Новости за 09.12.2015

Hyperloop Technologies, a Los Angeles-based startup and one of the companies racing to make Elon Musk’s ambitious science fiction-like transportation system a reality -- announced Tuesday that it has acquired 50 acres of land in North Las Vegas, Nevada, to build its first test track for the propulsion system. Testing at the Propulsion Open Air Test facility is expected to begin in early 2016, the company said, in a statement.

When Patricia Pasquale, 69, of Pembroke Pines, Florida, returned from a cruise last spring, she began to cough ferociously. By the time she sought treatment nearly 20 days later, she was coughing so forcefully that her doctor worried she might crack a rib.

On Tuesday, the bitcoin world was once again thrown into turmoil as the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of the world's biggest cryptocurrency, was reportedly revealed as Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright.

In 2013, illegal fund transfers out of China stood at a staggering $258 billion, making it the largest source of illicit financial outflow among all developing nations. And, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Washington-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI), in the 10 years through 2013, $7.8 trillion was drained out of emerging economies, including almost $1.4 trillion from Chinese shores.

Foued Mohamed Aggad, a 23-year-old man from the eastern French city of Strasbourg, has been identified as the third bomber involved in last month’s attacks at Paris’s Bataclan concert hall, police sources said Wednesday. A series of well-coordinated shootings and suicide bombings across the French capital killed 130 people and injured hundreds others on Nov. 13.

BEIRUT-- Oil has long been the dark, viscous gold fueling the Islamic State group’s vicious insurgency. As the group known as ISIS has captured broad swaths of Iraq and Syria, it has financed the purchase of arms and recruits in large part by seizing fertile oil fields, harvesting revenues reaching $2 million a day, according to American officials.

Back in 2011 Steve Jobs was reported to have told autobiographer Walter Isaacson that he had "finally cracked" television, but four years after the death of the iconic Apple co-founder, the company has reportedly put its plans to launch a subscription TV service on hold as it struggles to come up with a viable offer for customers of its Apple TV set-top box.

The U.S. Department of Treasury imposed a fresh round of sanctions Tuesday against six North Korean bankers and three shipping companies for their links to illegal arms trafficking and financing operations. The sanctions list included Pyongyang's Strategic Rocket Force, which U.S. officials had earlier targeted for conducting several ballistic missile launches in 2014.

America’s move to deploy the P-8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore amid South China Sea tensions was aimed at militarizing the area, China’s foreign ministry said, according to reports on Wednesday. The United States agreed Monday to deploy the surveillance plane for the first time in Singapore for “maritime security efforts.” China’s foreign ministry said that the plane’s deployment did not serve the interests of the countries in the region, Xinhua News Agency reported.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Dozens of people left the last insurgent-held area in the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday under a local peace deal between the government and insurgents, a group monitoring the war said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first bus had left the previously besieged area of the western city, and around 750 people were expected to leave during the day.

The Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) -- the country’s largest unlisted commercial lender -- has raised 45 billion yuan ($7 billion) by selling about 17 percent of itself ahead of a planned Initial Public Offering in Hong Kong next year. The bank, which is currently an arm of state-owned China Post Group, raised the capital through stake sale to 10 domestic and foreign investors, including UBS Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s import of goods from China displaced over 400,000 jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2013, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a U.S.-based nonprofit think tank. According to the study, cited by the New York Times, Wal-Mart’s Chinese imports amounted to at least $49 billion in 2013.

In its latest effort to wind down its capital financing business, General Electric is nearing deals to sell its Japanese commercial lending business and its stake in Hyundai Capital, according to media reports. The deal to sell the Japanese corporate leasing business is believed to be valued at over 550 billion yen ($4.5 billion) and the 43 percent stake sale in the unlisted Hyundai Capital is likely to fetch the company approximately $1.2 billion.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 pilots were faced with a sudden loss of electrical supply in the plane, which led to multiple parts failing within a short time, an analysis of last week's report by the Australian Transport Bureau (ATSB) stated. The ATSB is leading the search for MH370, which was carrying 239 passengers and has been missing for over a year.

Myanmar's new stock exchange came into existence Wednesday, but there are no listed companies or brokers and therefore no trading as well. When trading begins, foreigners won't be allowed to participate. Proponents say it's nevertheless important to start, to accelerate economic change alongside the country's expected shift to a democratic government next year. In another sign of change, the U.S. on Monday lifted for six months its ban on U.S. companies using Myanmar's ports.

Donald Trump denied Tuesday an Associated Press report that said the Republican presidential hopeful will be visiting Muslim-majority Jordan this month, following his anti-Muslim remarks. A U.S. official told AP that the government was arranging Trump’s trip to the Middle Eastern country at the campaign’s request.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Federal Police raided the Sydney home on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of cryptocurrency bitcoin, a Reuters witness said. The property is registered under the Australian electoral role to Craig Steven Wright, whom Wired outed as the likely real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous figure that first released bitcoin's code in 2009.

UPDATE: 5:56 a.m. EST -- U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that authorities have no indication that the attackers, who opened fire at a social service center in San Bernardino, California last week, were part of a wider cell or that they planned more attacks, Reuters reported. The radicalization of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, seemed to have been going on for some time, Lynch reportedly said, while speaking to reporters in London.

The attackers in last week’s Southern California shootings may have left a bomb at a social service center in San Bernardino to kill police officers, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a source familiar with the investigation. Authorities are reportedly trying to determine whether Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, had plans of a deadlier massacre.

Television broadcasters are officially spooked about the rise of digital advertising, and if you’re looking for proof, all you have to do is turn on your TV. The Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB), a trade association that represents local broadcast television stations across the United States, launched its very first television ad campaign Wednesday promoting the effectiveness and power of TV ads in political campaigns.

More than 1 in 10 children in the United States between ages 5 and 17 are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a Journal of Clinical Psychology study published Tuesday that estimates there are 5.8 million children in the country currently being treated for the disorder.

The FBI announced Tuesday it will launch a new system to track fatal police shootings. The system, which will be in place by 2017, will be a major improvement from what a senior FBI official called a "travesty," according to the Washington Post.

Cigarettes, tobacco and e-cigarettes would no longer be sold to people under age 21 in Cleveland, under a proposal approved by the city council. In a 13-3 vote Monday, the council approved the raising of the minimum age for the sale or distribution of tobacco products in the city, Fox News reported.

Asian stocks fell early Wednesday, following the U.S., as weak Chinese trade data Tuesday revived concern about the global economy and oil stayed near six-year lows. Energy-, commodity- and trade-linked stocks and currencies were hit. Japan's Nikkei 225 and the ASX 200 in commodity-dependent Australia both fell 0.4 percent, the STI in trade-dependent Singapore dropped 0.9 percent and the JSX Composite in oil-producing Indonesia slumped 1.3 percent.

In an effort to enhance security efforts on mass transit facilities and services during the holiday season, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Tuesday, providing New Jersey and Connecticut  law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction on New York’s public transportation services and facilities. The move comes in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.