Новости за 23.10.2016

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Nintendo’s future has arrived. It’s called the Switch, and, true to its name, it blurs the line between home console and portable gaming machine.

We can’t say how good the new device will be just yet, but on concept alone, it looks neat.

This is far from the first time we’ve said that about a Nintendo console. The Japanese giant has earned legendary status among gaming fans for making machines — and a whole lot of games — that aren’t quite like their peers.

Some... Читать дальше...

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Seven years ago, when I was a reporter covering the pharmaceutical industry for CBSNews.com, I became interested in a small company called Medarex. The company caught my eye because it was developing a drug for prostate cancer called ipilimumab. During the drug's R&D stage, the Mayo Clinic put out a press release from the researchers working on the drug — who were funded by Medarex — saying the drug had cured three men of inoperable prostate cancers. The... Читать дальше...

Damien Miano, owner and head stylist of the Miano Viel Salon in New York City, explains how to make sure your barber or stylist gives you the haircut you want. 

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International relations theorists of a "realist" persuasion like to claim that states are rational actors pursuing their strategic interests in an anarchic world where power alone matters. Ideology and domestic politics do not much concern these thinkers; they believe that a nation's foreign policy is much more likely to be shaped by factors such as geography, demography, and economics.

This was the viewpoint of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who famously tried to... Читать дальше...

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Parents in the US have a lot of leeway when it comes to naming their children.

Just look at siblings Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, and Heinrich Hinler Hons as an example. Though you could argue there were other repercussions, their parents were totally within their legal rights according to New Jersey law to give their kids these Nazi-themed names. 

And though some states do have restrictions on what parents can name their children for certain practical reasons... Читать дальше...

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Trenton Copeland was just 29 when he was told he'd spend the rest of his life in prison for a cocaine offense. He froze in shock the moment the judge read out the sentence.

It seemed like an impossibly severe penalty.

"It was almost like the world just stopped completely," his mother Annie Fray told Business Insider. "Life in prison, and he didn't kill anybody, for drugs? That is very devastating."

In 2011, Copeland was found guilty of conspiring to distribute and possess more than five kilograms of cocaine. Читать дальше...

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Eleven years ago, Aaron Levie was a college student with a startup idea.

Now, 31, Levie is the CEO of Box, a cloud file storage company with a market cap of $2 billion.

But Levie wouldn't be where he is without billionaire investor Mark Cuban's help.

Cuban was Box's first investor when he made a $350,000 seed investment back in 2005, after receiving a cold email from Levie.

And according to Levie, it was also Cuban... Читать дальше...

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Yonaton and Aviyah Atkin met as babies and started passing love notes in sixth grade.
• Now they're married with a son of their own.
• They told INSIDER their most important tip for keeping a long-term relationship healthy.

The story of Aviyah and Yonaton's relationship is a classic tale of boy meets girl ... except that the boy met the girl before either of them could walk or talk. 

The Israel-based... Читать дальше...

It's a known problem that 35% of people aren't getting enough sleep. One company hopes to change that by making naps more feasible throughout the day. Studio Banana Things, known for their outlandish Ostrich Pillow, has begun selling the Ostrich Pillow Light, a smaller and travel-sized version. The 360˚ pillow can cover your forehead, eyes, or neck to help you get that perfect snoozing angle.

Dogfighting in an F-35 is 'like having a knife fight in a telephone booth'

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The period of time spanning between the beginning of the 20th century and the start of WWII can be called the "golden age of ocean liners." Driven on by immigration to the US and an increased enthusiasm for recreational nautical travel, companies like the White Star Line began building bigger, faster, and fancier ships to accomodate passengers.

The most famous of these ships is the RMS Titanic, which famously struck an... Читать дальше...

Bungie

Exotic weapons are the rarest and coolest-looking guns in "Destiny," the popular shooter from the makers of "Halo." Each one has its own unique perk, designed to help you in clever ways other guns can't.

With the latest expansion dropping last month, "Destiny" now has a whopping 50 different exotic weapons, so we thought it'd be fun to rank them all. Now, for some background, I've personally played over 1,000 hours of "Destiny" since 2014, and I've acquired and used a vast majority of these weapons. Читать дальше...

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Cheap vacations can be booked year-round. 
• Score deals whether you're traveling domestic or international.
• Price drops up to 56% can be found at these locations in the right months.

 You’ve heard the myths: Tuesday is the best day to book airfare. Wednesday is the best day to fly. January is the cheapest month to travel. All of them are up for debate, to a certain extent. But according to new data from Booking.com... Читать дальше...

It's a lot easier than you might think for someone to figure out your password, thanks to special software that uses brute force to run quickly through all of the possible options. But you can create strong passwords using a simple trick that makes them complex yet very easy to remember. 

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Every five years, the US government tries to distill and articulate what's healthy and what isn't. These Dietary Guidelines are a big deal — they're meant to help guide America's eating choices, steering people toward more nutritious foods and away from potentially harmful ones.

Not surprisingly, the Dietary Guidelines are often controversial.

A draft of the latest guidelines released earlier this year attracted the ire of a nonprofit group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine... Читать дальше...

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You might have heard that traders at the biggest US investment banks have been curtailed.

So how is it that a 34-year-old Goldman Sachs trader made a $100 million profit in just a matter of months?

Justin Baer at The Wall Street Journal lifted the lid on the trader, Tom Malafronte, in a great story published Wednesday.

Baer reports that Malafronte, who works on the high-yield desk, bought billions in dollars in junk bonds in January from clients anxious to sell... Читать дальше...

One thing that has emerged from this election season is that many Americans — and some politicians — really underrate the US economy and overrate China’s. Take these Gallup results from earlier this year for instance:

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This week's "Saturday Night Live" guest host, Tom Hanks, joined Alec Baldwin and and Kate McKinnon to spoof the third and final presidential debate.

Playing moderator, Fox News' Chris Wallace, Hanks opened the debate.

"Tonight is going to be a lot like the third 'Lord of the Rings' movie," the "Forrest Gump" actor said. "You don't want to watch, but hey, you've come this far."

To set the tone for the debate, McKinnon's Hillary Clinton explained her plan for this head-to-head. Читать дальше...

The Single-Actuator Wave robot, or SAW, is a robot that travels by moving its body parts in a wave-like motion. Although the robot functions differently from how a worm would maneuver, it surely looks like one. SAW is an ongoing project developed by a team from Ben-Gurion University of Negev. Team members include David Zarrouk, Nir Degani, Ilanit Waxman, Moshe Mann, Tal Yehuda, Nissan Jerbi, and Amotz Hess.

Michael Geary

Michael Geary has been a programmer living in Silicon Valley since before the world called it Silicon Valley. And he's got some incredible stories to tell.

For instance, he's pretty convinced he was the first person ever fired by Steve Jobs.

He was living in Palo Alto in 1976 and shopping in a health food store.

"I was a scraggly looking hippie and I ran into this guy at produce. He was a scraggly looking smelly hippie. I just introduced myself and it turned... Читать дальше...

Celebrities who amass a large fortune often invest in a variety of ventures. Here are the celebrities who made the leap into restaurant entrepreneurs.

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By Luciana Lopez and Chris Kahn

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump rode to the top of the Republican ticket promising a "big, beautiful, powerful" border wall with Mexico to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants. Along that border, however, Americans are more likely to call the wall a "waste of money", according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.

The results show that while the New York businessman may have expected his tough stance on immigration to fire up support nationally... Читать дальше...

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In the food world, one of the biggest stories of the last 50 years has been the waning of French culinary authority, the end of a 300-year reign. 

In the latest annual ranking of “The World’s Fifty Best Restaurants,” only one French restaurant, Mirazur, appears in the top 10. And its menu reflects modernist (“molecular”) gastronomy – a recent trend of using chemistry in the kitchen – rather than anything associated with traditional French cuisine. 

Since the 18th century... Читать дальше...

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America's biggest banks are closing hundreds of branches.

Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan shut 389 branches since the third quarter of last year. 

Bank of America, which had over 6,000 branches before the financial crisis has now shrank to 4,629, according to third quarter accounts.  The bank has cut 112 financial centers from last year. 

Paul Donofrio, CFO of Bank of America, said the closing of branches was part of a "shift to self-served digital channels... Читать дальше...