New unlock function will appear on Android smartphones
Fingerprint scanning will soon become an available feature on Android. Very soon, unlocking phones using PIN codes will be a thing of the past - Google will introduce a new device authentication using fingerprints. The new feature will allow users to first sign in to supported apps with...
Gilded monument to the current president
The first statue of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who has ruled the country since 2007, was installed in the capital of Turkmenistan. A gilded monument, 21 meters high, on which the head of state is depicted riding an Akhal-Teke horse with his right hand raised high, was solemnly opened in Ashgabat on the City Day. ...
Russian woman ranked second at Eurovision
Russian singer Polina Gagarina took second place in the final of the Eurovision-2015 contest. The winner was the Swedish singer Mons Zelmerlev, who sang the song Heroes. Zelmerlev received 365 points by the audience and the jury, while Gagarina received 303 points. Maximum score (12 points) ...
Canadian made a flying board and broke the world record on it
Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru built a hoverboard - a vehicle that does not touch the ground during operation - and set a world record for flight range on it. Duru was able to overcome 275,9 meters on his board and got into the book ...
Patriarch Kirill resists bearded women from Eurovision
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia called the Eurovision contest contrary to Russian culture. According to TASS from Ulyanovsk, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church spoke about this at a meeting with members of the Orthodox Initiative movement, who began organizing song festivals in the country. According to him, if ...
The project has started - Novodvorskaya’s work in three volumes
The Zakharov Publishing House and the Yegor Gaidar Foundation have begun raising funds to publish a three-volume work of Valeria Novodvorskaya. “Our plans are to publish a three-volume book with a circulation of 2000 copies; if the project receives a large amount, we will increase the circulation. First of all, we offer future readers...
The US Air Force sent a "space plane" into orbit on a secret mission
In the United States, on Wednesday, the Atlas V launch vehicle was successfully launched, which will launch the experimental unmanned reusable spacecraft X-37B into orbit. The rocket launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida. Externally reminiscent of the no longer used space shuttles, the X-37B...
Medvedev appeared at a meeting with Putin in the Apple Watch
Dmitry Medvedev appeared at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing an Apple Watch. A photo of the Russian Prime Minister with a gadget on his hand was published on Twitter by the journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda Dmitry Smirnov. Medvedev is known for his love of gadgets and new technologies. ...
On the ISS will install a laser gun
The International Space Station (ISS) can get a laser cannon to destroy space debris. Ultimately, this could serve as the basis for the development of an effective strategy for protecting the earth's orbit from anthropogenic pollution, Discovery News reports. To detect space debris, scientists propose to use ...
The Russian national team lost to the Canadian team in the finals of the World Hockey Championship
In Prague (Czech Republic) the final match of the Ice Hockey World Championship has come to an end, in which the Canadian national team beat the Russian team with a score of 6: 1. The match took place with a clear advantage of the North American team, which, already within the first minute of the game, made 1 shots at the goalkeeper's goal ...