Apple has patented crowdsourcing technology for tracking areas with poor communication quality. reports this Apple Insider . Apple first filed a patent application for collecting data on communication quality back in 2010, but the US Patent and Trademark Office approved it only four years later. The technology described in the document is primarily intended for smartphone manufacturers and operators, and then for users.

For a social experiment, the actress, who pretended to be drunk, walked along Hollywood Boulevard under the surveillance of a hidden camera. Her task was to clearly demonstrate the dangers that a modern woman faces in society, explains Daily Dot . As part of the experiment, the actress, pretending to be intoxicated, walked along Hollywood Boulevard, attracting the attention of men. Every time someone approached her, she asked to be put on the bus.

Author: Gennady Zavolokin To announce the opening of the skating rink in Gorky Park, they released a video starring Moscow media figures. On November 11, the music video “WOWWOWWOW!” was published on the official Gorky Park YouTube channel. SHINE!”, dedicated to the upcoming opening of the skating rink for visitors. Within a few hours, the video collected just over 4 thousand views.

The Durov.im project was proclaimed a new social network from the founder of VKontakte and Telegram Some publications and Internet users proclaimed the Durov.im project a new social network from Pavel Durov. Durov himself told TJournal that at the moment he is related to only one project, but his home address is indicated in the domain contact information.

The strangest and most unfortunate examples of contextual actions (QTE) in games of recent years On November 4, the Russian release of the popular shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare took place.

The STS TV channel has released a special companion application for the series “Molodezhka”, which is synchronized when viewed with the progress of the video and shows additional materials as the plot of the show develops. Representatives of the TV channel told TJournal about this. The updated Molodezhki app was launched specifically for the launch of the second season of the series: its premiere will take place on November 17.

Instagram users for iOS criticized the new version of the application for its poor design On November 10, an updated version of the Instagram application for iOS appeared in the App Store. to the program For the first time, a “People” section was added for convenient search for interesting accounts, as well as the ability to edit captions and geolocation tags of already published photographs.

Photographer combines old-fashioned pinhole camera technology with modern selfie culture A European photographer who experiments with different shooting technologies, he combines old-fashioned lensless pinhole camera technology with modern selfie culture for his project. Photographer Ignas Kutavicius from Lithuania used one of the oldest photographic technologies to explore what taking a selfie might have looked like in the early days of photography.

The Reuters news agency announced the launch of its own video news application, Reuters Now. A message about this appeared on November 11 on a special website created for the presentation of the upcoming project. Reuters Now is a mobile application that allows users to watch news stories produced by the agency in short video format. You can select a video to watch in the program from the updated feed.

Analysts of the 2GIS mapping service compiled a rating of Russian cities by the number of fitness centers located in them. This was reported in a company press release received by TJournal on November 11. Representatives of 2GIS analyzed the number of operating fitness clubs in cities across the country with a population of more than one million people. In total, about two thousand sports centers were studied.

Programmers' keyboards, pseudonyms of Starbucks visitors and the whole truth about relationships with models The most popular keys on programmers' keyboards, other people's names on Starbucks cups and difficult relationships with models. On TJournal there is another review of the best topics from the Quora site. Life gap For most computer and laptop users, the keyboard is nothing more than a simple tool for entering text.

What Barack Obama did for IT development during his six years in power On November 10, US President Barack Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to abandon the principle of network neutrality, which prohibits providers from paying priority to one type of Internet traffic over another. Obama's statement caused a wide resonance in the United States, where many media outlets assessed the words of the head of state very positively.

Author: Nikita Demchenko On November 11, Microsoft officially unveiled the Lumia 535, the first Windows Phone smartphone under its own brand. Microsoft reported this on its official website . The Lumia 535 is a budget smartphone that Microsoft plans to attract people to buy with a special 5x5x5 offer, which indicates three digits five in the device's characteristics.

Astrophysicists and cosmologists say that what was shown in the popular Christopher Nolan film is not true After the premiere of the film “Interstellar,” which before hitting the big screens was actively promoted for its authentic depiction of various cosmic phenomena, many media outlets published thorough analyzes of what was shown in the film, inviting real scientists as consultants.

Google has leased Moffett Federal Airfield, located in the southern part of San Francisco Bay, from NASA for a period of 60 years. This was reported in a statement on the official website of the department. Negotiations between NASA and Google began in February, but an agreement was reached only nine months later.