Новости за 27.03.2018

Workers finished building the highway inside Seattle's new tunnel recently. It's not open to cars just yet, but take a look inside.

Workers finished building the highway inside Seattle's new tunnel recently. It's not open to cars just yet, but take a look inside.

Carlos Johnson has been granted his release and will transfer from the University of Washington men's basketball team, the school announced Tuesday afternoon.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's aviation agency says a passenger plane has aborted a takeoff from one of Moscow's airports because of smoke in the cabin, but no one has been hurt. Rosaviatsiya said the Boeing 737 operated by Russian carrier Globus was making its takeoff run at Moscow's Domodedovo airport when the crew spotted smoke in the cabin. The pilots aborted takeoff, and passengers evacuated on inflatable slides, according to the agency's statement carried by Russian news agencies. The agency said the... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — Uber will not renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads when it expires Saturday. And the company will have some explaining to do if it wants to get a new permit. California's Department of Motor Vehicles told the ride-hailing service in a letter Tuesday that it will lose testing privileges after Saturday. If Uber wants to return, it will need a new permit and has to address investigations into a fatal crash in Arizona last week. On March 18 an Uber autonomous... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on Apple's education event in Chicago (all times local): 3:30 p.m. Apple is hoping it can regain ground that its products have recently lost in U.S. classrooms, but a longtime technology analyst believes the company must be willing to cut prices to do that. And that's a concession Apple isn't ready to make quite yet. The company hammered that point home Tuesday when it unveiled the latest model of its cheapest iPad. The new version will have a few things that last year's... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Apple wants to play a more prominent role in education, but it isn't willing to cut prices to make the grade. Instead, Apple is clinging to a thesis that has helped turn it into the world's most valuable company: Our products are more expensive, but they're worth it. On Tuesday, the company introduced a variety of features tailored for teachers and students while keeping the price for its cheapest iPad tablet unchanged, even as budget-strapped school administrators have been turning... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. A late-afternoon drop in technology stocks pulled indexes sharply lower on Wall Street, erasing much of a powerful rally from the day before. It was solid red in the technology sector Tuesday. Chipmaker Nvidia sank 7.8 percent following reports that the company was suspending its tests of self-driving cars following a recent fatality involving an Uber vehicle. Twitter sank 12 percent and Facebook fell another 5 percent. Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Latest on an effort to introduce bills that would require a filter for online pornography that could be lifted with a $20 fee (all times local): 4:05 p.m. A Rhode Island lawmaker says he feels misled about who was supporting legislation he sponsored to require a filter for online pornography that could be lifted with a $20 fee. Democratic Sen. Frank Ciccone (chih-KOHN'-ee) pulled the bill Tuesday, a day after The Associated Press reported the legislation had been pushed... Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks released quarterback Trevone Boykin on Tuesday shortly after his girlfriend alleged in a television interview that he physically assaulted her in Texas last week. The practice squad player was released from the team after WFAA-TV in Dallas posted an interview with Boykin's girlfriend detailing an assault she alleges happened on March 20 in Mansfield, just southwest of Dallas. The woman said she refused to show Boykin a text message and an argument ensued, and that he broke her jaw and tried to strangle her. Читать дальше...

A steep, late-afternoon sell-off in technology companies pulled U.S. stocks sharply lower Tuesday, erasing modest gains from earlier in the day. Banks also weighed on the market as bond yields declined. Safe-play stocks like utilities and real estate companies were holding up best. The market is coming off its best day in more than two years following a steep slide last week. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 56 points, or 2.1 percent, to 2,601 as of 3:48 p.m. Eastern Time.... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. agency said Tuesday it has sent investigators to look into a fatal crash and fire on a California highway that involved a Tesla electric SUV equipped with a semi-autonomous control system. The National Transportation Safety Board said on Twitter that it's not clear whether the Tesla Model X was operating on its Autopilot program at the time of the crash. The feature is designed to keep a vehicle centered in its lane at a set distance from cars in front of it and also can change lanes and brake automatically. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several anti-smoking groups are suing the Food and Drug Administration over a decision by Trump administration officials to delay the review of e-cigarettes. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court argues that the FDA didn't follow proper requirements last year when it decided to push back the deadline for makers of e-cigarettes to submit their products for review. The groups say the delay poses a threat to children's health. "The FDA offered no meaningful justification for ripping... Читать дальше...

Robinson Cano dreamed as a kid of going to bat with the bases loaded, two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 of the World Series and hitting a home run. There was also a milestone number that seemed so improbable: 3,000 hits. "You dream one day what if feels like to win an MVP, to be an All-Star, to win a Gold Glove" said Cano, the Seattle Mariners' second baseman. "When you're a kid, you think, 'I wish I could get 3,000 one day.' ... It's one of those things that once you get to the big leagues you know how hard it is... Читать дальше...

An alarm system turned off on a fertility clinic storage tank that had been malfunctioning for weeks led to a failure that likely ruined more than 4,000 eggs and embryos, double what the clinic first thought, it said Tuesday. The clinic run by University Hospitals in suburban Cleveland does not know who shut off the alarm or why it happened, according to a letter sent to its patients. The alarm should have alerted staff when the storage tank's temperature began to rise on the weekend of March 4 when no one was at the lab. Читать дальше...

For more than seven hours on Monday, protesters opposed to King County's new juvenile courthouse and jail chained themselves together outside the construction site and blocked the heavy equipment from coming and going.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fair housing advocates have sued Facebook, saying it lets landlords and real estate brokers target advertising to discriminate against families with children, women and others. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in New York federal court by the National Fair Housing Alliance and other organizations. It comes as Facebook faces criticism over allegations British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica used details of 50 million Facebook users to help Republican candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's watchdog says FBI officials did not try as hard as possible to unlock an iPhone as part of a terrorism investigation, even as then-Director James Comey told Congress the bureau had expended its options and needed Apple's help. The department's inspector general said in a Tuesday report it found no evidence the FBI was able to access the data on the phone belonging to one of the gunmen in a 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. But the report... Читать дальше...

It's officially been 18 years since "Sodo" stood for "South of the Dome."

PRAGUE (AP) — The speaker of U.S. House of Representatives said he hoped a Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other American companies will be eventually extradited to the United States. But it is not yet clear when and how the case over the alleged hacker that pits the U.S. against Russia will be solved by Czech authorities. The Czechs arrested Yevgeniy Nikulin in Prague in cooperation with the FBI in October 2016. He is accused by U.S. prosecutors of penetrating... Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A proposal that would have required a filter for online pornography that could be lifted with a $20 fee was withdrawn Tuesday by a Rhode Island lawmaker who cited the "dubious origins" of the measure. Sen. Frank Ciccone said he pulled the bill after The Associated Press reported Monday that the legislation had been pushed around the country by a man with a history of outlandish lawsuits including trying to marry his computer as a statement against gay marriage. The measure... Читать дальше...

Great Lakes Airlines, which operated small turboprop planes between destinations in the West and Midwest, has suspended flying. The airline says in a note on its website that it stopped scheduled flights at midnight Monday but has not filed for bankruptcy protection and continues to operate parts of its business. The airline did not immediately respond to messages on Tuesday. Great Lakes served fewer than a dozen destinations, linking big cities including Los Angeles, Phoenix and Denver with smaller destinations like Telluride... Читать дальше...

As questions mounted last year about whether Facebook had been exploited to tilt the U.S. presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg's to-do list landed him on a fishing trawler off Alabama's Gulf coast. But the chatter surrounding the CEO's arrival in port was that it signaled something bigger than just the start of a 30-state personal tour: his designs on a job even more powerful than leading the social network that links 2.2 billion people worldwide. "It was one of the last things I asked him, thinking it would put a smile on his face ... Читать дальше...

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — A 13-year-old Florida boy has been involuntarily hospitalized for a second time after telling deputies he wanted to be the next school shooter. Polk County Sheriff's deputies said they found the teen passed out on a sidewalk early Saturday. He told them he drank an entire bottle stolen from his parents' liquor cabinet and took a bunch of "happy pills," according to a news release sent Tuesday. The boy also told investigators that he "wanted to kill a lot of kids" in retaliation... Читать дальше...

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Scientists now have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers counted the microbes swimming inside the toys and say the murky liquid released when ducks were squeezed contained "potentially pathogenic bacteria" in four out of the five toys studied. The bacteria found included Legionella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that is "often implicated in... Читать дальше...