Новости за 23.03.2016

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Pebble, the buzzy startup credited for being one of the first companies to launch a modern smartwatch, is laying off 40 employees this week, CEO Eric Migicovsky told Tech Insider in an interview. That's about 25% of its total staff.

Migicovsky also said the company has raised $26 million over the last eight months on top of its $20 million Kickstarter campaign that started in February 2015. He wouldn't disclose the investors, but did say Pebble has raised a mix of debt and venture capital from private investors. Читать дальше...

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Google's billionaire executive chairman Eric Schmidt (who describes himself as "a programmer who sort of got lucky at Google") says he's seen the future of wealth creation from the IT industry and its name is "machine learning."

So he said during a keynote speech during Google's Cloud Computing Platform tech conference on Wednesday in San Francisco. 

"Machine learning. This is the next transformation," Schmidt says. "I’m a programmer who sort of got lucky at Google. Читать дальше...

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Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt has had a long, epic career in tech, from a top role at the legendary Sun Microsystems to the CEO and later chairman of Google. 

Today, at a Google cloud event in San Francisco, Schmidt shared that in a lot of ways, his career has come to a head with Google Cloud Platform, the company's cloud computing service. 

During his stint at Sun in the 1980s, Schmidt says, the company worked hard on the concept of "the network computer," with... Читать дальше...

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1. Nike executives couldn't stop telling analysts how much they love innovation On Nike's quarterly earnings call Tuesday afternoon, Nike executives mentioned the word "innovation" no less than 30 times. Last week, the company announced its first self-lacing sneaker.

2. Armani is going fur-free

Georgio Armani announced that he'll no longer be using fur in any of his collections, effective fall 2016, according to Refinery29.

3. Kanye West claims... Читать дальше...

Average grocery prices have been dropping for the last couple of months.

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Like so many of my friends, I fell into — rather than chose — my career path after college.

I’d earned a degree in marketing, which had promised endless opportunities. But then the dot-com bubble burst, leaving me (and the rest of my class) desperately looking for work.

I unexpectedly found myself in an entry-level textile job in fashion, which had definitely not been part of my plan.

I stayed the course for many years, but after almost a decade working in product development... Читать дальше...

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Victoria's Secret holds an impressive 61.8% of the lingerie market, according to IBIS World.

But that doesn't mean that there aren't brands that could potentially diminish that stronghold on the market.

These are five brands that Cora Harrington, the lingerie expert behind the successful blog The Lingerie Addict, thinks that consumers should be on the lookout for.

Harrington stresses that it would take awhile for these brands to overtake Victoria's Secret... Читать дальше...

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Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders have made various promises about manufacturing in the United States — mainly that'll they'll bring it back from China to the long-suffering Rust Belt. 

But as the New Yorker and 538 have pointed out, there's something missing from this pitch. 

Mainly that while manufacturing may be returning, manufacturing jobs aren't. 

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Manufacturing jobs stagnated from the 1970s through 2000... Читать дальше...

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2015 will officially be looked back on as the year that streaming music took over.

Last year, revenue from streaming music services — Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, YouTube, etc. — became the biggest source of revenue for the recording industry. That's according to a report from the RIAA, the trade organization that represents the industry.

This is a big deal for one crucial reason: Streaming music has been growing for years, but downloads ... Читать дальше...

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In the fall of 2013, Yue Zou decided that she wanted to leave Hegang, the city where she lived in the Heilongjiang province of China, and attend college in the United States.

Her boyfriend, already a student at the University of Pittsburgh, was eager to help her get admitted to a competitive university.

He didn’t help to edit her essay or arrange for her to be tutored for the SAT.

Instead he contacted a Chinese company that specializes in finding American-based test-taking proxies who... Читать дальше...

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The Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment is as ubiquitous in career planning as emails in offices.

Anyone who’s visited their high school guidance counselor or college career center has probably taken some version of it and has their four-letter descriptor to show for it.

For the uninitiated, the assessment is based on four pairs, each with two opposite poles: Introversion/Extroversion; Intuition/Sensing; Feeling/Thinking; Perceiving/Judging.

Based on how you respond to the assessment questions... Читать дальше...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is out with its "Transforming World Atlas" research note, which examines global economic trends through a series of maps.

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"Daredevil" fans were ecstatic when actor Jon Bernthal was announced to join the cast for season two as the antihero Frank Castle/The Punisher. Bernthal is best known to fans as Shane from AMC's hugely successful "The Walking Dead." 

"I know how important this character is to you guys and I know how important this show is to you guys," Bernthal told fans at New York Comic Con in October. "I look at this as a huge honor, a huge responsibility, and I give you my absolute... Читать дальше...

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In a Wednesday press conference during a visit to Argentina, US President Barack Obama called out Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator, for suggesting amped-up surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods in the US as a way to prevent terrorist attacks.

Obama's remarks came a day after terrorists hit Belgium, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 230 in bombings at a Brussels airport and metro station.

The president emphasized that fighting the terrorist group ISIS ... Читать дальше...

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Tesla's next car is about to hit the road.

The automotive company has sent out invitations to the launch of its Model 3, the first car it has priced for the average consumer. The event will occur at Tesla's Design Studio in Hawthorne, California at 7 p.m. PDT, and will stream live on Tesla's site.

Customers can preorder the car at... Читать дальше...

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Anyone who has ever paid rent knows the price can be steep.

And there are ways landlords can increase your rent before you even sign the lease.

"If a landlord finds that a renter might have something that could be potentially damaging to the property or a disturbance to the neighbors, they might be more likely to charge extra rent or a fee that a renter might have to pay upon taking a lease," Ralph McLaughlin, Trulia's chief economist, told Business Insider. Читать дальше...

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China has just had a run-in with its only friend in the South China Sea, and that could complicate matters for Beijing as it continues to try to take a more aggressive stance in the region.

On March 19, an official Indonesian vessel detained a Chinese fishing trawler that was operating in Indonesia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of the Natuna islands.

The islands are on the periphery of the South China Sea, and their EEZ abuts China's self-declared Nine-Dash Line... Читать дальше...

Taking a cue from the original "Star Wars" trilogy, "The Force Awakens" relied mostly on practical effects — except for Lupita Nyong'o's character, Maz Kanata, a creature created with motion capture. While Kanata is a complete CGI creation, Nyong'o had to act out every single movement.

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Now that we've seen "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (opening March 25), with its new look at the Dark Knight as Ben Affleck takes over the character, it's time to take stock of the best — and the worst — Batmans we've seen in movies and TV. 

The Batman of the screen has evolved from a witty crime fighter on TV to a darkly conflicted man in the movies.

Fans of Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, are extremely loyal to the actor they believe portrayed him best. Читать дальше...

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Following the attacks in Brussels, reactions both political and security-focused poured in from around the world.

According to Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James, as devastating as the attacks were, financial markets had little reaction.

"US financial market participants appeared to shrug off concerns about terrorism, following attacks in Brussels," said Brown in a note Wednesday.

"Sad to say, but the financial markets may have become desensitized to terrorist attacks. Читать дальше...

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Victoria's Secret is known as the beacon of all things sexy.

Every year, the company has a What Is Sexy contest, where fans and shoppers can vote for who they think is sexy in a variety of categories. This year, the company expanded to a wide variety of social media stars.

This might be a way for the company to appeal to young consumers, many of which are obsessed with these stars. 

But perhaps most notably, it suggests that Victoria's Secret... Читать дальше...

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House Speaker Paul Ryan gave a candid speech on about the "State of American Politics" on Wednesday, during which he admitted that he too hasn't always lived up to what he believes is a high-standard of political discourse.

A member of the audience asked Ryan after the speech if he had been persuaded differently on any policy position he has held and was willing to admit he was wrong.

Ryan — who earlier repeated an apology he had made in 2014 for... Читать дальше...

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Bridgewater Associates' roughly 1,500 employees abide by a culture of "radical transparency."

At the Westport, Connecticut-based hedge fund — the world's largest, with $169 billion in assets — all meetings are filmed and with very few exceptions made available to employees. Employees rate each other's performance using proprietary iPad apps to publicly display averages in "baseball cards" for each person, and criticizing colleagues behind their backs will get you fired. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Radar software being tested for the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin Corp is not stable enough, Pentagon officials said in a written statement at a U.S. House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.

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For over a year, I’ve been documenting the lives of three long-term drug users – Marie, Cheryl, and Johnny – who are participating in Vancouver’s heroin-assisted clinical study and program.

In recent years, heroin use in North America has exploded into an “epidemic.”

At the same time, policymakers and the public have clashed over how to properly treat this public health scourge.

Many heroin users receive methadone and other forms of treatment. Читать дальше...