United States, based on a comment from one of the users of the question and answer site Quora. magazine reports this Variety . Retired US Navy sergeant Jon Davis has sold the film rights to his own commentary, published on Quora in 2012, to Box Studios. The amount of the transaction between the user and the studio is not disclosed.

A new advertisement for the IKEA hypermarket chain was filmed as an allusion to the film “The Shining” by Stanley Kubrick. drew attention to the video The British Metro . The main character of the video, made specifically for the Singapore branch of IKEA, is a little boy, Danny, on a tricycle, who rides around the empty, dimly lit premises of the hypermarket until he meets the ominous “twins” in blue dresses.

Apple received a patent for remote control of a car using an iPhone. reports this Appleinsider . According to the patent description , the technology allows the owner of an iPhone to search for his car using GPS, report when it parks, is nearby or starts moving. To do this, the smartphone must initially be configured to work with a device inside the car that supports a certain technology like CarPlay (the patent does not directly talk about CarPlay itself).

Yandex analysts released a study of the Russian media sphere based on data from the Yandex.News service, finding out how the approach to the work of journalists of online publications in Russia has changed. The full version of the study is published on the company’s corporate blog . According to Yandex, in recent years the share of reprints in Russian online media has noticeably decreased. If in 2010 it was 25 percent, then in 2014 the share of copied materials decreased to 16 percent.

Scott Robert Hansen became the first person against whom fragments of correspondence with the virtual girl Sweetie were used as evidence in court. reports this The BBC . Australian Scott Robert Hansen, who was jailed in 2010 for possessing child pornography and attempting to kidnap a child, was found guilty four years later of sending indecent photographs to a child, possessing child abuse images and failing to comply with the rules for offenders previously convicted of similar offenses.

The RBC business portal published an investigation into the situation with 200 government-related media outlets that were connected to the Yandex.News aggregator in September. According to RBC, in this way the mayor's office has learned to adapt to the search engine algorithms, bringing stories about Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to the top news on the main page of Yandex.

An unknown gunman opened fire in the center of the Canadian capital, seriously wounding one of the soldiers of the honor guard at the Memorial to the Heroes of the First World War, and then entered the country's parliament building. Police and security services cordoned off the area, the attacker was neutralized, but soon his accomplice tried to repeat the same thing in one of the nearby hotels.

American singer Taylor Swift topped the Canadian iTunes music chart by accidentally publishing 8 seconds of white noise instead of a song. reports The National Post . The track, titled Track 3, by Taylor Swift, appeared in the Canadian iTunes store on October 21. It was tied to the singer's new album 1989, which is scheduled for release on October 28, so it used the same cover.

Journalist Oleg Kashin spoke out about the widespread distrust of the Izvestia newspaper among media workers: although its articles are often refuted, in the end it turns out to be right. Kashin wrote about this on his Facebook . Oleg Kashin.

Google has launched an email service called Inbox, which the company believes will allow users to focus only on important messages. The service was announced on the Gmail blog . Inbox is powered by Gmail, so it uses pre-configured folders, labels, and filters, and has the same contact database as regular mail. Google says Inbox doesn't provide the same experience as Gmail, which is the point of the new service.

Plush toys, T-shirts, costumes and other cynical ways to make money off the Ebola “brand” The Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal, according to the World Health Organization, has killed more than 4.5 thousand people, but in the West it is still perceived as a modern horror story. On October 20, netizens were outraged by a store selling plush toys in the shape of Ebola.

Netizens doubted the reality of the device that recognizes “gray” iPhones On October 22, representatives of the forensic department of the Russian customs demonstrated to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev a device that distinguishes “gray” iPhones from those imported into the country legally. Netizens doubted the authenticity and the need to create such a device in principle. According to RIA Novosti, the work of the device was shown to the premiere using the example of an iPhone 6.

The text of the editor-in-chief of Look At Me, stating that games cannot be considered art, was sharply condemned on social networks A column by Look At Me editor-in-chief Anton Mukhataev that games are not art due to the lack of maturity of the community of their fans caused a strong reaction among netizens.

The actress's changed appearance caused a flurry of comments on social networks. Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger appeared at a social event with a significantly changed appearance, which caused a flurry of comments on social networks. Renee Zellweger at Elle magazine's birthday event Recent photos of actress Renee Zellweger, who appeared at an Elle magazine event in Los Angeles, have caused a heated debate in online media and social networks.