The co-founder of the SMM agency “Shaggy Cheese” Igor Belkin began producing a short show “Oh, classmates!”, in which he reads out selected comments from social network users in the voice of a news announcer, accompanied by suitable audio accompaniment. We won’t be able to insert audio here, so go to Belkin’s page on VKontakte and listen.

What do residents of the largest island on the planet post on their Instagrams? Greenland's unique ecosystem is preserved largely due to the fact that a significant part of its territory is uninhabitable. on the largest island on the planet, where France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway could fit simultaneously .

Google, Starbucks, Oreo and Agent Provocateur celebrate Ireland's most famous holiday Clover, leprechauns, red hair, horseshoes and a lot of green are the main signs of the coming St. Patrick's Day . On March 17, many companies, from local organizations to world-famous corporations, played with the recognizable symbols of the upcoming holiday on their websites and social media accounts. TJ collected the most successful examples.

The New York police have deployed a city-wide system that can instantly determine the location and nature of shots fired. reports Gothamist . In mid-March, a system called ShotSpotter was launched in test mode in five zones of New York City, each eight square kilometers, including areas in Brooklyn and the Bronx. To cover an area of ​​approximately 40 square kilometers, 300 sensors were deployed in the city.

Microsoft announced two new features of Windows 10: the Microsoft Passport service for authorization on external sites and applications and Hello technology, which unlocks access to the computer and the Passport application using the user’s biometric fingerprint. This was reported on the company's corporate blog . With Windows Hello, Windows 10 users will be able to unlock their PC using a fingerprint, iris scan or facial recognition.

Editor-in-Chief TJ watched the first episode of the Russian TV series “Motherland” and compared it frame by frame with the American version On March 16, the premiere of “Motherland” directed by Pavel Lungin took place on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. The series is billed as a remake of the Israeli show Prisoners of War, which was also the basis for the hit American television drama Homeland.

Adobe has announced the launch of the Adobe Document Cloud service, as well as two mobile applications for creating, filling out and editing PDF documents on the fly. reports Mashable . Despite the fact that the PDF format is more than 22 years old, Adobe continues to build its new document management solutions on it. On March 17, the company announced Adobe Document Cloud, a cloud service for creating, editing and storing PDF documents, equally functional on mobile, desktop and web platforms.

On the evening of March 17, northern lights were noticed in several cities of Russia, atypical for these places. On the evening of March 17, the northern lights, unusual for these places, were seen in several regions of Russia. The lights were seen not only by residents of northern cities, but also in the Tver and Moscow regions.

How commentators on social networks greeted the Crimea logo from Artemy Lebedev Studio On March 17, Artemy Lebedev Studio presented a new logo of Crimea in Russian and English, the logo designer is Sergey Steblina.

www.theverge.com According to the company's research, Internet Explorer has become too unpopular. Attempts to clean up the image of the program were unsuccessful, and today it was finally decided to abandon Donkey. As we remember, not so long ago Microsoft introduced its new browser, codenamed Spartan.

Google has introduced mandatory pre-moderation of Android applications entering the Google Play store. She reported this on her official blog . According to the search giant, from now on all applications will be included in the Google Play store only after being checked for violations and viruses, just as it happens in Apple's App Store. A team of experts has been created specifically for the new procedure to identify violations of our developer policies early in the application life cycle.

kis.gov.spb.ru The Committee on Information and Communications of St. Petersburg announced that in honor of the celebration of Victory Day in 2015, a series of World of Tanks tournaments will be held. The list of participating cities includes St. Petersburg, Brest, Minsk, Smolensk, Volgograd, Tula, Voronezh and Krasnodar. The winners of the tournament will receive a trip for eight people to the Tank Museum in Saumur (France).

Popular LiveJournal blogger Sergei Dolya spoke about a common method of fraud on the Internet: attackers hacked his girlfriend’s Skype and tricked people from his contact list into transferring money to them. In the case described by Dolya, the amount of money lost turned out to be large - 250 thousand rubles, but even in this situation, neither the Skype administration nor the police wanted to help the victims.

Facebook has officially announced that it will be building a money transfer feature into the Facebook Messenger app for iOS, Android and desktop operating systems within a few months. This was reported by TechCrunch . With an update to Facebook Messenger scheduled for “the next few months,” app users will be able to link a Visa or MasterCard credit card to it and instantly send money to friends without fees.

www.theverge.com On March 16, Buzz Aldrin posted a photo on Twitter with Stonehenge in the background. It shows the 85-year-old astronaut looking up at the sky in a superhero pose, his hands revealing a T-shirt with the words "Get Your Ass to Mars" emblazoned across his chest (he's using it to promote his nonprofit, the ShareSpace Foundation).