Новости за 29.05.2016

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Just because everything in your life is running smoothly right now doesn’t mean that that’s going to last.

You may dream of starting a new business. You could move across the country. You fall in and out of love. You lose a loved one.  

In other words, life happens and it completely turns your life upside down.

Around four years ago, it seemed like I was living the dream. I successfully sold my startup, had a guaranteed job for... Читать дальше...

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GIF by Skye Gould/Tech Insider A text pops up from your crush.

You see it immediately — but when do you text back? You don't want to reveal that you're waiting by the phone, but you also don't want to come across as rude or uninterested.

To get some guidance, Tech Insider consulted Daniel Post Senning, Emily Post's great-great grandson and author of "Manners in a Digital World." He works for the Emily Post Institute, which has published etiquette guides since the 1940s. Читать дальше...

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CARACAS (Reuters) - German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG said on Saturday it will temporarily suspend flights to Venezuela as of next month due to economic difficulties in the South American nation and problems converting local currency into dollars.

International airlines have for years struggled to repatriate billions of dollars in revenue held in the local bolivar currency due to exchange controls, prompting many to limit service and require that passengers pay fares in dollars. Читать дальше...

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Photographer James Ball, also known as "Docubyte," always felt an affinity towards the world's earliest computers.

"I love looking at those old images online of vintage mainframe rooms and early huge computers," he told Business Insider.

However, he had an urge to document these magnificent machines in a way that honored them better than the old black-and-white photos he was seeing. So Ball began to research, locating the computers that changed the course of technology... Читать дальше...

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Thailand has the second-highest obesity rate in south-east Asia, largely due to the fact that its delicious cuisine can be rather greasy.

Since people in Thailand are unlikely to change the food they eat, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and BBDO Bangkok decided to tackle how they eat their food. (We first saw this campaign over at Adweek.)

And so the "AbsorbPlate" was born.

The design of the plate was inspired by the surface of a sponge and contains hundreds... Читать дальше...

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Otis Johnson was released from prison in 2014 after being locked away for 44 years. He was 25 when his sentence started, and 69 when he was released.

On the outside, he quickly realized the world was a very different place — downright futuristic compared to the world he left behind back in the late 1960s.

In an interview and video for Al Jazeera, Johnson visited Times Square in New York City, where he was surprised and confused by the modern technology surrounding him... Читать дальше...

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Fox has hype on its side, based on this top 10 of new shows generating the most conversation out in the world. It has more titles on the list than any other broadcast network.

That could be attributed to the many reboots, remakes, and spin-offs on its programming slate for the next year, announced alongside other networks at the recent upfronts event.

ListenFirst Media measured and analyzed the online impact of the new TV shows and their trailers across more than 40 digital and social platforms... Читать дальше...

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Zell gets even gloomier, hammers ZIRP, starts selling. “No one has ever accused me of not being a realist,” Sam Zell told CNBC. The chairman of Equity Group Investments and of apartment mega-landlord Equity Residential was talking about the markets for office and apartment buildings in some major cities that have already peaked.

“Overall we’ve come off this extraordinary period of liquidity and this extraordinary period of low interest rates,” he said. “I think we’re unlikely to see a repeat of that going forward... Читать дальше...

When Boston Dynamics posted a video of its humanoid robot, Atlas, walking in the snow and recovering from getting kicked, Google was not happy.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that's spread primarily though the bite of an infected black-legged tick. These tiny insects, which can carry the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, typically live in wooded and grassy areas.

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Before she joined Google in 2014 to work as head of the company's secretive wearables division, Ivy Ross worked at companies as varied as the toy giant Mattel and the clothing conglomerate Gap Inc.

And before that, Ross was a jewelry designer whose work was placed in the permanent collections of some of the world's foremost museums.

It was her unorthodox path, though, that has taught her fundamental truths about setting your career path, she told new graduates... Читать дальше...

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France will "go all the way" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said.

Sapin, speaking in an interview with Reuters and three European newspapers, ruled out negotiating any deal with Google on back taxes, as Britain did in January.

Dozens of French police raided Google's Paris headquarters on Tuesday, escalating an investigation on suspicions of tax evasion.

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Since it debuted a decade ago, Gmail has become not just another email program, but a cultural force. It is the world's largest email service, and it has set the standard for what people expect in terms of ease of use and inbox size.

But that doesn't mean it can't be better.

A bunch of apps and plug-ins floating around the internet can make your experience using Gmail so much more enjoyable. With these amazing add-ons, you can see when people are tracking your emails... Читать дальше...

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Late last year, Russian newspapers reported what would have qualified as a stunning piece of news almost anywhere else: The chairman of the country’s largest parliamentary body had been exposed as a plagiarist.

Sergei Naryshkin, the former chief of staff in Vladimir Putin’s administration and a prominent member of his United Russia party, stood accused of receiving the Russian equivalent of a doctoral degree on the strength of a dissertation in which more than... Читать дальше...

Which exercise is healthier for your brain? Researchers based in Finland and the US compared three types of exercises in 88 adult male rats, and their results were interesting.

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Rome (AFP) - Up to 700 migrants are feared to have drowned in deadly shipwrecks off the coast of Libya this week, the UN's refugee agency said Sunday, citing survivor testimony.

"The situation is chaotic, we cannot be sure of the numbers, but we fear up to 700 people may have drowned in three shipwrecks this week," one of which was believed to have claimed over 500 lives, UNHCR spokesman Federico Fossi told AFP.

About 500 migrants were declared lost... Читать дальше...

Dragonfly

When brands release new icons and logos, previously loyal customers often groan with frustration.

This happened when Instagram changed its app icon at the start of May. The flatter, more abstract design was described by Adweek as possibly "one of the biggest design fails of the year."

But the industry trade title was wrong, according to new analysis from Dragonfly, a design-analysis app created by Black Swan and researchers from Queen Mary University of London.

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Disgruntled Icelanders recently forced their prime minister to quit, and are threatening to hand power to self-styled pirates at an early election.

But whereas other European voters are culling traditional parties out of weakness, Reykjavik’s are rebelling out of strength.

In contrast to eurozone countries (core as well as periphery) that remain deeply constrained by excessive external debt, Iceland has just paid down its foreign obligations by a cool US$61 billion... Читать дальше...

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The digital media and advertising landscape is staggeringly complex.

In the milliseconds it takes for a web page to load, dozens of companies you probably have never heard of are bidding in a furious auction to serve you an ad.

And that's just one area: programmatic advertising.

The investment bank LUMA Partners, the company known for its LUMAscape summaries, has a new presentation on the state of digital media that helpfully explains the biggest trends... Читать дальше...

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Donald Trump has surged in recent national polls against Hillary Clinton, overtaking her for the first time in the coveted RealClearPolitics average of several polls earlier in the week.

But for all the fuss over the national polls, the only outcome that will matter on election night is how many states Trump can convert from blue to red on the 2012 electoral map between President Barack Obama and then-GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

And, based on recent polling and projections... Читать дальше...

There will be roughly 10,000 baby boomers retiring every single day for the next 20 years or so. Entire industries and jobs are going to need to be created for the sole purpose of servicing this group. Healthcare comes to mind, but financial services will be in high demand as well, especially when you consider the number of advisors who are themselves baby boomers who will be retiring in the coming years.

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There's a colloquialism that hedge fund managers are "masters of the universe."

These investors take big risks betting on the market, but the reward has usually been pretty significant.

Let's not forget, five hedge fund managers made over $1 billion in 2015. 

Based on recent outlooks, however, the reign of these "masters" may be coming to an end.

Everywhere you look, it appears that doom and gloom is surrounding the industry. From competitors... Читать дальше...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Klay Thompson made a playoff-record 11 3-pointers and scored 41 points, and the defending champion Golden State Warriors forced a seventh game in the Western Conference finals with a 108-101 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night.

Stephen Curry bounced back from a slow start to finish with 29 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.

The Warriors, who set the league's regular-season record with 73 wins, will host Game 7 on Monday. Читать дальше...