Новости за 11.05.2018

In partnering with composer Max Richter to bring his opus “Sleep” to the U.S., Beautyrest set a new standard in how it wants to connect with consumers.

The search for intelligent life in the universe could get funding from the space agency, but a number of hurdles remain.

The meal-delivery service says it’s in the final stages of a two-year process to get to profitability.  

Afforest for the Future is one of a series of projects trying to create arable land from sand. It’s method: use the muck that collects behind dams to create new soil.

The cryptocurrency’s price briefly dropped to a three-week low.

When it comes to blockchain prospects, it’s always a roller-coaster ride for investors. Bitcoin, whose price had remained over $9,000 for most of this month, once again dipped below $8,000 yesterday and today. In fact, the price recently hit a three-week low.

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This top British economist thinks so, citing recent research on sentiment analysis and pop music.

The comic returns for her second Netflix special and her ideas about paid maternity leave are as funny as they are important. [Warning: NSFW language.]

Two scoops of Sight Cookie, please!

Artificial-intelligence genius Janelle Shane may have met her match: a group of middle schoolers.

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In a court filing today in the Michael Cohen case, lawyer Peter Gleason wrote to the federal judge to inform him that two women had told him that they had been “sexually victimized” by Schneiderman.

Meet Ekoa, a flax-based “wood” that might soon be in your chairs and skateboard–and won’t contribute to deforestation.

Baggage fees probably aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Airlines really, really want you to pack a bag—ideally a large one that you have to check—and millions of travelers are taking them up on it. At an average of $25 a pop, baggage fees helped the U.S. airline industry rake in $4.6 billion last year, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports.

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The site aggregates vacation rental listings to match travelers with the perfect place to stay.

“AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake.”

Imagine a world where a live customer service team handles all your dating communication. Creepy, but efficient!

An online petition to reverse the cancelation had almost 14,000 supporters as of Friday morning.

Making cities more sustainable is humanity’s most urgent task. Here’s how we can go about it.

If brands genuinely want to serve girls and women, they first need to clean up business practices at home and abroad that put girls and women at risk.

The Tesla CEO is no stranger to seeing his name in headlines across the web, but now a new Chrome extension hopes to change that.

One in eight couples struggle with infertility, and the intensely emotional, costly, time-consuming ordeal of enduring treatment can take a toll on your work life.

That’s because most digital photocopies used by businesses have internal hard drives that save scans of every copy made. Yet when a business gets rid of the copier, they rarely ever wipe the machine’s internal hard drives. This means the next person that acquires that copier–or just gets access to its hard drive, can potentially …

The lawsuit follows revelations earlier this year that Facebook logged text messages and phone calls via its Android apps without notifying users.

When the robots come for us, they’ll be running at full speed–at least if the latest video from Boston Dynamics is anything to go by.

Startup Gusto has opened a new headquarters in San Francisco and has spared no expense in making it as generically quirky as can be.

Bike-share overcrowding has gotten so bad in some cities in China, authorities are impounding abandoned bikes, creating massive bike-share graveyards.

Jeffrey Wright gets scared for the Atlantic and HBO, Instagram Stories helps people order a Whopper, and Xbox gets emotional for State of Decay 2