On May 26, Japanese pop singer Amuro Namie released an interactive video for the song “Golden Touch”: what is happening on the screen makes sense if the viewer holds a finger pressed to the center point of the screen. Within a week, the video collected more than 5 million views on YouTube. The video begins with instructions: you need to press your fingertip to a point in the center of the screen and hold it during the entire viewing.

On June 1, Meduza publisher Ilya Krasilshchik drew attention to the work of the Ukrainian creative studio Sponge, which developed the logo for the music publication Medusa - it turned out to be very similar to the logo of Galina Timchenko’s publication. Sponge director Alexey Cherednichenko responded by saying that Meduza was also not original when creating its corporate identity. TJ spoke with representatives of two companies.

In Tbilisi, a rally was held near the government building, the participants of which demanded the decriminalization of soft drugs On June 2, in the center of the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, near the government building, a rally in defense of marijuana was held , which attracted about a thousand participants. They demanded that the authorities decriminalize soft drugs and abolish penalties for their use.

Bethesda launched the official website of Fallout 4, a new game in the popular role-playing series, more than an hour earlier than scheduled. On June 2, Bethesda launched a countdown , promising to talk about the new game in the Fallout series on June 3 at 17:00 Moscow time, but the official website fallout4.com launched ahead of schedule for unknown reasons.

Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky believes that the new Great Historical Encyclopedia, work on which is planned to be completed within several years, will replace Wikipedia. reports this TASS . Vladimir Medinsky.

A student project with the participation of actor Shayia Labafa turned into a popular meme with hundreds of videos and millions of views A student project with the participation of a popular Hollywood actor Shayia Labafa turned into a popular meme with hundreds of videos and millions of views. TJ figured out the origin of the joke and chose the best videos made by network users.

The Metropolitan of Moldova will check a video with a priest from Transnistria casting out demons from a parishioner Parishioners of the Orthodox Church of the Archangel Michael, located in the village of Khrustovaya in the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, filmed a video of the ritual of “exorcism” by a local priest. The priest rode the man on horseback, declaring that he was going “to Jerusalem, and then to Mount Athos,” and then began to trample on his back and neck.

twitter.com This statement was made against the backdrop of a renewed fall in world oil prices. As of 8:00 Moscow time, the cost of July futures for Brent oil fell by 0.34% to $65.13 per barrel, for WTI oil by 0.65% to $60.86 per barrel.

The season of white nights, one of the unofficial symbols of the city, has begun in St. Petersburg. In the 19th century, bright summer nights in the capital were romanticized and given a mystical meaning. Pushkin, Dostoevsky and other classics of Russian literature wrote about the white nights. In the modern city, numerous events are dedicated to them, such as the Stars of the White Nights arts festival and the White Night Swing jazz festival.

At the beginning of May, in Milan, on the territory of a former distillery, and now the art complex of the Prada Foundation, took place . the opening of the Luce bar, designed by director Wes Anderson, In his work, the creator of the films “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Moonrise Kingdom” sought to recreate the atmosphere of a typical Milanese cafe. He even abandoned his favorite principle of symmetry in order to make the establishment more comfortable.

The creators of the Soundhound service presented a voice assistant who can quickly answer difficult questions The creators of the Soundhound service began the closed beta test of the Hound voice assistant, who was nicknamed “Siri with a doctoral degree” for the ability to quickly answer difficult questions. It is reported by USA Today . The first demonstration of the work of Hound was published on the official YouTube channel of the service on June 2.

deadline.com The media are reporting that the popular television series Prison Break may return to screens in event-series format (as in the case of The X-Files and 24, only one short new season will be filmed). Some publications report that Fox managed to reach an agreement with only one of the leading actors, and some - that with both (Miller and Purcell).

The head of Apple spoke out sharply against IT companies using personal data of users to target advertising On June 2, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech at a special event of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), criticizing the earning methods of companies like Facebook and Google. This was reported by The Verge . Photo: EPIC Cook was unable to attend the EPIC dinner in Washington, D.C., but delivered his speech via livestream.

twitter.com account The “Committee”’s Twitter reports that several young men in masks destroyed the official car of human rights activists parked in the yard, broke into the office and “started destroying everything.” The organization's employees managed to leave the premises through the window. The police are not stopping the riots. Photo: from external surveillance cameras

On June 2, Rossiyskaya Gazeta talked about a new entertainment for Ekaterinburg schoolchildren. In its framework, children try to run across a busy road at a red light on a dare. The hobby was associated with the growing popularity of the online game “Run the High-Speed ​​Road.” According to the publication, at least two people have already become victims of dangerous entertainment: one student was hospitalized, and the other died.