Facebook company lunched Workplace, a tool and a communication platform dedicated to business and to the non-governmental organisations that can replace the intranet, the e-mail or other communication ways at job. Among the companies that have already installed this application are Starbucks and Danone. The general director of the Workplace, Julien Codorniou, stated that the … [Read more...]
‘Miss Peregrine’ – first on the North American box-office
The fantasy movie 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children', with Eva Green in the role of a 'weirder Mary Poppins' and with Samuel L. Jackson in a negative role, managed to be on the first place in the North American box-office, although it gathered only $28,5 million, a modest amount. The movie directed by Tim Burton tells the story of a special place for the children … [Read more...]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – an agreement regarding their 6 children
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie came to an agreement regarding their six children, according to TMZ which quotes confidential sources. These sources declared to the journalists that the famous Hollywood couple, going through a divorce, got to an agreement regarding the children, at the recommendation of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, a family … [Read more...]
The Nobel Prize for Medicine opens the 2016 Nobel distinctions season
The 2016 Nobel season will be open today, with the announcement of the medicine distinction winner. In the following 10 days, the other prizes for science, peace and literature will be awarded. The winners of the medicine prize will be announced by Thomas Perlmann, the secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine, on October 3. According to the Swedish radio SR, … [Read more...]
Charles Richter, the initiator of the Richter magnitude scale, became a seismologist from an ‘error’
On September 30, 1985, the initiator of the famous magnitude scale Richter, passed away. Charles Francis Richter spent the most of his life in California, in a vulnerable area from the seismic point of view and he made studies in this domain at the Stanford University, being familiarized with the researches of the Pasadena seismology Laboratory. In one of the rare given … [Read more...]
Europol: the hackers offer their services to the militant groups for money
The hackers offer their services for money, to the militant groups in order for them to attack Europe, but they haven't used such method for major attacks, according to the European police agency, Europol. The agency stated, in the annual evaluation regarding the cybernetic criminality, that there are few evidences suggesting that these cybernetic attacks capacities extended … [Read more...]
Bruce Springsteen reveals his fight with the depression and the alcoholic father figure in his memoirs
The American singer Bruce Springsteen, also called 'The Boss', published his memoirs book 'Born to Run', in which he writes about his depression and about how he is still haunted by his alcoholic father. He describes his life in fear in the modest house from Freehold, New Jersey and he writes about him inheriting the 'demons' of his father. Springsteen also describes his love … [Read more...]
The first tri-parental baby in the world is born
The first baby in the world conceived through a tri-parental technique is born in Mexico. There are no details about this birth, revealed before the scientific congress of the American Society for the Reproductive Medicine that is scheduled to take place in October in Salt Lake City. According to the critics, the procedure is the equivalent of the genetic modifications upon the … [Read more...]
Silvio Berlusconi celebrates 80 years with the dilemma of returning to politics or enjoying being a grandpa
The former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi celebrates his 80 years away of the public life, saying that he wants to make a step back in politics, an ingrate lover about which he says he never loved, although the Italian press doesn't exclude the possibility of him involving again in the political problems, especially because his party, Forza Italia, is in a visible regress. … [Read more...]