Новости за 11.02.2018

Newcomers like “Fifty Shades Freed,” “Peter Rabbit” and “The 15:17 to Paris” breathed some fresh life into a marketplace that has for weeks been dominated by “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” '”The Greatest Showman” and various Oscar contenders.

At least 18 people were killed at an illegal gold mine in southern Venezuela during clashes with security forces looking to take control of the area, an official said Sunday.

This week will feature inflation readings from the U.S. and U.K., while Japan is expected to report it ended 2017 with an eighth straight quarter of economic growth.

Sears Canada creditors are targeting Eddie Lampert, its former controlling shareholder and the chief executive of its U.S. namesake Sears Holdings, over payments he received before the Canadian business collapsed last year.

Snapchat was born when casual photos replaced text messages among Stanford students. It now boasts 187 million daily users. Randall Stross reviews ‘How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars’ by Billy Gallagher.

Congress takes up international conflicts of law in cyberspace.

Star employees can rise only so far unless they develop social, or ‘secondary,’ skills.

Among Presidents, only Reagan could match Abe’s skill as a raconteur and wit.

Lawmakers argue over policies, but no one wants to be held accountable for overall priorities.

‘Apparently, the Age of Trump is so distressing that we need emotional support from storytellers.’

The fight is over a Qods Force presence on the Syria-Israel border. How will the U.S. respond?

A Russian airplane crashed on the outskirts of Moscow shortly after takeoff, killing all 71 on board, as Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded an investigation into the disaster.

Companies from China now dominate the lithium-ion battery production process, which starts in Congo and ends up in a phone or electric car. Says one executive: ‘We’re realizing that the Congo is to [electric vehicles] what Saudi Arabia is to the internal combustion engine.’

The loss of an Israeli jet to Syrian fire over the weekend has raised the risk of a more forceful response from Israel to deter Iranian military expansion across its border, which could open up another front-line in war-torn Syria.

As Americans suffer through the worst influenza outbreak in almost a decade, a Japanese drugmaker says it has developed a pill that can kill the virus within a day. But even if the experimental drug lives up to the claim, it likely won’t be available in the U.S. until next year at the earliest.

A battle within South Africa’s ruling African National Congress regarding the resignation of President Jacob Zuma will be concluded Monday.

Washington state has some of the cheapest power in the U.S. making it a magnet for bitcoin miners, who generate new units of cryptocurrencies—a process that requires vast amounts of electricity.

Capital spending by big cloud operators accelerated last year and is unlikely to slow this year.

Nvidia seems to be selling all the chips it can make, and it has benefited from demand from videogamers and cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

A battle within South Africa’s ruling African National Congress regarding the resignation of President Jacob Zuma will be concluded Monday.

The loss of an Israeli jet to Syrian fire over the weekend has raised the risk of a more forceful response from Israel to deter Iranian military expansion across its border, which could open up another front-line in war-torn Syria.

The U.S. Navy is investigating at least a dozen U.S. sailors based in Japan, some serving aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, for suspicion of buying, selling, and using LSD, ecstasy and other drugs, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.

Washington state has some of the cheapest power in the U.S. making it a magnet for bitcoin miners, who generate new units of cryptocurrencies—a process that requires vast amounts of electricity.

Western diplomats hope to use a high-level gathering of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization this week to keep members U.S. and Turkey from going to battle against each other in Syria.

Italy’s Fincantieri S.p.A and Germany’s Meyer Werft GmbH have deep backlogs of orders in the lucrative cruise-ship sector, even as many of the rest of the world’s top ship builders are reeling from years of losses.