Новости за 16.12.2017

Never make a costly decorating blunder again. With augmented and virtual reality, you can see 3-D images of coveted pieces in your living spaces, and super-realistic renderings show you your room’s future.

America's youngest facing mental health crisis, savvy hacks to keep you from overspending at the airport, and Science says holiday music is bad for your mental health.

Big U.S. property-casualty insurers succeeded in closing what they say is a loophole permitting rivals to rack up profits and move jobs to Bermuda, Switzerland and other low-tax locales, according to lobbyists for both sides.

General Motors faces a potential payout of $1 billion in stock to address claims related to its ignition-switch crisis, depending on the outcome of a looming trial.

Republican lawmakers say their tax overhaul would spur companies to hire more employees and build factories in the U.S. Yet one key provision, which will free up hundreds of billions of dollars for companies to spend, will probably benefit shareholders, analysts say.

A new documentary on Gianni Agnelli follows the colorful exploits of the charismatic Fiat scion. It arrives in very different era from the Italian industrialist’s heyday, one in which public figures face more intense scrutiny.

If the Republican proposal passes and is signed into law in December, finance teams will be scrambling to calculate its effect on their balance sheets and income statements in time for their next earnings reports.

Looking for a challenge beyond marathons and Olympic-distance triathlons, Kurt Chambers took up freediving.

Apotex founder and Chairman Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, were found dead in their Toronto home on Friday, the maker of generic drugs said. Police said they were treating the incident as “suspicious.”

To attract America’s youth onto the factory floor, manufacturers have tried many tactics from hosting high school tours to providing apprentice programs. Their latest strategy is targeting parents.

Most big mining companies are wary of doing deals, focusing instead on raising cash, shedding debt and delivering meaty dividends to investors. That’s not an ideal environment for a deal-maker like Mick Davis.

The reunited Aldobrandini Tazze are among the most dazzling works of 16th-century silversmithing.

Netflix released vinyl records of its streaming comedy specials to garner its first-ever Grammy nominations.

The wave of voter dissatisfaction that has swept much of the globe in the past two years has landed on the shores of Chile, where Sunday’s election is shaping up as an unexpectedly tight referendum on the country’s market-friendly policies.

The so-called Big Six of soccer want a larger share of the television money, leading to tensions with other owners as the league’s clubs are resurgent.

American military units that participated in the decisive battle for Mosul against the Islamic State were hampered by difficulties in sharing battlefield imagery and often had different understandings of what was happening on the battlefield, according to a new study.

In Europe’s latest shift to the right, the expected next chancellor of Austria announced that his conservative party had cemented terms to form a government with the country’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party.

The magnitude-6.5 temblor shook the densely populated Java island, killing at least two people and severely damaging dozens of homes near the epicenter.

Republicans stood on the verge of delivering the most significant changes to the U.S. tax code in more than three decades, after a series of last-minute deals appeared to clear the last big obstacles to passage next week.

A 37-page letter sent to Uber Technologies’ management in May that painted it as a paranoid firm with a sophisticated intelligence apparatus designed to gain an edge on rivals and trick regulators has been made public.

CSX lost about $4 billion in market value after Chief Executive Hunter Harrison was placed on medical leave, a stark reversal for investors who had shrugged off concerns earlier this year about the health of the renowned railroad turnaround artist.

Procter & Gamble Co. said it would add activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board, ending weeks of intrigue after the biggest and most expensive proxy battle ever fought essentially finished with a tie.

The secret, says Bellevue Square’s owner, is to provide customers with ‘emotional fulfillment.’

The GOP bill will spur investment and make the U.S. more competitive.

The choices now are ‘soft’ Brexit or major domestic reforms.