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Radical reimagining of Shakespeare play was due to run at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 13 February to 3 April 2027

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that it will postpone its radical production of Othello starring Sharon D Clarke, while the Olivier-winning actor undergoes treatment for cancer.

The production, directed by Monique Touko, was scheduled to run from 13 February to 3 April 2027 at the Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Clarke, 60, is best known for her role as Lola Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City, as well as for her theatrical performances in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Caroline, or Change.

Привет, я Иван из НИИ Крокодил. Это небольшая команда внутри ИЖ‑РЭСТ — завода штампов и пресс‑форм. Мы пришли на завод из IT и теперь разбираемся, как соединить опыт людей из цеха с тем, что умеем сами.

Недавно у нас появилась идея автоматизировать часть процесса полировки. В теории всё выглядело довольно просто: взять хаптик, связать его с промышленным роботом и научить сотрудников завода с этим работать.

Для проверки гипотезы мы обратились к специалистам Университета Иннополис. Они предоставили оборудование и помогли нам разобраться с платформой, а наша команда написала программный мост на C++ и начала проверять, сможет ли робот повторять движения человека.

Двигаться вслед за хаптиком робот научился довольно быстро. С реальной полировкой всё оказалось сложнее.

Но давайте по порядку.

Frasers Group acquires majority of upmarket retailer’s sites from the administrators

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The owner of Sports Direct has bought Harvey Nichols out of administration after the upmarket department store chain warned it could run out of money if it did not find new funding.

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group said on Thursday it had bought the chain, which is headquartered at its store in Knightsbridge, for an undisclosed sum on the day it was put into administration. Sources said he had paid about £40m for Harvey Nichols, which has 1,200 employees and 13 stores.

Мужское бесплодие не всегда сопровождается проблемами с потенцией. Мужчина вроде бы здоров и полон сил, а показатели спермограммы говорят об обратном: пониженная фертильность.

Сегодня в интернете набирает популярность "спермаксинг" — попытки самостоятельно улучшить показатели спермы с помощью изменения образа жизни, БАДов и даже довольно экстремальных методов. Но такой подход не всегда оправдан: за попытками «прокачать» отдельные показатели можно не заметить настоящую причину проблемы.

Разбираем реальный случай пациента, который тоже решил начать со спермаксинга. Что показало обследование и почему в итоге без помощи врача не обошлось?

На старте почти любого проекта бизнес-аналитик оказывается в одной и той же ситуации. Бизнес говорит: «клиент может иметь несколько договоров», «договор относится только к одному клиенту», «товар идентифицируется артикулом».

Эти формулировки понятны предметным экспертам, но в таком виде их не передашь архитектору данных или команде разработки — для них это еще не техническое задание. Неясно, где здесь сущность, а где значение, что будет идентификатором, какие ограничения критичны, а какие можно оставить на уровне процессов.

На этом шаге аналитик становится переводчиком между двумя мирами. Нужен промежуточный слой — формальное, проверяемое описание предметной области. Таким слоем часто становится концептуальная модель данных: она помогает согласовать термины между бизнесом и ИТ, зафиксировать правила до проектирования таблиц и API, увидеть противоречия и пробелы в требованиях, отделить смысл данных от будущей технической реализации.

Меня зовут Вадим Скляров, я бизнес-аналитик проектного офиса МТС Медиа. В этом материале расскажу, почему для этой задачи я выбрал ORM2 в качестве инструмента концептуального моделирования, какие приложения есть на рынке, почему в итоге понадобилось собственное SPA-приложение и чем оно оказалось полезным.

Two planes came close to collision on the runway on Sunday – hours after another near miss – making a total of three in recent weeks

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The transport safety watchdog is investigating a third near-collision between two planes at Sydney airport – the latest incident occurring hours after one that made national news and raised concerns about air traffic control.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said on Thursday night that it was investigating a second “runway incursion” on Sunday 9 August.

Привет, мы команда «Ножиков» и хотим сделать так, чтобы нож воспринимался как стильный аксессуар вроде часов. Такой аксессуар можно носить с собой, и он будет классно смотреться. Красивое лезвие подчеркивает имидж, его не нужно бояться. Мы стараемся разрушать миф, что наличие ножа — это какой-то тревожный сигнал. В этом тексте расскажем, почему не продаем модели дороже 100,000 рублей и как мы собрали миллион подписчиков на нашем ютуб-канале:

How a bride decides to look on the big day tells us a lot about that person. But the singer is leaving us hanging

Having hope in your heart is all well and good, but you also need to know when to give up. At a certain point it’s time to accept cold, hard reality: we’re never going to see pictures of Taylor Swift in her wedding dress, are we?

There are many reasons this matters, and the first, admittedly, is plain old nosiness, with a side order of entitlement. We’ve spent years absorbing – some unintentionally, by osmosis – the details of Swift’s relationships, following her journey to happily ever after every step of the way, including the photos she released of the engagement moment. Obviously she is allowed to keep her wedding private, but being denied a glimpse of the dress feels – insert foot stamp here – unfair. More than that, it’s like a romcom ending before the final embrace, the protagonist still en route to the airport they have yet to run through. For somebody who is essentially a storyteller, this tale is uncharacteristically incomplete, unsatisfying. It’s not like Swift to leave us hanging.

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Parts of the UK are roasting but some of us are glad to turn the oven on. Bring on the​ ​curries and pasta pies

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I don’t wish to boast, but I’m typing this with a jumper on. Not because my flat has air-conditioning, but because it doesn’t – and the relentless heat of south-east England was having a seriously detrimental effect on my productivity and the health of my elderly dog (NB: the two are not mutually exclusive). So, with a second novel to write, I decided to rent a studio as far north, and as far west, as I could reasonably drive in a day. And, so far, I have no regrets. Driving through North Yorkshire, I had to put on a sweatshirt – the weather in the Pennines gave my car the first good wash it’s had in months – and now, in Scotland, the dog and I feast on hot porridge in the mornings. I’d genuinely forgotten what it’s like to be cold – and what it’s like to cook for pleasure.

This newsletter isn’t just for those parts of the country enjoying, rather than suffering, the sunshine; yesterday it was raining and tonight the temperatures will drop to almost single digits. It’s also for anyone, wherever you are, who’s eaten enough cool, crunchy salads and chilled soups to last a lifetime, or at least until next summer. (You’re not alone: last month, Waitrose reported a spike in sales of cottage pie and robust South African red wine.)

Bananas, peaches, strawberries – anything but ‘grapes’. What do all those volatile organic compounds really mean for your summer sipping?

“Strawberries, cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring,” sang Nancy Sinatra. “My summer wine is really made from all these things …” Overlook the angel’s kiss and, if you’re a wine drinker, you might recognise some of those fruity tasting notes – strawberries and cherries, indeed, but also citrus, orchard, other stone fruits and the whole berry family. In fact, it’s common to liken a wine to almost any fruit – except grapes.

A wine can have notes of almost anything – pencil shavings, tennis balls, cat pee – but fruit is the most obvious (clearly, wine is made from fruit) and universally recognised. If I told you I was getting, say, green apple and lime zest from a riesling, you would probably have a good sense of what that meant, and what you might be able to expect on tasting it yourself. If I described a petroleum aroma, that might sound a bit cryptic and much less appealing, unless you were familiar with this tasting note commonly found in riesling. In other words, a wine’s fruit profile is often leveraged as a marketing tool. What better example of this than the “strawberries and cream” of Provence rosé? It’s a tasting note that underpins our collective sense that rosé is a summer drop, perfect for sun-drenched days filled with watching tennis, ocean views and seasonal produce.

It’s a decade since the Los Angeles musician released the seminal album Blonde. To lessen the pain of his hiatus, we count down the best of an artist who redefined R&B

Frank Ocean’s pre-fame demos are hard to find – there’s a fan-made, 64-track compilation called The Lonny Breaux Collection floating around – but worth checking out, as evinced by this brief but potent piano ballad. Sweet but heartsore, it packs an emotional punch; it would have been a highlight of the mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra, had it made the cut.

Indiana faced most outages at 267,000, about 8% of its customers, with severe thunderstorms and wind ahead

Power supply was cut on Thursday ⁠to about 540,000 homes and businesses across the US midwest as severe storms battered the region, data ⁠from PowerOutage.us showed.

Indiana ⁠was the ​hardest-hit state, with more than 267,000 outages, representing about 8% of its roughly 3.3 million customers, the data ⁠showed.

• Heavy fog had meant planes unable to land in Faroes

• Polish team will have to play within hours of landing

Poland’s champions Lech Poznan will have to play their Europa League second leg against the Faroese champions KÍ Klaksvík on Thursday night within hours of landing in the Faroe Islands after their travel was disrupted for two days in a row by heavy fog.

Lech won 1-0 in the first leg in Poznan thanks to a late goal from Ivorian striker Yannick Agnero, but on Thursday they were locked in a chaotic race against time to reach the islands for kick-off.

Teenager endured a frustrating wait for his registration to be approved but took no time to show his potential on the big stage against PSG

At first glance there was the usual stuff: the wide smile, the guttural release, the punch of the air, teammates quickly on the scene to offer congratulations. But then the real celebration followed for the 17-year-old Brian Madjo. After scoring his first Aston Villa goal 45 minutes into an unforgettable debut, the teenager clasped his hands behind his back and then unlocked them with the kind of force he exhibited on the pitch. “No distractions, I’m free,” he posted on Instagram after finally being cleared to pull on a Villa shirt in a competitive game.

After confirmation that the court of arbitration for sport (Cas) had upheld Villa’s appeal to register the 6ft 4in striker, the Madjo movement gathered pace. John McGinn and Amadou Onana responded to the club sharing the news on social media by posting “#freemadjo”. After Madjo shone in defeat in Salzburg, McGinn alluded to the painful and protracted waiting game. “Brian has had a terrible year,” the Villa captain said. “A player born in England should be able to play in England. He has the potential to be an unbelievable striker and he showed that.”

It’s a nice sentiment, but all AI users should ask three questions about their preferred choice of AI platform

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay, The Future Is for Everyone. The essay came with something even rarer: a new Meta open-weight model. An open-weight AI model is the kind of AI with which you download the entire thing, and it works on your own computer (with or without the internet) and nobody can switch it off except for you. Almost every mainstream AI tool you use, whether it be Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude, is one you rent access to. Meta’s is one that you can download and actually own. I downloaded it before I finished the essay. So can you.

This major move by the world’s largest tech heavyweight comes amid a summer heavy with AI news, full of nations at war. Washington against Beijing; tech founder against tech founder. But beneath those conflicts is a deeper contest between two kinds of power: a government that can order technology offline in an instant, and a company that can simply close your account. Neither is necessarily villainous. But the rest of us are not merely the audience in this fight; we are the prize. And the terms are already being written: intelligence on lease, a future we pay for but never quite own.

The congresswoman’s decision is an assertion of women’s freedom and dignity at a time when our status is rapidly eroding

“Don’t be weird about this,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive star and rumored 2028 presidential contender, said on her live video broadcast as she raised her shirt to angle the syringe into her abdomen. Then, with resignation, “even though I know all of you will be.”

The New York Democrat is 36 years old, and this week she revealed that she is beginning the process of freezing her eggs during Congress’s August recess. In the video, Ocasio-Cortez said that she was seeking to destigmatize the realities of women’s lives as they navigate the conflicting demands of professional aspiration and family building; she explained to viewers the process of the hormonal injections she was administering to herself, showing them the drugs and injector she was using arrayed on a paper towel, beside a disinfecting towelette. The procedure, Ocasio-Cortez explained, was not covered by her insurance, and she would be paying “100% out of pocket”. She had been saving to afford it for some time. “This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” she said, going on to assert her hope that transparency about such questions will destigmatize women’s reproductive lives and promote their dignity.

Bat experts were shocked at how fast white-nose syndrome had spread to Canada’s northernmost colonies from the US. Now, the race is on to find a cure before species disappear

Crawling through a narrow passage in a cave beneath a boreal forest near Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territories in May, two biologists spotted a lifeless bat on a limestone ledge, its body covered in a spindly white fungus.

When they shone their headlamps to get a closer look, they saw another bat with the fungus on its forearms. “It hissed at us and crawled back into a crack,” Jesika Reimer says.

Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level

Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.

Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn in losses as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.

Biological factors mean a child’s core temperature rises faster than an adult’s – and that can result in a medical emergency

Children and babies are more vulnerable in heatwaves than healthy adults. As temperatures rise again, how do we keep children safe?

Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level

Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.

Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn in losses as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.

13 августа Frontier Red Team компании Anthropic опубликовала отчет о поведении групп ИИ-агентов. Один из экспериментов выглядел так: три копии одной и той же модели запустили в Claude Code, каждой выдали собственную виртуальную машину и велели мигрировать бэкенд на Python на четвертой машине — каждой модели на свой язык. О существовании друг друга агентам не сообщили. Четыре часа исследователи просто смотрели, что будет. Так прогнали несколько моделей разных поколений, по 120 эпизодов на каждую.

Часто кажется, что тестирование пуш-уведомлений – одна из самых простых задач: отправил, получил, кликнул. Если текст отображается корректно, и ссылка открывается, задача считается выполненной.

Однако в финтехе цена ошибки измеряется не только временем, но и реальными деньгами. Для нас, как для команды обеспечения качества, пуш-уведомления – это не просто текст на экране, это обещание пользователю. Обещание того, что клик приведет его к решению задачи быстро, безопасно и без потери контекста. Сломанный диплинк в уведомлении о волатильности актива может привести к тому, что трейдер не успеет закрыть позицию и потеряет часть депозита. Если навигация ломается, пользовательский сценарий прерывается, и клиент остается один на один с проблемой.

В Centicore Group мы подходим к проверке диплинков и пушей не как к сухой технической задаче, а как к части пользовательского опыта. Разберем, где скрыты основные риски и как выстраивать мышление качества в этом направлении.

А еще мы с командой решили провести небольшой конкурс. Мы подготовили для QA-инженеров виз с вопросами - отличная возможность проверить свои знания и просто интересно провести время за чашкой кофе (или в перерыве между прогоном регрессии). Взамен - приятный бонус в виде подарков для тех, кто успешно пройдет тест. 

Об условиях конкурса и подарках можно узнать по ссылке - Квиз для QA

А теперь к контексту

Диплинк, как контракт между бизнесом и пользователем

Диплинк в инвестиционном приложении выполняет роль навигационного контракта. Когда клиент видит уведомление о смене цены или статусе заявки, дизайн системы предполагает, что тап по нему сразу откроет экран для принятия решения.

Проблема возникает, когда мы рассматриваем диплинк исключительно как технический URL. На деле это сложный объект с метаданными: идентификаторами инструментов, параметрами сессии, источниками триггеров. Фокус тестирования меняется: мы проверяем не только работоспособность ссылки, но и ее соответствие текущему контексту.

Важнее проверить пограничные состояния, например, что увидит клиент, если актив уже делистингован, а чат поддержки временно недоступен? В нашей практике мы заменяем технические ошибки на понятные заглушки: вместо белого экрана или кода 404 пользователь видит сообщение «Актив больше не торгуется» или «Раздел временно недоступен» с предложением вернуться в портфель или написать позднее.

Задача качественного тестирования навигации – минимизировать риски «тупиковых» сценариев. Если целевой экран недоступен, система должна мягко перенаправить пользователя, объяснив причину и сохранив рабочий контекст. Это прямое уважение к его времени.

Матрица состояний: уважение к контексту

Одна из самых сложных задач при тестировании пушей – учет состояния приложения в момент клика. Пользователь взаимодействует с устройством по-разному, и навигация должна адаптироваться. Мы выделяем несколько ключевых сценариев: