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At Oscars, the name on lips and envelopes is 'Chivo'

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

Lubezki is behind some of the most dazzling film photography in recent years: the asteroid storm hurtling through the vast 3-D space of "Gravity," the seemingly continuous backstage sweep of "Birdman," the elemental beauty of Terrence Malick's films. Much of the film's acclaim (it leads with 12 nominations), is owed to its lush immersion in a raw, 19th century wilderness (it was shot largely in the Canadian Rockies) and its balletic single-take sequences, most famously the single-take bear attack. Читать дальше...



(EDITORIAL from Korea Times on Feb. 19)

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

Plight of young jobless The unemployment rate for young people aged 15 to 29 reached 9.5 percent last month, the highest since the 10.2 percent recorded in June last year. The rate represents a 0.3 percentage point rise from the same month last ye

This smart home hub won't ruin your decor – and it’s raised more than $100,000 in one day

BusinessInsider.com 

Silk Labs

Smart home hubs are starting to appear in more and more homes, but users who buy them face one unavoidable problem.

The hubs aren’t too pleasing to the eye.

Consider two of the leading products on the market. The Amazon Echo is just a black cylinder, while the Samsung SmartThings kit is a series of plain white boxes.

But tech startup Silk Labs, led by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, is looking to combine style and function with its new smart home hub called Sense... Читать дальше...

This smart home hub won't ruin your decor – and it’s raised more than $100,000 in one day

BusinessInsider.com 

Silk Labs

Smart home hubs are starting to appear in more and more homes, but users who buy them face one unavoidable problem.

The hubs aren’t too pleasing to the eye.

Consider two of the leading products on the market. The Amazon Echo is just a black cylinder, while the Samsung SmartThings kit is a series of plain white boxes.

But tech startup Silk Labs, led by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, is looking to combine style and function with its new smart home hub called Sense... Читать дальше...

NY court hears case over hospital TV show death

JournalStar.com 

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A widow urged New York's highest court Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit involving a television episode featuring her husband's treatment and death at a New York hospital.

NY court hears case over hospital TV show death

TheRepublic.com 

ALBANY, New York - A widow urged New York's highest court Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit involving a television episode featuring her husband's treatment and death at a New York hospital.

Linn Energy: tired refrain

Financial Times 

Capitulation on oil prices seems to have arrived — for shareholders at least

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Москва

Росгвардия обеспечила безопасность празднования Дня ВМФ и футбольного матча в Москве


There's A Hot Tub Full Of Beer In Austria And You'll Get Drunk Just Looking At It

BuzzFeed 

Cheers to that.

The Starkenberger brewery in Austria offers beer lovers a whole new way to experience a good drink. How, you might ask? By swimming in it, of course!

youtube.com

Andrea Stigger, a Starkenberger employee, explained that the room was originally in the building 15 years ago but has since been converted to a ~beer spa~.

youtube.com

You might be wondering...can you... Читать дальше...

Pope suggests contraceptives could be used to slow spread of Zika

CNN Newsource 

Pope Francis indicated contraceptives may be used to prevent the spread of the Zika virus, despite the church’s longstanding ban on most forms of birth control.His comments may cheer health officials in Latin America but are likely to upset conservative Catholics.At a press conference aboard a flight from Mexico to Rome on Thursday, the Pope was asked whether the church should consider contraception the “lesser of two evils” compared with ...

Why Apple needs to make such a big deal about privacy but Google doesn't (GOOG, AAPL)

BusinessInsider.com 

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Apple CEO Tim Cook took a bold and public stance this week against the FBI's request to decrypt an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Cook's open letter won him a lot of support from Apple customers and Silicon Valley executives alike, who appreciated his unequivocal support of user privacy. But when Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally responded on Twitter, hours later, his support for Cook and Apple's stance was ... muted, to say the least. Читать дальше...

Why Apple needs to make such a big deal about privacy but Google doesn't (GOOG, AAPL)

BusinessInsider.com 

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Apple CEO Tim Cook took a bold and public stance this week against the FBI's request to decrypt an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Cook's open letter won him a lot of support from Apple customers and Silicon Valley executives alike, who appreciated his unequivocal support of user privacy. But when Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally responded on Twitter, hours later, his support for Cook and Apple's stance was ... muted, to say the least. Читать дальше...


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