Events have been unable to run, hosts have seen make up freeze on their faces as equipment seizes up in what could be the coldest Winter Games in 20 years. Conditions for the women’s slopestyle Olympic final were described as “too dangerous” because of the gusts. Of the 50 runs, […]
Daily Archives: February 12, 2018
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Welcome to a 1990s kid’s nightmare. YouTuber Sam of Look Mum No Computer spent years acquiring 44 Furbys, the cult favorite electronic talking toy from the 1990s, and then hooked them up to an electronic organ. If you thought the squawky wails of one Furby was bad, jam in some […]
Randall Margraves, the angry father who tried to attack former gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar at his sentencing hearing, is off the hook. A Michigan prosecutors announced Monday that they will not bring charges against Margraves, who went ballistic after his two daughters told the court that Nassar had abused them. […]
TaekwonV takes a practice run down the slopes. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET The wild windy weather at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, may have forced some alpine skiing races to be postponed, but there are some very different competitors out on the slopes that aren’t fazed by […]
The Trump administration’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year, released Monday, reflects a stark new reality of the Republican Party: Balancing the federal budget just isn’t a priority. Even projected 10 years out, President Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget does not lead to elimination of the deficit. On the contrary, […]
A rare open debate where any senator can put forth an idea More With three weeks to go until protections for certain undocumented immigrants expire, Congress is preparing this week to launch into frenetic debate on immigration reform. What the result will look like, however, is anyone’s guess. The issue […]
John Simm, 47, is a British actor who has starred in Collateral, Trauma and Life on Mars on television. In the ITV show Trauma, John plays grieving father Dan Bowker, and stars alongside Adrian Lester. In Collateral, a BBC Two series, John stars alongside Carey Mulligan and Billie Piper. Born […]
Almost all of Iceland’s energy comes from renewable sources and a number of large virtual currency companies have started establishing bases for the energy-sapping task of mining cryptocurrencies. But the demand for mining bases has sparked a dire warning with one firm insisting Iceland will not have enough energy for […]
Yes, it took an actual hacksaw for the iFixit team to get into Apple’s HomePod smart speaker. iFixit You know something is durable when it takes a hacksaw for the iFixit team to tear it down. Such was the case for the dissection of Apple’s newly released HomePod, a voice-activated […]
An absent “Oxford comma” will cost a Maine dairy company $5 million. The suit, brought against Oakhurst Dairy by the company’s drivers in 2014, sought $10 million in a dispute about overtime payment. A federal appeals court decided to keep the drivers’ lawsuit, concerning an exemption from Maine’s overtime law, […]
A fossilized trackway on public lands in Lake County, Ore., may reveal clues about the ancient family dynamics of Columbian mammoths. Researchers who excavated a portion of the path found 117 footprints thought to represent a number of adults as well as juvenile and infant mammoths.
A new algorithm uses time-series data to show the cause-and-effect interactions that take place inside of living cells.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called sheriffs a “critical part” of the “Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement” during a speech Monday. “The office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement. We must never erode this historic office. I know this, you know this, we want […]
Martin Lewis, money saving expert, 45, said you could save up to half on your supermarket shop with a savvy trick. This is because supermarkets stock identical items for different prices, depending on what aisle they are in “The next time you go to the supermarket, it’s time to turn […]
Plaques with the name and surname of each registered soldier will be put on the previously anonymous graves, according to the Secretariat of Human Rights, almost 36 years after the conflict. The Secretariat in Argentina will work together with the Commission of Relatives of the Dead in the Malvinas and […]
News analysis WASHINGTON — Most White House budgets are dead-on-arrival political blueprints for how the president thinks Washington should raise and spend money. The new fiscal 2019 budget President Donald Trump released Monday fits that description. But Trump’s budget is also an indelible snapshot, a frozen image of the moment […]
Olympic athletes from Russia huddle before their game against Canada in a women’s preliminary round match. The International Olympic Committee had banned Russia because of a massive doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games, but gave individual athletes the chance to apply for admission to compete as “Olympic athletes from […]
India reached a globe-shaking threshold this year. Its economy is now growing at a faster clip than China’s. That might be a source of pride for the country and its prime minister, Narendra Modi. Except it is not. In its latest economic report, the government stated that India’s future development […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE There’s nothing funny about anaphylactic shock, even when it’s caused by a cute little bunny, according to a group of concerned parents and allergy activists. In “Peter Rabbit,” the new Sony Pictures movie […]
Turbulence in oceans, in the atmosphere or in industry, is billions of times stronger than in lab experiments. Simply upscaling the lab results is not an option. Theoretically, however, there is a regime of turbulence in which scaling laws apply. Researchers have succeeded in reaching this ‘asymptotic ultimate regime’ of […]