With their guilty plea, they can now finally get the closure of facing him in court. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder and special circumstances, including murder committed during robberies and rapes, as well as 13 counts of kidnapping, and acknowledged more than 50 violations …
Read More »ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse
In today’s digital age, it sometimes seems that hardware has taken a backseat to the software that drives our devices. Button of the month You’ll take a look at what some of those buttons and switches look like on old and new devices to appreciate how we interact with them …
Read More »HIV treatment was found to be of no benefit to hospitalized …
(Add quote, detail, background) LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) – A combination of antiviral drugs used to treat HIV had no beneficial effect on hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in a large-scale randomized trial, British scientists said on Monday. Scientists who conducted the RECOVERY trial at the University of Oxford said the …
Read More »Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay team up for Netflix series about their high school years
Colin Kaepernick fans will soon learn much more about the activist and the soccer player, thanks to a new six-episode series focused on his teenage life. Netflix announced Monday that renowned filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Kaepernick have created a limited series, titled “Colin in Black & White.” “The series will …
Read More »Volcanoes may have helped life rebound after attack by dinosaur-killing asteroid
On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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