In Amsterdam, breweries of The Hyatt Regency Amsterdam and Lowlander brewed beer from discarded Christmas trees.

The campaign started in December 2018. Its main purpose is to reduce the amount of waste, as well as being able to create something delicious from them, the authors say. A total of about a thousand Christmas trees were collected, and 600 kilograms of needles from them. Brewers brewed beer from the collected Christmas tree needles.

The brewery noted that the drink came out light, with the aroma of coniferous trees, citrus fruits and hops. Only beer can be bought or ordered in the Netherlands. The campaign to collect Christmas trees is promised to continue and release another batch of Christmas beer.

In the Chinese city of Shenyang, the restaurant owner purchased two alpacas. They work as waiters at the facility.

The cafe owner thinks it is better to spend $ 43,000 on an unusual staffing appointment – and they will come to you to look at employees. This is the case with the Chinese restaurant in Shenyang, where alpaca waiters have recently been working.

However, as the alpaca staff are not too diligent, there is not much they can do from a large list of job responsibilities: constantly being in the customer’s view, walking between tables and checking the status of guest plates. But there are no complaints about furry waiters.

State forestry companies have started selling Christmas trees, however, not all trees that can be bought on the market are legal.

The legality of the Christmas tree can be checked by using the mobile application. The application Yalinka.info, developed by the State Forestry Innovation and Analytical Center, will help to find out the species of tree, its breed, diameter, length and, most importantly, whether it was lawfully cut down.

To verify the validity of the Christmas tree, you must enter an individual number from the tag or label attached to the Christmas tree in the mobile application. The barcode of each tree is entered in a single electronic logging system, if the information on this number is missing – this indicates the illegal origin of the tree.

Scientists and musicians, with the help of artificial intelligence, will attempt to add the unfinished tenth symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven to the composer’s 250th anniversary.

A team of composers, musicians, scientists and IT professionals is working on the project. Initially, the neural network analyzed all of Beethoven’s works. Then artificial intelligence was given fragments of the tenth symphony so that he could finish the piece of music. The final version of the song should be submitted on April 28, 2020 in the German city of Bonn.

Beethoven began working on Symphony No. 10 at the same time as Symphony No. 9. The composer did not finish that. A team of musicians and scholars have noted that the continuation of the work from artificial intelligence will not affect Beethoven’s heritage, since the completed composition is not credited to the composer’s creative achievements.

Google has presented the most popular searches for Ukrainians in 2019.

The most popular search query in Ukraine for 2019 was “Game of Thrones Season 8”. In the second place by popularity was the request “Zelensky”, and in the third – “Julia Nachalova”.

Also, Ukrainian Google users were interested in the election results, the presidential candidate debate, news about Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, the Chornobyl series and the 2019 Eurovision Contest.

In the Movies category, Joker was the most in demand. The purchase of the year in Ukraine was the new iPhone 11, the second place in terms of number of requests was a car seat, in the third – tickets UIA and Ukrzaliznytsya.

The Despacito video topped the charts of the most popular videos of the decade on YouTube.

Artist clip Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yanke has gained 6.5 billion views since its release (January 2017). Ed Shiran’s video for “Shape Of You” came in second place with a rating of 4.5 billion views. On the third place is the video of Vis Khalifa’s See You Again, recorded with Charlie Put (4.3 billion views).

Top 5 also included music videos by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars with Uptown Funk (3.7 billion) and South Korean artist PSY (3.4 billion) by Gangnam Style.

The following is Justin Bieber’s song “Sorry” (3.2 billion), Maroon 5 with “Sugar” (3.08 billion). Next up is Katy Perry with the song “Roar” (2.9 billion).

The US has a tradition of producing ugly sweaters for Christmas, which is also occasionally picked up by big brands.

This year, Microsoft has joined such an unusual tradition. In December, the company began sending XP-style Christmas sweaters to journalists, staff and partners (the Professional was changed to Pro-ho-ho-fessional (a hint of the traditional Santa Claus Ho Ho Ho).

The company just wanted to make a joke, but readers in the comments flooded the company with questions: where to buy? The gift was particularly appealing to old-fashioned nostalgia for Windows XP.

The American organization New Story has opened in Mexico the first in the world residential created with the help of a 3D printer.

The neighborhood, created in collaboration with Icon and Échale, is located in Tabasco, southeastern Mexico. One-storey houses of 46,5 square meters. m include two bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bathroom with all necessary communications.

By now, two homes have already been built and families selected by the organization will receive them for 7 years. The house will have to pay about $ 20 a month. New Story officials say the homes are built to meet all safety requirements and must withstand earthquakes in the event of seismic activity.

Sixteen-year-old Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg became the “Human of the Year” according to Time magazine.

The Swedish activist became famous after her speech at the UN General Assembly in September, when she accused the world leaders of inaction and unwillingness to tackle the climate change problem.

A year ago, the activist stopped attending school on Fridays, and instead went out with single pickets to the Swedish Parliament building, demanding a reduction in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Its “school climate strike” has become a grassroots movement for students and students across the globe.

The inventor Daniel West has created a sorter for the details of the LEGO designer based on artificial intelligence.

Made of 10,000 LEGO parts, the LEGO universal sorter uses a neural network to identify, classify and organize plastic parts more efficiently and quickly than a human could.

The parts are loaded onto a moving tape, where they are sorted, with a camera installed that captures all the details on the video. The Raspberry Pi minicomputer then processes the video stream and transmits the data to the laptop. The software compares each item with a database containing 3D models of all LEGO items.

As soon as the neural network matches the part with the part number, it sends the data back to the sorter, who at this point knows which of the 18 sorting baskets to place. The machine processes approximately one brick every two seconds.

Chinese brand OnePlus has built a piano of 17 smartphones, thus demonstrating the capabilities of touch screens and the sound quality of their devices.

The piano keys used 17 smartphones of the OnePlus 7T model located nearby. They were played by professional classical music artist Camille Kamar. Performances were organized on the streets of four European cities – London, Paris, Helsinki and Rothenburg-on-Tauber.

The OnePlus 7T smartphone was unveiled in October this year. The phone has a diagonal of 6.55 inches with 90 Hz refresh rate. It runs the Qualcomm SDM855 Snapdragon 855+ processor. The main photomodule consists of three cameras – 48 + 16 + 12 MP. For Selfie – 16 MP. The capacity of the battery was 3 800 mAh. And the cost of this phone is about $ 600.

Two pigs with monkey cells were born for the first time in a Chinese laboratory, but they died within a week.

To create such a hybrid, on the fourth day after conception, scientists introduced pig embryos to artificially grown monkey cells. The cells were introduced into more than 4,000 embryos. Macaque-craboid DNA was found in the heart, liver, lungs, and skin of piglets.

As a result, only 10 individuals were born, two of them hybrids with a low cell ratio: one monkey cell per 1000 or 10 thousand pig cells. The main purpose of this study is to learn to grow human organs within animals in the future.