Disney Research, together with ETH Zurich, has developed a miniature robot that can move along almost vertical walls. reports this Engadget . The device, called VertiGo, is an unusual combination of a wheeled robot and a drone. It moves using two propellers. They allow you to ride both on a horizontal surface and along walls located almost at right angles. VertiGo can not only climb walls, but also turn around on them.

www.youtube.com “I wish that next year it will not be difficult or even difficult, but it will be easy, or at least nothing,” wrote on Instagram. Malikov The song was a continuation of the New Year's appeal to the ruble , which appeared after Malikov became noticeably popular on Twitter. “Even if it’s a little hard at times, it’s okay, we’re together, guys, I’m with you.”

gazeta.a42.ru In Kuzbass, a sugar thief was found following the tracks of a sled. Employees of the Kuzbass transport police found a food thief following the tracks of a sled. The thief took a hundredweight of sugar with them. According to information from line management employees... According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a resident of the village of Yashkino made “food raids” on the railway.

kremlin.ru Congratulations to the heads of states and governments of foreign countries on the New Year Vladimir Putin congratulated the heads of foreign states and governments, as well as the heads of international organizations, on Christmas and the coming new year 2016. The President congratulated Alexander Lukashenko, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Emomali Rahmon and other heads of state, according to a report on the Kremlin website.

www.billboard.com Guns N' Roses to Reunite for Coachella, Possible Stadium Tour: Sources | Billboard The band will headline this year's Coachella as well as take dates in Vegas -- possibly before heading out on a 20-plus date stadium tour. The band's first performance will take place in April 2016 at the Coachella festival; there are no reports of other concerts yet, but the band is in negotiations for several dozen stadium concerts.

aksha.cht.sudrf.ru attention to the decision of the Akshinsky District Court of October 27 drew Blogger Ruslan Leviev . A rural court decided to block a website for the delivery of foreign products on the basis of retaliatory sanctions against the United States and the European Union. “Facts of free access to information that negatively affect the process of equalizing prices for food products have been identified.”

twitter.com The Independent on Twitter “Syrian refugees have been helping to clear up the flood damage in Manchester https://t.co/GqWn3CKwaW” Yasser al-Yassem, a 35-year-old Syrian teacher who was brought to the UK from Calais, France, in May 2015, explained to reporters that the people of Manchester treated the refugees very well, and the refugees decided to respond in kind.

2015 turned out to be generous with virtual flash mobs, when thousands of network users around the world suddenly began to do the same thing for a specific purpose - or just for fun. TJ remembered the most remarkable ones. Anti-sexism A noticeable trend on the Internet in the past year has been the fight against sexism, including in the format of online flash mobs.

TJ's editor-in-chief about the film "The Revenant" - an exhausting but insanely beautiful story of revenge On January 7, Revenant will be released in Russia - the second consecutive collaboration between director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who last year won the main Oscar awards for Birdman.

Facebook users noticed a change in the social network's mobile application: the news feed was divided by topic, allowing, for example, to read materials about fashion or entertainment separately from sports or politics. This was reported by The Verge . Entrepreneur Jason Stein, who noticed the innovation in his wife’s smartphone, announced changes in the design of the mobile application on his microblog.

www.bbc.com They want to rename Dnepropetrovsk Dnepropetrovsk - BBC Russian Service The Dnepropetrovsk City Council, within the framework of the law on decommunization, decided to rename the city Dnepropetrovsk - no longer in honor of the Bolshevik Petrovsky, but in memory of the Apostle Peter. The Dnepropetrovsk City Council decided to appeal to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to leave the city its name.

Last Christmas, one of the most popular gifts for the inhabitants of the United States was a self -balance scooter. The network was filled with videos on which the new owners of devices cannot cope with the control and fall. Among the "victims" was the famous boxer Mike Tyson. Cyboard If at the end of 2014, judging by activity in social networks, one of the most popular Christmas gifts in the United States was drones, then in 2015 they “intercepted” self-balance scooters.

vc.ru Video support has appeared in the Russian photo application Glitche The video processing function has appeared in the Russian photo application Glitche, which adds digital noise to photos. The creator of the service, Vladimir Shrader, spoke about this on his Facebook page. According to the creator of the application and former product director of Afisha, Vladimir Shrader, work on the video editor took a year and a half.

Even before the release of the iPhone 6, users actively criticized Apple for the noticeable plastic strips under which the antennas were hidden. According to the Chinese publication Commercial Times, the company has nevertheless developed a composition, thanks to which future linings will seamlessly merge with the rest of the body, and the phone itself will be waterproof.

New Year is a holiday when millions of Russians gather with their families around the tables to celebrate the passing year together. Other relatives and friends are usually congratulated over the phone, and the moment when the chimes strike is synchronized over the air on TV.