On October 29, one of the first tests for the reliability of the new Nexus 6P smartphone from Google and Huawei appeared on the Jerryrigeevery YouTube channel. The author of the video, according to him, without noticeable efforts broke the device with both hands, calling it the “laughing stock” and “disappointment”. The video quickly gained popularity on the network, and Jerry testing methods were criticized by other observers, including the editors of The Verge Vlad Savov.

lenta.ru It took a year to develop the application. The messenger itself is based on the Instantbird client, but traffic will pass through a chain of intermediate servers (Tor). Cross-platform and complete anonymity of all correspondence are declared, but with the caveat that in the beta version it is not guaranteed. The messenger is based on the OTR protocol.

On September 25, the premiere of the song “Eh, Luke-ray” took place on the “Evening Urgant”, to participate in the recording of which Urgant personally persuaded more than three dozen stars of Russian show business. According to the authors of the program, the work was to become a “full hit of this fall”: and although many had to their liking (even Pugacheva called it “the main one in the year”), the true popularity - transformation into meme - has not yet reached.

Guide Akhmat Kerimov, who was guiding a group of tourists along Elbrus, fell into a 40-meter crack, but was rescued by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. As Kerimov himself later said, his mobile phone helped him survive: only one of the two SIM cards received communication, but this was enough to call his friends, who helped rescuers track the climber using a signal from communication towers. Elbrus.

At the end of October, Pornhub dedicated its next report to the topic of Halloween. Based on the statistics of requests from its users during this holiday in 2014, representatives of the porn site talked about what images and costumes seem most attractive to people on All Saints' Day.

www.interfax.ru Poet Victor Hoffman was found murdered in his Moscow apartment on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street. A criminal case has been opened, said Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the capital’s main directorate of the Investigative Committee. A bullet wound was found on the body. The dead man is the son of the hero of the Soviet Union, military pilot and writer Heinrich Hoffmann .

In Russia, the mobile dating service Tinder appeared relatively long ago: the youth crowd in Moscow and St. Petersburg began actively using it back in late 2013 - early 2014. However, only recently the company began to “strengthen” its presence: on October 23, was held in the capital. the first official Tinder party The head of the headhunting agency Pruffi, Alena Vladimirskaya, briefly listed nine features of Tinder in Russia on her Facebook page.

slon.ru Half of Russians live to the west of the Ivanovo region, and if the whole country were as densely populated as Moscow, its population could be contained in the territory of the Tambov region. In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the gross regional product is comparable to Australia - and at the same time 45 times greater than that of Chechnya, a level that corresponds to the Philippines.

www.wsj.com The desktop OS will be part of Android. The system is planned to be released in 2017, but the announcement will take place in 2016. Google said that they are not “killing” Chrome OS - the system will be used by third-party manufacturers.

On October 29, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party abandoned the “one family, one child” policy. According to Stuart Gietel-Basten, professor of social policy at Oxford University, the world media overestimated the importance of the Chinese government's decision, and it will not lead to significant changes in the country.

Author: Zalina Marshenkulova This week was marked by two exceptional and dramatic events: in the Moscow headquarters the department for combating arms trafficking was closed for arms trafficking, and in the Kama region an excavator clearing mud sank in the mud. In this week’s selection you will also learn how desperate jerboas are instilled with hope for the best and why the Tula police hired a homeless person.

On October 28, Twitter user Mary Caldarella from Auburn, Atlanta, said that she was able to talk to her ex-boyfriend Matt using the lyrics to the song “Hello” by British singer Adele. In two days, the 19-year-old girl’s post with screenshots of the correspondence received more than 14 thousand retweets and attracted the attention of media around the world. During communication, Caldarella consistently used lines from "Hello", but her boyfriend did not understand this.

Small Internet providers cooperate with law enforcement agencies and even try to compensate for their low qualifications. The number of unofficial requests for the release of user data is small and most often occurs manually, but if a citizen attracts the attention of the FSB, he will most likely not be helped by existing protection measures.

Author: Editorial staff of Promises.Ru Every week, Promises.Ru selects the most notable promises and forecasts. The probability of their execution as a percentage is the opinion of the editors, based on three years of experience in monitoring public statements. Each reader can also express his opinion by voting on the project’s website, thereby forming a trust rating for the speaker.

On October 30, the retailer Svyaznoy presented the first quest in the Telegram messenger. In order to take part in it, you need to add the svyaznoy_bot bot to your contacts and give commands to the quest hero. According to the plot, the player must help the character avoid obstacles and meet a girl working in one of the chain stores.