On CES, Lenovo announced the imminent issue of a phablet with built-in Project Tango technology, which allows you to create a 3D model of the surrounding space on the summer with a few cameras and interact with it as a augmented reality. It is reported by The Verge . Photo by ARS Technica During the announcement, representatives of Lenovo and Google reported only a minimum of details.

www.davidbowie.com January 10 2016 - David Bowie Official Blog David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief. David Bowie died after a year and a half of battling cancer, according to the singer’s website (the information was confirmed by Sky News).

25-year-old actress Natalie Walker from New York posted several short reviews of her own dates on the Yelp review site for fun in early January. reports this Buzzfeed . Natalie Walker According to the girl, she was simply going to take screenshots of these comic reviews before they were deleted by moderators, and publish the resulting pictures on her Twitter and Instagram accounts.

On January 11, David Bowie’s official website announced the death of the famous British musician at the age of 69: “David Bowie peacefully died surrounded by his family members after 18 months of courageous struggle against cancer. Although many of you empathize with the loss, we ask you to respect the private life of the family during sorrow. ” David Bowie A few minutes later, representatives of the singer confirmed the media that it was not about a hacker attack or someone's unsuccessful joke.

Entrepreneur Alexey Morgunov has filed an application to register the trademark “Oduvan-Varlam” and intends to open a cafe of the same name in Moscow. agency reports this The Moscow . Ilya Varlamov When exactly Morgunov submitted his application to Rospatent is not specified.

The CEO of Tinder, in an interview with Fast Company , spoke about the service’s hidden algorithm, which brings together users who belong to “the same league” in terms of attractiveness. At first glance, all Tinder users are on an equal footing, but according to company CEO Sean Rad, this is not the case. Immediately after registration, each person in the service is assigned a hidden coefficient called Elo rating. This term is borrowed from the world of chess.

On January 11, several Russian Twitter users began to come up with absurd game options. The virtual flash mob has not yet become widespread, but the number of options for “ideas for games” is growing. What is happening partially copies the “ startup idea ” meme. This phrase on Russian Twitter usually begins the presentation of the idea of ​​a non-existent and usually ridiculous service that potentially solves a real problem.

meduza.io In Yaroslavl, they will repeat Riga’s experiment with “snow tickets” for motorists - Meduza In Yaroslavl, they will make public transport free for motorists for a day. In this way, the authorities intend to combat traffic jams, which are expected to be caused by snowfall. This is how city authorities intend to deal with traffic jams, which are expected to be caused by snowfall from January 12 to 13. For free travel, inspectors will need to show their registration certificate.

realnoevremya.ru The Bankir.ru portal was unavailable due to the expiration of the domain registration period. The Bankir.ru website was blocked due to the expiration of the domain registration period. Now the owners of the resource are deciding on restoring the domain. The site will be operational again in the near future, the Banki.ru company (owns the Bankir.ru portal) told Realnoe Vremya.

Despite the fact that in mid-December the decision to block the popular torrent tracker RuTracker was supposed to come into force, this actually did not happen. The Moscow City Court waited for the filing of an appeal against a previously rejected complaint against the decision on “eternal blocking”, and the procedure was suspended, said Moscow City Court press secretary Ulyana Solopova.

Apple has released a beta version of the new iOS 9.3 operating system for developers, which introduced a number of new features, including a night mode that prevents sleep disturbances when using a smartphone or tablet in bed. In mid-November, the famous British doctor Paul Gringras called on smartphone manufacturers to create a special night mode that would exclude blue and green from the spectrum of colors emitted by the display in the evenings and nights.

tass.ru Chaika: The Prosecutor General’s Office will not “loose its grip”, despite all the attacks on it The Prosecutor General noted that, based on prosecutors’ materials alone, over 9 months of last year, more than 3.2 thousand criminal cases were opened for crimes of corruption “We will not change the priorities of our work, no matter how hard anyone tries. Moreover, we will act even more actively, because we are moving in the right direction, I have no doubt about that,” said Chaika.

On January 11, the longest state weekend of the year ended - the only one when millions of Russians simultaneously rest for more than a week. Traditionally, one of the main topics of the day on social networks was the discussion of the particularly sharp contrast between carefree holidays and everyday work. The main villain for bloggers was, of course, Monday.

On Monday morning, a large fire broke out at a tire recycling plant in an industrial area in Melbourne, Australia. A cloud of toxic smoke dispersed across surrounding areas of the city, and authorities warned residents to stay indoors. According to the city's deputy fire chief, approximately 120,000 tires are on fire.

Self-driving cars usually rely on road markings, and snow on the road prevents the sensors from reading the data correctly, but Ford has learned to work around this obstacle using maps. reports this Wired .