TripAdvisor conducted a TripBarometer study of more than 44,000 travelers and hoteliers to identify the top travel trends for 2016. Representatives of TripAdvisor told TJ about this. According to the study, every second Russian traveler plans to make at least one trip around the country in 2016, while more than 60% intend to go abroad, and 75% want to get new experiences and try a new route.

At the request of Apple, the Telegram messenger began to restrict access to bots with pirated music. The developer of the bot @vkmusic_bot Ilya Samartsev told TJ about this. The @vkmusic_bot bot allowed songs from the VKontakte database to be downloaded and cached for later listening. To use the bot, in addition to installation, the user had to log in through a social network. On December 15, the author of the bot, Ilya Samartsev, learned that it was blocked.

The Islamic coalition against terrorism, a shootout in the center of Moscow and other discussed news of these hours are in our morning briefing. On the cover: a giant inflatable Peppa Pig on the streets of Santiago, Chile, during a traditional Christmas parade (Stringer, Reuters). Apple's "Secret Lab" Bloomberg learned that the American corporation Apple has opened a new laboratory in northern Taiwan to develop new technologies for producing displays for electronic devices.

persona2015.vedomosti.ru Person of the Year - 2015 Make your choice! The newspaper launched a special project “Person of the Year” in six categories: politician, businessman, professional, private citizen, cultural hero and victim. The last category lists the five-month-old son of Tajik migrants who died in a St. Petersburg hospital, politician Boris Nemtsov, director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years, as well as refugees and those killed in terrorist attacks.

vc.ru Roskomnadzor blocked access to part of Yahoo services at the request of the tax service. Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), added the Yahoo sports service - sports.yahoo.com - to the list of sites prohibited in Russia. Because of this, Russian users have difficulty accessing other company services, CNews reports.

slon.ru A cruise missile hit a residential building near Arkhangelsk. No casualties reported. In the Arkhangelsk region, a fragment of a cruise missile hit a house in a military town, according to News29.ru , due to an abnormal test launch. A fire started in the building and residents were evacuated.

www.rbc.ru The official dollar exchange rate has reached a historical maximum The Bank of Russia increased the official dollar exchange rate by another 60.5 kopecks, as a result of which it reached a record level of 70.83 rubles. The dollar has never been so expensive since the redenomination of the ruble The official dollar exchange rate increased today by 60.51 kopecks and since December 16 was set by the Central Bank at the level of 70.8295 rubles.

qz.com Uber may replace its five-star driver rating system with emoji New ways to rate drivers include smileys and thumbs up/down symbols. Some users noticed that instead of the standard five-star rating system, they were faced with a proposal to give a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” rating, and in other cases, one of three emoticons. Research shows that systems with this type of assessment create less stress and more cohesion, which is important to the Uber driver community.

One of the passers-by on Arbat who met US Secretary of State John Kerry turned out to be a boy who spoke good English. He asked Kerry what he would wish for Russian schoolchildren. Kerry didn’t hear the question the first time, but he asked again until he understood. The Secretary of State wished that the Russians and Americans would become good friends, and that the countries would come to peace, and then left.

vc.ru Uber began operating in Sochi The Uber taxi service began operating in Sochi on December 15, company representatives told vc.ru. This city became the seventh in Russia in which Uber services appeared. A corresponding notification was sent to all users of the service via e-mail. Currently, only the “budget” class of service operates in the city - UberX. The cost of boarding will be 59 rubles, after which the tariff is 6 rubles per kilometer and 6 rubles per minute of travel.

But it was a good event .

slon.ru The ex-wife of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit against Navalny and Google Olga Lopatina demanded to remove information discrediting her Olga Lopatina demands that the information disseminated about her be declared illegal and prohibited from disclosure. The lawyer sued the politician Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation he created, Lopatina’s lawyer told Interfax. Google Corporation is listed among the defendants in the lawsuit.

www.rosbalt.ru Medinsky commented on the investigation of the Navalny Foundation about the activities of Prosecutor General Chaika. Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky commented on the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny, dedicated to the activities of the family of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, reports a Rosbalt correspondent. “On my day off, I met with the Minister of Culture of Greece.

tass.ru Source: a case was opened for forgery of documents by Lopatina at the establishment of "Sahar Kuban". A criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Art. 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (use of a knowingly forged document) was initiated “against an unidentified person” According to a TASS source in law enforcement agencies, on December 15, a criminal case was opened in Kuban after a statement from Olga Lopatina.

On December 12, GQ magazine published an interview with Elon Musk. Although on the same day it became known about another organization for the development of artificial intelligence, supported by an entrepreneur, OpenAI, the conversation was not about it, but about the interplanetary ambitions of the head of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. TJ selected the main points from an extensive interview. Elon Musk at the presentation of the Dragon V2 spacecraft in 2014.