Новости за 28.03.2017

Womp womp. 

Hours after a report Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump was "in talks" to throw out the first pitch at a Washington Nationals game on Major League Baseball's Opening Day, that dream was dashed. 

Now we're left with so many questions.

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Politico reported Tuesday morning that Trump was "in talks" to throw out the first pitch at Nationals Park on April 3. What exactly "in... Читать дальше...

Two new apps won an international technology competition to help Syrian refugee children learn, play and cope with trauma.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to face one of its biggest tests yet. 

On Thursday, for the first time, the private spaceflight company will attempt to reuse a previously flown rocket booster to deliver a satellite to orbit. 

This attempt at reusability will mark a key moment for SpaceX in that basically all of its plans for the future — including human trips to Mars and maybe beyond — rely on fast, efficient and affordable launch capabilities. 

SEE ALSO: Elon Musk defends meeting with Trump... Читать дальше...

Have you ever wished the taste of the creamy, Thousand Island-y sauce from a McDonald's Big Mac would never go away?

Before President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order to roll back the Obama administration's climate legacy on Tuesday, the White House held a press call featuring a senior administration official. The purpose was to brief reporters on what the order would say and the thinking behind it. 

Billy Eichner is perhaps best known for startling random pedestrians, so it makes sense that he'd want to channel his scare tactics into an actual horror show. 

Finally, an update that actually gives you storage space back. 

Apple launched its latest software update, iOS 10.3, on Monday. The update comes with new features like "Find My AirPods," but users seem to be noticing an added bonus: It's allegedly freeing up their storage space.

Wow, iOS 10.3 gave me 3 gigs of storage #ios103

— A. (@atanastsekov) March 28, 2017

On iOS 10.2 I had 215GB and now on iOS 10.3 with APFS I have 220GB of free storage! That's amazing!!!!!!

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For Honor's competitive scene is getting off the ground with some of its first competitions and some participants in Major League Gaming's tournaments are calling for a ban on a controversial class: the Peacekeeper.

Rarely do depictions of prostitution in television overlap with feminism.

In fact, according to most pop culture portrayals, prostitutes are anything but feminist. They are robotic sex machines in Westworld, desirable objects at whorehouses in Game of Thrones ... and the list goes on.

Cayde-6 — voiced by the one and only Nathan Fillion — is basically the alien robot version of Firefly's Captain Mal. He's the life of the party, a wise-cracking robo-man who lightens the mood whenever he opens his metal trap.

For a Congress that, in part, wants to defund Planned Parenthood and roll back access to contraception, it is perhaps unsurprising that someone from the U.S. House of Representatives seems to want to put a fun, modern spin on choosing to abstain from sex altogether.

Already binged Dave Chappelle? Netflix has got you covered.

The streamer on Tuesday dropped the trailer for Louis C.K.'s special 2017.

The performance, which was taped live in Washington, D.C., features the comedian tackling topics such as religion, eternal love, giving dogs drugs, email fights, teachers and more.

It's set to debut on Netflix globally on April 4. Read more...

No surprise, Uber is facing some heat ... a lot of it ... for its toxic workplace culture.

Sorry to ruin your lives, but Crayola is acting ~cray~ and we really need to address it.

In American Gods, belief is power. 

In the new Starz series, based on the bestselling novel by Neil Gaiman, a war is brewing between the Old Gods and the New, with one unfortunate man, ex-con Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), caught in the middle. The traditional Old Gods, with mythological roots from around the world, fear irrelevance as their believers die off or are seduced by the shiny New Gods, like Media (Gillian Anderson) and Technical Boy (Bruce Langley), who represent our obsessions with technology... Читать дальше...

Why, Mass Effect: Andromeda? Why is Kadara spaceport the worst place in the galaxy?

Our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man swung by in a new trailer today, so it's time for us to do what neighbors do and get a little nosy.

Kids these days are a lot more old-fashioned than you'd think.

A new survey of 3,500 college students done by Abodo, the apartment hunting app, found some surprising results. These kids aren't nearly as modern in their approach to meeting people as you might think.

Of those surveyed, only four percent said they preferred to meet people using dating apps. Some 80 percent of college students said they still liked to meet through mutual friends or because of shared interests. The rest... Читать дальше...

British Summer Time made its glorious entrance last weekend, hailing a new summer of lighter evenings and great outdoor festivals. 

A rough 2017 continues to unspool for Uber, the ride-share company that can't  catch a break—not even in Europe. 

Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, a man whose hairline and integrity have both greatly receded in the past decade, just messed with the wrong United States congresswoman.   

It's the golden age for reimagining adaptations that have already happened. 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie is now older than many sentient moviegoers, so the beloved video game series was due for a reboot any day. 

Move over, Ariel. Human mermaids are boring now.

That's because we have Haiku, a corgi mermaid who lives in Thailand. Haiku is not like most mermaids: for example, instead of swimming, she just sits in shallow water with her tongue out.

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But this is not a problem, because Haiku is redefining what it means to be a mermaid. You see, you don't need a human upper body or a shell bra to be part of the mer-community. You don't even need to know how to swim! Читать дальше...

Maybe it's life after 2016, or maybe it was life all along, but death seems to be everywhere. It broke us on TV last year and was the subject of everything from dark comedies to Oscar winners to cinematic train wrecks. 

President Donald Trump took his first swing at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when he tapped the agency's biggest opponent — a man who denies climate science — to run the show. His second hit came earlier this month when Trump proposed shrinking the EPA's budget by 31 percent.