“Our culture cannot be canceled” was the theme of the night at the BET 2020 Awards, which saw a powerful Public Enemy presentation followed by presenter Amanda Seales’ monologue addressing the current state of the country and several best performances from the Lil Wayne’s tribute to Kobe Bryant until Beyoncé’s …
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Apple’s first ARM macOS development kit benchmarks appear online
Something I am looking forward to: Apple’s first ARM-based custom silicon for Mac is not here yet, but more and more it looks like it will come with a bang. The developer transition kits that Apple is shipping use a chip designed for iPads and show decent performance compared to …
Read More »Walmart Ends Sale of All Lives Matter Merchandise Indefinitely
Charisse jones USA TODAY Published 7:06 AM EDT June 30, 2020 Walmart will stop selling “All Lives Matter” merchandise on its website, noting that it is emphasizing blacks and other people of color whose lives are being “impacted by ongoing racial injustice.” The country’s largest retailer is removing items sold …
Read More »New swine flu with ‘pandemic potential’ discovered in China
The disease, which the researchers called the G4 virus, is genetically descended from the H1N1 swine flu that caused a pandemic in 2009. G4 now it shows “all the essential characteristics of a possible pandemic virus,” said the study, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of …
Read More »Scientists discover that the South Pole is heating up 3 times faster than the rest of the planet
The South Pole has heated three times faster than the rest of the planet in the past 30 years due to the warmer temperatures of the tropical oceans, new research showed on Monday. Antarctic temperatures vary widely by season and region, and for years the South Pole was thought to …
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