Новости за 20.03.2018

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• The CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the center of a massive Facebook-data scandal, was suspended on Tuesday. 
• The company's board said CEO Alexander Nix would remain suspended pending a "full, independent investigation" of his involvement in allegedly entrapping politicians. 

The CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the center of a massive Facebook-data scandal, was suspended on Tuesday. Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — A British parliamentary committee on Tuesday summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions as authorities stepped up efforts to determine if the personal data of social-media users has been used improperly to influence elections.

Susan Slusser of the S.F. Chronicle reports the A’s reunion with another old friend.

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• Toys R Us is defending its plan to liquidate its US business in US Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday.
• More than 50 toy suppliers, including Mattel and Lego, have objected to the retailer's plan to close or sell all of its US stores. 
• Experts told Reuters that Toys R Us' request to halt supplier payments of more than $450 million could cause many small toy makers to disappear. 

Toys 'R' Us heads to U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday to defend its liquidation... Читать дальше...

Middle Tennessee State athletic director Chris Massaro said it was important to Davis at that school for players to stand with hand over their heart

Liverpool are set for a bold task this summer as the likely exit of German international Emre Can is set to leave a big hole in Jurgen Klopp’s side. The Reds have failed in their attempts to secure the 24-year-old World Cup hopeful to a new contract and Italian giants Juventus are said to lead the chase for Can’s services, as they seek to bolster their midfield options. That leaves Liverpool with work to do but The Daily Star reports Klopp has already lined-up his ideal replacement... Читать дальше...

Court documents obtained by TheWrap show a list of thousands of actors, businesses and organizations owed money by the bankrupt Weinstein Company, including former first daughter Malia Obama and a chapter of the Occupy Movement. The creditor list, which goes for 394 pages, mostly includes small office businesses and movie studio equipment distributors, as well as employees of the company. But several notable names in Hollywood also appear on the list. Among the actors owed money include Alexis Bledel... Читать дальше...

The Swieqi local council is set to object to plans to develop a nine-storey residential complex on the site of the former Halland Hotel in Tal-Ibraġġ, fronting Wied Għomor. Although the site is located within the development zones, the council is concerned, as the project will extend further into the valley, which is ODZ, taking up a public pathway which currently provides pedestrian access. Mayor Noel Muscat also told the Times of Malta that the site was not zoned for residential development and... Читать дальше...

Scientists from the Russian Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok have created a chocolate highly enriched with an imaginatively derived ginseng extract.

Authorities in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia have repatriated the body of a Georgian man who died while in the custody of separatist officials.

Authorities in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region have sent the body of a Georgian man who died while in the custody of separatist officials back to government-held territory.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The shooting at a high school in the US state of Maryland on Tuesday morning should serve as a call to action on school safety, Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan said in a statement on Tuesday.

Cambridge Analytica's CEO Alexander Nix

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The attorneys general in New York and Massachusetts are demanding that Facebook hand over information regarding the alleged misuse of data culled from millions of users by a third party in an effort to influence the presidential election.

Almost simultaneously, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix — who was filmed by Channel 4 in the UK bragging about how the company could entrap politicians with sex workers ... Читать дальше...

Cambridge Analytica's chief executive officer Alexander Nix.

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The attorneys general in New York and Massachusetts are demanding that Facebook hand over information regarding the alleged misuse of data culled from millions of users by a third party in an effort to influence the presidential election.

The demands come after recent reports surrounding Facebook's relationship to Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for President Trump's campaign... Читать дальше...

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) has left no doubt as to who will be the rider to beat in the Volta a Catalunya after he ripped up his team’s own script and won the stage 2 bunch sprint.

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix has said in comments that were secretly recorded and broadcast Tuesday by Britain's Channel 4 news that his company played a major role in securing Donald Trump's narrow victory in the 2016 presidential election. "We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy," says Nix, whose company is being investigated by... Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix has said in comments that were secretly recorded and broadcast Tuesday by Britain's Channel 4 news that his company played a major role in securing Donald Trump's narrow victory in the 2016 presidential election. "We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy," says Nix, whose company is being investigated by... Читать дальше...

Before we spend a boatload of money to build a big park on the North Side, let’s make a needed investment in a part of town that truly needs it.

These three tools are invaluable when cleaning up, or cooking with, your cast iron skillet.

This industry likes to abandon technologies as soon as it adopts them, but a few find a way to hang around. I recently purchased a car, and in the finance office was a dot matrix printer, chugging away at the same multipage forms I saw used more than 25 years ago.

Fox News is not just propagandizing, it’s deliberately deceiving viewers and covering up Donald Trump’s guilty behavior regarding Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Even worse, Trump’s informal advisers on Fox News are ratcheting up hostilities by claiming Trump’s critics deserve to be arrested.

SINCE 1992, when the Supreme Court barred regulations posing an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, pro-life and pro-choice forces have battled over how far states may go in circumscribing the right first recognised 45 years ago in Roe v Wade. But in a case on March 20th involving a California law that is designed to expand access to abortion, Anthony Kennedy—the Court’s perennial swing justice—appeared to flip the standard on its head.