Новости за 01.08.2017

Turning your Tinder match's name into a pun has become a very popular opening line on the dating app. If you want proof, just look at exhibit A and exhibit B. 

Never, ever turn off the tunes when a little Beyoncé fan is listen to their favorite jam.

Groupon is digging into food delivery. 

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Known for offering discounts at restaurants and yoga studios, the company is partnering with food delivery app Grubhub. 

Groupon customers will now be able to order food from 55,000 restaurants available on Grubhub — but through Groupon's website and app. 

The partnership also opens up the potential for customers to redeem Groupon deals while ordering Grubhub deliveries. Читать дальше...

People spend countless hours and thousands of dollars to make sure their outfit for their wedding is perfect. But no matter how much money you spend, sometimes things don't go as planned.

Old trends always have a way of popping back up, don't they?

Wired editor, Arielle Pardes, left Twitter shook on Monday after posting a very revealing photo of how far we have come as a society. Spoiler: we haven't come that far.

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You know these new wacky gadgets called fidget spinners that have taken over the internet? Apparently, they have been around since roughly 2000-1800 B.C.E., as made evident by this museum display. 

Amazon sells fish antibiotics called ‘Fin Mox.’ It looks innocent enough until you take a look at the reviews and find out that humans are taking these meds to treat their ailments. Read more...

Female flyers rejoice — air travel just got a little bit more bearable, thanks to one Indian airline.

While Tesla's most affordable car might start at $35,000, with all the (sort of essential) additional features, it becomes a bit more pricey. 

Politics has always been embedded in Saturday Night Live's DNA, but after Donald Trump was elected president, the show was forced to evolve in ways that no one saw coming, according to former cast member Bobby Moynihan. 

Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners are about to have a much more comfortable virtual reality experience, courtesy of Google.

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We now know a lot more about Facebook's hardware ambitions.

The social network is working not one, but two, connected speakers for the home, including one equipped with cameras, microphones, and a feature that will "scan for people," according to a new report in Bloomberg. 

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The device, which Facebook is reportedly testing, is a touchscreen-enabled speaker meant to help people make video calls from their house. Читать дальше...

A lucky shopper stumbled on a super-rare console while at a thrift store over the weekend and turned it around for a huge profit on Monday.

In a report by The Washington Post on July 31, it was revealed that Donald Trump personally dictated his son Donald Trump Jr.'s misleading statement about meeting with a Russian lawyer. Aboard Air Force One on July 8, Trump directed his son to tell the media that the meeting's subject did not involve the campaign and instead focused on an adoption program.

You can return a faulty alarm clock to the store, but what about a faulty rooster?

A man camping in Alaska had an extremely close encounter with a huge grizzly bear and her two cubs on a trail. 

Underneath the colorfully fun facade of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a deep, complex, and dauntingly difficult strategy game where every move becomes a crucial, life-or-death decision.

Typhoon Noru is a monster.

The huge typhoon in the Pacific Ocean became the most powerful storm on Earth over the weekend. Noru intensified  into a major super typhoon over the course of just about one day, making it the most powerful storm of 2017 so far.

According to the Weather Channel, the storm's winds increased by 90 miles per hour in only 18 hours. That intensification made it as strong as a Category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. 

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Why text your crush the same boring date ideas when you can make them an informative presentation instead?

Nintendo didn't offer pre-orders for its NES Classic in 2016, and that's not changing this year with the SNES Classic. But, the company promises, pre-orders are going to be a thing.

If you thought the White House Russia Collusion Story mill was running low on creative new twists, think again. This one involves President Donald Trump reviewing a pre-publication Fox News story—about a knowingly fake conspiracy designed to distract from Trump/Russia news—and personally pushing for its publication. Fun! 

The Game of Thrones power rankings determines which character is most likely to sit on the Iron Throne at the end of the series — not the power behind it, but officially ruling Westeros — based on information available at the end of each episode. You can read last week's rankings here.  

Canadians are notorious for being kind, polite people — maybe even a little too kind.

The next iPhone will mark the 10 year anniversary of the device's debut, and the rumors about what it'll look like are crazier and more outlandish with every passing week. One of the wildest ones — that the iPhone 8 will be transparent – has been realized in this brilliant concept video from a very talented artist. 

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