As part of experimental “garage” projects, Microsoft released the What Dog service , which can recognize dog breeds from photographs. This was reported by The Verge . Pictured is a Yorkshire terrier. In the service, you can try to determine the breed of a dog from pre-prepared photographs, search for pictures of dogs using the Bing search engine, and also upload your own.

www.theverge.com UK politicians green-light plans to record every citizen's internet history Surveillance legislation proposed by the UK last November has been examined in detail by the country's politicians, with a new report recommending 86 alterations, but broadly approving the powers... The controversial UK Surveillance Bill, proposed in November 2015, has received more than 86 amendments.

“By the way, you probably noticed that Larisa not only talks about cloudiness and wind, but also gives very useful advice!” writes STS-Chelyabinsk on its VKontakte page. TV presenter Larisa Sladkova suggests going to a place where there is always a plus, and calls not to be discouraged, greeting every day with a smile: “The reason for our winter blues is not our age or the weather.

After a snowstorm, Canadian Allyson Mitton rode across the city to a Tim Hortons in a dog-drawn sleigh and filmed the process. This is only possible in Canada, says Huffington Post.

On February 11, physicists from the Advanced LIGO scientific collaboration announced that they were able to detect a signal of gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein. Based on the reaction of the media and scientists, many netizens appreciated the importance of the discovery, but did not understand its essence. This misunderstanding has become a popular source of jokes.

As part of the Teraflu advertising campaign, a screen consisting of thermal scanners was installed in Warsaw. They can be used to diagnose whether a person has the flu or whether their temperature is normal. People who took part in the campaign are invited to publish the result on social networks with the hashtag #TherafluThemoscanner .

Dmitry Peskov. Photo by Vladimir Velengurin, Komsomolskaya Pravda According to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, the bill on state control of traffic on the territory of Russia should not be interpreted as an attempt by the state to gain full control over the Internet. His words are reported by TASS . A potential external threat to RuNet exists, Peskov said. It would be wrong to interpret this as complete control over the Internet.

Hollywood film producer Ross Putman has created a special Twitter for his collection of descriptions of female characters in scripts. His selection illustrates the fact that actresses in the film industry constantly have to confront manifestations of sexism and ageism (age discrimination). Most descriptions of heroines in screenplays, in Putman's experience, are based on the character's body type, age and sex appeal.

Gennady Ustiyan. Photo from personal Facebook page , a magazine about urban entertainment, The editor-in-chief of the Moscow version of TimeOut Gennady Ustiyan asked almost all journalists working in the publication to write a letter of resignation of their own free will. This was reported by Afisha.Daily . Ustiyan wrote on his Facebook that he learned about a secret chat in which his own subordinates discussed the personality of the editor-in-chief in a negative context.

A plane with Russian tourists landed urgently in the Dominican Republic, Trump calculated the cost of building a wall on the border with Mexico - and other discussed news of these hours. In the photo: a wild elephant that caused a pogrom in the Indian Siliguri. He managed to damage about a hundred houses before he was stopped with a tranquilizer.

Mikhail Meerov. Photo from personal page on VKontakte Updated at 21:45 : Community representatives announced on their page that the whole story with the detention of their administrators was a fake news story. When we came up with the traditional holiday (this year’s anniversary, and yes, we do them every year) stuffing on the main page, we couldn’t even imagine that not only naive subscribers would fall for it (hello to those who believed that Enteo was closing us), but and media.

A Canadian producer couldn't sell his old 2010 Nissan Altima for a whole year. Desperate, he decided to make a cool video for his old car in the spirit of advertising modern cars. His friend helped him with his promotion.

US Air Force Major General James Martin fainted during a press conference on the US Air Force budget proposal. The incident occurred in the middle of his speech on the issue of financing the F-35 fighter jet. The man was given water and then moved to another room. A little later he was hospitalized. The cause of fainting remains unknown.

The video is a quick one-minute clip, from which it becomes clear that the new season will be built around the conflict between the Underwoods. Russian President Viktor Petrov also briefly appears in the video, whose image is inspired by Vladimir Putin. The season premiere is scheduled for March 4.

qz.com Pope Francis ditches WhatsApp and is guiding young Catholics through Lent on the Telegram app In his first message, Pope Francis recommended doing good deeds—albeit privately, without caring for other people's approval. On February 10, Ash Wednesday began for Catholics around the world, the day that marks the beginning of the fast before Easter.