top.rbc.ru The authorities were dissatisfied with the activities of Boris Zimin (the son of the founder of Dynasty, Dmitry), says an RBC interlocutor close to the government. He gives money to the Meduza portal and generally finances opposition projects, the interlocutor explains. According to him, the Kremlin does not pursue the goal of closing the fund, “there is a desire to intimidate it.”

Apple is going to combine calendar, contacts, Siri, Passbook and maps with augmented reality in a new service codenamed Proactive, which will compete with Google Now. This is reported by 9to5Mac . Work requested Spotlight in iOS 8 Proactive will be accessible by swiping to the right from the home screen, that is, it will be where the Spotlight search engine built into the mobile OS was located before iOS 7. Using the same gesture in Android 5.0, the Google Now assistant opens.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced the completion of the investigation of the crash of the Proton-M launch vehicle launched from Baikonur on July 2, 2013. This is stated on the website of the department . The crash "Proton-M" July 2, 2013.

Reddit users have discovered a bug in the iOS operating system that allows them to reboot a person's smartphone by sending them a specific set of characters via iMessage or SMS. reports Mac Rumors . A user’s iPhone that has received a special combination of characters, including text in Arabic, immediately goes into respring - a reboot of the system application responsible for displaying the desktop and launching other programs in iOS.

Swiss police have arrested nine officials from the International Football Federation (FIFA) on suspicion of corruption. This is reported by The New York Times . Update at 13:43: During an emergency press conference, FIFA representatives announced that the holding of the World Championships in Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022) will not be revised. According to media reports, the detainees were taken out of the hotel without a scandal, covered with white sheets.

www.theverge.com Apple Vice President of Manufacturing Jeff Williams in a conversation with Re/code editor-in-chief Walt Mossberg: Mossberg: Are you going to do anything with your $100 billion or are you just going to buy back your shares? Williams: Well, the car is the most mobile of all devices, isn't it?

The public organization “The Truth About Food” held a race in Moscow in honor of Mayonnaise Day In Moscow, on Old Arbat, “races” took place, the participants of which moved in metal bathtubs on wheels filled with mayonnaise. The action was carried out by the public organization “The Truth About Food”. According to the event organizers, the improvised “race cars” symbolize phytosterols that destroy cholesterol plaques in the body.

The curator of the “Total Dictation” project, Alexey Pavlovsky , said on his Facebook page that the prosecutor’s office of the Oktyabrsky district of Rostov-on-Don summoned him for questioning “on suspicion of connections with the Grammar Nazis.” ” drew attention to the recording The publication “ Paper . According to Pavlovsky, on the morning of May 27, he was summoned for questioning by the prosecutor's office.

The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan declared the law banning gay propaganda unconstitutional after athletes complained that the country did not meet the requirements for hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics. This was reported by the local publication informburo.kz with reference to the press service of the Constitutional Council of the Republic. The decision of the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan was made on May 18, but it became known only on Tuesday, May 26.

Danish photographer Simon Høgsberg photographed passers-by outside the Føtex store in Copenhagen for almost two years for no reason, then turned his collection into an indexed online archive of recognized faces. reports this Wired . According to Högsberg, his passion began in April 2010, when he found himself with a camera in front of a grocery store in one of the districts of Copenhagen. Sitting on a bicycle parking pipe, he began taking photographs of people passing by and became interested.

Almost 10 months after the law on bloggers came into force, Roskomnadzor fined several Internet sites, but it still cannot fine the bloggers themselves. The press secretary of the department, Vadim Ampelonsky, spoke about this in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper . Updated at 17:06 : In a conversation with TJ, Ampelonsky clarified that it was not about two or three sites, but about one - Dudu.

festival takes place in Australia from May 22 to June 8 Vivid Sydney . There are more than 60 light and sound installations and 3D projections across nine areas of the city, including on famous landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and the Harbor Bridge. Some installations are interactive and viewers can interact with them. In addition to light shows, participants will enjoy an extensive program including performances by designers, writers, actors and musicians.

Netizens did not support the flash mob “Hold a can of cola with your breasts” launched by a German porn actress. At the end of May, the media reported on the online flash mob #holdacokewithyourboobschallenge, in which girls must place a can of cola between their breasts and hold it there for a while, filming the entire process on video. However, the action turned out to be more of an unsuccessful attempt to launch a flash mob than a real trend.

British crowdfunders have launched a fundraising campaign for the GravityLight lamp, which is recharged by the force of the Earth's gravity. reports Gizmodo . As Gizmodo notes, about a billion people in the world live without electricity, and they often resort to using fire-hazardous kerosene lamps for lighting. It is this problem that the creators of GravityLight intend to cope with - a lamp that does not require batteries, fuel, or even solar energy to operate.

On May 26, Vladimir Putin agreed with British Prime Minister David Cameron to resume joint efforts to resolve the conflict in Syria. Policymakers agreed that stopping the rise of the Islamic State would be in both countries' interests. The civil war began in Syria in 2011. Four years later, the confrontation between government forces and armed opposition groups has led to about 4 million Syrians leaving the country, and about 12 million more are in need of humanitarian assistance.