More than a thousand people lined up to await the opening of the first Starbucks in Japan's Tottori Prefecture. About a thousand people lined up to await the opening of Starbucks in Japan's Tottori Prefecture, which Kotaku called Japan's "last frontier" for the American coffee chain. Tottori was the last prefecture to not have a single chain location until the end of May. People started queuing early in the morning, long before the establishment opened.

The Israeli company Aniways has released its own version of the Telegram messenger on iOS with the ability to quickly send GIF animations and stickers. This is reported by The Next Web . The program, called Telegram with Aniways, was available for Android users at the beginning of the month, but the media paid attention to it only after the release of the iOS version on May 25.

Swedish design student Johanna Burai launched a project called The World White Web , designed to draw the attention of netizens to the overwhelming quantitative superiority of pictures of white hands in Google search. This is reported by The Next Web . Johanna Buraj noticed that in a Google search for simple words like “arm” or “leg” it is quite difficult to find footage depicting body parts of people with any skin color other than white.

Online cinema Netflix is ​​developing a French version of its popular series “House of Cards” with actor Gerard Depardieu in the title role. reports this Deadline with reference to Radio Europe1. Gerard Depardieu According to media reports, the participation of Gerard Depardieu has not yet been confirmed, but Netflix representatives see him in the leading role. The show, which will be called “Marseille”, will be the first French-language online cinema project.

Hackers on behalf of the founder of the Dynasty Foundation, Dmitry Zimin, told how he financed the opposition On the evening of May 25, a post appeared on the Facebook page of the founder of VimpelCom and the Dynasty charitable foundation, Dmitry Zimin, in which he reported on his behalf the reasons for including Dynasty in the list of foreign agents. Zimin denied his involvement in the publication, informing the Dozhd TV channel about the hacking of the page. Dmitry Zimin (center).

Heavy rains in Oklahoma and Texas caused deadly flooding that destroyed hundreds of homes. On May 23 and 24, heavy rains and tornadoes in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma caused flooding and serious destruction. As a result of the rampant disaster, several bridges were damaged, roads were washed out, residential buildings were flooded, and at least three people were killed.

www.rbc.ru As stated in Rosobrnadzor, on the night of May 25, when the first Unified State Examination exams began in Russia, unknown people tried to gain access to the website of the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements (FIPI): “Apparently, they were trying to find original test and measurement materials from an open bank of tasks.”

siliconrus.com At the Google I/O conference, the company is expected to present many updates - and one of them will concern the Google Photos photo service, which is part of the Google+ social network.

In May 2015, YouTube celebrates a decade since the launch of a public beta version of video hosting. On May 25, the company shared the most strange video hosting videos on the YouTube Trends blog, and also spoke about the “roots” of Beyoncé's famous clip for the song “7/11”, which came from “glitches” of game video settings. In their entry, representatives of the company described in detail the evolution of one of the trends called Cartridge Tilting, originating in 2006.

The ban on downloading content from the Google Play store in Crimea is being circumvented by local residents using the Internet from the mobile operator MTS, although the company is not officially present in the republic. This is reported by CNews . Photo by Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant As the publication notes, to this day none of the Russian cellular companies formally operate in Crimea, where only one mobile operator, K-Telecom, is officially present.

An American astronaut, delayed in orbit due to the crash of Progress, conquered the network with videos of night views of the Earth On May 24, American astronaut Terry Virts, who was delayed in orbit due to the crash of the Progress spacecraft, published online footage of a night view of the Earth, which quickly gained popularity on social networks. The video caught the attention of The Verge . Terry Werts has been aboard the ISS since November 2014.

Guzel Sanzhapova became known in Runet thanks to her brand Cocco Bello and Crowdfanding Project for the installation of production in the village of Maly Turysh in the Urals. The main product, the development of which is engaged in its company - natural flower honey, whipped on special equipment and mixed with berries, which are collected by village grandmothers.

Runet users discovered the Instagram of the youngest daughter of Joseph Brodsky living in Italy. On May 25, social network users discovered the Instagram account of the youngest daughter of the poet Joseph Brodsky (the day before he celebrated his 75th birthday) and began actively sharing the link to the profile. One of the first to pay attention to the profile of Anna Alexandra Maria Sozzani (mother's last name) was rapper Oxxxymiron.

The Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region banned the distribution of five songs by the thrash metal band Corrosion of Metal and the nationalist rock band Kolovrat after one of the VKontakte users posted them on his page. will report this The press service of the court . Concert “Metal Corrosion” The prosecutor of Blagoveshchensk appealed to the court, acting in the interests of an unspecified group of persons.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, starred in the film “Who does not understand, will understand” by an unnamed Hollywood director. He announced this on his Instagram page. Video published by Allah is Great!!! (@kadyrov_95) May 25, 2015 at 6:31 PDT In the video, Kadyrov runs with a machine gun at the ready in military uniform through a wasteland in the mountains, surrounded by several Nissan jeeps painted in camouflage.