19 October 2020 — Eighteen (18) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 1373 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-two (4992). To date, four thousand, seven hundred, and ninety-seven (4797) patients have recovered and been discharged, including fourteen (14) in the past 24…
Kelly Ripa is showing off her new ink.The "Live with Kelly and Ryan" morning show host recently got a tattoo of her wedding date with husband Mark Consuelos in honor of their 25th anniversary. The 50-year-old revealed on her Instagram Stories she got "5.1.96" on the inside of her elbow. "Clean mani and fine lines," she captioned the…
Police are investigating the death of a Brooklyn 12-year-old, whose family said he died after being attacked at school over a dollar in a possible dare that turned deadly.Emergency responders found Romy Vilsaint losing consciousness at his Flatbush home Friday morning. The boy was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.The NYPD is investigating if Vilsaint…
The core of China's Long March 5B rocket is predicted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in a matter of hours, but scientists and government agencies still cannot pinpoint the point of impact. Core, or first-stage, rockets normally don't go into orbit like the Long March 5B, instead making a controlled re-entry shortly after launch.However, this rocket --…
Now Adam Sandler can have all the milkshakes he wants. On Friday, IHOP announced that it will be offering all-you-can-drink milkshakes at its Long Island locations on Monday. The restaurant chain announced the promotion -- which will benefit the nonprofit Comedy Gives Back -- after a video of Sandler being turned away from a Long Island IHOP went…
About a year into mask mandates, nasal swabs and remote classes, the atmosphere turned tense at the University of Vermont as the school cracked down on rules for social distancing and face coverings amid a spike in student COVID-19 cases.Students were handed hundreds of citations for violations like standing in another student’s doorway or walking…
Brazzaville - With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the…
Monrovia, Liberia: To strengthen Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and stewardship in Liberia, WHO on 23 April 2021 donated information communication and technology (ICT) equipment and assorted accessories to the Ministry of Health. The ICT equipment and accessories donated include eight laptop computers, seven printers, seven mobile phones and assorted boxes of stationeries and printers’ cartridges,…
The World Health Organization in Ethiopia, in collaboration with regional health bureaus, has launched a national campaign themed ‘choose life, wear a mask’, and ‘frequent hand-washing saves lives’ encouraging communities to wear masks and clean their hands as a health habit. The first billboard was installed in Addis Ababa on April 22, 2021 in the…
04 May 2021 — Forty (40) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3119 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, three hundred, and fifty-one (25351). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three (23523) patients have recovered, including one ten (10) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one…
03 May 2021 — Fifty-eight (28) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2856 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, two hundred, and eleven (25311). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and thirteen (23513) patients have recovered, including one seventy-one (71) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is…
ByRiley BlackPublished May 6, 2021• 7 min readIt’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how…
ScienceCoronavirus CoverageThe report strengthens the CDC’s recommendation that anyone pregnant be offered the vaccine and sets the stage for more “paradigm-changing” vaccine trials during pregnancy.ByTara HaellePublished May 6, 2021• 11 min readAs each of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines became available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consistently asserted that they should not be withheld…
ByDouglas MainPhotographs ByDarlyne MurawskiPublished May 3, 2021• 9 min readIn the late spring of 1634, pilgrims in Massachusetts witnessed an incredible sight: Millions and millions of winged, red-eyed insects sprung from the earth. Not knowing better, the Puritan immigrants likened them to pestilential swarms from the Old Testament and called them “locusts.”But they were wrong.…
AnimalsNewsThese unexpected “ecosystem engineers” provide hydration for dozens of animal species, from badgers to elf owls to toads.ByDouglas MainPublished April 29, 2021• 5 min readHumans have a long history of digging wells, but we're not the only species to tap the earth for water: New research reveals wild horses and donkeys, also known as burros,…
ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished April 27, 2021• 12 min readStanding among patches of muddy snow on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, I bent down to pick up a piece of the planet that should have been hidden miles below my feet.On that chilly February day, I was out with a pair of geologists to see an exposed…
SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
An explosion rocked an oil tanker off the coast of Syria on Sunday, causing a small fire in one of its engines, state media said.The fire on the ship - off the coast of Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias - was extinguished by the crew quickly with no casualties, it said."The technical fault took place…
The IDF has sent an additional three battalions to the West Bank to reinforce four already in the area, following violence in Jerusalem and overall heightened tension in the area.The decision by Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi was made following a situational assessment held at the Salem base in the Menashe Regional Brigade and…
Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of KKL-JNF. Gold broke the ‘glass ceiling’ as the first woman to be appointed manager in a KKL-JNF field position. KKL-JNF Child plants tree sapling (photo credit: KKL) Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of…
Efforts by Likud activists to begin the process of finding a new Likud leader to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were reportedly stymied on Sunday, as Netanyahu loyalists ignored them.Groups of Likud activists have tried in vain to convene the party’s institutions, including its 80-member governing secretariat and its 3,000-member central committee. The chairman of…
Extremist forces won't be allowed to disrupt the peace of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as he issued a warning against those who attack Israel either in its capital city of Jerusalem or on the Gaza border."We won't allow any violent public disturbances," said Netanyahu as he promised to uphold freedom for worship…
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SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
Kelly Ripa is showing off her new ink.The "Live with Kelly and Ryan" morning show host recently got a tattoo of her wedding date with husband Mark Consuelos in honor of their 25th anniversary. The 50-year-old revealed on her Instagram Stories she got "5.1.96" on the inside of her elbow. "Clean mani and fine lines," she captioned the…
Police are investigating the death of a Brooklyn 12-year-old, whose family said he died after being attacked at school over a dollar in a possible dare that turned deadly.Emergency responders found Romy Vilsaint losing consciousness at his Flatbush home Friday morning. The boy was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.The NYPD is investigating if Vilsaint…
The core of China's Long March 5B rocket is predicted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in a matter of hours, but scientists and government agencies still cannot pinpoint the point of impact. Core, or first-stage, rockets normally don't go into orbit like the Long March 5B, instead making a controlled re-entry shortly after launch.However, this rocket --…
Now Adam Sandler can have all the milkshakes he wants. On Friday, IHOP announced that it will be offering all-you-can-drink milkshakes at its Long Island locations on Monday. The restaurant chain announced the promotion -- which will benefit the nonprofit Comedy Gives Back -- after a video of Sandler being turned away from a Long Island IHOP went…
About a year into mask mandates, nasal swabs and remote classes, the atmosphere turned tense at the University of Vermont as the school cracked down on rules for social distancing and face coverings amid a spike in student COVID-19 cases.Students were handed hundreds of citations for violations like standing in another student’s doorway or walking…
Brazzaville - With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the…
Monrovia, Liberia: To strengthen Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and stewardship in Liberia, WHO on 23 April 2021 donated information communication and technology (ICT) equipment and assorted accessories to the Ministry of Health. The ICT equipment and accessories donated include eight laptop computers, seven printers, seven mobile phones and assorted boxes of stationeries and printers’ cartridges,…
The World Health Organization in Ethiopia, in collaboration with regional health bureaus, has launched a national campaign themed ‘choose life, wear a mask’, and ‘frequent hand-washing saves lives’ encouraging communities to wear masks and clean their hands as a health habit. The first billboard was installed in Addis Ababa on April 22, 2021 in the…
04 May 2021 — Forty (40) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3119 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, three hundred, and fifty-one (25351). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three (23523) patients have recovered, including one ten (10) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one…
03 May 2021 — Fifty-eight (28) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2856 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, two hundred, and eleven (25311). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and thirteen (23513) patients have recovered, including one seventy-one (71) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is…
ByRiley BlackPublished May 6, 2021• 7 min readIt’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how…
ScienceCoronavirus CoverageThe report strengthens the CDC’s recommendation that anyone pregnant be offered the vaccine and sets the stage for more “paradigm-changing” vaccine trials during pregnancy.ByTara HaellePublished May 6, 2021• 11 min readAs each of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines became available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consistently asserted that they should not be withheld…
ByDouglas MainPhotographs ByDarlyne MurawskiPublished May 3, 2021• 9 min readIn the late spring of 1634, pilgrims in Massachusetts witnessed an incredible sight: Millions and millions of winged, red-eyed insects sprung from the earth. Not knowing better, the Puritan immigrants likened them to pestilential swarms from the Old Testament and called them “locusts.”But they were wrong.…
AnimalsNewsThese unexpected “ecosystem engineers” provide hydration for dozens of animal species, from badgers to elf owls to toads.ByDouglas MainPublished April 29, 2021• 5 min readHumans have a long history of digging wells, but we're not the only species to tap the earth for water: New research reveals wild horses and donkeys, also known as burros,…
ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished April 27, 2021• 12 min readStanding among patches of muddy snow on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, I bent down to pick up a piece of the planet that should have been hidden miles below my feet.On that chilly February day, I was out with a pair of geologists to see an exposed…
SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
An explosion rocked an oil tanker off the coast of Syria on Sunday, causing a small fire in one of its engines, state media said.The fire on the ship - off the coast of Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias - was extinguished by the crew quickly with no casualties, it said."The technical fault took place…
The IDF has sent an additional three battalions to the West Bank to reinforce four already in the area, following violence in Jerusalem and overall heightened tension in the area.The decision by Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi was made following a situational assessment held at the Salem base in the Menashe Regional Brigade and…
Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of KKL-JNF. Gold broke the ‘glass ceiling’ as the first woman to be appointed manager in a KKL-JNF field position. KKL-JNF Child plants tree sapling (photo credit: KKL) Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of…
Efforts by Likud activists to begin the process of finding a new Likud leader to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were reportedly stymied on Sunday, as Netanyahu loyalists ignored them.Groups of Likud activists have tried in vain to convene the party’s institutions, including its 80-member governing secretariat and its 3,000-member central committee. The chairman of…
Extremist forces won't be allowed to disrupt the peace of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as he issued a warning against those who attack Israel either in its capital city of Jerusalem or on the Gaza border."We won't allow any violent public disturbances," said Netanyahu as he promised to uphold freedom for worship…
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https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/
5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
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SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Microsoft) Windows 10X was originally announced in October 2019 as a new flavor of Microsoft's operating system for the dual-screen Surface Neo. With the future of the Neo uncertain, development on the software then switched to single-screen devices, and now it looks as though Windows 10X could be canceled completely.Petri…
Home News Entertainment (Image credit: Netflix) Spoilers follow for Jupiter’s Legacy season 1.Jupiter’s Legacy is a superhero TV show that subverts viewers’ expectations on more than one occasion. There are numerous big twists throughout Netflix’s adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitley’s comic books, but the series’ most shocking moment is reserved for the season…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock / kubais) In the world of archival storage, tape is the undisputed king. While advances in technologies such as DNA and glass storage offer a glimpse into the future, there's currently no alternative capable of rivalling tape for reliability, longevity and cost.That said, businesses still face a number of…
Home News Entertainment (Image credit: Warner Bros.) The biggest shock at the 2021 Oscars was probably Anthony Hopkins winning Best Actor over the late Chadwick Boseman. Second place, though – at least if you ask me – has to go to the injustice of Tenet missing out on a nomination for Best Original Score. Ludwig Göransson…
Numerous fires broke out throughout the weekend in southern Israel, mostly along the Gaza border and in the Eshkol Regional Council, amid heightened tensions in the region. Balloon units prepare incendiary and explosive balloons to launch towards Israel, August 12, 2020 (photo credit: SONS OF AL-ZAWARI BALLOON UNIT/TELEGRAM) Incendiary balloons launched from Gaza caused numerous…
ByRiley BlackPublished May 6, 2021• 7 min readIt’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how…
Matthew Perry appears to be the latest celebrity called out by a woman he allegedly met on a dating app.Tik Tok user Kate Haralson spoke out in an interview this week, claiming she was just 19 years old when the "Friends" alum, now 51, matched with her on the dating app Raya last May.It's the…
