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Many foreign publications have recently also begun to offer their users access without advertising for a fee. This has become especially active in connection with the growing popularity of third-party ad blocking services. For example, Wired in early February limited access to its site for users of blockers and offered them either to disable the program or to take out a paid subscription to the site without advertising for $3.99 per month.

Russian publication CNews is trying to maintain profits in a similar way. When switzerland mobile phone numbers database AdBlock users open any CNews article, most of the page is covered with a placeholder asking to subscribe to an ad-free version of the site for 1,000 rubles a year.

It is obvious that more and more media outlets will try to find new ways of monetization that are not directly related to advertising, since today it is increasingly devalued. Let's see which publications and media holdings will be next.



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Three-dimensional printing, which until recently seemed like an invention for the elite, has not only become much more accessible to the mass consumer in the last few years, but has also proven its practical benefits. With the help of this technology, inexpensive prostheses and various spare parts are produced, and the International Space Station has already begun printing tools that will help save on delivery from Earth. The first such object created in zero gravity was a wrench . Quite modest, but you have to start somewhere.

And at the end of January, a group of Harvard researchers tested 4D printing technology. In this case, the fourth dimension is time.

According to the head of the scientific group, Jennifer Lewis, the researchers were inspired by plants that change their shape over time depending on the lighting, humidity and temperature. During the first experiment, a flower was created that, due to the properties of the material, was able to "float" under water.