Новости за 16.08.2019

The first serve of the volleyball season is close to being underway. Take a look at what to expect this season.

If you’re considering traveling by train in the month of September, you’re going to want to book your tickets now. Starting today (Aug. 16) and ending tomorrow, select routes on Amtrak are 50 percent off for nationwide travel between Sept. 1 and Sept. 30, 2019, with no blackout dates.

As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are talking about buyer priorities, negotiating extended warranties on used cars, and performance ratios among trims.

The concept behind a gimbal is surprisingly ancient—like Byzantium ancient. But in recent years, DJI has been building an increasingly useful arsenal of gimbals that stand to upend the traditional hierarchy of cinematography. The newest addition is the Ronin-SC, a handheld gimbal designed for mirrorless cameras.…

WATER treatment expert Bluewater Bio, whose cost-effective, eco-friendly technology turns sewage black spots into sweet clean ones, has begun a £28.6 million project in Bahrain.

NASA’s flagship Space Launch System – a rocket set to power the next generation of astronauts to the Moon - is “90 percent complete”, the US space agency’s chief has announced.

At a post-workout press conference earlier this week, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns coach Billy Napier announced a rather odd initiative for the members of his football team. Napier said that, starting this year, all scholarship members of the team will be required to donate a minimum of $50 to the Ragin’ Cajun…

Good News: Villagers in Andhra's Srikakulam worship Mahatma Gandhi as goddess for bumper harvest

If you have an Amex card that earns Membership Rewards points, you can earn 500 points on up to three Resy reservations by September 30.

• Amex recently acquired the restaurant reservation-booking service Resy.
• Through September 30 you can earn 500 Amex points on Resy bookings (on up to three bookings, for a total of up to 1,500 Amex points).
• Amex has one of the best cards for dining purchases, the American Express® Gold Card, so this is a good opportunity to earn even more bonus points when you eat out.
• Amex card members will also get early access to Resy's Off Menu Week in New York and other upcoming Resy events. Читать дальше...

As Cliftonville prepare to welcome Crusaders to Solitude for the first north Belfast derby of the season, we relive five classic encounters during the Tommy Breslin v Stephen Baxter era.

When faced with challenges, the president always resorts to the same playbook: lie, distract, and blame.

Script depicts a leftist who dies after choosing political correctness over survival

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was part of the scheduled broadcast team for Saturday night's Cup Series event in Bristol, Tennessee.

Michael McCarthy was considered a "creep" by pupils and was called a "paedo" as he walked around school

Traffic thrown out of gear, 1 killed after lightning strikes tree

You enter a conversation with Lou Piniella ready to be entertained. Not necessarily surprised, though. The beloved longtime player and manager operates without much of a filter, so he has to work pretty hard to surprise you. Nevertheless, Sweet Lou came through when I brought up the subject of his near-miss in last December’s Baseball...

Bluetooth SIG, the organisation that oversees the technology's standards, has reportedly issued a security notice about a vulnerability that leaves devices vulnerable to what is called as Key Negotiation of Bluetooth or KNOB attack.As Engadget reports, the KNOB attack allows hackers to interfere with the Bluetooth pairing procedure by making the connection's encryption key shorter than required. This makes it easier for hackers to intrude and spy on data shared between devices.The vulnerability affects... Читать дальше...

ICMR says the current system can manage only few notified devices

Today on AutoComplete we see why a woman surgically implanted her Tesla's key in her arm and we see a newer, sleeker Apple CarPlay.

Abstract: Temperature-swing adsorption pumps have been proposed as a method of acquiring and compressing Martian atmospheric CO2 for downstream processing. Most industrial applications and previous research targeted at space in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) utilize long (~hours) temperature swing periods, typically limited by the ability to transfer heat from a naturally insulating sorbent bed. A rapid cycle adsorption pump (RCAP) would reduce these periods to minutes, in the hope of increasing... Читать дальше...

Abstract: On the International Space Station (ISS) there are currently two toilets. One is located in the Russian Service Module and the other is located in the U.S. segment's Node 3. A new Exploration Toilet will be integrated next to the existing Node 3 Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC). The Toilet will be evaluated as a technology demonstration for a minimum of three years. In addition, it will support an increase in ISS crew size due to Commercial Crew flights to ISS. The Toilet is designed... Читать дальше...

Details from a previously-reported town hall meeting called by New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on Monday were published by Slate Thursday afternoon under the title “The New York Times Unites vs. Twitter.”