An American has been arrested for taking a photograph of a "Do Not Film" sign in Abu Dhabi. According to the Daily Mail , he faces up to five years in prison. Black is a keen photographer and takes many photographs during his travels. Seventy-year-old professor Robert Alan Black from the United States was arrested in the capital of the United Arab Emirates after photographing buildings in the embassy area, where photography is strictly prohibited.

Author: Nikita Demchenko Google has abandoned a project to create floating exhibition centers on barges due to its inability to provide sufficient fire safety. reports this The Wall Street Journal According to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Google's ship contractor has suspended construction of barges due to problems with the California Coast Guard.

Yandex has changed the appearance of the block with exchange rates on the main page: now during holidays and weekends it will collapse, displaying only the value of the currency, but not price dynamics. TJournal was told about this by the Yandex press service. The block with exchange rates has moved to a more prominent place. It is located under the top five news of the day, and shows only quotes for the dollar, euro and Brent oil prices.

The first teaser for "Chappie", the official name of the new "Star Wars" and seven seasons of "Game of Thrones" Author: Inspector The first teasers for Chappie and Furious 7, the official title of the seventh episode of Star Wars, Idris Elba in the second Avengers, Fassbender as Jobs, the seventh season of Game of Thrones, A Space Odyssey on TV, the premiere of Interstellar "and other main news, events and trailers of the past week from the Inspector Spacetime project .

The Briton organized the rental of an exact replica of the car from “Back to the Future”, built by a former NASA engineer Ollie Wilkey from the British city of Kinsham purchased an exact replica of the car from the film “Back to the Future” and organized its rental. reports this BuzzFeed .

The founder of the social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov arrived in Russia. This was reported by former VKontakte press secretary Vladislav Tsyplukhin on his Facebook page , and the information was confirmed by a Forbes magazine source among Durov’s acquaintances. Pavel Durov at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Berlin, October 2013 According to Tsyplukhin, Durov goes to work every day at the Russian Telegram office.

Panoramas of nature reserves and national parks in Russia have appeared on Yandex.Maps. This was reported in a company press release received by TJournal. All panoramas of Russian nature reserves for Yandex. Kart" was filmed in the summer of 2014 by neq4, a company specializing in creating multimedia virtual tours using Flash technology. The film crew traveled on SUVs, on foot and on a boat; part of the material was filmed using equipment placed on a diesel locomotive.

The hit “All About That Bass” was covered in the style of “Star Wars” Californian band Team Unicorn covered Meghan Trainor's hit "All About That Bass" in the style of "Star Wars." The parody clip drew the attention of CNET . The parody video from Team Unicorn is called “All About That Base” and is based on the mythology of the Star Wars franchise. It is based on Meghan Trainor's song "All About That Bass", which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for several weeks in a row.

Amazon has introduced a smart music speaker called Echo, capable of connecting to the Internet and acting as a voice assistant. A description of the device appeared on the company's official website. The new gadget is a black cylinder with built-in speakers, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules, as well as a microphone for voice recognition. By connecting to a wireless network, the device can play music from popular services like iTunes or Spotify.

Representatives of Europol, as part of a large-scale special operation carried out in 18 countries simultaneously, detained 16 people on suspicion of selling drugs and weapons via the Internet. reported this on November 7 Reuters .

The Yekaterinburg Asian restaurant Crepe de Chine advertised itself with posters ridiculing menus in Russian found in China. Red Pepper agency copywriter Kirill Levashov, who worked on the project, told TJournal about this. On restaurant banners and billboards that appeared in the city, the names of menu dishes written in hieroglyphs were translated with characteristic errors, referring to the incorrect use of Russian words by the owners of Chinese establishments.

Author: Nikita Demchenko Blizzard unveiled the multiplayer team-based first-person shooter Overwatch during the opening ceremony of the 2014 BlizzCon festival . Visually, Overwatch has a style reminiscent of Pixar films. Its gameplay is largely similar to that of the popular shooter Team Fortress 2. Like Valve's project, Overwatch features a third-person view, but it is only activated when using certain in-game skills.

The chief editor of TJournal about the space epic “Interstellar” by Christopher Nolan, released in Russia On November 6, a new film directed by Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, was released on Russian screens. In it, the cult director, for whom the term “artbuster” (author’s blockbuster) was coined, takes aim at questions of cosmic proportions and tries to determine the future of humanity as a species.

Irish teacher Katie Mulrennan was denied a job request through Craiglist in South Korea, arguing that all Irish people are prone to alcoholism. reports this The Independent . At the end of October, school teacher Katie Meulrennan found a vacancy in Seoul that interested her on Craiglist and applied.

The online publication Meduza reported for the first time on its performance indicators: for example, it became known that 1 million people visited the publication’s website over the past 2.5 weeks. Meduza publisher Ilya Krasilshchik announced this in his mailing list. Meduza office in Riga, Latvia According to Krasilshchik, 60 thousand people subscribed to the publication’s mailing list, and 80 thousand people downloaded mobile applications. Meduza's iPhone app is the No.