A disgruntled employee shot and killed one person and took a hostage Thursday in a Charleston, South Carolina, restaurant before an officer shot and critically wounded him, authorities said. Mayor John Tecklenburg said Thursday that the showdown at Virginia’s restaurant in downtown Charleston was simply the act of a man […]
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Widespread evacuation orders have been triggered along the central coast of Texas ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s arrival tomorrow. The City of Houston is closely monitoring the current weather situation as storm surges threaten to flood the region. The impacts from Hurricane Harvey will likely begin on Friday and continue throughout […]
Follow the moneyAPA-PictureDesk GmbH/REX/Shutterstock By Timothy Revell After Kubiiki Pride’s 13-year-old daughter disappeared, it took 270 days for her mother to find her. When she did, it was as an escort available to be rented out on an online classified web site. Her daughter had been drugged and beaten into […]
Hundreds of seemingly harmless free Android apps — many aimed at teens — hid a dirty little secret that even the app makers weren’t aware of. A code glitch in lgexin, a popular framework that app makers use to target advertisements at free users, could have left as many as […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Descartes Labs, a startup that specializes in applying machine learning to geospatial data, announced Aug. 24 that it closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by March Capital, a Los Angeles-based venture firm. With the financing, Descartes Labs plans to enhance its “data refinery,” the […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the “ocean worlds” of Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously made by NASA’s Galileo and Cassini orbiters. The Webb telescope’s observations could also help guide future missions to the icy moons.
Scientists have developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted. ‘Twistron’ yarns have many possible applications, such as harvesting energy from the motion of ocean waves or from temperature fluctuations.
Scientists have developed a new virtual model of mouse lung function that illuminates the relative importance of different factors that contribute to lung changes accompanying chronic inflammation.