It’s been a busy week for video game hardware. With the launch of the PlayStation 5 and MicroSF’s Xbox Series X and Series S devices this week, the next two pay-generation platforms are set to launch. Each platform is built around new advances such as re-tracing and quick-loading SSDs. Meanwhile, …
Read More »UK ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ serial killer Peter Shutcliffe has died at the age of 74
LONDON – The British serial killer, known as the “Yorkshire Ripper” who spread terror and fear in northern England in the 1970s, died in a hospital on Friday at the age of 74. Former grave digger Peter Sutcliffe was serving a life sentence simultaneously for killing 13 women in Yorkshire …
Read More »Six people, including two officers, were injured in the North Carolina nightclub shooting
A shooting at a nightclub in Gastonia, North Carolina, late Thursday night left six people injured, including two officers, police said. Police in Gastonia said on Friday that two officers were on duty at the Remedies nightclub, about 30 minutes west of Charlotte, when the shooting began at 11 p.m. …
Read More »A look at the mental burden of COVID lockdown
Zoom in / To limit the chances of people gathering, municipal employees remove the famous blue chairs on the “Promenade des Anglais” in Nice, southern France. With the dramatic increase in infections in the United States, there is growing debate over whether states need to go back to severe social …
Read More »SpaceX starship saved by ‘burst disc’ after Raptor static fire ends badly
Around 7:30 pm local time, the SpaceX Starship prototype SN8 fired one or more Raptor engines for the third time, capturing spectators – just in anticipation of a dress rehearsal – in amazement. An hour later, CEO Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had effectively lost control of the rocket. Unfortunately …
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