Netizens said goodbye to writer Terry Pratchett with his quotes On March 12, at the age of 66, the famous English writer Terry Pratchett died after eight years of battling Alzheimer's disease . Netizens decided to accompany the author with his own quotes. Terry Pratchett. Photo: Mirror Pratchett's death was announced in the style of the author himself on his official Twitter.

www.bbc.com The famous English writer Terry Pratchett died at the age of 66 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. The author's official Twitter said : "Terry took Death by the hand and followed him into the black desert under the cover of an endless night" (Death in Pratchett's books is male).

Why museums around the world are starting to ban selfie sticks On March 11, it became known that the London National Gallery would ban the use of selfie sticks in its halls. "Due to the recent surge in popularity of selfie sticks, we chose to take precautions," a gallery spokesman told AFP. With this decision, one of the world's most visited museums joins several dozen others around the world that have also abandoned monopods.

ain.ua Translated and adapted a fresh huge presentation (192 slides) of hardware trends in 2015 from a major venture investor HAX. The material had to be divided into two parts, today I am sharing the first. Happy reading!

meduza.io As part of the Artek development program, among other things, it is planned to carry out major repairs and reconstruction of existing camp facilities, as well as to build new ones. Based on the results of the program, it is planned to increase the number of children vacationing in Artek to 46 thousand per year. In 2014, 5,860 children spent their holidays at Artek.

Anniversary of Galina Timchenko’s dismissal: what former Lenta.ru employees are doing now Perhaps the loudest media scandal in Russia over the past few years has been the dismissal of Lenta.ru editor-in-chief Galina Timchenko. TJ reader Nikita Bugaev recalled the chronicle of events and asked several former employees of the publication what they were doing now. The editors of Lenta.ru after the dismissal of Galina Timchenko.

thenextweb.com The site does not open, but through the application everything works fine, except for the game store.

Kapkov, black caviar for cats and the Sun as an obstacle to television Author: Editorial staff of Promises.Ru The topic of personnel brought together many of the promises of the past week: the personnel were both creative and party, and some turned out to be television ones. Worthy of surprise It’s in vain that the audience of Promises.Ru doesn’t really believe Sergei Kapkov (his trust rating is only 52%).

to the list of unique regions in the Street View panoramas . has been added Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal, which is home to Everest, the highest peak on Earth, The project team walked around the mountain, taking more than 45 thousand panoramic photographs along the way. They captured not only mountain landscapes, but also remote villages, local schools and monasteries. The ten-day expedition was led by Nepalese climber Apa Sherpa, who has climbed Everest 21 times.

mashable.com Online media distributed a video of how, during a game of the Charlotte Hornets basketball team, one of the fans was hit in the head with a ball while looking at the screen of a smartphone. "Don't let your smartphone overshadow your real life, especially if you're lucky enough to have a front-row seat at an NBA game," Mashable advises.

The popular board game Cards Against Humanity has a free online version called Cards Against Originality. Photo: Chicago Tribune Cards Against Humanity is a simple party game. It requires at least three people and two decks of special cards: various questions and sentences with missing fragments are written on black ones, and answer phrases are written on white ones.

What emergency warning technologies are used in different countries around the world? On March 10, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that it plans to complete the design of elements of an integrated emergency warning system for the population (KSEON) in the first quarter of this year. TJ found out what emergency warning technologies are used in different countries around the world.

Sony has refused to reimburse the PlayStation 4 owner for money lost as a result of his account being hacked. The victim himself spoke about this on Reddit . Reddit user Kadja said that on March 11 (local time) he woke up to find a chain of emails saying that several purchases worth about $600 had been made from his account.

Californian medical corporation Strōma offered its clients a laser procedure to remove pigment in the eyes, changing their color to blue. This was reported by CNET . A unique type of operation was offered to its patients by the Strōma medical corporation, based in the Californian city of Laguna Beach. The surgical procedure she developed does not allow her to obtain any desired eye color - only blue.

In 2015, the Orthodox Lent began on February 23 and will end on April 11, and already the first three weeks of this religious tradition resulted in thousands of thematic photographs on social networks. For some users of the service, the publication of such photographs is a tribute to the same peculiar fashion, thanks to which, for example, non-religious people participate in Epiphany bathing and stand in lines at Orthodox shrines.