As President Barack Obama himself admitted, the United States is the only developed country in the world that does not have paid maternity leave. In the US, no one really gives anybody a paid decree - the state only guarantees "vacation at its own expense" for twelve weeks. A bit better…
Among the many charitable programs, there are both effective ones that help develop the economies of poor countries and improve people's lives, and downright strange and controversial ones, like PlayPump - ineffective water pumps disguised as children's carousels and powered by child labor. GiveDirectly is trying to tackle poverty in Africa ...
The leaders of Channel Ten and two Israeli production companies, Reshet and Keshet, are demanding that the state take urgent measures to save the local television advertising market. The joint letter sent to the Commercial Broadcasting Authority notes that the development of digital broadcasting technology has led...
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media in Russia (Roskomnadzor) sent a letter to the Young Guard of United Russia. Roskomnadzor asks her to initiate the examination of information in social networks for the presence of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations. ...
A few days ago, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin issued a sharp condemnation of Jewish extremism. After that, he began to receive insults and even threats on social networks. “Go live in Gaza, you fucking president,” one user wrote to him on Facebook. "You are not my president...
Facebook has completed work on the first drone to distribute the Internet in hard-to-reach areas as part of the Internet.org initiative. The drone was named Aquila. It gets its energy from solar panels, weighs less than a car with a wingspan comparable to that of a Boeing-737 liner, and ...
Roskomnadzor sent an appeal to the Young Guard of United Russia with a request to initiate an examination of the content of social networks for the presence of propaganda of homosexuality among minors. As Izvestia writes, among other things, the “young guards” will have to analyze the emoticons on Facebook, which Senator Mikhail Marchenko previously saw as a violation of the law.…
Facebook product designer George Kydenburg III launched Linkmoji, which turns a user-entered link into an emoji set. The link is not decomposed into words, replaced by the corresponding smilies - it's just a random set of characters that will redirect the visitor to the final page. Typical link received by ...
The Kiev designer decided to create a special extension for the popular Chrome browser in order to use the Facebook social network in the form in which he likes. Its development remakes the design of the social network according to the currently popular flat-design. Several Western blogs and media outlets wrote about the expansion...
The social network Facebook has changed its logo for the first time since 2005. As explained on the social network, they decided to change the logo to demonstrate their friendliness and accessibility. The new logo was made by designer Eric Olson. He designed the Klavika font, which was used for the former social network logo. Facebook only changed ...