Новости за 01.03.2018

France's highest appeal court has overturned the conviction of Pablo Picasso's former electrician and his wife, who were given suspended sentences for keeping 271 of his works in their garage for four decades.

Her show "Morning Breath" was canceled Thursday after it was revealed earlier this week that her mother is an anti-Islamist activist and that her and sister Claudia sent anti-Muslim tweets.

The old man was trying to draw public attention to the problem of immigration and terrorist attacks, but the Czech police didn’t take kindly to his efforts.

Gov. Cuomo says the changes now being discussed to bolster gun controls are “incremental at best.” “The politicians are feeling the political heat and their instincts are to pander to the political heat,” he said on WNYC radio. Raising the age for buying long guns from 18 to 21 would have affected just 13 percent...

Student Yaroslav Popov from the city of Tyumen created a large 3D model of Vladimir Putin in augmented reality.

In January, the popular fitness app Strava ran into controversy over a global activities heat map so detailed it revealed clandestine military bases. To make matters worse, the path to opt out of the feature was not simple and required several clicks within the app.

Leverkusen (dpa) - Das Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen muss sich auf die Suche nach einem neuen Direktor machen. Markus Heinzelmann gab am Donnerstag in einer offiziellen Mitteilung seinen Rückzug aus persönlichen Gründen bekannt. Erst am Montag war vom Stadtrat in Leverkusen ein Konzept zur Zukunftssicherung für das Museum beschlossen worden, an dem Heinzelmann maßgeblich mitgewirkt hatte.«In der intensiven kulturpolitischen Debatte um die Zukunft des Museums haben wir (...) gerade jetzt einen ganz wichtigen Schritt getan. Читать дальше...

New Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey called this a “pivotal” offseason for the franchise and is open to all possibilities with the team’s top picks in the draft next month. That includes potentially trading the No. 1 or No. 4 overall picks the Browns currently hold. “My door is wide open,” Dorsey said at...

A 17-minute podcast that makes sense of the quiet war against Obamacare.

BERLIN (Sputnik) - Facebook cannot use the personal data belonging to German users of the WhatsApp messenger, as the social network does not have users' consent, as required by German law, according to a ruling of the Supreme Court of Hamburg.

Huge crowdsourced genealogy databases are inspiring new genetics research.

Artificial intelligence could emulate human bias, including sexism, if there is no oversight on data used to create it, experts at the world's largest mobile phone fair in Barcelona warned Thursday.

Your morning smoothie might come with a not-so-healthy dose of heavy metals, according to a new study. Nonprofit organization Clean Label Project tested 134 leading protein powders for a variety of toxic metals, pesticides and other contaminants, and found that nearly all tested positive for at least one heavy metal. 70 percent of powders tested...

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), an industry forum for sharing data about critical cybersecurity threats facing the banking and finance industries, said today that a successful phishing attack on one of its employees was used to launch additional phishing attacks against FS-ISAC members. The fallout from the back-to-back phishing attacks appears to have been limited and contained, as many FS-ISAC members who received the phishing attack quickly detected and reported it as suspicious. Читать дальше...

Minnesota could go in a number of different directions at quarterback in free agency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump, Congress and the gun debate (all times local): 1:40 p.m. President Donald Trump has phoned Sen. Pat Toomey to express support for his proposal on background checks for gun purchases. Toomey and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia wrote bipartisan legislation on the subject and Trump appears to consider it the main bill Congress should build on. Toomey told The Associated Press on Thursday that Trump "continues to be very interested... Читать дальше...

We're barely two months into 2018, and one thing's already very clear: Most new Android phone released this year will be iPhone X knockoffs.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is considering "alternate ways" to fly on airplanes beyond first class, he told CBS News.

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• Recycling makeup is beneficial to your wallet, conscience and the environment.
• Some brands like MAC and LUSH will let you recycle in store.
• Nonprofits will take makeup and skin care products, but only if they are unopened.

Makeup has a shelf life that shouldn't be messed with, even though it can be hard to Kondo your vanity.

"Recycling makeup needs to be very specific," Caleb Backe, a health and wellness expert for Maple Holistics... Читать дальше...

COLUMBUS—Gov. John Kasich on Thursday unveiled a package of proposed gun law reforms to prohibit sales of armor-piercing ammunition and third-party “strawman” sales of guns to people prohibited from having them.

President Donald Trump’s off-script comments on gun control at Wednesday’s wild, televised meeting have Republicans in a sweat, but they’re making Democrats cautiously optimistic. In the wake of Trump signaling support for an array of gun control measures and promising to stand up to the National Rifle Association, Democrats and some Republicans are rushing to introduce a slew of bills and nail down his support before the famously mercurial president changes his mind.

Magic mushrooms have earned themselves quite the reputation for causing psychedelic hallucinations. Those of us who watched Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason will remember Renée Zellweger’s character dancing in rainbow-colored water after unknowingly eating an omelet laced with them. While for most, the notorious fungus is considered a recreational drug favored by those looking for an experience that transcends the regular, researchers believe the trippy shroom may also help treat one of the world’s most popular psychological problems — depression.