He makes smartphone cases based on stock images of old people, drugs and sex toys. Blogger and technologist Andy Baio discovered that an Amazon bot offers customers smartphone cases with any images. For an unknown reason, the service uses random pictures and stock photos from the Internet. Covers can be found if you enter “My-Handy-Design” in the search on the website. Amazon offers about 32 thousand different designs for cases at a standard price: from 18 to 25 dollars.

The Central Bank is discussing with the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications a bill according to which the Central Bank will be able to demand the blocking of financial pyramid sites in pre-trial proceedings. this , the regulator confirmed this information. reported Izvestia The Central Bank plans to collect website addresses of organizations that conduct illegal financial transactions and send them to Roskomnadzor. The supervisory agency, in turn, will blacklist them.

Sberbank announced the launch of ATMs with NFC readers. By the end of July, the bank will install about two thousand such devices. For the first two months, the machines will work only with Sberbank cards, and later they will receive support for cards from other credit institutions, writes vc.ru.

There are people injured. @__murkina__ Updated: by 21:31 the fire was contained and its rank was downgraded to first. At 22:20 the media reported that the fire had been extinguished. On July 10, a fire started in the RIO shopping center in Moscow. Due to dense smoke, it was assigned a fourth difficulty level. A RIA Novosti source in the capital's emergency services reported that, according to preliminary data, eight employees of the shopping center were injured.

Back in 2010, he said: “I don’t understand why I should give my music to iTunes or anyone else, they can’t pay me an advance.” on YouTube has appeared The official channel of American singer Prince Rogers Nelson, who died in 2016, . It published six videos with performances and clips of the musician from the main album “Purple Rain”. Before this, only one Prince composition was published on the partner channel “princevevo”.

Now the police cannot find most of the money with which the student tried to buy good treatment. City of Bad Tölz, Bavaria. Photo ssvas.org A 13-year-old schoolboy from the Bavarian city of Bad Tölz gave away about 10.5 thousand euros to his peers. Most of the “gifts,” which ranged from 100 to almost 2.5 thousand euros, came from the boy’s acquaintances from the local teenage football team. The teenager was subsequently questioned by police.

Russians who want to visit Ukraine after January 1, 2018 will have to undergo mandatory electronic registration. According to the head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Alexander Turchynov, Russian citizens will have to provide data to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Turchynov explained that starting from 2018, all foreigners will undergo biometric control when entering Ukraine - submitting fingerprints. “First of all, this will concern Russian citizens,” he noted.

The device responded to the question “Did you call the cops?”, after which it actually called the cops. Google Home voice assistant Police in the US state of New Mexico said that a “smart home device” prevented domestic violence in a house near Albuquerque by calling 911. According to officers, 28-year-old Eduardo Barros was in the apartment with his girl and her daughter. After the woman received the text message, Barros became angry and accused her of cheating.

The event was first held in 1974 and was created as a fun way to clean up trash from the beach. Photo Getty In Darwin, Australia, the annual Darwin Beer Can regatta took place on homemade boats made from beer cans, plastic bottles and milk cartons. The ships are launched for the first time on race day, many of them begin to sink almost immediately - and this adds to the spectacle of the regatta. Money collected as entry fees is donated to charity.

They asked journalists not to talk about it. Photo "Yuga.ru" Representatives of one of the Crimean art associations tried to hold an “art swim” using their own works and swim to Venice in six months. This is reported by the publication Yuga.ru, which refused to publish the name of the group. According to journalists, on July 6, the actionists sent them a link to a Periscope channel on which they planned to broadcast the beginning of their journey.

The building is expected to become "the most authentic Titanic-themed hotel in the world." Project office of Harland & Wolff. Photo by EPA The Belfast building where Harland & Wolff designed the famous Titanic will be transformed into an 84-room hotel. The British National Heritage Lottery has allocated a grant of more than 4.9 million pounds (about 383 million rubles) for the reconstruction of the building with the condition of maximum preservation of historical details.

In the summer of 2017, Russia again experienced a wave of struggle against “inconvenient” books. What publications are burned and how the works of classics were included in their number. Still from the movie “Fahrenheit 451” In 1529, Pope Paul IV approved a list of books, infamously known as the Index Librorum Prohibitorum , which until 1966 included publications prohibited from reading under threat of excommunication.

Inconsistencies and the reaction of social networks. Vladimir Putin at the Innoprom-2017 exhibition. Photo by the Kremlin press service On July 10, Vladimir Putin visited Yekaterinburg and inspected the international industrial exhibition Innoprom-2017.

The Russian Ministry of Health has sent the draft Strategy for the Formation of a Healthy Lifestyle of the Population to the relevant departments for approval. The document involves limiting alcohol advertising, including hidden advertising, in films, television programs and printed materials. this .

The Moscow prosecutor's office did not find any violations in the actions of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, due to which residents of the capital were not warned about the hurricane in May 2017. The supervisory agency, similar to the ministry, laid the blame on the incorrect forecast of weather forecasters. this . reports The BBC Consequences of the hurricane in Moscow.