Новости за 21.09.2017

Rescuers are getting closer to pinpointing the exact location of a 12-year-old girl trapped beneath the debris of a collapsed elementary school in Mexico. They are centimeters away from reaching her, CNN affiliate Foro TV reported. But the Mexican Navy cautioned against reports that they were that close. The sound of metal and concrete cracking […]

Ford designers can now put on a pair of 3D goggles and see an entire car in the middle of the office. It’s a technology that promises to speed up the car design process and make it easier to involve designers on a global scale. The designers are working with Microsoft’s Hololens goggles running software […]

Google is doubling down on hardware. The U.S. search giant said Thursday it will pay $1.1 billion to get its hands on smartphone expertise from struggling Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. Under the deal, Google will take on a team of specialist HTC employees and gain access to the Taiwanese firm’s intellectual property, the companies said in […]

Jimmy Kimmel was ready for the second round of his fight with U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, saying on Wednesday night that the senator “either doesn’t understand his own bill or he lied to me.” “Last night on our show I took a senator from Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, I took him to task for promising to […]

Republicans for years failed to gut the legacy of their nemesis Barack Obama: Now they can do so within a matter of days. President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers have the chance to shred the signature achievements of the 44th President’s two terms — Obamacare and the nuclear deal with Iran. Trump has often given […]

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said Wednesday US President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy the hermit kingdom sounded like “a dog barking.” “If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that’s really a dog dream,” Ri, who is in New York for the United Nations General […]

Toshiba is selling its prized memory chip business for $18 billion to a group of buyers that includes Apple. The Japanese conglomerate is offloading major assets to try to deal with a crippling financial crisis. The memory chip business is its crown jewel, which has attracted interest from major tech companies like Taiwan’s Foxconn. But […]

If you’re looking for a pretty dish to make when having guests for brunch, try this. Everyone I’ve served it to has enjoyed it—except for one time, that is, when my husband tried to make it following my recipe, which I’d written down incorrectly! If you don’t leave out the flour as I did, it’ll […]

Rescue crews in Mexico City worked into the night Wednesday to free three people trapped in the rubble of a collapsed elementary school. The search for a girl trapped in Colegio Enrique Rebsamen drew crowds of people searching for glimmers of hope amid the chaos. They gathered behind a barrier, offering supplies and a helping […]

BTS is breaking records worldwide. From the US and Poland, to Hong Kong and Brazil, the Korean pop group’s latest album,”Love Yourself: Her,” currently holds the top spot on iTunes’ top selling album chart in 73 countries and territories in three continents. The music video for the album’s debut single, “DNA” hit 20 million views […]

The SEC says hackers may have made money from breaking into its corporate filing system and gaining access to inside information about companies. In the midst of a lengthy statement late Wednesday, SEC Jay Clayton disclosed that the markets regulator learned last month that a hack detected last year “may have provided the basis for […]

Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion of the world, has died. He was 95. LaMotta, who had a hardscrabble upbringing and a tumultuous life, was known for never letting up in his fights. He was immortalized in filmmaker Martin Scorcese’s 1980 Oscar-winning movie about his life, “Raging Bull” — also his nickname, thanks to his […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he and Iran’s Foreign Minister “didn’t throw shoes at one another” at their first meeting, but he added that it isn’t clear whether they will be able to agree on the future of the Iranian nuclear deal. Tillerson spoke to reporters after a United Nations meeting of countries involved […]

Puerto Rico’s energy grid took such a severe blow from deadly Hurricane Maria that restoring power to everyone may take months, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN on Wednesday night. The entire system is down, the governor said. No one on the island has power from utilities. Puerto Rico, which has been through a long recession […]

It takes a feat of design skills and technological know-how to make a ceramic vase appear as though it has been blown away by the wind and stuck in that position. You may have only thought this possible on a CGI program on a computer screen, but this “blown away vase” is the real 3D […]

President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort offered to brief a Russian billionaire on the election two weeks before Trump accepted the nomination, people familiar with the discussions told The Washington Post. In an email, Manafort requested the message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, the Post reported Wednesday. Deripaska and Manafort had previously done […]

Now that Hurricane Maria has moved past Puerto Rico, search and rescue teams are taking to the darkened streets of an island almost completely without power. The devastating winds had died down to a whisper late Wednesday and the flooding rains were just a drizzle, but getting around was difficult due to widespread damage and […]

Even as Republicans scramble to find the votes to pass their latest attempt to repeal Obamacare, the list of advocacy and industry groups opposed to the bill continues to grow. On Wednesday, the two major health insurance industry associations voiced their concerns about the legislation, which would jettison several major Obamacare provisions and curtail federal […]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg looked out at the first year law class she was about to address at Georgetown Law on Wednesday and smiled broadly after being told the majority of the class were women. “To look out a class like this is exhilarating,” the 84-year-old justice said. Ginsburg graduated from Columbia 58 years ago […]

It turns out, an ultra-powerful computer can function just fine in the harsh environment of outer space — even if it hasn’t been bolstered with extra protection. That’s what scientists learned when the Spacebourne Computer — a supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise — was switched on at the International Space Station last week for […]

It was frightening news that every parent dreads: Hours after the birth of their son, Jimmy Kimmel and his wife were informed by doctors that Billy had a complex heart condition and would need immediate surgery. That life-altering moment for the late-night comic has spurred a heated national debate about the ongoing Republican campaign to […]

Hurricane Maria’s first victim was Dominica, and it was clear from a flight Wednesday over the island nation that the storm showed absolutely no mercy. A CNN crew that flew over the scarred landscape witnessed heartbreaking devastation. This island of 73,000 residents is — or was — a place of lush greenery, punctuated by waterfalls […]

Facebook says it will give $1 million to the Red Cross in Mexico to help rebuild areas that were decimated by a powerful earthquake this week. The tech giant said in addition to its gift to Cruz Roja Mexicana, a branch of the International Red Cross, it is working with the United Nations Children’s Fund, […]

Living through hurricanes Irma and Maria has been the toughest ordeal my boyfriend, Nate, and I have ever been through. We had been living in St. John in the US Virgin Islands for over a year, running a boat charter to the beautiful US and British Virgin Islands. Then came Hurricane Irma. We survived that […]

Nest wants to keep you from being robbed, as well as help you track your kids and let your dog out to pee at 3 am. The Alphabet owned company announced a trio of new products on Wednesday, all designed keep your home safe with a combination of motion sensors and constant video monitoring. They […]