Новости за 12.04.2017

Smartphones have completely changed the way we travel. You're never really lost or without a lifeline when you've got your cellphone handy (and charged). Here are some of the apps, out of the thousands available, that I just can't travel without.

It’s not a bird. It’s not a dinosaur. It’s not a crocodile. Teleocrater rhadinus might not fit into any of those tidy, familiar groups—but it does fit into the category of “once-in-a-lifetime fossil find.”

.. interesting story from a geologic point of view, the oceans are preferentially sorting out metals like tellurium from the plumes of those ocean vents. But the economics here has been horribly reported. The current value of that deposit is $0 and it's likely to remain at that level forever too.

It's easy to be engaged in your business when things are going well. It’s harder, and the stakes are so much higher, to be “alive” when things go wrong.

Jude Law is your new Dumbledore!

In an era where Georges St-Pierre can jump cut a long line of middleweight contenders for the sake of sports entertainment, the UFC might as well book Anderson Silva vs Michael Bisping 2 for the middleweight championship, with the winner then facing GSP.

Election-year pandering is conducive to myopic tax proposals. That’s evident right now in France, which will hold its first round of national elections on April 23. Three of the tax ideas being put forward are worthy of further discussion. Spoiler alert: I don’t care for any of them.

If you are in Apple's supply chain, watch out

Effective leadership has many obstacles. Don't be one of them. Sometimes we have to learn how to get out of the way. Performing a stop-start-continue exercise is an effective tool for personal and team performance.

The Cleveland Browns seemed poised to once again shake up the first round of the NFL Draft when it was reported late Tuesday night that the team is unsure of what to do with the No. 1 overall pick just two weeks before the NFL Draft.

FinTech entrepreneurs fear being locked out of European Union markets after Brexit

Some argue this parsing of words is irrelevant and that the United's contract of carriage for overbooked flights is meant to be applied more broadly. Not true.

Most of retail is struggling and the pace of disruption is accelerating. Retail needs to be different but it is far from dead if retailers get a few things right.

Guatemala is known for its volcanoes - some too violent for even the most dedicated volcanologists to go near. Researchers and engineers from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol flew fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to observe and measure eruptions in their place.

Cloud providers are investing heavily in making GPUs, and Nvidia is winning many contracts due to its CUDA platform supporting artificial intelligence. There are many use-cases for GPUs in the cloud and cloud providers need to support them all.

New data has highlighted that women tend to get a better return from their investing activities. What is it that they do differently? And how can you follow their example?

Facebook Messenger now has more than 1.2 billion monthly users, the company said on Wednesday, up from 1 billion users in July.

South Korea's coming presidential election poses the potential for halting the expansion of the country's world class nuclear energy manufacturing and construction enterprise. That shift has grave geopolitical implications.

Acquirers perform due diligence to verify your numbers before making an acquisition but there is often a more sinister motive behind this stage of selling your business.

Dogs and their humans often come to resemble each other, and that can be bad news for everyone. Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler.

Seamus Golf, the maker of custom-made headcovers and accessories, is expanding into the shoe business. Portland-based Seamus has partnered with a longtime footwear industry veteran to create a minimalist golf shoe targeted at walking golfers.

Jean Krisle sold her home and hit the road in an RV to raise money for her nonprofit 10,000 BEDS, which helps addicts gain access to free beds in treatment centers across the country.

The first page of Google search results is not where you should end your search.

It can be hard to ask about job flexibility during the job interview process. Now you don't have to.