Sir Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, in New York, against the company Sony ATV Music Publishing in order to ensure the copyrights of some songs of the Beatles, a fight in justice which could have serious implications for the music industry, notes the AFP. According to the legislation in the USA on the protection of the copyrights, from 1976, the Copyright Law, the … [Read more...]
The United Nations is looking into the problem Killer Robots
The United Nations decided that starting with 2017 will analyze, inside an intergovernmental working group, the problematic concerning the independent robots as lethal guns, writes recode.net. On the occasion of the International Convention regarding the conventional weapons, held in Geneva, the representatives of the 123 participating members voted for lodging in 2017 of the … [Read more...]
The inventor of the Kinder egg, William Salice, dies at 83 years
William Salice, the inventor of the Kinder egg, died on Thursday evening at the age of 83 years, at Pavia, in the North of Italy, announced the 'Color your life' Foundation which he set up to support the young people, reports the AFP. An employee at the company Ferrero in 1960, William Salice has become the right hand of the visionary owner Michele Ferrero, the father of the … [Read more...]
Mexico will not pay for America’s wall, says the president Nieto
Mexico, 'of course, would not pay for the wall' at the border, which the future American president Donald Trump wants to build, stated the President Enrique Pena Nieto, giving assurances that he wishes to take action for a good relationship with the United States, according to the AFP. 'It is evident that we have differences with the new United States government on some … [Read more...]
Natalie Portman speaks out about the genre discrimination in Hollywood
A new wave of discontent regarding the discrimination of the actresses, which are paid less than the actors for a similar work, has occurred in Hollywood. The actress Natalie Portman, who won an Oscar, said that this discrimination is 'insane' and stated that, beyond the glamour of the actresses on the red carpet, they are even more discriminated than the women who work in … [Read more...]
China will build in Tibet telescopes for the detection of the gravitational waves
China will build, in the Autonomous Region Tibet, telescopes for the detection of gravitational waves located at the highest level of Earth. The devices will be built at over 5,000 meters altitude in order to detect even the weakest echoes resonating from the Universe, these telescopes being able to provide valuable information about the Big Bang, informs Xinhua. The … [Read more...]
CIA post procedures about the information collecting on Americans
The CIA made public the new revised procedures concerning the collecting, analyzing and the storage of the information about the American citizens, adapting them to the new information era, informs Reuters. The context of their publication is marked by a discomfort of the public opinion about the monitoring powers of the government, especially after the disclosures made by … [Read more...]
‘The Founder’, a movie about McDonald’s restaurants, becomes a global success
The actor Michael Keaton presented in Los Angeles his new film 'The Founder', in which he plays the role of Ray Kroc, a bankrupt entrepreneur who made from a modest McDonald's local, one of the largest chains of fast food in the world, according to the EFE. Directed by John Lee Hancock ('Saving Mr. Banks'), the film shows how Kroc, 52 years old, meets in the '50s, the Mac and … [Read more...]
Osama Bin Laden, was worried about Al-Qaida getting ‘old’
A few months before being killed by an American commando, Osama Bin Laden was worried about the possibility of Al-Qaida, to get 'aged', according to some documents declassified by the CIA. The last files confiscated by the American troops in Pakistan, during the operation in which Osama Bin Laden was killed, in the complex of Abbottabad in which he was hidden, in 2011, shows an … [Read more...]
The televisions were the stars of the CES tech show in Las Vegas
Screens as smooth as a poster in the case of LG or vibrating to transmit the sound instead of the speakers from Sony, the great giants of the electronics industry have attracted the people with their TVs at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, the largest market of electronic equipment in the world, informs the AFP. The South Korean group LG Electronics has presented a flat-screen TV called … [Read more...]