Новости за 21.04.2017

Elon Musk has a new plan to protect humanity from artificial intelligence — if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. In October 2014, Musk ignited a global discussion on the perils of artificial intelligence. Humans might be doomed if we make machines that are smarter than us, Musk warned. He called artificial intelligence our greatest […]

For Lem Butler, a cup of coffee isn’t just a cup of coffee. That cup or a single shot of espresso represents a community that reaches around the world. The winner of the 2016 US barista championship, Butler has traced his favorite beverage back to its origins: From the farmers who grow and harvest the […]

Cuba Gooding Sr., soul singer and father to actor Cuba Gooding Jr., was found dead in a car, according to police and the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office. He was 72. LAPD officers located Gooding in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon. Authorities said they found no indication of foul play. […]

Three Stanford graduates figured out a way to turn carbon dioxide into fuel. A few years have passed, and their idea has since become a company — Opus 12 — complete with a prototype, funding and a plan for a first commercial unit. Opus 12 is one of the lucky ones. Clean energy startups face […]

It’s not hard to recognize the hallmarks of a speech by President Trump. Part businessman, part politican, part emcee, he adopts phrases and goes back to them over and over again. He punctuates sentences with a smattering of superlatives and decisive adjectives — Great! Wrong! SAD! He makes promises and assurances that are verbal equivalents […]

No one — and I mean NO ONE — knows or cares more about the federal budget than Stan Collender. (Stan’s Twitter handle is @thebudgetguy. I rest my case.) With a week left before the federal government is set to run out of money and shut down, I reached out to Stan for some perspective. […]

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says the Trump administration hopes to follow through on President Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico before the fall. “We hope to begin construction by the end of the summer,” he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan Friday on “At This Hour.” […]

One of the top officials at the Justice Department overseeing the FBI’s probe of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the presidential election will leave the department next month. Mary McCord — a career prosecutor for over 20 years — has been serving as acting assistant attorney general at the National […]

You might think that a planet with two suns would create an inhospitable environment with a beautiful view, like the fictional planet Tatooine and its iconic double sunset in “Star Wars: A New Hope.” But new research suggests that if the conditions are just right, Earth-sized versions of Tatooine could be habitable and possibly covered […]

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says he believes the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress will be able to avert a government shutdown, even as the administration says it will insist on money to build a wall on the Mexico border. “I do not think the government is going to shut […]

On the 92nd second of his presidency, Donald Trump has decided the idea of his first 100 days in office as a critical yard marker is bunk. Just before 7 am eastern time, Trump tweeted this: But! Wait! There’s a bunch of things wrong with this Trump tweet. The most obvious is that the media […]

The World Anti-Doping Agency has been criticized for its handling of Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho’s positive doping sample a year ago. The French international tested positive for a fat-burning substance — higenamine — in a sample taken after a Europa League match with Liverpool against Manchester United on March 17, 2016. And in a detailed […]

Florida manatees swim and sleep in the sunshine and golden-brown panthers prowl the shady forests at Everglades National Park. A swampy wilderness of gnarled cypress stands and waving sawgrass just beyond Miami’s suburbs, this 1.5 million-acre UNESCO World Heritage Site can seem timeless. But rising sea levels have spiked the fresh groundwater beneath the Everglades […]

A deadly attack on a police bus in the heart of Paris cast the shadow of terror over the final days of the French presidential election campaign. One police officer died after a gunman wielding a machine gun leapt out of a car and opened fire on the Champs-Elysees, Paris’s most famous boulevard, as candidates […]

In the days before he allegedly abducted his 15-year-old student, Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins refilled a prescription for Cialis, took out a loan for quick cash and made hotel reservations in another state, actions investigators believe show he was planning to leave with the girl. Details about those facts and other surprising revelations were found […]

The docking of six North Korean ships at a port in northern China has raised questions over a Chinese ban on coal imports from the nuclear-armed state. The ships docked Thursday and Friday at a port in the city of Tangshan in northern Hebei province, near Beijing. All six North Korean ships were loaded with […]

The patches on little Devin Suau’s police uniform span the width of his arms. An oversized officer’s hat covers the six-year-old’s nose — so he tips it back. Despite his honorary status as a police commissioner, Devin’s red sneakers aren’t part of the Boston Police Department’s official uniform. They’re the preferred footwear of a precocious […]

Convicted murderer Ledell Lee was executed Thursday in Arkansas, authorities said, one of eight men who were scheduled to die by lethal injection over an 11-day period in April. The executions were put on hold after a judge issued a restraining order on a key lethal injection drug Wednesday, but Lee was put to death […]

Behind Andre Rozier’s bright smile is an iron will to win. “I don’t like to lose,” the champion boxing trainer says. “I don’t like my fighters to lose.” His brusque commands to “keep moving” and “don’t fold up” echo through his basement gym in Brooklyn. “Sometimes you have to punish yourself to achieve maximum success,” […]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused a foreign-owned telecommunications firm of helping to orchestrate mass protests against his government. Maduro called for an investigation of Movistar, a subsidiary of Spain’s Telefonica, during a televised speech on Thursday, saying the company had supported a “coup.” “I have asked for an investigation because [Movistar] joined the coup […]

Two Seattle police officers remain in the hospital after exchanging gunfire with robbery suspects on Thursday at a 7-Eleven convenience store. One suspect is dead and two others were arrested, the Seattle Police Department said in a statement. The incident unfolded Thursday afternoon with a reported armed robbery at the convenience store. As officers responded, […]

German prosecutors have arrested a 28-year-old German-Russian citizen on suspicion of carrying out last week’s bomb attack on a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund soccer team. The suspect, who was arrested near the southwestern German city of Tuebingen, was staying at the Dortmund team hotel on the day of the attack, according to a statement […]

Three French presidential candidates have halted their campaigns as Paris wakes up to yet another deadly attack, just days before a crucial vote that’s still too close to call. Security in the city has been building in recent days, but the presence of 50,000 police officers on the streets weren’t enough to prevent the latest […]

In a country riven by increasing divisions, Thursday’s shooting on Paris’ Champs Elysees, which left one police officer dead, has the potential to upend an already contentious and unpredictable election. With a record number of voters still undecided, analysts say the shooting, by a suspect said to be known to French security services for radical […]

At the age of just 4, Stbark finds soldiers and rockets more normal than classrooms and schoolmates. Stbark meanders the alleyways in the Old City of Mosul, a place that is both her home and a frontline. Dressed in red floral pajamas, she is led by Iraqi troops who laugh and play with her between […]