Новости за 21.11.2018

Anyone going to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade should bundle up, but winds probably won’t be strong enough to ground the parade’s iconic balloons.

There is indeed a hierarchy of holiday buys, and somehow, J.Crew cardigans come out on the bottom.

Job cuts are coming to Ikea, but the company claims to be creating more jobs to offset the losses.

And just before Black Friday!

Some Amazon customers woke up to an email from “Earth’s Most Customer-centric Company” noting that their names and email addresses had been briefly disclosed due to a “technical error.” This being the internet, the affected customers quickly shared the emails on Twitter, and while people have a lot of questions, so far Amazon has provided very few answers.

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Protecting America Now, a Washington, D.C.-based dark-money nonprofit, filed its first tax return last week, showing that the organization raised about $460,000 last year and spent $385,000 on “issue advocacy.”

Feel bad about yourself.

While Hallmark likes to talk about the comfort, joy, and chestnut-roasting warmth of the holidays, the more honest (okay, cynical) members of society know that the most prevalent feeling around the holidays is guilt.

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Disagreements don’t have to result in hostility. Here’s an easy way to achieve peace at the dinner table.

A heartwarming animated look at overcoming creative imposter syndrome.

The kids are going wild for these gifts, says Adobe.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, and a whole lotta debt are coming. But before you jingle all the way to the mall to save a few dollars on your holiday shopping spree, new data from Adobe may serve as a warning: While 49% of consumers surveyed think the best day to buy toys is Black Friday, Adobe data shows that Cyber Monday is actually the best.

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This new web app is the useless fun you need in your life this week.

Apple designers may pore over the smallest details of emoji, from classics like the poo symbol or the dancing woman to newer additions like New York bagel and bald person. But “Sad squinting crying see-no-evil baby” is the only emoji that really matters. You didn’t get it in your latest iPhone update? That’s because I, a person of great talent, made it myself.

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Entrepreneurship is hard enough without adding loss aversion. Here’s how to tackle this destructive behavior before it kills your business.

The Facebook CEO took to the airwaves again Tuesday night to address some of the uglier findings from last week’s New York Times bombshell.

After an earlier attempt, the probe landing on Mars on November 26 will explore what’s inside the Red Planet to better grasp our Solar System’s history.

Let these 11 crowd-pleasing films serve as Trojan Turkeys for progressive messages over the holiday.

You can’t miss the giant LED displays in Volta—but it’s the emotional connection that matters most.

You’ve gotten this far at your job by knowing what to say and how to say it. Use those well-honed talents to get through holiday dinners unscathed.

Would you drink nonalcoholic beer? What if it came in this can?

Most of us know O’Doul’s as that weird beer in the corner of the bodega cooler. Released in 1990 as a nonalcoholic alternative for people who wanted beer without the booze, it’s since become something of a cultural punching bag. But many of us would like to have the social experience of drinking without actually drinking–suggesting that part of O’Doul’s bad rap might be its green-and-gold branding, which portrays it as a faux-Irish... Читать дальше...

Retailers like The North Face are converting entire product lines to incorporate recycled plastic–and making the case for more to do the same.

Will the weather play nice with holiday travelers? Here’s what to know.

Google used its mountains of mapping data to create this cheat sheet for avoiding a travel nightmare.

Most of our beliefs about how to pursue happiness are wrong.

If asked what we truly want in life, most of us would say we want to be happy. How to achieve that, however, isn’t so clear. The U.S. founding fathers may have identified the pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right, but most of our beliefs about how to pursue happiness are wrong, says Alex Lickerman, coauthor of The Ten Worlds: The New Psychology of Happiness.

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It’s been called the “Sistine Chapel for worshipping birds,” and a new book describes how it was made.

Every airport has a different ride-share pickup point, and every airport has different signage. Officials at LAX hope to change that.

Has the search for the ultimate massage tool finally come to an end? Fans swear by the Theragun, which promises muscle relief with rapid vibrations.

And nope, it’s not Zuck.

And that fallout just happens to be someone who is already leaving the company. Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s outgoing head of communications and public policy, has stepped forward to take the blame for the Definers scandal–the last scandal Facebook could squeeze in before the Thanksgiving holidays.

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