Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has donated 1 million dollars to tree planting.

Musk supported the environmental company #TeamTrees. Musk saw a tweet from blogger MrBeast, the initiator of the tree-planting campaign, about environmental campaigns. Musk wrote to him and asked to explain the sence of #TeamTrees.

Subsequently, Musk wrote, “Okay, sounds legit. I donate 1 million dollars, ”and changed his name on Twitter to Treelon.

Recall that by campaign rules, planting one tree costs 1 dollar, meaning Max sponsored the planting of one million trees.

Hyundai, in collaboration with Pony.ai, introduced BotRide, a shared stand-unmanned taxi service operating on public roads.

“The pilot project introduces BotRide to hundreds of Irvine residents, including college students. The goal is to explore consumer behavior in an autonomous car-sharing environment, ”said Christopher Chang, Hyundai Motor Company’s Head of Business, Strategy and Technology Development.

The user can call the car through a mobile application, after which the taxi with an engine behind the wheel will come to him and take him to the desired point in the testing area. As part of the test, the trip will be free of charge in a limited area.

North Carolina police arrested a drunk driving man whose stomach prodused alcohol on his own.

Men’s blood alcohol levels were 0.2%, about 2.5 times the US limit. The man assured the police that he did not drink. Doctors eventually discovered that he was telling the truth. There were yeast in his gut that probably turned carbohydrates into alcohol.

A man has a rare condition known as bowel fermentation syndrome. This condition occurs when the yeast in the gastrointestinal tract causes the body to convert the carbohydrates that come with the food into alcohol.

Apple launches new AirPods Pro wireless headphones.

According to Apple, the headphones absorb noise, and the microphone recognizes external sounds and eliminates them. Therefore, AirPods Pro will only hear music, podcasts and calls without any external noise. At the same time, there is a Transparency mode that lets you hear all the sounds around in parallel with the music.

AirPods Pro has three sizes of nozzles: small, medium and large. This will allow users to choose their own convenient size. The headphones work up to 4.5 hours of music listening and up to 3.5 hours of talk time without recharging. The headphone case charges them up to 24 hours for listening to music and up to 18 hours for talking.

The new model costs from $ 249.

American technoblogger Michael Reeves decided to ask the subscribers to help him with the arrangement of the room and wrote a special bot, which all day bought everything that users wanted.

All day Twitter users had to send bot links to Amazon products. Initially, the maximum purchase price was $ 25, but later Reeves increased the amount to $ 90. Every 15 minutes, the bot selected the product that received the most likes – and ordered it.

As a result of the blogger came 95 products. People have bought a lot of products related to the K-pop group BTS. So much so that as a result, the room now has an entire altar dedicated to the South Korean group. And many other themed products.

US President Donald Trump has criticized the design of new iPhones.

Speaking to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Trump wrote, “Tim: the iPhone button was much better than a flip.” These are new iPhone models that come with no mechanical home button starting in 2017.

Trump has previously criticized the design of the iPhone. Back in 2013, he urged the company to develop a larger-screen phone model to better compete with the Samsung handset maker.

“I can’t imagine Apple not offering a larger screen iPhone. Samsung is taking their business. Steve Jobs is turning over in the grave,” Trump wrote at the time.

A new research by the National Confectioners Association (NCA) found that Americans will spend $ 2.7 billion on Halloween candy.

Traditionally, sweets are distributed to children who knock on doors and ask for treats. 77% of NCA Americans surveyed give out candy. Chocolate is favored by 68% of survey participants. Second place is the traditional candy corn toffee, which accounts for 10%. The rest, 9%, contain chewing candies, mint candies, caramel, candy canes and licorice candy.

The majority of respondents (85%) prefer small confectionery products. Approximately 90% of parents want to use Halloween to talk to their children about the need for moderation in consuming sweets.

Swiss scientists have found that the simplest, cheapest and most effective way to hide from surveillance cameras is to do makeup.

In order for the plan to work, you should use the services of a professional makeup artist, say scientists. Face recognition systems typically respond to facial features such as eyes, nose, chin, and jaw, as well as to recognize skin texture and blemishes on the face.

Therefore, the system can be deceived, for example, by adding wrinkles and bags under the eyes. Or you can change the facial features by contouring. To fool the cameras, they usually use baseball caps and accessories like glasses, hats, wigs and overhead beards. But algorithms have already learned to deal with such tricks.

In India, college freshmen were forced to take a written exam with cardboard boxes on their heads.

In this way, the administration decided to combat the write-off. The Department of Education called this attitude to students a “inhuman idea” and issued a formal warning to the college’s management.

The college administration has already apologized for the situation, saying that they used the boxes solely to combat write-offs and did not want to humiliate students. The administration also stated that the students had given their consent before.

Apple will introduce new AirPods wireless headsets by the end of this month.

New AirPods will receive an updated design. They will be created using metal alloys that will provide better heat transfer. And they will cost $ 260. Apple’s new headphones may be waterproof.

The appearance of the Air Pods has not changed since the release of the first model in December 2016. In March this year, the company released the 2nd generation of headphones – this model is equipped with an improved Apple H1 processor, 50% longer running without recharging, responds to the voice command “Hi, Siri” and can be equipped with a wireless charging case.

Windows 7 will no longer adapt to the modern “iron”.

With the termination of support for the operating system Windows 7, it will cease to adapt to the modern “iron”, so if suddenly some manufacturer of accessories will release new drivers, such as for a video card or processor, the system may stop working at any time.

Enterprise users of Windows 7 can continue to support the old OS until January 2023, that is, for three years, but in this case for the first year will have to pay extra $ 50, for the second $ 100, and for the third $ 150.

Experts have found a serious vulnerability in the Click to Pray application, which is used with the Catholic eRosary smart rosary.

The vulnerability allowed hackers to gain access to the accounts and personal data of the users, knowing only their email. It only takes 15 minutes to break the program. French cybersecurity expert Baptiste Robert contacted the Vatican, and the vulnerability of the application was eliminated.

Recall that the Vatican has released an eRosary electronic gadget to help believers pray regularly. The device is made in the form of a rosary – a crucifix with a crucifix, traditionally used for prayer. The device can be purchased for $ 110 or $ 99.