Новости за 28.08.2016

Tesla

Tesla made history Tuesday when it announced a new battery upgrade that allows the Tesla Model S with Ludicrous to drive 315 miles on a single charge, but as many have already noticed, very few will be able to experience it.

Tesla's latest battery upgrade means the Model S with Ludicrous mode is the first electric car to surpass the 300-mile range mark. That's a big deal, as a limited range is often seen as a weakness for EVs.

After all, it can be hard to justify shelling... Читать дальше...

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The box office in 2016 has been more of a shrug than a full-on crisis.

While there have been bright spots, Hollywood has had some big bets that have not payed off at all this year, especially over the summer, when audiences got tired of all the underwhelming sequels.

And then there are the titles whose performances at the box office have been epically bad.

From "Zoolander 2" to "Ben-Hur," these are the 10 movies that did the worst this year, so far.

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Life is funny.

No one gets a handbook upon turning 18, complete with all the rules they'll need to memorize and competencies they'll need to acquire.

You're just supposed to know that you should have more money coming in than going out, and you shouldn't wear a fuzzy orange sweater to a job interview. And while those may seem more obvious, others such as "managing up" — the strategy of gaining your boss' trust by helping them achieve their goals — are even more subtle, valuable behaviors. Читать дальше...

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been on an incredible run of late and things have only gotten better. Forbes has now named him the highest-paid actor in the world with $64.5 million earned in the past year.

Thanks to franchises like "Fast and the Furious" and "San Andreas," his lifetime worldwide box-office gross is over $6 billion, and coming up he's got a "Baywatch" movie and "Jumanji" sequel.

He's also stepping into the superhero world in the near future as he's signed on to be Doc Savage. Читать дальше...

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Netflix is currently in production on season two of its true-crime hit, "Making a Murderer."

The docuseries follows Steven Avery, a man who had been cleared of a sexual assault charge after spending 18 years in prison.

Free and with a $36 million lawsuit pending against Wisconsin's Manitowoc County, Avery suddenly found himself at the center of the investigation into the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.

Even worse, his teen nephew, Brendan Dassey, was accused of helping. Читать дальше...

Courtesy of A.W. Jones Advisers

The first hedge fund looked nothing like most of those in operation today.

The founder had little investing experience and had bounced around careers in diplomacy, sociology, and journalism before settling on investing at age 48.

Alfred Winslow Jones is widely thought to have created the first "hedged fund" in the late 1940s (though some credit legendary value investor Ben Graham).

He got the idea while researching a markets article for Fortune magazine. Читать дальше...

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If you want to understand the world, look at how people live. Toys are a good place to start.

Dollar Street, a soon-to-launch project from the Gapminder Foundation, went into hundreds of homes at different income levels around the world to photograph people’s possessions. It makes clear a few things:

—Some people have very, very little.

—People at similar income levels lead similar lives, a sign that economics matter more than culture. Читать дальше...

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At least 28 Libyan fighters were killed and more than 180 wounded on Sunday as they advanced on the final Islamic State militant holdouts in the coastal city of Sirte, according to a hospital casualty list.

Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government, supported since Aug. 1 by U.S. air strikes, have pushed militants back into a small residential area in central Sirte during a three month campaign. Heavy fighting resumed on Sunday after a one-week lull.

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A law banning the full-body "burkini" swimsuit in France would stoke tensions between communities and would be both unconstitutional and ineffective, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in an interview published on Sunday.

France's highest administrative court, the Council of State, ruled on Friday against a decision to ban the burkini by the mayor of the resort town of Villeneuve-Loubet.

The ruling may set a precedent for the dozens of French towns that have also ordered burkini bans. Читать дальше...

The Silicon Valley and music industry elite gathered on Saturday at gorgeous Lake Como in the Lombardy region of Italy to celebrate the wedding of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to Sofia Levander.

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Glassdoor

Silicon Valley — the southern portion of California's San Francisco Bay Area — is home to thousands of startups and dozens of the world's largest tech companies.

To find out which of them offer the fattest paychecks, we turned to Glassdoor. 

Glassdoor sifted through thousands of salary reports submitted to its website by employees between March 2015 and March 2016 to find the highest-paying companies.

To be eligible for the list, each company had to be headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area... Читать дальше...

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With television taking over for film as the creative center of Hollywood, more and more huge stars are signing on to small-screen projects.

We've already seen Halle Berry, Matthew McConaughey, Glenn Close, Kevin Costner, Laura Dern, Kevin Spacey, Viola Davis, and many more movie stars on TV shows. Well, that list just keeps getting bigger.

For fall 2016, cinema's leading men and ladies Anthony Hopkins, Isabella Rossellini, and Dermot Mulroney join talent from TV's past golden ages (Ted Danson... Читать дальше...

Violence in Mexico has been on the rise in recent months, as fragmented criminal organizations clash around the country, competing with Mexican authorities and each other for control of illegal enterprises.

Though she’s not on the schedule, Beyoncé may be performing at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night, Billboard reports. The Los Angeles Times also reported the possibility, pointing to secret rehearsals in anticipation of MTV’s annual awards show. Whether she performs or not, it’s a safe bet she will be attending: she has eleven award nominations, more than any other artist.

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Wall Street's smart money is falling back in favor with the beaten-down energy sector.

Large private-equity investors moved to the sidelines of energy-related corporate debt as the price of crude oil fell.

These days, however, they are doing the due diligence that precedes making big deals on the sector's continued recovery, according to Thomas McNulty, a Houston-based director in the valuations and financial risk management practice at Navigant.

These... Читать дальше...

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Britney Spears seems to have left the lows of her highly publicized 2008 meltdown far behind her.

On Friday, she released her first album in three years, "Glory."

The pop star, who has sold more than 33 million albums in the US, is also riding high at her extended residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Like Kim Kardashian before her, Spears recently released a game with Glu Mobile, and she unveiled her 20th fragrance with Elizabeth Arden.

Despite her post-2008 success... Читать дальше...

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Richard Barbrook had to wait 20 years to speak publicly about his landmark essay “The Californian Ideology” in California. Though he’d toured the paper around Europe when it was first released in 1995, UC Santa Cruz’s “50 years of Imagined Futures in California” conference was the first time he’d talked about it to an audience anywhere in the US, and they were very prepared to listen. After all, he’d been right about so much of what California, or at least its tech industry, has become. Читать дальше...

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The internet is undoubtedly one of most important technical advances ever, but it's not always a very nice place.

It's the home of trolls and haters, a place where famous people and ordinary people alike are often subject to shocking threats, insults, and having their personal information published online (a practice known as doxing.)

It's a thorny problem for social-media sites like Twitter, which would rather protect free speech instead of police speech, and Facebook... Читать дальше...

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Native advertising—ads that have the look and feel of the content that surrounds them—are not really new.  

Ever since the first radio programs interviewed sponsors about their businesses and early magazines turned over parts of their issues to “advertorials,” smart advertisers have tried to slip their messages under the radar of wary target audiences.   

But today, native advertising is one of the hottest areas of the online advertising world for three simple reasons... Читать дальше...

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An essential drug that has been on the market for decades still has a sticker price out of range for some patients who need it.

Insulin, a lifesaving treatment for diabetes, was first patented in 1923. Unlike many common, even newer medicines, a generic option does not exist. At the same time, the cost of insulin has more than tripled.

According to a 2016 analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 2002, the cost per patient per year was $231. In 2013, it was closer to $736. Читать дальше...

We already revealed the physical traits that make women attractive to men. Now we have a group of traits that make men attractive to women. 

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The Obama administration has touted its negotiations to remove chemical weapons from Syria as a major diplomatic achievement.

But a new report from the UN Security Council found that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against civilians in violation of the deal the Obama administration brokered with the help of Russia in 2013.

The report confirmed two instances of chlorine-gas attacks carried out by the Assad regime — one in 2014 and one in 2015. Читать дальше...

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You might think the Panama Papers leak would cause the ultrarich to seek more transparent tax havens.

Not so, according to Jordan Greenaway, a consultant based in London who caters to the ultrawealthy.

Instead, they are going further underground, seeking walled-up havens such as the Marshall Islands, Lebanon, and Antigua, Greenaway, who works for the PR agency Right Angles, told Business Insider.

The Panama Papers leak around Mossack Fonseca, a law... Читать дальше...