In 2015, fewer people were hit by a shark attack than trying to take an original selfie. Mashable analyzed data on deaths from shark attacks and deaths resulting from an attempt to take an extreme selfie. As a result, it turned out that this year ...
The Curiosity rover used a special tool to take a series of selfies in a water-rich area near a mountain that NASA has named Deerskin. The rover's camera took dozens of images, from which NASA assembled several self-panoramic portraits of the rover. At the time of photographing Curiosity was in the area of Maria Pass, near ...
In Russia, in order to popularize the image of the former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, Instagram users are encouraged to take a picture in front of the monument to Lenin and post it on the social network with the hashtag #Leningiv. The competition started after the proposal of the Komsomol members of the Komi Republic to the leader of the Communist Party of Russia Gennady Zyuganov to hold ...
In Los Angeles, police are looking for a robber who took a selfie at the time of the crime. A man made his way into a house in the Venice area. The landlady and her daughters were asleep and heard nothing. They found the iPhone missing only in the morning. A woman saw a video on her iPad ...
Texas resident Deryk Jones saved his 16-year-old daughter Erin from death with a selfie stick. Father and daughter were vacationing on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. They swam in the ocean and filmed themselves using a selfie stick. Erin and Derik ...
A resident of the Ramot metropolitan area, while trying to take a selfie, fell from a great height and was seriously injured. He was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Adasa Hospital in Ein Kerem. According to Israeli media, this is a 14-year-old teenager. Eyewitnesses said that the young man climbed ...
Selfies have become an integral part of our lives. In 2015, more than 50 people have already died because of selfies. We tried to select the most extreme of them, made in different situations. Russian rapper Timati took a “selfie” hugging a bear in 2015. Photo...
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a leaflet reminding about safety measures when taking selfies. A reminder called “Take safe selfies. A cool selfie can cost you your life” was presented at a press conference in Moscow. According to police, more than 100 people have been injured since the beginning of the year while trying...
MasterCard will begin testing a new system this fall, which will make it possible to pay for purchases on the Internet using selfies. The facial recognition software is called ID Check. It was created by MasterCard in partnership with Google, Apple and Samsung. In the first test ...
US Air Force personnel took a picture with a selfie stick while sitting on the plane's open cargo hatch ramp. The photo shows three military men posing against the backdrop of the desert. Three more uniformed men are visible in the background. Where exactly the picture was taken is not specified. ...