Deadly potatoes for Colorado, a cure for Ebola and “smart prostheses” Author: Alexander Ershov The chief editor of the Obrazovac publication, Alexander Ershov, weekly selects seven of the most important news from the world of science and technology specifically for TJ. In this issue: smart prosthetics, a cure for Ebola, and potatoes that kill Coloradoans.

The Paris Supreme Court ruled that he has sufficient jurisdiction to consider the claim of the French teacher against Facebook. The plaintiff’s account on the social network was blocked after publishing a photo of the famous picture of Gustav Kurba “The Origin of the World”. It depicts the lower part of the body of a naked woman lying on a bed with spread hips.

The main gadgets from the mobile technology conference: from smartphones and tablets to bicycles, watches and furniture Author: Editorial team reDroid.ru On March 5, the main conference on mobile technologies, Mobile World Congress 2015, ended in Barcelona, ​​at which, perhaps, all the major gadget manufacturers with the exception of Apple showed new products and announced their flagships, cameras and other mobile devices.

Users of the popular torrent client uTorrent have discovered that the latest version of the application for Windows secretly installs a Bitcoin mining program on their computer. The complaints were brought to the attention of Geektimes . According to numerous reports from uTorrent users, the problem was found in the application version 3.4.2 build 28913 (32-bit).

On March 6, thousands of people in India and around the world began celebrating the popular two-day Hindu festival Holi, better known as the Festival of Colors. The name Holi is derived from the name of the demoness Holika, in honor of whose burning the first day of the festival ends with a traditional bonfire, symbolizing the victory of good over evil and the end of winter.

An article by the editor-in-chief of the ScienceSeeker website about why sugar is a drug of the 21st century ScienceSeeker editor-in-chief, neurologist and PhD candidate Jordan Lewis wrote a column about why sugar is a drug like cocaine and heroin. On March 1, it was published on the website of the news aggregator Quartz . TJ publishes a translation of this material. Photo Urban Camper Anyone who knows me can say with confidence: I have a rare sweet tooth. And always has been.

www.youtube.com Among those named are Signal for iOS, RedPhone and TextSecure for Android. Snowden did not mention Telegram. Instead of Dropbox, he recommends using SpiderOak , which does not store security keys.

Twitter users launched a large-scale campaign on the social network to find the hero of the offensive photo from 4chan Twitter users launched a large-scale search campaign within the social network to find the hero of the offensive photo from 4chan. The photo was published as a mocking joke, but turned into thousands of tweets with words of support. BuzzFeed reports this.

Rabbit Island, Piglet Beach, Giraffe Manor and Squirrel Parks in pictures from social networks Thanks to the attention of the Russian media, the small Japanese island of Aoshima, known as the “cat island”, since there are about six cats per inhabitant there, came into focus for several days on the RuNet. TJ remembered what other places on the planet have such fame, and collected photographs of these locations from social networks.

Apple set up a secret lab inside its headquarters for hundreds of developers from third-party companies like Facebook to test their Apple Watch apps. The details of this unprecedented action were reported by Bloomberg . Apple headquarters As Bloomberg notes, the secret laboratory was set up right inside Apple's headquarters in Cupertino.

TJ editor-in-chief on Yandex-related news over the past year On March 6, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on a meeting held in the presidential administration with presidential assistant Igor Shchegolev, representatives of Roskomnadzor and State Duma deputies, the participants of which decided to find a way to impose additional taxes on Apple and Google in Russia.

Thoughts about last week and the “kitchen” of the editorial office: “Chappi”, a scandal with salaries in look at media and boring MWC Boring Mobile World Congress, virtual reality boom on GDC, passions around Half-Life 3, scandal with salaries in Look At Me, premiere of the movie Chappi, interesting materials from colleagues, answers to questions from readers and other thoughts and observations about the events of the last week, as well as news about the life of the editors of TJ from the chef.

Shelter, gazebo and mobile crematorium Author: Zalina Marshenkulova This week, a man hanged himself under the sign of “comfort,” which for some reason made me remember and paraphrase the words of one cult artist: Russia was created so that it would be cozy, and not so that people could live in it.