1. Buildings are completely dark during a total blackout after Hurricane Maria made landfall Sept. 20, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thousands of people have sought refuge in shelters, and electricity and phone lines have been severely affected. Hurricane Maria tore up Puerto Rico early Sept. 20 as a […]
Daily Archives: September 28, 2017
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It’s hard to believe that it’s already been five years since McLaren unveiled its latest hypercar, the P1. While the car is still amazingly impressive, McLaren has changed its focus to a car that’s even more, um, hyper. The next entry in McLaren’s top-tier Ultimate Series doesn’t yet have a […]
A woman checks her phone at night in one of the few places with cell signal access in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 25, following the impact of Hurricane Maria on the island. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has a message for Apple CEO Tim […]
As tensions reach boiling point between the US and hermit kingdom, a defence think thank has warned hundreds of thousands of people are likely to be killed or injured. In a disturbing assessment of the crisis sparked by Pyongyang’s intensified nuclear missile testing, the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) said […]
Around 150 lawyers and solicitors demonstrated outside the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluna (TSJC) yesterday, calling for the democratic right to vote in the referendum on Catalan independence on October 1. In a statement they said that it was their “duty to protect the rights of all citizens to […]
The Bali volcano, Mount Agung, could erupt at any minute with experts warning about the impact of the eruption. Over 100,000 people have been evacuated from the Mount Agung 7.5-mile danger zone, as the volcano has been spewing out tonnes of ash and smoke from its crater. Balinese Hindu men […]
After the staggering success of the IT movie in cinemas, Hollywood must scrambling to greenlight any King novel available. Pennywise and his chums in The Losers Club have become the biggest horror movie of all time at the US box office, completely overshadowing the disastrous performance of another King adaptation, […]
In Windows 10 ($155.99 at Amazon.com), settings and controls are divided between the Settings menu and the traditional Control Panel. Some settings — including touchscreen-specific settings and Windows Update — are found only in the Settings menu, while others, such as the Device Manager, are still mostly accessed through the […]
Burkhard Even, head of counter-intelligence at the BfV agency, said the German elections had survived widespread attempts by Russian media to influence the outcome of Sunday’s ballot, although there was some “low-level propaganda which did not have a significant impact on voters “. But although the result is in and […]
ISIS released an audio recording Thursday that it billed as a message from leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rumored to be dead since the summer. NBC News security analysts Flashpoint said the voice in the propaganda message appears to be the terror boss but they could not pinpoint when it was […]
Washington state on Thursday sued Purdue Pharma LP, the maker of OxyContin, becoming the latest state or local government to seek to hold a pharmaceutical company accountable in court for a national opioid addiction epidemic. The city of Seattle also filed a separate lawsuit against Purdue as well as units […]
An award-winning graphic novel about a teen who has a transformative summer during a lakeside vacation was the most challenged book of 2016, according to the American Library Association (ALA). Created by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, “This One Summer” was released in 2014 and follows a teen named Alice […]
Star Wars fans only have a few days more to wait until the Episode 8 main trailer finally arrives. Unlike previously believed, it won’t be the final chance to see more of the movie before it hits cinemas, however. Disney and Lucasfilm have just announced a huge new media partnership […]
Experts from the UN have called on Madrid to ensure measures taken ahead of the Catalan referendum this Sunday “do not interfere with the fundamental rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association, and public participation”. Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled at the beginning of this month the referendum, which could […]
Artificial peptide molecules that neutralize a broad range of influenza virus strains have been developed by a team of researchers.
In a step toward bridging the gap between fungal taxonomy and molecular ecology, scientists have characterized a sample of “mystery” fungus collected in North Carolina and found its home in the fungal tree of life.
A new study has quantified the impact speeding and slamming on the brakes has on fuel economy and consumption. Aggressive behavior behind the wheel can lower gas mileage in light-duty vehicles, which can equate to losing about $0.25 to $1 per gallon.
NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our knowledge of Pluto when it flew past that distant world in July 2015. Among its many discoveries were images of strange formations resembling giant knife blades of ice, whose origin had remained a mystery. Now, scientists have turned up a fascinating explanation for this […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of 1.5 billion miles from the Sun (beyond Saturn’s orbit). Slightly warmed by the remote Sun, it has already begun to develop an 80,000-mile-wide fuzzy cloud of dust, called a coma, enveloping a […]