thenextweb.com Just like the previous logo, the new emblem features white text on a blue background. Josh Higgins, Facebook's creative director, told the Brand New blog that the company's goal was to make the logo "more friendly and approachable." The design team decided to update the old logo rather than create a new one.

Sorry, POTUS, but Odnoklassniki also needs new blood. On June 30, near the White House, 50 Girl Scouts set up several tents in which they spent the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. On Tuesday evening, the President and First Lady of the United States met with them as part of Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative to combat childhood obesity.

On the night of June 30 to July 1, an astronomical phenomenon could be observed in which Venus and Jupiter came as close as possible in the sky. Such visual convergences of celestial bodies have no real astronomical significance, but some of them look spectacular for observers on Earth. You can see the phenomenon until July 4th. In order to see two bright planets in the sky, you don’t even need special equipment, and even residents of large cities can notice them.

tvrain.ru The Dutch Safety Council, which is leading the investigation into the cause of the death of the Malaysian airliner, plans to publish final findings in the first half of October 2015. The agency also said in a statement that the Safety Council has sent a draft report to ICAO and the countries participating in the international investigation team.

Satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky criticized Russian TV during his speech at the TEFI 2015 ceremony On July 1, social network users drew attention to a cut-out fragment of the TEFI-2015 ceremony with a speech by satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In the video, which is about six minutes long, Zhvanetsky reads out three miniatures. The first of them is called “Girl and Grandfather”.

yodnews.ru Commentator Alexander Netsenko announced this on his Twitter: “Official information. All employees of the sports VGTRK were announced that they would be laid off until October 1st. There are no further specifics.” Football commentator Sergei Krivokharchenko also wrote about his dismissal.

www.lookatme.ru On March 3, it became known that Epic Games studio made the Unreal Engine 4 graphics engine free. It can be freely used for visualizations, games and other projects. Royalties for using the engine ($5 per gross income per product per quarter) must be paid only if the product created on it has earned more than $3,000.

rsport.ru The list includes the Amur tiger, hero, wolf, Far Eastern leopard, firebird, alien, astronaut, cat, bear and robot. The main attributes of the mascot were a ball, boots, a whistle, a watch, gloves and a backpack. So far there are no images themselves - students of art universities will draw them only in the fall of 2015 during the second stage of the competition .

www.buzzfeed.com In August 2014, Jeremy and Justice Stemper got married, and 19 days after the ceremony, the girl was in a car accident. After months of therapy, she admitted to her husband that she did not remember about 5 weeks before the stroke, including the entire ceremony. A year later, the newlyweds decided to repeat the wedding. The story received wide resonance, and they received gifts from sponsors.

A British street artist under the pseudonym Mobstr maintained a non-verbal dispute with the London authorities for about a year, making the wall of a small brick building an art object. The result of his experiment drew the attention of Mashable . According to the artist, he rode his bicycle to work past this wall for many years, and noticed that graffiti left on the painted area was painted over, while inscriptions made on other parts of the wall were washed off from it.

The most unusual music selections in the Russian section of Apple Music On June 30, the music streaming service Apple Music was launched with radio stations and recommendations hand-picked by hundreds of curators. The Russian representative office of Apple creatively approached the compilation of local selections of compositions and the choice of their names and descriptions, focusing on national themes. The company's unconventional approach attracted the attention of social network users.

tvrain.ru It, the department notes, reveals the key aspects of the use of the armed forces to ensure the security and protection of the national interests of the United States. The updated military doctrine also calls for the United States in particular to confront "treaty-violating revisionist states" such as Russia.

nplus1.ru Responding to a challenge from Australian Ben Porter, programmer Alex Yoder wrote a game in JavaScript, the source code of which he managed to fit into one tweet . You can play it on the developer’s website : by clicking on the cross with the mouse, it moves across the screen - that’s the whole game.

On the day the service launched, many users complained about the almost complete absence of Metallica records in it. A day later the situation changed for the better. Apparently, Apple continues to actively expand its Apple Music library.

The project of Japanese photographer Yuki Aoyama is gaining popularity on the Western Internet, who convinced many office workers, businessmen and several executives of large companies to be photographed jumping. Office workers in front of Aoyama's camera jump and contort while their teenage daughters, also participating in the photo shoots, calmly pose and smile at the camera.