The former Apple engineer has developed an application that allows you to turn the iPad into an additional screen for MacBook. According to Gigaom , the program should appear in the App Store until December 21. Using the Duet Display application, iPad users will be able to connect their tablet computer to the Apple laptop and use it as a second screen.

The State Duma voted to postpone the date of entry into force of the previously adopted law on the mandatory storage of servers with data of Russian users on the territory of Russia. reported this on December 17 Interfax . The law will come into force on September 1, 2015. The lower house of parliament re-examined amendments to the law on server transfers, approved back in the summer of this year. Deputies approved the postponement of its entry into force from January 1 to September 1, 2015.

On December 16, Channel One showed a comic skit in the “Evening Urgant” show with a fictional voice assistant imitating Google Now: it reacts to the phrase “OK, ruble.” The intellectual assistant recommended that Ivan Urgant not go anywhere abroad for the New Year holidays, but on New Year’s Eve have dinner at a party, not at home.

Video bloggers are masters of words and frame, and Borya Vedensky especially. In five minutes, he explains on his fingers why the ruble is falling and how the price of oil affects this, citing as an example the situation at a disco: the fewer girls there are, the greater the demand for them.

apparat.cc The Apparat publication selected the most important things that foreign media said about the fall of the ruble, the prospects of Vladimir Putin and the impact of the crisis on foreign economies.

The fall of the dollar, rising prices for condoms and the return of the cat Vasilisa Author: editors "Promises.Ru" This time, forecasts and promises came up more than ever contradictory. Almost to everyone was a couple, as a result, they lined up in a whole story - often gloomy and bloody. And on everything with a smile of Sphinx, the cat Vasilisa looked. Piglet by the bundle Today we will start with the exchange rate - whatever one may say, and this is the main news of the last weeks.

Time published a selection of the most “incredible and amazing” photographs taken in 2014. It included images of “Darth Vader”, who attempted to participate in the election campaign in Ukraine, and more than ninety more photographs taken in different countries of the world. Pandas Papier-mâché pandas by artist Paulo Grangeon at the National Theater in Taipei. Part of the large-scale project “Pandas on Tour”, designed to draw public attention to the endangered species of animals.

On December 17, blogger Valentin Petukhov published a list of the most popular mobile devices in Russia according to Google queries in 2014. As he noted, not a single Samsung device made it into the top ten. I have bad news for Samsung.

Tina Kandelaki and Kristina Potupchik argued over money and food Member of the Public Chamber and former press secretary of the Nashi movement, Kristina Potupchik, started a skirmish on Twitter with TV presenter and head of the Apostol agency Tina Kandelaki. The reason was a food advertisement posted on the TV star’s Instagram, and the dispute immediately turned political.

The online publication of journalist and writer Oleg Kashin, Kashin.guru, has gone offline. On social networks, the inaccessibility of the site was associated with calls that appeared on VKontakte to take part in the voting announced by the resource for the title of best journalist of the year and to support the leading TV channel “Russia” Dmitry Kiselyov. On the evening of December 17, when trying to access the main page of Kashin.guru, an error message began to appear.

Roskomnadzor employees included the largest Western imageboard 4chan in the register of prohibited sites, noting that in general the resource is useful and interesting. A message about this appeared on December 17 in the official community of the supervisory agency on VKontakte. One of the 4chan sections was blocked for users in Russia for publishing pornography involving minors in the form of images in the “lolicon” style (a subtype of hentai).

The re:Store chain of stores, an official reseller of Apple, along with a number of other stores, have updated prices for the company’s equipment. The minimum cost of iPhone 6 exceeded 60 thousand rubles. Back on November 26, netizens were shocked by the sharp rise in prices for the iPhone 6: then the cost of the basic smartphone model rose to 39,990 rubles, but on December 17, the re:Store store set it at 60,990 rubles.

US intelligence officials said North Korea had a "central role" in the attack on the Sony Pictures film studio. An official statement from the US government is expected within 24 hours. Meanwhile, the film studio has canceled all releases of The Interview, including the DVD release. This is reported by The New York Times .

On Monday, December 15, photographer and designer Lisa Sidorina, who was traveling in a taxi, was injured in an accident. A message with details of the incident and a call to find the culprit appeared on the evening of December 17 on the girl’s Instagram . Lisa Sidorina According to Lisa, the accident happened on December 15 at 23:45 in the center of Moscow near Lubyansky Proezd. The Uber taxi in which Sidorina was traveling was hit by a Land Cruiser jeep driving in the oncoming lane.

On the morning of December 17, fog in Krasnodar, which caused the suspension of the local airport, was among the most discussed topics on the RuNet. TJ tried to look at the natural phenomenon through the eyes of city residents, using their Instagram accounts. On December 17, six planes were unable to land at Krasnodar airport and were sent to alternate airfields. The reason for this was a thick fog that covered the city in the morning for three days in a row.