Новости за 28.03.2017

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate has approved two proposals seeking to rollback recent state Supreme Court rulings that advocates say weakened open records laws. Echoing free-speech advocates' objections, Watson said the ruling blew "a gaping hole" in Texas' Public Information Act.

Plans for a new Whole Foods store in West Seattle were scrubbed this week by the Austin, Texas-based grocer.

[...] as she spoke, the Trump administration sent Congress a series of "options" for budget cuts, including slashing $3 billion from Education Department, as well as cuts to NASA and the National Institutes of Health. [...] Gerard Robinson, a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said that STEM was not limited to the Education Department and that other agencies, like the Defense Department, where Trump has proposed to increase spending, also have STEM programs. The bills... Читать дальше...

The parent company of Olive Garden disclosed strong results and said it will buy Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen for $780 million. Chinese internet company Tencent Holdings disclosed a 5-percent stake in the electric car maker. A Democratic senator asked for marketing information, sales records and studies from makers of opioid pain drugs, including Depomed.

Eventually, members of Amazon's $99-a-year Prime loyalty program will be able to order groceries online and drive to a pickup location, where crews will deliver items to the car. At an Amazon Go convenience store in Seattle, items selected are automatically monitored and added to a virtual cart so shoppers can skip the checkout.

The West Coast reject's Trump rollback of the Clean Power Plan, declaring "we will assert our own 21st Century leadership and chart a different course."

Higher ticket prices helped push the motion picture industry to a record box office total in North American theaters in 2016, but Walt Disney Studios distribution head Dave Hollis said attendance itself has remained nearly flat for a decade. Many of the major Hollywood studios are looking at the possibility of shortening the time between the theatrical release of a film and its availability on home video. Hollis challenged theater owners and exhibitors to keep aggressively competing for the attention of their young audiences through Snapchat... Читать дальше...

The intraparty dispute came in the wake of last Friday's collapse of health care legislation in the House, a GOP humiliation at the climactic moment of seven years of promises to get rid of former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. White House legislative affairs director Marc Short also emerged from the Senate GOP lunch indicating the administration was moving on despite President Donald Trump's promises as a candidate to immediately get rid of Obama's law. Short pointed to the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch... Читать дальше...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will be held over two weekends, April 28-30 and May 4-7 featuring Stevie Wonder, Maroon 5, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Harry Connick Jr., Aaron Neville, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Meghan Trainor, Herb Alpert, Alabama Shakes and Darius Rucker.

In a prepared text of a speech, IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac calls on governments to work with the transport industry to ensure passengers aren't separated from their laptops, tablets and other devices. The U.S. and Britain are citing concerns about terrorist attacks to prohibit passengers on some flights from mostly Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, tablets and certain other devices on board in their carry-on bags. Some travelers and civil liberties groups have denounced the ban... Читать дальше...

The company plans to develop brain implants that can treat neural disorders — and that may one day be powerful enough to put humanity on a more even footing with possible future superintelligent computers, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed sources. Musk, a founder of both the electric-car company Tesla Motors and the private space-exploration firm SpaceX, has become an outspoken doomsayer about the threat artificial intelligence might one day pose to the human race. Doctors... Читать дальше...

Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman has colon cancer, but says she expects to make a full recovery.

At the NFL's annual meetings in Arizona on Tuesday, the league passed what we'll call "Seahawks rule 2.0," which outlaws players from running forward to leap over the line of scrimmage in an attempt to block an opponents' kick.

NEW YORK (AP) — Uber's first report on employee diversity shows low numbers for women, especially in technical positions. The report comes as pressure mounts on the company in light of sexual harassment claims by a former employee.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Dupixent for moderate or severe eczema, which causes red, fiercely itchy rashes on the face, arms and legs. Eczema treatments have generally been limited to topical medications, steroid creams, moisturizers and ultraviolet light, plus antihistamines to relieve itching. [...] analyst Jeffrey Holford of Jefferies LLC wrote Tuesday that "market expectations for Dupixent are high given the unmet need in this patient group," with sales expected to... Читать дальше...

Among the risks are the potential loss of GM's investment grade credit rating, unknown market demand for the new securities that could depress prices, and corporate governance challenges that would come from having two classes of stock with competing objectives. Two years ago, GM avoided a proxy fight with annual investors by starting its stock buyback program. [...] GM has increased its earnings — profit reached $9.4 billion last year — and paid out more in dividends and stock repurchases. GM... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that U.S. banks must do all they can to promote economic development in low-income areas where high unemployment has persisted despite the overall job market's significant gains. The Fed chair said workforce development is especially important to allow job seekers in such communities to keep up with changes in the economy caused by global competition and advances in technology. "While the job market for the United States as a whole... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has acquired a 5 percent stake in electric car maker Tesla Inc. Tencent spent $1.8 billion acquiring 8.2 million shares during Tesla's stock offering earlier this month, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

President Trump will not throw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals' home opener:  13 American presidents, starting with William Howard Taft in 1910, have shown off their throwing arms.

The spontaneous fires, many chronicled in videos circulated on YouTube, prompted Samsung to recall millions of phones and take a $5.3 billion hit on its earnings. Samsung conducted extensive tests since then and has blamed multiple design and manufacturing defects in batteries made by two different companies.

Schmitt, a professor of law at the U.S. Naval War College and University of Exeter in England, has spent years trying to defuse talk of cyberattacks, an expression used to describe everything from remotely disabling a city's power grid to stealing a Facebook password. Words affect intelligence operations; words affect military operations; words affect the behavior of allies and enemies. When Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe described the massive data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management as one of America's "most damaging cyberattacks... Читать дальше...

According to the lawsuit, Stewart and dive organizer Peter Sotis both surfaced at the same time with apparent breathing difficulties, but Stewart didn't make it back on board the dive boat. The family "hopes the legal action will push out and/or change the ways of all irresponsibly operating diving businesses and help keep attention on Stewart's mission of ocean conservation," he added. According to the lawsuit, the dive was taking place at the wreck of the Queen of Nassau in about 230 feet of... Читать дальше...

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store App Store Official Charts for the week ending March 26, 2017: Top Paid iPhone Apps: Heads Up!, Warner Bros. Bloons TD 5, Ninja Kiwi Top Free iPhone Apps: YouTube - Watch, Upload and Share Videos, Google, Inc. Google Maps - Navigation & Transit, Google, Inc. Ultimate Forest Simulator, Gluten Free Games Bloons TD 5 HD, Ninja Kiwi Goat Simulator, Coffee Stain Studios AB YouTube - Watch, Upload and Share Videos, Google, Inc. Rolling Sky, Cheetah... Читать дальше...

iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending March 26, 2017: iTunes Movies US Charts: 1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2. Sing 3. Passengers (2016) 4. Moana (2016) 5. Assassin's Creed 6. Arrival 7. Office Christmas Party 8. Miss Sloane 9. Doctor Strange (2016) 10. Bridget Jones's Baby iTunes Movies US Charts - Independent: 1. Manchester By the Sea 2. Moonlight 3. Fittest On Earth: A Decade of Fitness 4. Mean Dreams 5. Bokeh 6. The Devil's Candy 7. My Scientology Movie 8. Neruda 9. Slow West 10. Under the Skin (2014) __ (copyright) 2017 Apple Inc.