Новости за 15.06.2017

Own a piece of Snapchat, they said. You'll be cool, they said.

SEE ALSO: Snapchat is on a crusade to show why it's better than Facebook (hint: size isn't everything)

If you took that advice, you're probably not in a good place. 

Snap's stock fell to its IPO price of $17 on Thursday, a significant barometer for the company since it went public. It's been tumbling down since Snap began trading in March, when shares briefly traded above $25.

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"Troxes" are triangular, origami-like building blocks made for all ages. Designed at the MIT Media Lab, their unique shape supposedly helps stretch the imagination and deepen spatial thinking. Read more...

Dutch cloud computing company Nerdalize letting people use the residual heat from their servers to heat their homes. These specially designed servers are installed in a customer's home and hooked up to their heating system. Read more...

We recently said — with good reason, mind you — that NBA fans shouldn't look at Instagram this time of year. 

Facebook has a terrorism problem, and its vowing to fix it. On Thursday, the social media giant announced new plans to use artificial intelligence to scrape words, images, and video in order to wipe terrorist propaganda from its network entirely.

It's been 15 years since we had a new Shania Twain album (remember Up! in 2002? Remember 2002?), so people are pretty excited about the release of her single "Life's About to Get Good," from her upcoming LP Now. 

The new trailer for Super Mario Odyssey premiered at E3 and it has left a lot of people scratching their heads. There are so many elements in this trailer to to take in that it is downright overwhelming. We see Mario playing guitar. We see Mario hanging out with weird humans. We see him taking control of his enemies, inanimate objects, and even, that's right, dinosaurs. It's a big, bizarre game and it's got a lot of people asking, "what the heck is going on?"

The Carter-Knowles family is celebrating. No, we're not talking about the twins. 

The greatest birth of the century may or may not have already happened, and no one can stop talking about it. 

The Golden State Warriors held their celebratory parade in Oakland on Thursday, three days after beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. 

Talking trash to other drivers from the comfort and safety of your own vehicle is one of America's greatest pastimes.

A woman who survived a rape by her Uber driver in India back in 2014 filed a lawsuit Thursday against the ride-hailing company after it was revealed that her medical records were shared with the company's leadership.

Tremendous news, everyone! There is a good chance that right at this very moment, Kim Jong-un— you know, the leader of North Korea — holds in his powerful hands President Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal.

The absolutely gorgeous game developed by Level-5 in association with Studio Ghibli, Ni No Kuni, is getting a sequel, and it’s coming with some changes. But not everyone is super into the idea of them yet. 

Have a great philanthropy idea? Pitch Jeff Bezos.

The Amazon CEO posted on Thursday a request for pitches for a new philanthropic effort. 

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— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) June 15, 2017

If anybody has the money and vision to start a game-changing non-profit, it's Bezos. As Bezos notes, he has made himself into one of the world's richest people by banking on the idea that planning for the long-term is better than trying to go for a short-term boost. Читать дальше...

Twitter finally made it happen. With a simple redesign, the beloved social media giant has solved all of its problems. You heard it here firstEvery. Single. One. Of. Them. 

"Family is gross, but it's important," Sarah Pfefferman says in Transparent's Season 4 teaser, getting to the heart of the twisted yet heartwarming family dynamic.

There aren't many features on Earth that look bad from space. 

Mountains? Pretty great. Deserts? Freaking gorgeous. How about clouds? Awesome! And don't even get me started about the Bahamas. 

But perhaps one of the most beautiful features of our planet as seen from space is actually created by some of the smallest organisms on our world. 

SEE ALSO: This view finally makes me want to risk my life to fly to space

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In the right light, Nintendo's much-anticipated new Mario game Super Mario Odyssey is very disturbing. 

The animal kingdom is a brutal unforgiving place. A barbaric place where, at any given moment, a scene from 300 can break out, and it's no big deal. 

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Shimon is a marimba-playing robot rockstar. The robot, developed by a team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology is able to compose and perform music entirely on its own. 

Get excited, y'all! Apple CEO Tim Cook's ready for a party guaranteed to "rock the house," and all you need to do to get an invite is drop $350 on Apple's new hyped-up HomePod speaker.

Fake news is a very real problem, one that can sway elections and have monumental effects on society. Now, a new cybersecurity research report claims that producing a fake news campaign is not only incredibly cheap — it's also super easy to execute.

Los Angeles, rest assured that Jaden Smith will never quit Jaden Smithing. Smith's new song "Batman" takes cues from Drake and Future's "Jumpman," with the sort of mystical touch only this 18-year-old going on 618-year-old could bring.