Новости за 29.09.2020

As any skipper knows, it only takes a moment of inattention or one misjudged manoeuvre for an incident to occur. When skippering a yacht that is not your own, the responsibility to yourself, your crew, passengers and to third parties is just as great as if you were skippering your own yacht. But are you […]

An investigation by The New York Times has unraveled some of the financial myths that President Trump has created around himself.

While the company was hopeful of getting the regulatory nod, some recent reports said the Maharashtra government, in consultation with the Centre, has put on hold three major investments by Chinese companies, including that of GWM.

Competition is fierce in the full-sized pickup truck arena as Ford launches its all-new warrior, the redesigned 2021 F-150. It's clear that the popularity and profitability of this truck provides...

TECHNOLOGYComcast Corp. hired Wiley Rein LLP to work on telecommunications issues. Scott Weaver, former chief of staff to ex-Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.), and Hap Rigby, former professional staff member for Republicans on the Senate...

<p>Here’s what you need to know ahead of the fourth-round tie</p>

The president and his campaign have spent time, energy and loads of money painting Joe Biden as senile. That attack could go up in smoke in minutes.

In act of "21st century voter suppression," Trump's 2016 campaign sought to "methodically" deter Black voters

Indonesian Coal Companies' Earnings to Weaken in 2H20 Fitch Ratings

<p>Everything there is to know about the match this evening</p>

Robot vacuums are all the rage—and why not!? Vacuuming is one of the most loathed household chores. While it doesn’t come with the ick factor of cleaning the toilet or the tedium of dusting, pushing and dragging a noisy, cumbersome vacuum is its own kind of torture.

1. The world’s first foldable PC is now available to order from Lenovo  The Verge
2. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano: Extremely lightweight 16:10 ThinkPad goes up against Dell XPS 13 9310  Notebookcheck.net
3. Lenovo releases world's first foldable PC  KitGuru
4. Foldable Windows tablet Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold now on pre-order - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com
5. Big tablet folds to become tiny laptop  Boing Boing
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Sometimes the reason “women’s rights” feel so tenuous is because the question “which women?” is as central as it is overlooked. The threat Amy Coney Barrett would pose to women as a Supreme Court justice far exceeds abortion. That she was nominated by President Trump to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as a kind of fuck-you to those who saw Ginsburg as legal abortion’s last defense, isn’t helping clarify the potential damage Barrett could do. Any opposition to Barrett is about her faith, the kind of woman she is, her defenders say. Читать дальше...

There’s simply not enough time to do this properly before the election.

ThinkBook may be Lenovo’s lower-cost option for small and medium-sized businesses, but the line is nevertheless keeping right in step with the times by offering the latest Intel Tiger Lake and AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs. Announced Tuesday, all models are due to ship over October and November, with prices ranging from $549 to $939. For this story we're focusing on the ThinkBook 15 Gen 2 i, which offers a unique and handy new feature.

The first foldable PC, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 FoldRemove non-product link, goes on preorder Tuesday, the company announced, and is due to ship by the end of the year. The price: $2,499. Perhaps not too much to ask for the right to be among the first—and the ThinkPad X1 Fold is really a long list of firsts. We’ll highlight just some of them here, and list the specs at the end.

Yes, that is a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano in your laptop bag. You probably just didn't realize it because the laptop weighs barely two pounds. 

My interesting weekend reading was this Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) report, which was vendor sponsored, highlighting 11 cloud security threats that should be on top of everyone’s mind. These threats are described as “egregious.”

There’s a lot to be said for tools that make it easy to target multiple platforms from a single codebase, reducing the load on developers and increasing the reach of your applications. Microsoft’s Xamarin is an excellent example of this, extending .NET to iOS and Android. But what of the other direction, where an established mobile development tool adds Windows as a new platform?

Ruby 3.0.0, a planned upgrade to the long-established open source dynamic language, is now available as a preview. Highlights of the new version include parallel execution and type description capabilities.

Android's Smart Lock feature is spectacular — that is, when it actually works.

Microsoft last week pitched Edge as "the browser for business," as in fact, "the best browser for business," and revealed some of the new features and functionality it will use to convince customers that its aspirations are more than posturing.

Katy Waldman reviews “Just Us,” the new book by Claudia Rankine, whose 2014 book “Citizen” probed the nuances and contradictions of being a Black American.

On the “Writer’s Voice” podcast, Deborah Treisman hosts the author Joseph O’Neill, who reads his story “Rainbows,” from the October 5, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.