Company YouTube announced the launch of a new feature that allows users of the same name service blur the faces of people in the video, thus preserving their anonymity.

The number of Internet users in China at the end of the beginning of summer 2012 has exceeded 538 million, according to online information center. According to estimates of the organization, the Internet covers almost 40 percent of China's population. In the past 6 months there was only 24.5 million new Internet users, the lowest figure in the last four years.

Yandex has added to its service detailed diagrams 8 cities of Russia and published updated maps of St. Petersburg and another 5 cities. Users "Yandex.Maps" is now available for detailed diagrams Suzdal, Chita, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Birobidzhan, Yoshkar-Ola, Nizhnevartovsk, Surgut and Magnitogorsk.

In the championship Cup 2012, organized by the "VKontakte" and a resource for programmers Sodeforces participated programmers in age from 14 to 23 from around the world. Final competition was held from 13 to 16 July in the main office Vk. First place went to 16-year-old high school student from China Gu Yuzhu (Yuzhou Gu).

Postal service Mail.ru will send mailings to reviewers notice that the user is subscribed to them found their message is spam. Thus it will be possible to regulate inactive and unnecessary subscribers.

Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a transparent device that generates electrical energy to pressure and friction. In the future, such a device can be self-powered or touchscreens become the basis of pressure sensors. The work is published in the journal Nano Letters.

Facebook launched anti-virus service Malware Checkpoint, reported on the official Facebook Security. This service is intended for users who are suspected to have appeared on their computer malware.

A popular question and answer service Formspring informed about the leak of about 420,000 passwords as a result of a hacker attack. Developers Formspring already eliminated the vulnerability, but in order to deactivate security passwords to all user accounts and sent out e-mails to their owners with the recommendation to change your password.

Corporation Microsoft, which will release in October, the first device to the operating system, Windows 8, "will not leave any stone unturned" in competition with Apple. This statement was made CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview with CRN.

Google will pay a fine for illegally obtained personal data of the owners of iPhones, Ipad and makbukov. Corporation has found a hole in the Safari web browser installed on all devices Apple.