Instagram users have reported an unusually sharp increase in the number of likes on their own photos. As TJournal managed to find out, the cheating was caused by testing of a Russian likes exchange called Freegram. On the evening of November 6, the latest pictures posted on user accounts began to gain up to several hundred “likes” per minute. Twitter was one of the first to draw attention to the strange operation of the photo service.

7 Revolutionary Gadgets That Change Cheating in Exams Forever At the end of October, it became known about Rosobrnadzor’s plans to spend 200 million rubles on video surveillance during the Unified State Examination in 2015. The system of live broadcasts of the unified exam was introduced a year earlier. Its creation cost the state 600 million. According to officials, recording everything that happens on camera should reduce the number of violations during tests.

At the end of October, a Russian-language account appeared on Instagram, Hiddencash Moscow , promising its subscribers to hide envelopes with money in Moscow every day and publish photos with hints about where they can be found. In just a few weeks, the blog managed to gather more than two thousand subscribers, however, as TJournal found out, the cash distribution turned out to be fake. The first image in the @hiddencash_ru account is dated October 22.

John Lewis' pre-holiday video has amassed an army of fans in just a few hours The British company John Lewis's Christmas video received over 1.4 million views within a few hours of its publication and became the starting point for the launch of a large-scale campaign on Twitter. The John Lewis video about a boy Sam and his unusual friend named Monty is dedicated to the themes of loneliness, childhood, love and friendship.

A blogger from the Moscow region spoke about an attempt by one of the Russian companies specializing in the production of meat products to order an advertising report from him in exchange for sausage and frankfurters. A message about this appeared on November 6 in the LiveJournal of Mytishchi resident Alexey Dementyev. According to the blogger, in early November “representatives of a little-known brand” wrote to him.

Author: Nikita Demchenko The developers of the popular shooter Battlefield 4, based on the Frostbite engine, launched a level from the full version of the game on Apple mobile devices and shared the first screenshots. This became known from an entry on the official blog of the DICE studio . The multiplayer shooter Battlefield 4 is known for its realistic graphics and detailed destructibility.

Author: Nikita Demchenko The cult game Duck Hunt for the Nintendo Entertainment System game console will be re-released on the Wii U console. This became known from the November Nintendo Direct news release Duck Hunt will be available in the "Virtual Console" section, which publishes classic games from previous Nintendo consoles. The iconic duck and dog duo will appear in yet another Nintendo game, Super Smash Bros, on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

The presenter of Echo of Moscow, Alexander Plyushchev, was fired at the request of the main shareholder of the radio station, the Gazprom-Media company. Representatives of Gazprom Media reported this to TJournal. Update from November 17, 17:20: Journalist Alexander Plyushchev again apologized for the “inappropriate” tweet: this time personally to Sergei Ivanov. I sincerely apologize to Sergei Ivanov for my inappropriate question on Twitter.

Netizens have noticed that CNN presenters use Microsoft tablets as a stand or cover for their iPads during broadcasts. reports Mashable . On the evening of November 4, while covering the midterm congressional elections, each of the TV presenters and experts of the American television channel CNN received a Surface Pro 3 tablet. The devices were issued to them as part of a partnership program with Microsoft, which was announced on October 21.

The FBI detained the owner and operator of the revived second version of the Silk Road online drug store. The department reported this on its official website . The arrest of Blake Benthall, known under the nickname Defcon, became known from a message on the official Twitter account of the New York FBI office. It noted that the operation was carried out by employees from San Francisco.

On November 5, researchers from Palo Alto Networks published an analytical report , reporting the threat of a new virus spreading to Apple devices. A virus called WireLurker has ushered in a new era of attacks on Apple's operating systems, researchers say. The virus affects both the desktop operating system Mac OS X and mobile devices running iOS. A whole family of different malicious applications have been spreading this way for the past six months.

TJournal editor-in-chief on the screen race between Android, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and impressions of using them A month and a half after the start of official sales of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Russia, the question still remains: why do you need an iPhone with a large screen and which of the two is more practical to choose when buying.

LifeNews doubted its information about the Kremlin’s financing of Navalny The website of the LifeNews TV channel deleted and then published again material about an allegedly existing secret scheme for financing politician Alexei Navalny through structures close to the authorities.

Anonymous protest in photos from social networks In the evening and night of November 5-6, the annual “Million Mask March” took place in many cities around the world, supported by the Anonymous movement and traditionally attracting a wide range of “dissenters,” from anti-capitalists to representatives of pro-Palestinian movements. In London, as The Guardian reports, it resulted in riots.

Hamster bartenders from Japan conquer the Western Internet The Japanese man has amassed 50,000 followers on Twitter and attracted the attention of major Western publications by posting photos of his hamsters as bartenders behind the bar. A resident of the small Japanese town of Yachiyo started Twitter @kawanabesatou to publish photographs of his hamsters in the scenery of small detailed models of a bar and restaurant.