At the second Democratic debate, Kamala Harris made her move and called Joe Biden a racist while saying Joe Biden is not a racist. He disagreed with her forcefully — but fearful that he would seem like the logorrheic lunatic known to everyone in Washington, he noted that his time was up and stopped talking. Read more about Bernie yellsplains, Harris surges, Biden stumbles \u2014 but don’t count Joe out yet[…]
The neo-Nazi fanatic who rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one, at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 was sentenced to life in federal prison Friday — as the victim’s father said he forgave the man responsible for her death. James Alex Fields Jr., 22, of Maumee, Ohio, was Read more about White supremacist James Fields sentenced to life for Virginia car attack[…]
A Washington sheriff’s office reported the strange case of a burglar who was arrested after offering responding deputies a box of donuts as a “peace offering.” “People say cops love donuts but we don’t recommend this method of delivery,” the King County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook Thursday, mentioning a June 16 break-in at its Read more about Man breaks into sheriff’s office, brings donuts as \u2018peace offering\u2019[…]
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This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America. Each day 100 million gallons of seawater Read more about Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water[…]
The next time a public official, politician, or certain president violates Twitter’s rules, the company says users will notice. The offending tweet will either be removed from the platform entirely or quarantined behind a new gray interstitial that warns users that the content ran afoul of the platform’s guidelines and limits its reach. The new Read more about Twitter Will Quarantine Politicians’ Tweets If They Violate Rules—Finally[…]
Notifications are, at the most basic level, a method of alerting people to some piece of information, often with some element of urgency. In a pre-internet world they existed as flags on mailboxes or blinking lights on answering machines. Then, in the 1990s and early 2000s, notifications like pulsing BlackBerry LEDs and “You’ve got mail!” Read more about A Brief History of Smartphone Notifications[…]
The Apple designer responsible for the look of most of the company’s most iconic products — including the iPhone — is leaving after 27 years. Jony Ive, who rose in the ranks under Steve Jobs, will be forming an independent design company called LoveFrom that will boast Apple as a client, the company said in Read more about Apple star designer Jony Ive exiting[…]
Amazon has steadily added options for customers to receive their packages including in car trunks, inside home garages and potentially by drone. On Thursday, Amazon added another alternative for US customers: Walk into a nearby retailer and pick up an Amazon package over the counter. The new option, called Counter, will launch with pharmacy Rite Read more about Amazon launches partnership with Rite Aid for package pickup[…]
The HPV vaccine could one day lead to the eradication of cervical cancer, according to a new study that found the benefits of the vaccine “exceed expectations.” International researchers looked at 65 studies involving more than 60 million people across 14 countries who received the HPV vaccine, NBC News reported. Over the course of eight Read more about HPV vaccine could help eliminate cervical cancer, study finds[…]