Новости за 18.05.2016

Allison H. Eid was sworn in as a justice on Colorado’s Supreme Court in 2006.

Chinese businessman Dr Tony Xia agrees a deal to buy Aston Villa for £60m following their relegation to the Championship.

Nigerian soldiers have found one of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok more than two years ago.

Serena Gordon, HealthDay News
Doctors have long warned parents to delay introducing certain foods to babies to decrease risk of allergic reaction, but a new study suggests the opposite.

Today at its I/O developers' conference, Google announced Daydream, a new platform for mobile virtuality reality.

Daydream, which will run on Android, will work on smartphones. A variety of phones from major manufacturers will have Daydream-compatible specs by this fall.

Google VP of virtual reality Clay Bavor boasted of Daydream's extremely low latency — under 20 milliseconds — a number that elicited gasps from people in the crowd at the Shoreline Amphitheater.

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Serious tensions are simmering between "interventionists" and "America Firsters" in the US Army, American author Justin Raimondo warns.

In April 2014, more than 270 girls were abducted from their dorm rooms in Chibok, Nigeria, in the dead of night. Some escaped their captors, but 219 remained missing.

A woman sitting on an expensive gold chair while wearing a £1,000,000 hat has encouraged Britain to “live within its means”  during times of austerity while addressing a room full of millionaires. The Huffington Post explains: She also voiced support for a government imposing longer working hours with less pay on junior doctors while wearing a hat encrusted with five rubies, 11 emeralds, 17 sapphires, 273 pearls and 2,868 diamonds. “One also hopes one’s government will put superfast broadband at the top of its agenda,” she added. Читать дальше...

Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg strike a pose for an awkward prom photo on Tuesday (May 17) in New York City. The “Dirty, Sexy, Funny” radio host and her Wahlburgers star husband were promoting SiriusXM’s new Prom radio channel in the city. The couple donned retro prom outfits including huge hair and pastel ruffles as [...]

Elizabeth Shim
SEOUL, May 18 (UPI) -- North Koreans who intercepted a Russian yacht crew threw rocks and chairs at the athletes, a crewmember said.

Accentuate those vowels!

Two years ago, "Neighbors" writers Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, along with director Nicholas Stoller, reinvented the classic college party movie by pitting the frat guys against the young parents next door. It was a raunchy but sweet rumination on getting older and growing out of party mode, a refreshing take on the college movie formula. With "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," they've flipped the script, creating a feminist party classic that's completely current and doesn't skimp on any of the wild humor. Читать дальше...

Country looks to economic strikers to carry weak team

An Italian restaurateur took to robbing banks in order to find a solution to back-taxes and other debts. He held up a dozen banks with a fake plastic pistol.

Simon Song

The transportation war has become increasingly brutal in China, with Uber playing catch up since its launch there in 2013.

Uber logged only 1 million daily rides in China in 2015. Didi Chuxing said it handles more than 11 million rides a day. 

The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company is burning $1 billion a year to compete against its No. 1 rival, Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi).

To put that number into perspective, $1 billion is about how much Uber... Читать дальше...

Wade Sheridan
NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon "answer the call" to save New York in the second trailer for "Ghostbusters."

Google has launched a so-called smart messaging application named Allo that features its new Google Assistant. With the aid of artificial intelligence, the app will learn how users speak and eventually generate automatic replies for them based on their previous conversations, the Alphabet unit said Wednesday at its Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California.

Improved offer accepted on weekend pay and working conditions

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Last Friday, after his hometown Thunder secured a spot in the Western Conference Finals, the ESPN analyst proclaimed on Twitter that he wasn’t sure Oklahoma City could win “a single game” against the Warriors. Two weeks ago, after Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard went scoreless in the fourth quarter of Portland’s Game 2 loss, Bayless argued on “First Take” that Lillard wasn’t consistent enough to be considered an NBA star. Soon after, Lillard posted a picture of rapper Ice Cube to his Instagram with a pointed message... Читать дальше...

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud, center right, scores their first goal of the game during their English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium, London, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (Scott Heavey/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO…

All of Europe became a hostage of the hostilities created by annexation, writes Serhii Plokhii

Google is asking you to name the new Android system something like starting with an “N”. Because the internet is so responsible?