Новости за 12.11.2017

On Friday, BuzzFeed published a report with sexual harassment allegations against former DC Comics Group Editor, Eddie Berganza. On Saturday the publisher announced that Berganza has been suspended, pending a review of the allegations.

Our houses are comfortable enough for the bugs that creep through our basements, scuttle across our kitchen floors, and crawl across our carpets, according to a team of entomologists from North Carolina State University and the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of different bugs live in the parts of our homes that have access to the outdoors, no matter how tidy they are, the team reported Friday in the journal Scientific Reports.

Pioneers of German Graphic Design is a weighty 400-page tome by Jens Müller, on how art, minimalism, and commerce spawned a new form of visual communication. The book, published by Callisto, is the definitive text on how German designers influenced and shaped modern day graphic design starting in the late 19th century, and it’s pure coffee table eye candy. A deeper read reveals how the culture highs and ultimate societal lows in 20th century Germany bled into every aspect of life, including the field of graphic design. Читать дальше...

The alarm clock has existed in a weird place since the advent of the smartphone — after all, why have a separate device on your nightstand for telling the time or waking you up in the morning when your phone already does that?

As mentioned in last week’s Good Deals post, Black Friday deals have begun early and you can already score major discounts on tech. This week, we’re featuring our favorite deals on home entertainment (including several big TV discounts), headphones, computing, DJI drones, and more.

I’m a huge fan of Lev Grossman’s Magicians novels, which are the basis for the Syfy show by the same name. The books are fantastic, and each installment — The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magicians’s Land — came with a beautiful map that detail some of the key locations in the story. For the first time, they’re now being offered for sale.

Hasbro is one of the largest toy companies in the world (after Lego), and according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, it recently made an offer to take over its chief rival, Mattel.

Earlier this week, some Apple users using iOS 11.1 experienced a glitch: if they typed in the letter “I”, it prompted an autocorrect suggestion of “A[?],” prompting a number of jokes around the internet. Apparently, the glitch also impacted Ohio State fans during today’s game against Michigan State.

UPS is partnering with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to develop new technology to switch its diesel-fueled delivery vehicles to over to electric power.