Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli has been suspended for one match and fined £25,000 for an Instagram post deemed racist. reports this The Daily Mail . The scandal surrounding Balotelli's personal Instagram began after he posted an image of Super Mario with the caption “Don't be racist - be like Mario.

zyalt.livejournal.com Ilya Varlamov reported this on his blog. According to him, on the night of December 18, there was a significant increase in prices for equipment in the chain’s Moscow stores, and customers often find out the new price at the checkout. The blogger also noted that the assortment in stores of other chains has noticeably thinned out.

The GiveAR company, which created the “Eye of Sauron” installation using virtual reality, used a special browser to place the current dollar and euro exchange rates on ruble bills. This was reported on GiveAR's Facebook page . In order to use the service, you must first download the Junaio augmented reality browser on Android or iOS . After this, you need to scan the QR code in the application - you cannot find the GiveAR extension in the browser using search.

www.theverge.com Telltale Games studio has announced plans to release a game on its Minecraft platform. The time and platforms are not exactly known: 2015, “computers, consoles, mobile devices.” And this is considering that the studio has just released the first (of six) episode of the game based on the Game of Thrones series! They're on a roll there.

The most remarkable jokes of netizens based on Vladimir Putin's press conference On December 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin held his tenth annual press conference for journalists from all over the world, at which he answered (or found a way not to answer) a huge number of tricky questions. Network users traditionally accompanied the hours-long broadcast with jokes and witticisms. The main joke about the press conference was the freeze frame that appeared at the very beginning.

The Secret mobile application, which allows you to anonymously share secrets with a circle of friends and acquaintances, has relaunched in version 2.0, abandoning images and introducing chat functionality. This was reported by The Verge (the material was temporarily removed from the site due to embargo violation). In the new version, Secret abandoned background images because they took too long to load, changing the focus to the text format.

Wikipedia summed up the results of 2014 by editing a video dedicated to its main events and the corresponding encyclopedia articles. The video appeared on YouTube on December 17. For the first time, the online encyclopedia celebrated the outgoing year with a special video recording. The video includes the most important moments of 2014 - from the Olympics in Sochi and the World Cup in Brazil to Euromaidan, the Ebola epidemic and the landing of the Philae probe on a comet.

How tech companies are fighting humanity's biggest diseases As a result of the Product RED campaign launched by Apple in the App Store to raise funds to fight AIDS, more than $20 million was transferred to a special charity fund. This was reported on December 17 by ReCode , which managed to obtain a copy of a letter addressed by the CEO of the IT giant Tim Cook to his employees.

Smokin 'Heroes Creative Group drew a giant graffiti in the Moscow metro The creative group Smokin 'Heroes released the second episode of its project Show Yourself: in it, extremes swept on the roof of the Moscow metro train and between the Sapsan cars, and also drew giant graffiti at one of the metropolitan subway stations under construction. Attention: The video contains obscene expressions.

Instagram users have begun to complain about a decrease in the number of followers associated with the previously announced removal of fake and bot accounts. reports this Business Insider . On December 10, Instagram announced the launch of a large-scale campaign to combat fake accounts. After the update, a notification appeared in the application indicating that the number of subscribers may have decreased due to this.

TJ spoke with the author of the Central Bank's parody Twitter about jokes about the ruble and the future of the Russian economy Exchange rates have become one of the most discussed topics on the RuNet within a few days. TJ asked the anonymous author of the Central Bank parody Twitter about jokes about the ruble and the future of the Russian economy.

Chairman of the Board of the Gazprom-Media holding Mikhail Lesin left the company. Forbes magazine reports this with reference to its sources. Alexey Venediktov and Mikhail Lesin. Photo by Svetlana Sokolova, TASS According to the magazine, the decision to resign Lesin was made a week ago personally by President Vladimir Putin. The press service of Gazprom Media declined to comment.

Yandex users will be able to disable the display of advertisements that do not currently interest them on sites included in the advertising network of the Russian search engine. On December 18, a message about this appeared on the Yandex blog. Starting December 18, on any website that is part of the Yandex advertising network, you can close an ad that is not currently of interest to the user.

The microblog @ emojiartworks collected several thousand readers and thousands of retweets in three days, just by publishing album covers of famous artists redrawn using emoji emoticons. As it turned out, he used the Glitche ́ application, created by Russian developers, to create pictures. Appearing on December 15, the microblog gained several thousand subscribers in just two days, after which it attracted the attention of the Kerrang resource .