Новости за 18.05.2016

Google announced Wednesday a voice-activated home device, similar to Amazon Echo, to launch later this year.

Tesla Motors Inc. has filed to sell about $2 billion of common stock to grease its way to the Model 3, the $35,000 mass-market electric car it hopes to sell by late next year. The Silicon Valley electric-car maker said it will offer about $1.4 billion of shares, with the remaining shares to be sold by Chief Executive Elon Musk to cover tax obligations associated with his exercising of more than 5.5 million stock options, the company said in a press release. Net proceeds from the offering will... Читать дальше...

Sales and earnings are up, while the shares are trading lower to profit estimates compared with a year ago, says Phil van Doorn.

*sips tea*

Back in 2013 when Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj were judges on Season 12 of American Idol, it was pretty well-known that the two did not get along on set.

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Three years later, Mariah Carey is keeping the beef alive with her latest comments — rather, the lack thereof — on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live.

During a game of "Plead the Fifth," Andy asked Mariah three different questions... Читать дальше...

Racecourse to get off and racing for first time in nearly two years.

Have you ever been stumped by which emoji to use in your text message? There are so many to choose from these days, amiright? It's hard to know which one will properly convey your innermost...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A county judge doesn't have jurisdiction to make the state return five tigers and five other exotic animals to a farm where they were seized two weeks ago, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday.

Seventy-four years after he was killed at Pearl Harbor, Navy Chief Petty Officer Albert Eugene Hayden was laid to rest Wednesday beside his parents in a rural parish cemetery on a hilltop in a southern Maryland county near the Chesapeake Bay.

HOUSTON (AP) — With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico.

HOUSTON (AP) — With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Late last fall, just a few weeks before the coördinated attacks in Paris, a Brookings Institution researcher named Chris Meserole assembled all the data he could find about which countries ISIS fighters came from, and began to run programs looking for correlations. Much of the scholarship in the evolving field of terror analysis emphasized jihadists’ networks and their psychological profiles, but Meserole and his collaborator, Will McCants, were interested in a separate line of questions. What... Читать дальше...

HAAKSBERGEN/EIBERGEN/NEEDE - Beste uit een dictee met 21 fouten? Bij de lustrum-uitvoering van het jaarlijkse HEN-dictee der Nederlandse taal van de Rotary-afdelingen Haaksbergen en Neede eo is het geen schande.

The Senate Armed Services Committee calls for halving the US appropriation for the military’s go-to rocket engine, the House Armed Services Committee focuses on replacements, and the White House is determined to veto anything and everything.

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Salesforce shares are popping 5.5% in after hours trading after the company beat Wall Street's Q1 financial targets across the board.

Here are the most important numbers from Salesforce's earning report:

• EPS (non-GAAP): $0.24 per share vs. $0.23 per share expected by analysts
• Revenue: $1.92 billion (up 27% year-over-year) vs. $1.89 billion expected by analysts

Salesforce also raised its revenue guidance for the full year to the... Читать дальше...

A boater discovered the body early Wednesday.

Jordan Spieth returns to very familiar territory for this week's AT&T Byron Nelson in Irving, Texas, though he has a score to settle at the TPC Four Seasons Resort.

Ryan said he is committed to fighting the Labor Department's new overtime rule.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin resident has a confirmed case of a Zika virus infection after traveling to Honduras.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is raising money for the Democratic Party at an event in the District of Columbia. Obama's participation comes as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders continue to campaign against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Broncos quarterback Mark Sanchez is coming off thumb surgery, but he’s hoping it doesn’t keep him off the field for long. Via Nicki Jhabvala of the Denver Post, Sanchez said today that he hoped to be able to participate when the team began OTAs next week. He had surgery Saturday on his left (non-throwing) thumb after injuring…

Actress Chloë Sevigny says three well-known directors cast themselves as pervs during auditions.

President Hassan Rouhani wants to make way for foreign deals and investment by limiting the business role taken on by the Revolutionary Guards when sanctions isolated Iran.