Новости за 12.12.2019

• Last week, a woman tweeted that she once caught a boyfriend cheating when his Fitbit recorded a 4 a.m. spike in physical activity. The tweet went viral, prompting others to share similar stories.
• Sex can indeed raise your heart rate, burn calories, and show up on fitness tracking devicees, according to an exercise science expert. 
• However, there are less scandalous and even potentially dangerous reasons for middle-of-the-night heart rate spikes, like nightmares and heart attacks. Читать дальше...

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A Government announcement to invest $12 billion in new infrastructure projects has the potential to fill a major gap in the transport infrastructure work pipeline and start to overcome NZ’s infrastructure deficit – now details are needed for civil ...

Ring cameras are meant to help families monitor their homes. But hackers are now using them to spy on and harass people as they sleep.

NEW YORK — Ryan Reynolds says he relates to the social media criticism heaped on the Peloton ad actress. In fact, that feeling led him to hire her for a commercial promoting his gin company.

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Racist activists who call themselves “groypers” are stepping up their attacks on more mainstream conservative groups, hosting an event next week aimed directly at conservative campus group Turning Point USA. 

Since October, the “groypers,” who take their name from an obese cartoon toad who’s like a more racist version of Pepe the Frog, have been showing up at campus events hosted by conservative groups like Turning Point and Young America’s Foundation. Читать дальше...

Cluj head coach Dan Petrescu says Group E rivals Celtic and Lazio are both capable of winning the Europa League.

If it walks like a duck ... you know the rest.

Following a shooting attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola by a Saudi national identified as 21-year-old Mohammed Alshamrani, the FBI issued a statement saying it presumes the incident was a terrorist attack.

What might have given them that idea?

Amgen Inc. said late Wednesday its board hiked the quarterly dividend by 10%. The biotech drug maker said its board declared a dividend of $1.60 a share, up from its previous dividend of $1.45 a share, to be paid on March 6 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 14. Shares of Amgen were down less than 0.1% after hours, following a less than 0.1% rise to finish the session at $234.01.

The supervisory letter had required the company to get Fed approval before issuing debt, paying dividends or making quarterly payments on its trust-preferred securities.

BOFFINS think they have discovered the earliest family photograph taken at Stonehenge. English Heritage asked the public to send in their pictures to mark 100 years of the prehistoric monument being publicly owned. They looked through more than 1,000 photographs and think some images from 1875, showing a family dressed in their finery, are the […]

The tentative settlement does not resolve a separate criminal case against Weinstein in New York over multiple accusations of sexual assault.

After Caitlyn was evicted from British reality show I'm A Celebrity, fans were quick to point out that not one member of her family was there to greet her, leading some to label the Kardashians a "disgrace".

The bail was set at $2 million after concerns that he had been disabling the device. His lawyers blamed “technical glitches.”

A new First-Nations-based approach to Aboriginal kids in care passed in Parliament, but there is no new funding attached.

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WBC Super Welterweight Champion Tony “Superbad” Harrison and former champion Jermell Charlo continued their heated war of words while previewing their highly anticipated rematch on “PBC FACE TO FACE” this past Saturday on FOX. The title showdown headlines FOX PBC […]

The Washington State Patrol is warning drivers not to get too festive with their vehicles after an SUV decked out with Christmas lights was stopped on the highway.

Officials designate shipping network said to be transporting weapons to Tehran-backed rebels in Yemen.

WHY ARE whales so big? One answer is simply that they can be. The size of land animals is constrained in part by their need to support themselves against the force of gravity. Marine creatures have that support provided free, by the medium they live in. Even so, what is possible is not always sensible. Resources put into growth are unavailable for reproduction. Given that whales can and do become big, however, a second question arises: what, if anything, stops them being even bigger? Jeremy Goldbogen... Читать дальше...

wrencat1873 wrote:

Well, we've had 10 years of Tory rule and how well has that worked ?
I take it that you have seen the latest GDP figures, showing that the ecconomy is flat lining and the "United" Kingdom starting to crumble (with both Scotland and N. Ireland stating that they would rather be part of the EU than the UK and it's probably worth noting that, were it not for Brexit, I dont think the Torie would be getting in and with a leader that is scared of facing the public, it all bodes well for capitalism in the UK. Читать дальше...

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