Новости за 11.02.2021

Rashad Robinson and Arisha Hatch, who lead one of the most powerful civil rights organizations today, tell us what they’re reading.

Disney continues to pour its energy and resources into building a formidable competitor to Netflix.

Cereal lovers’ long national nightmare is over.

Among the casualties of the coronavirus pandemic was Grape-Nuts—a breakfast cereal made from neither grapes nor nuts, but instead from flour, salt, and dried yeast—which disappeared from grocery store shelves in January 2021.

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The company released its quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report Thursday and touted its progress on taking down pages associated with violent groups between August 2020 and mid-January 2021.

BNY Mellon is taking a trailblazing step down the cryptocurrency path.

The dating app and formidable Match Group rival charts its stock-market course after an IPO that exceeded expectations.

“Knotting and tucking” or using a mask-fitter results in big improvements to the effectiveness of existing masks.

Fraudsters are advertising discount food deliveries, which they provide by ordering food from delivery apps using stolen credit cards.

Comcast NBCUniversal has launched a new website to help people find exactly what they need to know about getting the vaccine in their own state.

The director of Slack’s venture capital arm shares advice and insights from its group of startup founders for 2021.

Gensler’s new report highlights the biggest trends reshaping offices and healthcare spaces in 2021.

May the Force be with you. No, wait . . .

Sick of the ever-increasing number of subscription services you need to join to watch content? Well, there’s a new way to get access to one video streaming service for life—all you have to do is beat an unbeatable game.

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This cybersecurity startup cofounder lays out 5 ways to trust your teams and stop obsessively controlling every detail of your business.

Sixty-seven percent of Americans own pets—and they now have a new one-stop marketplace for supplies, toys, and accessories.

Video meetings should always take advantage of the chat function, which provides a newly collaborative way to get work done together.

LavaMaeX rapidly revamped services in response to street conditions, learning lessons to help anyone innovate through a crisis.

You don’t need a lot of lithium when you have gravity.

Solar and wind power are now the cheapest sources of electricity in most of the world. (Solar power dropped in cost by a staggering 89% over the last decade.) But one of the reasons that it’s challenging to switch fully to renewable energy is the problem of intermittency: The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, and it’s still relatively expensive to use batteries to store energy.

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Civil rights legislation addressing the harms caused by AI could be on its way.

Realistic-looking humans are becoming easier and easier to make from thin air.

Instead of letting fear control your actions, be mathematical about your reaction and decision-making process by using this method.

Janelle Shane’s AI candy heart experiment definitely isn’t a treat to give someone you love.

Ridership—and revenue—are cratering. Will there be anything left once we’re vaccinated? The Biden administration and new Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will have to act fast to give federal help so states and cities can turn things around.

The indie rapper from Brooklyn says he’s creating some of his best work to date with a little structure, unitasking—and watching Pixar’s ‘Soul’ 30 times.

Regardless of where you are on the income spectrum, Jane Barratt of MX says there are a few things to consider to bring some control to personal finances, even in chaotic times.

Professors at Harvard Medical School and the University of California at San Francisco looked at the numbers. They’re gruesome.