On the night of February 23-24, Edward Snowden and journalists Lara Poitras and Glenn Greenwald answered questions from Reddit users . Among other things, redditors were interested in whether Snowden was controlled by Russian intelligence services, and the former CIA and NSA employee found three arguments to justify himself. Photo by Olaf Becker Firstly, if Snowden really were a Russian spy, he would not have flown to Hong Kong, as this would have carried an unreasonable risk for him.

An alarm clock with spiders, a 3D printer for subway tokens and other business ideas from Russian-language Twitter The phrase “Idea for a startup,” which initially did not have a comic connotation, is a common way in RuNet to begin presenting the idea of ​​an absurd, funny or ridiculous service that potentially solves a real-life problem. Most of these jokes depend on the season, holidays and current trends.

The Yandex company spoke about a noticeable decrease in demand and an increase in prices for equipment in the Yandex.Market service in January 2015 compared to January 2014. This was reported in a report received by TJ. According to Yandex, in January 2015, the number of clicks to the pages of electronics and household appliances stores in the Market fell by 8% compared to a year ago.

The Kursk engineer tried to obtain compensation through the court from Putin and Medvedev for the theft of the time machine invention On December 31, 2014, electrical engineer Alexey Rasulov, unknown to the general public, filed perhaps one of the most ambitious lawsuits in the recent history of Russian intellectual property litigation.

The New York Times experiment: an American writer watched Russian TV for seven days in a row On February 18, The New York Times published a report by American writer Gary Shteyngart. In his text, he talked about an experiment that took place in early January: for seven days, Shteyngart did nothing else but watch Russian television. The report became a real sensation; a number of major Russian media outlets wrote about it, including Russia Today and Gazeta.ru .

A year after promising to diversify emoji, Apple has unveiled new multicultural icons. reports 9to5mac . On February 23, Apple introduced the second beta version of OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3, which, among other things, have updated emoji icons with the ability to choose one of six “skin tones.” To change the tone, just press and hold the icon icon.

OJSC Central Suburban Passenger Company began connecting its electric trains to free Wi-Fi. reports this The Moscow agency . So far, only one train is connected to the wireless Internet, but if the service turns out to be in demand, it will be extended to other trains. It is not reported what kind of provider provides access to the Internet.

www.9news.com.au Fifteen-year-old Sam Box, who lives on a farm in the Australian state of Victoria, returned home from school and saw a koala in the family Land Rover. The animal sat on the driver's seat and kept its paws on the steering wheel. Sam took several photos that quickly ended up on BuzzFeed and other popular sites.

www.rockstargames.com The new official release date is April 14th. The excuses are the same: Rockstar needs a little more time to polish the PC version of the super-popular game. For waiting, all PC fans will be given another 200 thousand virtual dollars in GTA Online.

Canadian, who had to be cut out of the car after an accident, shot Video Selphi during the work of rescuers Canadian Andrew Mac published a video on his YouTube channel, in which he captured rescuers help him get out of a broken car after a car accident. Thanks to the attention of popular online media like The Daily Dot per day, more than 70 thousand times watched the video.

Zimperium security specialist Zuk Avraham spoke about a way he discovered to read the correspondence of users communicating in “secret” Telegram chats for Android, calling it hacking the messenger. The Telegram press service denied to TJ that the messenger had been hacked, referring the claims to Google. Poster for a Telegram hacking contest On February 23, Zuk Avraham published his research into the security of Telegram.

stream.aljazeera.com The police asked student Sarah Eriksson to remove from the windowsill balloons in the form of the number “21”, which were hung on her birthday and from the street appeared to be the letters IS (Islamic State). Law enforcement officers came to the girl’s house after a statement from an alarmed passerby who noticed balls in the window.

At an exhibition in Dublin they presented what achievements of people will be celebrated on their graves in 2064 In mid-February, the art installation “Tombstone of the Future” appeared at the Science Gallery in Dublin, in which a person’s life is described in the form of his achievements on social networks. users drew attention to the photographs from the exhibition Reddit .

The British chain of Game stores has announced the start of the acceptance of pre-orders for the collection publication of the game Dying Light, which includes a fortified house for survival in the conditions of a zombie apocalypse. It is reported by VG247 . The rarest edition of the Dying Light zombie explosion is called My Apocalypse (“My Apocalypse”). Its cost will be 250 thousand pounds or about 24.2 million rubles at the rate at the time of writing.

How RuNet accepted “Russian Siri”, what it can already do, what it can’t do and why it appeared right now On the evening of February 23, Apple released the second beta version of the iOS 8.3 operating system for developers, in which the Siri voice assistant unexpectedly acquired support for seven new languages, including Russian.