Новости за 27.05.2016

Marvel

For decades, Captain America has been a paragon of heroism: self-sacrificing, dedicated, and extremely moral. That all came crashing down with the release of "Captain America: Steve Rogers #1," when the hero was revealed as a double agent for Hydra, an underground network of assassins and saboteurs dedicated to creating chaos. 

It was a breakneck turn for the character, and The Daily Beast spoke with Nick Spencer, the Marvel writer behind the twist. Spencer revealed the Hydra... Читать дальше...

Lisa Eadicicco

Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.

Jawbone has three major fitness trackers: The UP2, UP3, and UP4. The company has struggled to sell the devices and was forced to offload them at a discount to a reseller in order to get the revenue it needed to keep the business going, according to the source.

It's unclear if Jawbone will start making the UP trackers again. Читать дальше...

Pizza Hut Asia announced a plan to use robots designed by SoftBank to serve as waiters in its locations throughout Singapore. The company is partnering with MasterCard to have humanoid robots that can accept orders, tell customers nutritional information, and accept payment through MasterCard's payment system.

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In the first years of her career in brain research, Beth Stevens thought of microglia with annoyance if she thought of them at all.

When she gazed into a microscope and saw these ubiquitous cells with their spidery tentacles, she did what most neuroscientists had been doing for generations: she looked right past them and focused on the rest of the brain tissue, just as you might look through specks of dirt on a windshield.

“What are they doing there?” she thought. Читать дальше...

Apple

Apple is building an intelligent home assistant device to compete with Amazon's Echo.

On Thursday we learned that it will likely come embedded in the next Apple TV, rather than as a standalone speaker.

And now, on Friday, CNET reports that it will likely have a camera that watches whatever room it's plopped down in.

With major tech companies betting on a computing future that involves a lot more talking to boxes and orbs strewn about your home — Google is launching an Echo competitor as well ... Читать дальше...

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Jeffrey Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital, said Friday that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's remarks that a rate hike would be appropriate in coming months "doesn't suggest" a hike in June.

Wall Street trimmed gains in early afternoon trading on Friday after Yellen said it would likely be appropriate to raise rates "in the coming months."

Gundlach said he still believes Yellen was more dovish in her comments Friday than her Fed colleagues.

Following Yellen's comments... Читать дальше...

Apple was reportedly considering buying media giant Time-Warner late last year, which would've given it a huge content business including media brands like CNN and HBO. It also would've cost at least $60 billion, which is Time-Warner's current market capitalization.

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It started with a bout of mononucleosis. Two college roommates and I got it at the same time. They felt better after a month. I didn’t.

Decades later, I’m still living with bone-penetrating exhaustion and brain fog as thick as pea soup. I spent much of my 30s and 40s tethered to my bed, too weak to function. I’ve had to abandon both my career in international relations and my social life.

My mono had morphed into something more permanent... Читать дальше...

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A big new study just linked cell phones to cancer — though really, there's nothing to freak out about for now.

The study talks about rats and didn't actually show that cell phones are making cancer more likely in people.

But sometimes it seems like everything might cause cancer, doesn't it? Bacon, alcohol, the sun, red meat, sugar... the list goes on.

By some definitions, that's true. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research... Читать дальше...

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UPDATE: Heard's restraining order has been granted by a judge, according to TMZ. Depp is ordered to stay 100 yards away from Heard at least until a hearing next month. The judge also gave her the right to live in their home (Depp is currently in Europe promoting his new movie, "Alice Through the Looking Glass"). The judge rejected Heard's request for spousal support (TMZ reports she wanted $50,000 per month and attorney's fees), and requests for Depp to go into anger management... Читать дальше...

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump backed down on Friday from the possibility of debating Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator trailing Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

Trump released a statement on Friday saying that, since he clinched the Republican nomination this week, he didn't think that he should debate the "second-place" Sanders.

He said in the statement:

Based on the fact that the Democratic nominating... Читать дальше...

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Second-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska and 30th-ranked Barbora Strycova created one of the wildest rallies at the French Open on Friday.

Down 3-0 in the middle of the second set, Strycova was serving to Radwanska, down a set in the match.

The two exchanged a couple of normal returns when Strycova slipped on the clay going near the sidelines to return a shot. As Radwanska went to make her return, she too slipped and fell off her feet as she made the return. Читать дальше...

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Silicon Valley billionaire and eBay cofounder Pierre Omidyar is lining up support for Gawker's appeal to overturn the $140 million judgment in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, reports the New York Post.

While the report doesn't say if Omidyar is providing financial support to Gawker, First Look Media is filing a "friend of the court" brief and is trying to rally other media organizations around Gawker's cause — turning any appeal into a free-speech issue.

This news... Читать дальше...

Bloomberg

Stocks did nothing ahead of a three-day weekend in the US as was more or less expected with trading volumes declining steadily during the week.

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen also spoke at an event at Harvard on Friday, making just brief remarks suggesting that if the economy continues to improve the Fed could raise interest rates in the coming months.

First, the scoreboard:

• Dow: 17,873.2, +44.9, (+0.3%)
• S&P 500: 2,099.1, +9, (+0.4%)
• Nasdaq... Читать дальше...

Motivating the Masses

Lisa Nichols didn't grow up with money.

After a humble childhood, she found herself a single parent with a mere $12 in her bank account at age 27. She needed government assistance to survive.

Today, her net worth exceeds $1 million, thanks largely to the success of her company, Motivating the Masses, which offers business coaching and professional development to small business owners.

The journey to millionaire status was not always a positive thing for Nichols... Читать дальше...

USAF

The last B-52 Stratofortress rolled off the line in 1962 and quickly became a staple of the US's air power.

Now, more than five decades later, it's undergoing upgrades to compete in the modern battle space.

Last week, the 96th Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base in California became the first squadron to train B-52s with internal weapons bay upgrades.

The Military Standard 1760 Internal Weapons Bay Upgrade (IWBU) program, the latest in a long line of upgrades to the B-52's relatively ancient airframe... Читать дальше...

MasterCard

A former McDonald's CEO warned this week that companies will replace human workers with robots if the minimum wage is raised above $15.

But that possibility has already become a reality for Pizza Hut waiters.

Pizza Hut has partnered with MasterCard to deploy robotic waiters to its restaurants in Asia.

The robots, named Pepper, can greet and interact with customers, as well as take food orders.

A digital tablet displayed on the robots' chests show menu options. Читать дальше...

AP

The latest version of Apple's young programming language, Swift, will be one of the stars of the show at Apple's World Wide Developers conference (WWDC) which begins June 13.

The programming world has never seen anything like Swift. Apple launched the new programming language a mere two years ago. And its name was a premonition — it caught on like wildfire.

As of this week, some 59% of people building iOS apps are using Swift, compared to 39% who are still building apps with the former programming language... Читать дальше...

A while ago, BI Video gave you six scientifically proven tips on how men can be more physically attractive to women. Now we have six for women – all based on scientific studies.

Caren Maio

It was the day an investor wrote a personal check for $25,000 to help take my startup Nestio to the next level that the responsibility of being a CEO really hit me.

It was 2011, and we were really just three people and an idea. Here was a father of two young kids, taking money out of what could have been a college fund, and investing it in the growth of our company.

I felt an enormous sense of responsibility to him, to the company, and the team, to not only return that money, but make it grow. Читать дальше...

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The Philadelphia 76ers seemingly drifted apart from "The Process," their radical rebuilding strategy, when Sam Hinkie resigned as GM.

Amid his resignation were rumors that the 76ers had already moved on from his process, particularly with the hiring of Jerry Colangelo mid-season.

Now, according to a report from ESPN's Marc Stein and Chad Ford, the 76ers are trying to clear perhaps the last big hurdle from the Hinkie era: Trading either Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel. Читать дальше...

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Washington (AFP) - US special operations forces photographed in Syria wearing the insignia of Kurdish troops considered terrorists by Turkey have been ordered to remove the patches, a military spokesman said Friday. 

Ankara accused the United States, a NATO ally, of "unacceptable" behavior for such an overt display of support for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

"Wearing those YPG patches was unauthorized and inappropriate, and corrective action... Читать дальше...

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The two managers who oversaw the creation of Twitter Moments are no longer at the company, the latest reflection of the stream of departures that the struggling business continues to grapple with.

Madhu Muthukumar, the product manager for Moments, left last week to join Facebook-owned Oculus. And Vijay Pandurangan, who oversaw the team of engineers responsible for building Moments, left Twitter in March, according to his LinkedIn page.

The departures... Читать дальше...

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Mark Cuban weighed in on Friday on the potential for a debate between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — and entertained the idea of holding his own debate against the presumptive Republican nominee.

"What I don't understand is why he doesn't just volunteer to write his half of the check himself," he told Business Insider in an email.

Cuban was referring to Trump's suggestion to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel earlier this week that he'd debate Sanders if the proceeds went to charity. Читать дальше...

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Someone figured out the best way to declare support for their favorite presidential candidate.

Gene Leeds, a 34-year-old Columbia University student, covered his brand-new, very loud, 200-plus MPH Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with stickers and paint in support of Bernie Sanders. All with just a little help from his college professor and from the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign.

And it even still looks good.

Check it out.

Leeds became inspired to deck... Читать дальше...