Новости за 06.02.2018

ESPN FC's Craig Burley breaks down this week's player power rankings, as four players across Europe recorded hat tricks in standout performances for their clubs. Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp was left angry after he believed the media were trying to twist his words after Tottenham's Erik Lamela won his side a penalty in the 2-2 draw at Anfield. Former Tottenham Hotspur striker Mido has told the BBC he is "proud" of Mohamed Salah after the Liverpool forward became the highest-scoring Egyptian in Premier League history. Читать дальше...

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• An optical illusion of two identical photos next to each other is stumping people on Reddit and Imgur.
• The two photos are exactly the same, but our brain tricks us into thinking they are taken at different angles.
• The illusion most likely occurs because of how our brain perceives the diagonal lines in the photo.

This optical illusion of two photos of  a brick road is stumping Reddit and Imgur users. Although these two images... Читать дальше...

Starbucks

• Starbucks is serving a Cherry Mocha drink for a limited time. 
• The drink features espresso, mocha sauce, dark cherry syrup, milk, whipped cream, and sprinkles.
• The Cherry Mocha will only be available from February 7 to February 14 in the US and Canada.

"YAS, get you a man who sends you arranged fruits!" I heard my co-worker cheering the other day. When I looked up from my computer, I saw another co-worker had received one of those Edible Arrangements from her boyfriend ... Читать дальше...

• "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going to create a "Star Wars" film series.
• However, it will be separate from the current Skywalker saga or the trilogy "The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson is developing.

The guys who brought "Game of Thrones" to the small screen are now heading to the big screen with "Star Wars."

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s big new rocket has blasted off on its first test flight, carrying a red sports car on an endless road trip past Mars. The Falcon Heavy rocket rose Tuesday from the same Florida launch pad used by NASA nearly 50 years ago to send men to the moon. With liftoff,...

Bayern Munich's Jupp Heynckes describes how he spent his Sunday as his side prepare for the DFB-Pokal quarter-final against SC Paderborn. Jupp Heynckes' treble seekers travel to third division leaders Paderborn in the DFB Pokal quarterfinals on Tuesday. Here we take a look at three of Bayern Munich's most memorable German Cup games under Heynckes. "Wunder von Weinheim" The most remarkable encounter, for all the wrong reasons, was brought up during Monday's news conference. During Heynckes' first spell in charge... Читать дальше...

Everything rumor heading into the February 8 trade deadline.

The NBA trade deadline is February 8 and rumors are heating up all around the league. If the trade deadline seems early this year, that’s because it is. The NBA moved the date ahead of All-Star weekend to avoid last year’s drama, when DeMarcus Cousins was essentially traded during the All-Star game.

Plenty of big trades have already happened this year, starting all the way back in June. Jimmy Butler was sent to the Timberwolves during the NBA Draft... Читать дальше...

Thom Baur / Reuters

A red sports car belonging to billionaire space entrepreneur Elon Musk is on its way to the orbit of Mars, following a firing of a booster rocket Tuesday evening.

Earlier in the day, SpaceX's jumbo Falcon Heavy rocket launched successfully, lifting off from the Florida launchpad that once sent astronauts to the moon. The 230-foot rocket, built of three Falcon 9 strapped-together rocket boosters, soared over the light clouds above NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:45 pm ET... Читать дальше...

Thom Baur / Reuters

After lifting off from the Florida launchpad that once sent astronauts to the moon, SpaceX's jumbo Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched Tuesday.

The 230-foot tall rocket built of three Falcon 9 strapped-together rocket boosters soared above the light clouds above NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:45 p.m. ET, its launch initially delayed two hours by high-altitude winds.

The test flight — SpaceX honcho Elon Musk had set expectations of success at 50/50 earlier ... Читать дальше...

Lucasfilm had already announced that The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson will be creating his own new Star Wars trilogy. Now, the company has turned to the team behind HBO’s Game of Thrones to create another. It was announced today on the Star Wars website that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the showrunners behind HBO’s hit adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books, will be writing and producing their own series of films.

Apple's batterygate fallout might translate to some cash for consumers.

An international cancer research center took withering criticism from Republicans on Tuesday as the House Science, Space and Technology Committee looked into that center's research on glyphosate, a best-selling agricultural herbicide used to increase crop yield.

Carter Page's words are coming back to haunt him.

On Tuesday morning, the former Trump campaign adviser told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that "there was no basis" for his surveillance by the FBI despite having claimed in 2013 to being an informal adviser to the Kremlin. The surveillance of Page, and the evidence the feds used to obtain a warrant for it, is at the heart of a Republican-authored memo that President Trump has latched onto as proof of the FBI's bias against him.

In his interview with Stephanopoulos... Читать дальше...

That’s one way to describe it.

It’s been a little over two months since Jimbo Fisher’s unprecedented 10-year, $75 million deal with Texas A&M became official. While the shock of the figure may have died down a bit with time, some people are still talking about the grandiosity. One of those people is reportedly Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith. At a recent OSU Board of Trustees meeting last week, Smith called Fisher’s contract “ridiculous.”

“I don’t even put Texas A&M... Читать дальше...

And they should be grateful Trump is willing to legalize them.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has a message for Democrats, and for immigrants: Don’t criticize the White House’s ideas for immigration policy. Be happy, instead, that President Trump is willing to allow even “lazy” immigrants to eventually become US citizens.

“Lazy” was how Kelly described immigrants who were eligible to apply for deportation protections and work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program... Читать дальше...

Westbrook pulled one over on this Thunder reporter.

Russell Westbrook’s media sessions are brief, uninspired, and occasionally combative, but he’ll sometimes do things that are both amusing and totally counter to anything that we’re used to seeing. It’s usually inspired by the same reasons — Westbrook doesn’t want to answer a question — but it at least gives us a great soundbite or video clip.

Here’s the latest example, courtesy of The Norman Transcript’s excellent Fred Katz on Tuesday. Читать дальше...

Croatian gay and parents' rights groups filed a complaint Tuesday against the organisers of a children's carnival where the country's first children's book about "rainbow families" was symbolically burnt.

SpaceX via YouTube

• SpaceX has launched Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket the company has ever built.
• The rocket lifted off from a historic Apollo-era launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Business Insider is on the ground.
• Musk put his own Tesla Roadster on top as a test payload.
• The car is bound for Mars orbit, but its upper-stage rocket first has to survive about six hours of punishing radiation.
• If deemed a complete success... Читать дальше...

An overview of all 30 MLB teams from a fantasy perspective, complete with sleepers, prospects, projected lineups and more.

Viacom has started another round of staff layoffs as part of its ongoing cost-cutting effort, TheWrap has learned. The job cuts, which are expected to not reach triple digits, will be focused on support employees — so not those directly involved in content creation. The affected staff represents less than 1 percent of the company’s 10,000 employees. CEO Bob Bakish addressed the “changes across the organization” in an internal memo obtained by TheWrap Tuesday. Also Read: Viacom to Acquire VidCon... Читать дальше...

At this point, it shouldn't be a surprise to hear that more Star Wars movies are on the way.

Below-freezing temperatures will make this year’s Winter Olympics live up to its chilly seasonal name.