Новости за 06.03.2023

Four U.S. citizens were assaulted and kidnapped by armed gunmen in northeastern Mexico, the FBI said Sunday. 

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has taken over the news recently with the rise of ChatGPT. And that, perhaps unsurprisingly, has created a stir on Wall Street, with some investors beginning to eye AI as an investment opportunity.

Bruce Willis' wife is begging the paparazzi to leave him alone. 

Emma Heming Willis, who has been married to the Die Hard star since 2009, sent a message on Instagram to the photographers "trying to get those exclusives of my husband out and about" after he was diagnosed with dementia.

"Just keep your space," Heming Willis said. "I know this is your job. But maybe just keep your space. For the video people, please don't be yelling at my husband, asking him how he's doing or whatever... Читать дальше...

Good news, renters: The cost of rent isn't expected to continue rising quite so rapidly this year. For the last six months through January 2023, "[a]partment rents fell in every major metropolitan area in the U.S.," The Wall Street Journal reports, based on estimates from Apartment List, a listing website. This marks the first time in five years this consecutive monthly decline in rent has occurred.

Are stick shifts making a comeback? Automatic transmissions dominate the car world these days, but there was once a time when knowing how to operate a stick was a necessary skill for most drivers — that's why they called it a "standard" transmission. But now stick shifts "are experiencing a modest but real resurgence," The Wall Street Journal reports. Sales of three-pedaled cars are rising, and carmakers like Mini and Mazda are "doubling down" on the models. Why? Young drivers are behind the trend. Читать дальше...

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Rupert Holmes is a novelist, playwright, and songwriter whose hits include 1979's "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)." His new novel, Murder Your Employer, is a comic thriller set at a college that teaches students how to get away with justified homicide.

Former President Donald Trump recently unleashed a particularly vicious broadside against Fox News, after court documents came to light showing network owner Rupert Murdoch and other Fox officials privately admitting that their broadcasts, which claimed the 2020 election had been stolen, were fundamentally untrue.  

Companies have used personality tests for career advancement and sometimes hiring decisions for years, but the disruption to office culture from the COVID-19 pandemic has given them a new, added purpose, Emma Goldberg reports in Sunday's New York Times. Managers are turning to the roughly $2 billion personality testing industry to help them curate remote and hybrid work teams and keep workers engaged. 

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has decided not to run for president in 2024, writing in a New York Times op-ed that one reason is he's afraid if there are too many nominees, it could help get former President Donald Trump re-elected.