Новости за 23.07.2015

Today is National Hot Dog Day, so we decided to honor the best hot dogs around the US.

Every job is different, but most bosses seek the same set of basic characteristics in their employees. You can wipe out some of the stress your manager causes by learning and anticipating her quirks, understanding her expectations, and talking to her about shared goals and needs.

On Tuesday, 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, testified in a Manhattan Supreme Court that his flashy lifestyle is not all it's cracked up to be.

When Amazon first announced Dash Buttons — the sticky-backed, branded widgets that you can press to re-order products — people thought it was an April Fools' joke.

Facebook recently redoubled its efforts on bias training when its diversity numbers barely budged from last year, now at 16% female, 3% Hispanic and 1% black among its tech workers.

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (France) (AFP) - Romain Bardet took his first victory at the Tour de France with a solo breakaway on Thursday's 18th stage from Gap to Saint Jean de Maurienne.

Miami (AFP) - Giving chemotherapy to people with terminal cancer and who are near the end of their lives is likely to cause more harm than good, according to a US study Thursday.

How does an astronaut use the bathroom in zero gravity? Retired astronaut and "An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth" author Chris Hadfield told us how it's done. 

The highly esteemed National Hot Dog and Sausage Council has spoken, and their word is law: July 23 is National Hot Dog Day, so how are you celebrating?

Levi's CEO has admitted that the company is threatened by the athleisure trend of wearing yoga pants, Bloomberg reports.

There's more good news about the job market besides the strong initial jobless claims report out today. But instead of Labor Department data, this comes from a cheesecake behemoth.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's (R) presidential campaign found a creative way to highlight a recent poll.

The New York Knicks had an unexpectedly quiet summer in free agency.

They were expected to chase the biggest free agents to quicken their rebuild, but instead settled for Arron Afflalo and Robin Lopez as their two biggest signings — not exactly marquee names.

However, it seems that this may have been Phil Jackson's plan all along. In particular, Jackson seemed to show little interest in the biggest free agent of the summer, LaMarcus Aldridge.

Aldridge, who signed with the San Antonio Spurs... Читать дальше...

Instead of being a mythical rare sighting, more and more "unicorn" companies are joining the pasture filled by private companies with billion dollar-plus valuations.

Last quarter, Amazon thrilled investors by finally breaking out revenue numbers for Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing business, for the very first time.

China is enduring an economic downturn, and that's rippling across the country's massive auto market.

Career success could be predicted as early as kindergarten, according to a 20-year study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health.

IKEA is providing free wall anchoring kits for about 27 million dressers after two children were crushed to death by the company's Malm chest of drawers. The dressers, which owners assemble themselves, can tip over if they are not properly secured to the wall, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

We've written before about the incredible sums of money you can make as a salesperson in the enterprise tech industry. We've talked to top salespeople who routinely pull in over $400,000 a year between base pay and commission.

Your love for iced coffee burns eternal in the summer. 

Your love for convenience, however, thinks spending $3.50 or more on a cup of cold brew — that you also wait in line for 10 minutes for a barista to make  — is a waste of time and money. 

It's basic math: If you buy a $3.50 iced coffee once every weekday, that's $70 a month. Factor in the days you grab multiple cups of Joe and you're easily spending $100 or more on coffee you can just as easily make yourself. 

Priced at $24... Читать дальше...

Nairobi (AFP) - Presidential tours are always expensive, but especially so when the country being visited is, like Kenya, the scene of regular terrorist attacks.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three new crew for the International Space Station arrived at the orbital outpost on Wednesday after a two-month launch delay, a NASA TV broadcast showed.

Hunchun (China) (AFP) - Like many Chinese hotels, the Kunlun International hotel has rock bottom prices. It also boasts rooms with round beds and dance poles, and an all-female North Korean rock band who belt out "Anthem of the Worker's Party" and other socialist classics every night.

Cape Town (AFP) - A new "Beast" could be in the making on a scruffy field in an impoverished South African township, where black children dream of sidestepping the race barrier into the Springbok rugby team.

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Even as immigration remains a hot topic in the U.S. presidential campaign, the number of people emigrating from Mexico to the United States, legally and illegally, has dropped sharply in recent years, research published Wednesday shows.