Sydney residents took to Twitter to support peaceful Australian Muslims after the terrorist attack in the city center, launching a campaign under the hashtag #IllRideWithYou. drew attention to her The site BuzzFeed . The #IllRideWithYou campaign was created by Tessa Kum, a writer and television content editor based in Sydney. She posted a call on her personal Twitter and Facebook to encourage Muslims wearing religious clothing and planning to travel by bus through the city center.

The film company Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) called its internal data leaked online “stolen information” and threatened to sue the publications that publish it. This is reported by The New York Times . Prosecutor David Boies announced the studio's demand on December 14 in an open letter sent to several publications, including The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times and Re/code.

Artemy Lebedev's studio has developed a tourism logo for the Kaliningrad region. This is reported on her official website . According to the description on the studio’s website, the logo was made with an eye to the history of the region, when Kaliningrad was called Königsberg and was part of East Prussia.

Microsoft opened access to the test version of the Skype Translator application for users registered on a special page . From December 15, Skype Translator Preview is sent to all users who have passed registration on the site, depending on their operating system and the availability of registration code (in the spring, only about 50 thousand users received the application). The test version of the application only works on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Preview Copies.

Right before the New Year holidays, Apple is going to increase prices for equipment in Russia again. This was reported by the Russian News Service radio station , citing sources among suppliers. Samsung also announced a price increase. It is unknown how much prices will increase. According to the radio station, the rise in prices is associated with fluctuations in foreign exchange markets and the weakening of the ruble.

Chronicle: hostage taking and release in Australia An armed man with radical Islamist views captured staff and customers at the Lindt cafe in central Sydney. The exact number of hostages, as well as the motives of the terrorist himself, remained unknown for a long time.

Unisef shocked visitors to the game exhibition with a real story about a resident of Sudan The organization of UNISEF shocked visitors to the game exhibition, introducing them instead of another cruel shooter the story of the life of a little girl from South Sudan. Despite the fact that the video was published on the UNICEF website on December 11, it did not attract the attention of the press immediately. At the time of writing, the video scored a little more than 100 thousand views on YouTube.

How the media and bloggers reacted to the record increase in currency indicators on “Black Monday” Having refrained from reviewing changes in stock market reports for a long time, TJ could not ignore yesterday's noise on social networks. On December 15, the dollar and euro exchange rates against the ruble showed a record increase not seen since 1998. We decided to trace how the panic developed and also analyze how different media groups covered the same event.

The star-shaped cloud surprised Barnaul residents and became the subject of discussion on social networks Barnaul residents discovered an unusual cloud in the sky above the city and began posting photos on social networks, wondering about its origin. On the night of December 14-15, photographs of an unusual phenomenon in the sky above the city, similar to a star-shaped cloud, began to appear on social media accounts of Barnaul residents.

Editor-in-Chief TJ talks about his impressions of using the acclaimed smartphone with two screens On December 2, Yota Devices announced the start of sales of the second generation YotaPhone smartphone for 32,990 rubles. Its difference is literally striking: while all smartphones have only one screen, YotaPhone looks at things from two sides . The new product began to be distributed through the highest circles of power in Russia, and even Western critics received it with a bang.

Dislike of Mondays, the secret of the iPhone one percent and ex-cons in pursuit of new technologies Why everyone hates Mondays, why the iPhone holds a one percent charge for so long, and how people who spent several years in prison master modern technology. TJ has another review of the most discussed topics from the Quora website. It's a hard day Monday is traditionally considered the most difficult day of the week.