Новости за 18.07.2023

The EV truck wars have begun. Ford announced this week it is slashing $10,000 of the price of its F-150 Lightning trucks, The Washington Post reported. That's a clear challenge to Tesla, which has dominated the EV market — and which, after years of delays, last week finally rolled its first Cybertruck off the company's assembly line at Austin, Texas. The gas-powered version of the F-150 has been "Ford's most popular offering," making the electrified version a "particular threat" to Tesla's standing. Читать дальше...

It's been more than half a century since astronaut Gene Cernan wished "godspeed" to his Apollo 17 crew as he took his final steps into NASA's lunar lander and prepared for his voyage back to Earth, becoming the last human being to stand on the surface of the moon to date. As he left the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, Cernan acknowledged that with the close of NASA's Apollo program, he — and humans in general — would be "back home for some time to come." With a note of prophetic optimism, however... Читать дальше...

An American citizen crossed into North Korea on Tuesday and was taken into custody by the country's forces, international officials said. 

Boxes full of classified U.S. government documents weren't the only items that improperly wound up at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported Tuesday. Unlike with the government secrets, though, it isn't clear how antiquities belonging to Israel ended up at Trump's Florida club, or whether Trump even knows they are there. Efforts by senior Israeli officials to retrieve the national treasures have so far been unsuccessful.

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The most iconic theme park in the U.S. — and probably the world — is undoubtedly Walt Disney World. However, while the park typically sees millions of visitors every year, summer 2023 is a decisively different story, as Disney is struggling to bring parkgoers through its turnstiles. 

With a spike in pet adoptions during the pandemic and more veterinarians retiring from the profession than graduating, there is a definite vet shortage in the United States. This is making it harder for people to get appointments for their animals and putting additional stress on already overworked veterinarians.

The internet is already full of spam messages and misinformation, but recently generative artificial intelligence models have made it much easier and cheaper to churn out lower-quality content. As a result, the web has seen an influx of fake news websites posting AI-generated content created to take advantage of advertising, the crux of the web's economy. Unfortunately, the scheme seems to be working. A recent analysis from news site rating company NewsGuard found many global brands were "feeding... Читать дальше...

Rolls of razor wire Texas installed along the U.S. side of the Rio Grande as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) "Operation Lone Star" initiative have ensnared several migrants, including a pregnant woman "in obvious pain" while having a miscarriage and a father trying to free his child "stuck on a trap" of razor-wire covered barrels in the water, a Texas state trooper wrote in July 3 email to a superior, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. 

A judge on Monday temporarily blocked Iowa's new six-week abortion ban, making the procedure legal again in the state until 22 weeks.