The resident company Skolkovo announced its readiness to deploy the first Russian base on the Moon within ten years and estimated the cost of implementing such a project at 550 billion rubles. reported on December 31 As TASS , the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences called the idea an “Artek fantasy.” The Lin Industrial company spoke about plans to create a base on the Moon for the permanent residence of astronauts.

The founder of Facebook turned to users of the world's largest social network in search of a new goal he could set for himself in 2015.

Video blogger Valentin "Wylsacom" Petukhov summed up the year for Apple and its competitors Author: Valentin Petukhov TJ continues to summarize the year. The number of interesting news stories surrounding Apple in 2014 was traditionally huge. Especially in order to understand this avalanche of news and announcements, we asked video blogger Valentin “Wylsacom” Petukhov, an Apple and football lover, to shorten the story from 365 days to a 45-minute half.

The British inventor Colin Furze sent several HTC smartphones to the stratosphere and shot this video. Mashable paid attention to the video. Colin Fars launched 12 balloons, each of which carried from two to four HTC smartphones packed in foam. The balls reached the stratosphere, rising to a height of 106.5 thousand feet (about 32.5 kilometers). After the balls burst under the influence of pressure, the boxes with smartphones returned back to the ground.

The strangest and most interesting final collections in the media: from religious architecture to public bullying The second and final meta of TJ. 27 The most strange and interesting collections that other publications made in 2014: from the best religious architecture and feminist songs to the most strange police stories and the main Gikov events. The Kotaku blog has already traditionally called the best game soundtracks of the year.

In the comments, we were repeatedly asked to tell which TJ materials were the most popular in 2014. We decided not to waste time writing what we have already written, so here is a list for anyone interested. Draw your own conclusions. 1. Hackers staged a large-scale leak of intimate photos from stars’ smartphones 796,389 views 2. Never Google it. 201,004 views 3. Explicit photographs were extracted from VKontakte communities 200,681 views 4. Full contact with the HSE 173,938 views 5.

What to watch on TV from January 1 to January 5, so that you won’t be ashamed later: good films and TV series from the main channels TJ continues a series of materials about how to spend the crisis New Year holidays without spending money. This time we looked at the program schedule of all major TV channels from January 1 to 5 and chose films and TV series that you can watch without shame.

How Yandex, VKontakte and Mail.Ru Group prepared for the main holiday of the year TJ looked at the Instagrams of employees and visitors of the headquarters of Yandex, VKontakte, Mail.Ru Group and other domestic companies operating on the Internet, and found out how they are preparing for the main holiday of the year. "Yandex" According to Yandex, the main character of the holidays was the character of the New Year's advertisement of Direct, the pirate hare (aka the “damn one-eared pirate hare”).

Samsung has taken the palm from Apple in the American smartphone user satisfaction rating. This was reported on the official website of the American Customer Satifaction Index . According to the American Customer Satifaction Index, based on user surveys, in 2014, Samsung smartphone owners were 6.6 percent more satisfied with their devices than in 2013. The company managed to achieve a figure of 81 percent. Meanwhile, Apple lost 2.5 percent in 2014, dropping to second place with 79 percent.

How we celebrated the New Year on Twitter in 2008-2011 On the last day of 2014, the editors of TJ studied the Twitter archives, remembering how users of the social network celebrated the holiday in 2008-2011. Salads, ICQ, ABBA songs, fireworks, new episodes of House and visits “on Wi-Fi” in a nostalgic New Year’s digest. New Year - 2008 The first New Town, the details of the celebration of which Russian residents were able to share on Twitter, was in 2008.