American designer Honglin Lee has designed a skyscraper waste recycling station project.

He proposes to build a skyscraper in the middle of the Pacific Garbage Spot, which is located in the northern Pacific Ocean. Dense arrays of plastic and other wastes are concentrated here. The plain occupies more than 8% of the ocean floor and in size exceeds the territory of Ukraine. The layer of garbage on average is 30 meters.

The tower will pump dirty waste water and produce filtered water and sorted garbage. The circulation will be due to the energy of the tide.

Xiaomi Company has announced a new Mi Health application to monitor its health.

Mi Health basically copies the existing Mi Fit application, but combines a large number of gadget brands that allow you to collect and store data about physical activity and health of users. Mi Health appeared in the latest MIUI for developers (version 9.7.23).

Mi Health can track the time and duration of sleep, including in the background, menstrual cycles indicating the start date on the calendar, the number of steps taken, the body mass index, and other metrics. It can also set personal training goals and get recommendations for improving your results.

Fujifilm has developed an SX800 surveillance camera with 40x optical zoom, designed to provide security at international frontiers and large commercial sites.

The camera is equipped with a built-in lens with a focal length of 35 mm, equivalent to 20 to 800 mm, and an additional digital zoom. This gives the SX800 a full equivalent focal length of 1000 mm, which is enough to focus on the license plate of the car at a distance of 1 km.

The camera has a fast autofocus that can focus in just 0.3 seconds, optical image stabilization and image processing that can reduce the effects of fog and thermal fog. The camera also supports ISO levels up to 819200 for shooting at night.

In the Rotterdam, the Netherlands installed 130 containers for the collection of stale bread.

In Rotterdam, there will now be a constant production of electricity from hardwoods. The BroodNodig pilot project was launched 3 years ago, it was a private initiative gained by the mayor’s office.

During this time, the organizers gathered 125 thousand kilograms of bread – enough to supply 50 apartments annually with biogas. And if the same quantity of bread is used for power generation, it is possible to keep 2 thousand light bulbs turned on all year round.

Rotterdam is not the first city in the Netherlands, where they tried to get energy from bread. In the past year, the same containers for collecting hardwoods were installed in Amsterdam. According to the statistics of the Dutch Center for the Study of Nutrition Voedingscentrum, each resident of the Netherlands has 41 kg of eaten food per year, of which 22% are bread and pastries.

In ten days, FaceApp users installed an application 6.5 million times – 2 million times on the iPhone and 4.5 million times on Android.

For example, on July 17 FaceApp downloaded 1.6 million times, and the popular Instagram is just over a million times. An app that allows you to “age” the user, got in the top 50 most popular apps in Botswana and South Africa, and in a few days ranked first in the App Store and Google Play Tops in the US and other countries.

The surge of interest in FaceApp not only brought him to the tops of store applications, but also had a positive impact on the financial performance of the company. Over the past week FaceApp has earned at least $ 1 million in built-in purchases made by users from all over the world.

In just ten days from July 9 to July 19, the app earned over $ 1 million.

A rigorous event took place at the Robotechnics Show in Las Vegas – one robot “became bad” upon the arrival of his “colleage”.

At the Amazon Reproduction Show: MARS, a curious case occurred during a presentation by Boston Dynamics. One of the robots of the Spot Mini Company first walked around the scene. His behavior resembled a pet puppet. Suddenly the robot began to circle around its axis, pressing the limbs, and then fell.

Probably the incident occurred due to design problems. However, engineers decided to leave the situation with humor. They jerked, saying that their robot was simply “became bad” at the sight of their colleage. The audience accepted such a statement with laughter. To resolve the problems, it took several minutes to interrupt the presentation of the company. After the incident was exhausted, the event continued in normal mode.

The Hyperloop Vacuum Traction Capsule, developed by students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), during the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition, set a new speed record of 463 km / h.

This is 6 km / h more than the previous maximum capsule speed, but the desired goal at 1200 km / h is still far away. Ilona Mask’s idea about vacuum trains, announced by him in 2012, has captured many entrepreneurs, but the final confirmation of the effectiveness and realization of this concept has still not been presented.

In addition to companies – such as HTT and Hyperloop One – the development prototype capsules in reduced form engaged students of technical universities. Annually, they present their work at the Hyperloop Pod Competition, sponsored by the SpaceX Aerospace Company. Develop a record speed thanks to the student project.

PlayWay publisher and Live Motion Games studio on the wave of popularity of the “Chernobyl” series announced in the Steam simulator Chernobyl Liquidators Simulator.

The player will act as one of the liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 and will try to help humanity to contain radiation. As civil or military players, they will make difficult decisions, and will be able to execute orders or not, if they wish.

The objectives of the game will be the study of Chernobyl and Pripyat, rescuing people from homes, killing animals, as well as an attempt to avoid a deadly dose of radiation. Developers promise the realism of the game without excessive fantasy.

The release date of the Chernobyl Liquidators Simulator is not yet called.

Apple can return the old logo with a rainbow.

This year, the corporation plans to release gadgets with the first logo of Apple. The Rainbow logo became the first Apple logo after the original image of Isaac Newton under the apple tree. The Rainbow Apple first appeared on an eight-sided Macintosh computer in 1984 and was used until 1998.

Apple did not specify exactly which gadgets the old-new logo will appear. Most likely, it will be Apple Mac, iPhone and iPad. The company also uses an rainbow color in the design of the head office.

Microsoft at the Microsoft Inspire conference revealed a hologram-translator designed for the added-value glasses of HoloLens 2.

Earlier, Microsoft has already demonstrated progress in creating holographic images, but the moment from language to speech was introduced to the public for the first time, it is implemented on the basis of the virtual reality of HoloLens.

In a new demonstration, the company complemented the hologram translation. Digital hologram of the demonstration participant – the head of the Azure cloud platform – Julia White read out the Japanese version of the speech.

For this purpose, researchers used text-to-speech technologies that allow the recorded text to be translated by voice, even in a different language.

In some countries of the world, including Australia and Japan, Instagram has begun to conceal the number of likes under letters to “dampen” users.

The trial version starts on Thursday, which means users will see the user’s name under the messages, and not the number of likes under the posts. Research shows that such kind of instant feedback on content can increase self-esteem, but reduce it to others if they do not receive so much likes.

Instagram launched a similar test in Canada in May, and has now expanded its geography to Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Brazil.

The company hopes that in this way, users will be able to focus on sharing what they like and do not get tired of likeing.

Google has added an interpreter that works with a smartphone camera, it has the ability to translate from Ukrainian into more than 100 languages.

This feature is quite popular among millions of users around the world. Practically on any modern smartphone technology works well. Now Ukrainians will also be able to use this innovation in different cities and countries, simply direct the camera to the name of the street or the sign of the store to get a translation in Ukrainian in real time.

“One of the most interesting features in the Google Translator mobile application is instant translation with a camera that lets you see the world in your native language simply by directing the camera to foreign language,” the company said.