World News in Dutch
Август
2017

Новости за 21.08.2017

CTVNews.ca 

Tech experts demanding 'killer robot' ban

Tesla chief Elon Musk and Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google's DeepMind, are among more than 100 experts in artificial intelligence who are urging the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons, known as “killer robots.”

BusinessInsider.com 

Wealthy families are turning to 'transformative mediation' to decide who gets the summer home

Tana Lee Alves/Shutterstock.com

When you think of a summer home, you probably think of sandy hallways, shady porches, and bitter battles over who inherits the place when Grandma and Grandpa are dead.

No?

In The New York Times, Paul Sullivan writes that wealthy families who once turned to their lawyers over matters of inheritance are now pursuing a different method of conflict resolution: transformative mediation.

He describes transformative mediation as "an ambitious but often lengthy process with a single goal... Читать дальше...

New York Post (basketball) 

Greek Freak at center of country’s NBA conspiracy theory

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s basketball federation has accused the Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA of hatching a plan to prevent All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo from playing in the European championship. The NBA denied the allegation. The saga started Saturday about an hour after Antetokounmpo posted on Facebook and Instagram that he was unavailable because of...

New York Post (sports) 

Greek Freak at center of country’s NBA conspiracy theory

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s basketball federation has accused the Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA of hatching a plan to prevent All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo from playing in the European championship. The NBA denied the allegation. The saga started Saturday about an hour after Antetokounmpo posted on Facebook and Instagram that he was unavailable because of...

BusinessInsider.com 

The zombie polar bear on 'Game of Thrones' is a lot sillier when you know it's a man in a green suit

Helen Sloan/HBO

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones." 

"Game of Thrones" fans were hoping we'd get to see some ice spiders Sunday night, but instead, viewers got a giant undead polar bear that ravaged Thoros of Myr. 

HBO

According to the series' showrunners, they've been trying to get that polar bear into the show for years, but were constantly told by the visual effects team that there was no way they could afford to do it.

"What we had to... Читать дальше...