On the occasion of this year’s annual WWDC conference, Apple invites students to create their own applications.

To participate in the Swift Student Challenge, students must create a program in the Swift programming language developed by Apple. You need to register your project by May 18.

Apple said it “doesn’t need to be an IT professional to test your luck.” Everyone can take part in. Candidates are offered to use the Swift Playgrounds app, available on the iPad, which teaches coding through a special interface.

Applications will be judged on relevance and creativity, and 350 winners will be selected after June 22 – during the annual conference for WWDC developers. The winner of the competition will receive a symbolic award – a collector’s jacket in Apple colors.

On Sunday, May 10, Ukraine celebrates Mother’s Day, Google search engine dedicated a doodle holiday.

On this day, children thank their mothers and show their love in every possible way, give gifts, and arrange pleasant surprises. Google congratulated women on Mother’s Day with an animated doodle. A virtual postcard designer is placed on the search engine’s home page.

In the program, you can create a greeting card from hearts, stars, flowers, spiral pasta, and funny animals. Greetings can be sent on social networks or by mail.

The company reminds that a loved one can be greeted even at a distance in accessible ways, as they did as a child.

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have discovered the nearest black hole 1,000 light-years from Earth.

A black hole was found in the HR 6819 system. Scientists observed two stars in the system when they discovered another object. Yes, one star revolves around an object that scientists do not see every 40 days, and the other is at a great distance from this inner pair.

The third object in this system was a black hole. Its mass is four times the mass of the Sun, and the black hole itself is the closest to the Earth. According to scientists, another feature of this hole is that it is really black. All known black holes have a satellite star that feeds them with gas. But this does not happen in HR 6819, so the black hole loses gas and becomes darker.

The US aerospace agency NASA has presented a helicopter to go to Mars for research in the summer of 2020.

Vanisa Rupani, an 11th-grader from Alabama, chose the name for the device. She won the NASA competition and proposed to name the helicopter Ingenuity. This spacecraft will be part of the Mars 2020 mission, which will send the rover Perseverance to the Red Planet.

The task of a mini-helicopter weighing 1.8 kilograms and 1.2 meters in diameter will be to study Mars from the air. It can hang for 30 seconds and take high-quality pictures with two cameras. In particular, Ingenuity will be able to help explore hard-to-reach areas, such as caves, craters, rocks.

The Mars 2020 mission is scheduled to start between July 17 and August 5. The rover with a mini-helicopter is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars, namely in the crater of Jezero, on February 18, 2021.

Actor and director Tom Cruise plans to shoot the film in space with the help of SpaceX and NASA.

Tom Cruise, along with SpaceX and NASA, plans to shoot an action-adventure in space. It must be partially or completely filmed in space. While film production is in its early stages, there are very few details about it.

“NASA is fascinated by working with Tom Cruise. The film is onboard the ISS. We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to create it. Ambitious plans are becoming a reality, “said NASA President Jim Bridenstein.

“It should be a lot of fun,” Elon Musk added.

On June 6, the YouTube video service will hold online graduation for schoolchildren and students who will be left at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Artists and business representatives were invited to the school party. The guests of the online graduation will be former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, South Korean band BTS, and singer Lady Gaga. They have to give speeches to graduates.

There will also be special performances from Alicia Keys, Kelly Rowland, Carrie Washington, Zendaya, as well as YouTube bloggers Dude Perfect and The Try Guys.

Two days before YouTube’s graduation, Facebook will hold online graduation. It will be hosted by American TV presenter Oprah Winfrey and will feature Miley Cyrus, Jones Brothers, Lil Nas X, and others.

Google’s artificial intelligence has learned to answer direct questions by analyzing the company’s database.

This will allow users to search for ready-made answers several times faster in the future. Google plans to implement an open-source machine learning model that can answer a direct question written in “natural language” (for example, “Which country’s president has ruled the longest?”).

The creators of the model claim that it is able to find answers for which you need to know information about several facts in different areas. To do this, the team stores a huge array of information in the form of tables.

Apple has announced the launch of pre-orders for the new MacBook Pro.

The new MacBook Pro has a 13-inch screen and an updated keyboard. There are four different kits available on Apple’s website, priced from $ 1299 to $ 1999. They all have a new Magic Keyboard instead of the old butterfly keyboard that is often out of order.

The base comes with 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 8th generation Intel Core i5 processor (1.4GHz). Instead, the more expensive version has 16GB of RAM, a tenth-generation processor and 1TB of storage. Both RAM and storage can be expanded (up to 32GB and 4TB respectively).

All line-up devices have two to four Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C inputs as well as a headphone jack.

In the United States, the hotel manager ordered himself a meal and was surprised to see who had brought him the order.

It was not a doorman, but a robot. The man stopped at the Westin Buffalo Hotel in Buffalo, New York, and after checking in with a menu and a voice assistant, Alexa ordered a meal and waited. His name is Welbot, and he started working at the hotel back in 2017.

The machine delivers people drinks and dishes from the cafe on the ground floor of the hotel. According to West Long Buffalo general manager Tom Long, customers are delighted with this innovation.

“Our guests are pleased with this robot. They like that he rides the elevator himself. We integrate robotics into our service so that our guests can have a unique experience,” Long said.

Huawei plans to release HarmonyOS 2.0 for PCs and PCs soon.

Huawei will start selling PCs from the Chinese market. This is in line with Huawei’s earlier plan that featured the release of HarmonyOS 2.0 in 2020 for a wide range of devices, including smartwatches and bracelets, car systems, and computers.

The company’s new operating system is in response to US bans and is not intended to compete with Apple and Google platforms. Huawei thought too late about developing their own OS and therefore did not leave themselves a chance to gain a foothold in this market.

On top of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, appeared a 5G signal that launched on April 30th.

Signaling equipment was installed in a mountaineering camp on a nearby mountain at an altitude of 6.5 thousand meters above sea level. Two other stations at altitudes of 5.8 and 5.3 thousand meters were previously built for its operation.

The equipment was deployed on a mountain for research and determination of its height. Subsequently, they will only leave the station at an altitude of 5.3 thousand meters above sea level. It will signal the base camp of climbers. The other two will be taken apart after the measurements.

Google continues to agitate for people to stay home, search engine has released a new doodle game.

Google introduced doodle about American musician Clara Rockmore. This is an interactive doodle where users are offered “take notes” as Clara Rockmore did.

This doodle is not new, it was first introduced back in 2016. It was dedicated to the 105th anniversary of musician Clara Rockmore. But to entertain the people who are now quarantined, the doodle reappeared on the search engine’s start page on April 30, 2020.

In an interactive Google image, one of the letters plays on a thermowax (an electromusical instrument created in 1920). By clicking on the doodle, the user will be able to play the game and create their own music.