Новости за 01.03.2018

LEGO's plastic superheroes, astronauts, knights, and ninjas are, like most such materials, primarily made from oil. Legos have been made this way for nearly 70 years. But the toy company now wants to wean itself from petroleum and produce its famous toys with plants instead — specifically tropically-grown sugarcane. 

OK, so it's very likely you won't be able to give away close to a million dollars as Drake does in his video for "God's Plan."

What is happening? Did Stephen Colbert just find Donald Trump's opinion on something "reasonable?"

From humble beginnings as a blog for a pet food venture, in four years LittleThings accrued millions of followers and views on its social platforms through feel-good content.

Air New Zealand has produced some stellar safety videos and ads in the past, but their latest set in Antarctica is prompting backlash.

We all remember sitting in front of the computer screen in middle school while the typing teacher droned on about the proper placement of your right index finger. 

The blockchain can't solve for stupid. 

That painful truth hit the internet-of-things blockchain project Waltonchain hard today, with one Twitter huge fuck up leading to the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in the market cap of its associated Walton Coin.

And people are pissed. 

Here's what went down: On Feb. 8, the team behind Waltonchain posted a contest to Medium with the goal of spreading awareness about the platform. If you followed the @Waltonchain Twitter account... Читать дальше...

The ice on portions of Michigan's Great Lakes has turned blue, but don't worry, there's a perfectly good reason why. 

Ayman Hariri, CEO of viral social app Vero, has shared a document that shows he was not financially tied to or running Saudi construction company Saudi Oger when it left thousands of migrant workers destitute and homeless. 

These violent delights sure do have violent ends — but perhaps not with quite the finality we often expect from violence.

For weeks, weather experts have been expecting that early March would live up to its reputation of coming in "like a lion," with a pattern conducive to major East Coast storms. That expectation is going to become a reality, first during the next three days, and then again next week. 

As we saw with the very vocal minority of Star Wars fans who got upset about The Last Jedi, bringing new features of the Force to the screen can be somewhat controversial. 

After her beloved dog Sammie passed away, Barbra Streisand used the dog's cells to have her cloned twice. Read more...

Vero, the Instagram-like app that suddenly went viral in the last couple days, has more than a million users, but it's still free — at least for now.

Vero is a three-year-old app that's suddenly become a popular alternative to established social media platforms. It has a platform that promises to show you what your friends and network are posting, in chronological order — and with no ads.

A Wrinkle in Time released a new poster, but not everybody's happy about it. 

The freight train of success that is Black Panther continues to barrel on, breaking into the top 20 of the U.S. box office and surpassing 2017's Wonder Woman.