Samsung will hold its third Unpacked of 2021 at 7 a.m. PT on Wednesday. Like all events since the coronavirus spread globally, Samsung’s latest launch is all virtual. You can watch through the tech giant’s YouTube page, with the link going live an hour before the event. Samsung’s next Unpacked […]
Daily Archives: August 10, 2021
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AUSTIN, Texas — Thirty days after Democrats left Texas to stop new voting restrictions, cracks in the standoff widened Tuesday as more began returning home from Washington, D.C., and Republicans again authorized using law enforcement to find those who still refuse to come back. But unlike a month ago, when […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Hannibal Hanschke Pool / Getty Images NASA’s newest spacesuits needed for a 2024 moon landing won’t be ready until 2025. Elon Musk offered the assistance of SpaceX “if need be.” Private companies entering the space race are helping to make exploration cheaper. See more stories on […]
DANDONG, China (AP) — A Chinese court has sentenced Canadian Michael Spavor to 11 years on spying charges in case linked to Huawei. Spavor was detained in 2018 after his government arrested an executive of the Chinese tech giant. The verdict Wednesday is the latest indication of how Beijing is […]
Luka Dončić welcomed all his bosses with the Dallas Mavericks to his home country of Slovenia to watch the young superstar sign the richest contract in club history. Now that the record rookie supermax extension of $207m (£194.6) is in the books, it’s back to the business of trying to […]
WASHINGTON — Commercial lunar lander developer Intuitive Machines will launch its third lunar lander mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9, the same vehicle the company selected for its first two lander missions. Intuitive Machines announced Aug. 10 that its IM-3 lander mission will launch on a Falcon 9 in 2024. […]
By Krista Charles The Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) showing its fangs Joe McDonald/Getty Images Different snake species have independently evolved fangs that allow them to inject venom into other animals, either to attack prey or for defence. Now we know how: they turned small wrinkles inside the base of the […]
Justin Glaze has a lot to say after the world saw his pursuit for Katie Thurston‘s affection end in heartbreak on The Bachelorette‘s season finale. During the episode that aired on Monday, Aug. 9, Justin learned he wouldn’t be going on his fantasy-suite date after the show’s lead told Blake Moynes she […]
Vroom! is an upcoming game that takes the basic premise of Fall Guys—madcap game show-style multiplayer battle royale action—only now you’re playing as a toy car. Even the music sounds…familiar. But whatever, it’d be wild if rival games didn’t try and grab a slice of Fall Guys’ lucrative pie, since […]
NEW YORK — Walter Yetnikoff, the rampaging, R-rated head of CBS Records who presided over blockbuster releases by Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and many others and otherwise devoted his life to a self-catered feast of “schmoozing, shmingling and bingling,” has died at age 87. Yetnikoff’s death was confirmed Tuesday by […]
Spavor, a Beijing-based businessman who regularly traveled to North Korea, was sentenced after being found guilty of spying and illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries, the Dandong Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement Wednesday. The court said Spavor would also be deported, without specifying whether it was before […]
If you’re unfamiliar with Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett as a duo, they may seem an odd couple — but they’re not new. Their acclaimed duet album of standards, “Cheek to Cheek,” recorded in 2014, was followed by a tour, so last week’s shows were a reunion of sorts. I’ve […]
ALGIERS, Algeria — At least 25 Algerian soldiers were killed saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of the capital, the president said Tuesday night as the civilian death toll from the blazes rose to at least 17. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that the soldiers saved 100 […]
Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton and Brandon Blackstock. Shutterstock (3) Still going strong. Kelly Clarkson and Blake Shelton have remained good friends amid her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Blake and Kelly are extremely close,” the insider says, despite Blackstock’s role as Shelton’s longtime manager. “Their […]
If you thought your cat was lazy, chances are, you’re probably right. A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis has found that most cats, unlike most mammals, would rather eat a free meal than put out effort to eat, a behavior known contrafreeloading. Researchers at the […]
I’m here to stay! David de Gea insists he has ‘many years’ ahead of him at Manchester United as goalkeeper lays down the gauntlet to rival Dean Henderson for No 1 spot ahead of the new campaign David de Gea has insisted that his long-term future is at Manchester United […]
Teenage boys are much more likely to experience a rare form of heart inflammation after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine compared to girls, a new study finds. Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital studied a small group of patients under age 19 who had myocarditis after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Among 15 […]
Maggie wouldn’t like Morrisons deal, warns Tory peer: Lord Vinson, 90, says private equity buy out will ‘leave this country poorer’ By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 10 August 2021 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 10 August 2021 One of the architects of Thatcherism has damned Morrisons’ […]
The internal watchdog for the National Security Agency (NSA) has launched an investigation into its ‘unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson – after the spy agency initially denied he was ever under surveillance. NSA Inspector General Robert Storch released a statement Tuesday announcing a review into recent allegations that the NSA ‘improperly targeted […]
Nearly 60 per cent of Britons have tried to find out how much people they know spent on their latest property purchase, new figures have revealed. While few believe it is acceptable to ask someone what they paid for a home outright, the vast majority have adopted under-the-radar tactics to discover […]