Новости за 14.01.2017

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Just off a winding highway along the Pacific coast in Monterey, California, is a private clinic where people can pay $8,000 to have their veins pumped with blood plasma from teenagers and young adults.

Jesse Karmazin is the entrepreneur who made the practice possible, by launching a clinical trial on the potential of "young blood" through his startup Ambrosia. He says that within a month, most participants "see improvements" from the one-time infusion of a two-liter bagful of plasma... Читать дальше...

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Amazon is preparing to test experimental wireless communications technology, including mobile devices and fixed-base stations, in rural Washington and Seattle, the company disclosed in government filings this week.

The filings do not specify what the tests would be for, but they hint at a new type of technology or wireless service, noting that the project would involve prototypes designed to support "innovative communications capabilities and functionalities."

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Aaron Rodgers isn't the most outspoken quarterback in the NFL, but he might just be the most competitive. 

The Packers QB has called himself "obsessively competitive," claims to remember every interception he's ever thrown, will sometimes go days without talking to his teammates because of locker-room card-game disputes, and once dropped an f-bomb on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" after missing a question. (He went on to win, of course.)

This sort of competitiveness is... Читать дальше...

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If you want the best finance rates possible, you need a good FICO score. Understanding what this score represents and which elements of your credit history affect it, makes it easier to assess your financial situation and take the steps necessary to make yourself a more appealing prospect for lenders.

What is a FICO score?

The Fair Isaac Corp. created the FICO credit score as a way to assess credit risk. The score takes into account various elements of... Читать дальше...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump and Housing Secretary-designate Ben Carson spoke with entertainer and talk show host Steve Harvey on Friday to discuss an effort by the incoming administration to seek positive changes in U.S. inner cities.

"He said he wanted to do something," Harvey told reporters after the meeting in Trump Tower. "They have a plan for the inner cities but they need some help and so that's why they called me. So we'll see what... Читать дальше...

Airbus

PARIS (Reuters) - Over the past two decades, planemakers Airbus and Boeing have traded the crown in the annual orders race, and it was usually clear who had bragging rights in the fiercely competitive $120 billion annual jet market.

On Wednesday, Airbus retained the top spot when it said it had recorded a total of 731 net orders for 2016, beating Boeing's tally of 668 for the year released a week ago.

Standing out as the unusual kingmaker between the two Western giants is Iran... Читать дальше...

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Americans are more concerned than they were before the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign began about the potential threat Russia poses to the country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday.

The Jan. 9-12 survey found that 82 percent of American adults, including 84 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans, described Russia as a general "threat" to the United States. That's up from 76 percent in March 2015 when the same questions were asked. Читать дальше...

Steve Harvey made his way to Trump Tower today to discuss inner city issues with President-elect Donald Trump.

The Nintendo Switch, the company's new hybrid console, allows you to play games however you want — at home on your big screen TV or on-the-go with the included portable tablet. We got to try out the brand new video game console — here's what it was like. 

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For decades, scientists have been of the belief that the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, was four-and-a-hal billion years old. According to this theory, the Moon was created from a fiery cataclysm produced by a collision between the Earth with a Mars-sized object (named Theia) roughly 100 million years after the formation of primordial Earth.

But according to a new study by researchers from UCLA (who re-examined some of the Apollo Moon Rocks), these estimates may... Читать дальше...

Netflix

This post includes spoilers for "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

Netflix's new show, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," is based on Daniel Handler's beloved children's book series of the same name.

One of the series' greatest strengths is its cast of colorful, absurd, and creatively named characters — from Quigley Quagmire to Person Of Indeterminate Gender. You probably already know Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf, the scheming evil actor who tries to whisk away the fortune of the Baudelaire orphans... Читать дальше...

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Air India has announced that it will reserve a row of six seats on every domestic flight exclusively for female passengers who are traveling alone.

In an report published by The Hindu on January 11, Air India's general manager for revenue management Meenakshi Malik announced, “We will be reserving the third row — six seats — in the economy class of the aircraft for female passengers traveling alone."

Seats in the female-only section can be reserved — free of additional charge ... Читать дальше...

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The ending of David Fincher's 1995 classic psychological thriller "Seven" is one of the greats, with John Doe (Kevin Spacey) delivering the head of Detective Mills' (Brad Pitt) wife in a box.

But if everything had gone as planned, that ending would never have seen the light of day.

The screenwriter of "Seven," Andrew Kevin Walker, recently told the Hollywood Reporter that it was a mix-up in the draft Fincher got when being offered the movie that led to the movie being made with Walker's original ending. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday cleared the way for quick confirmation of James Mattis to serve as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of defense, backing a waiver that will allow him to serve less than seven years after retiring from active duty as a Marine General in 2013.

The House voted 268 to 151, largely along party lines, for a one-time waiver of a provision of a law on civilian control of the U.S. military that... Читать дальше...

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DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan's Takata Corp on Friday agreed to plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing and pay $1 billion to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into ruptures of its air bag inflators linked to at least 16 deaths worldwide.

Takata will pay a $25 million fine, $125 million in a victim compensation fund, including for future incidents, and $850 million to compensate automakers for massive recall costs, the Justice Department said.

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Stocks ticked up on Friday after a slew of economic data.

The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed up, while the Dow finished slightly negative.

First up, here's the scoreboard:

• Dow: 19,885.73, -5.27, (-0.03%)
• S&P 500: 2,274.64, +4.20, (0.18%)
• Nasdaq: 5,574.12, +26.63, (+0.48%)
• US 10-year yield: 2.398%, +0.037
• WTI Crude: $52.51, -0.50, (-0.9%)

1. Americans have never been this conflicted about the economy's direction. Читать дальше...