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HGTVs 'Love It Or List It' Star Eric Eremita Talks About Beating COVID-19 - Update
Deadline - 14 May 2020 04:00
UPDATE: Eric Eremita, the popular contractor from HGTV’s Love It Or List It and Brother vs Brother, is recovering from the coronavirus and detailing for the first time what he went through in his battle against the dis...
Ariane Mnouchkine: Half a Century Building Utopia
The New York Times - 14 May 2020 12:04
Times have changed, but the revered French theater director has always stayed true to her beliefs.
Prosecutors: Altgeld Gardens gang did block-by-block sweep for rivals, killed grandmother arriving home instead
Chicago Tribune - 14 May 2020 00:14Beckett Cypher, 21-year-old son of Melissa Etheridge, dies
Chicago Tribune - 14 May 2020 12:19
Beckett Cypher, 21-year-old son of Melissa Etheridge, dies
Amazon Is Mass Producing Face Shields With Some Help From 3D Printing Enthusiasts
AdWeek - 14 May 2020 18:35
Amazon announced it will begin mass producing face shields for medical professionals and plans to make hundreds of thousands available over the coming weeks on Amazon.com to bolster the nation's supply of protective equi...
Meat processing workers fear health risks despite increased pay
CBSNews - 14 May 2020 14:49
JBS says workers who stay home over fears of contracting COVID-19 will not lose their jobs -- but they would not get paid, either.
Justice Clarence Thomas name-drops Frodo Baggins during SCOTUS oral arguments
New York Post - 14 May 2020 05:30
“Lord of the Rings” hero Frodo Baggins was name-dropped by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during oral arguments on Wednesday. The case being discussed was about the Electoral Collegeand whether presidential el...
Microsoft: Here's how we're killing a class of memory security bugs in Windows 10
ZDNet - 14 May 2020 16:21
Microsoft details a new Windows 10 security feature that crashed PCs running games that use anti-cheat software.
Accused Ahmaud Arbery gunman called cops 12 days before fatal shooting
New York Post - 14 May 2020 16:05
The Georgia man charged with murdering unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery called cops less than two weeks before the fatal shooting to report a man breaking into a nearby home under construction, according to a report. T...
Nvidia releases 5 more free ray-traced Minecraft worlds
PC World - 14 May 2020 19:57
All eyes might be on the next-gen "Ampere" graphics architecture Nvidia announced during today's digital GTC 2020 keynote, eager to catch a glimpse of what's coming to future GeForce graphics cards, but another announcem...
New Avatar 2 set photos show Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington in action
GamesRadar - 14 May 2020 11:34
The main cast of Avatar 2 are pictured bubbling around
Facebook has appointed the 'privacy committee' on its board designed to prevent another Cambridge Analytica scandal (FB)
Business Insider - 14 May 2020 02:06
Reuters Facebook's board of directors has appointed the members of a new Privacy Committee. The company was required to create the committee as part of its settlement with the FTC over privacy violations. The committee, ...
Turkish Soccer Player Confesses to Killing 5-Year-Old Son
Sports Illustrated - 14 May 2020 16:13
Cevher Toktas handed himself over to police and confessed to having smothered his son, Kasim, with a pillow.
THE SOPRANOS Dictionary Revisits The Show's Unique Verbiage
Nerdist - 14 May 2020 16:02
Oh madone! Still not sure what the difference is between gabagool and a goomah? Learn the vocabulary of The Sopranos with this hilarious new video. The post THE SOPRANOS Dictionary Revisits The Show’s Unique Verbiage a...
Swing sets and trampolines in short supply as stay-at-home morphs into play-at-home during the pandemic
Chicago Tribune - 14 May 2020 15:50
With schools and parks closed, sports canceled and summer camps looking unlikely, orders for swing sets, pools and trampolines are through the roof during the coronavirus lockdown.
Astronomers spot tempting 'Super-Earth' in a nearby star system
BGR - 14 May 2020 05:02
A Super-Earth was spotted near the galactic center, and it appears to be in the habitable zone of its star. The planet is larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and its star is just 10% as massive as our own Sun. Vi...
Coronavirus has gotten so bad in the US, Doctors Without Borders sent a team here
BGR - 14 May 2020 02:08
Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization well-known for operating in war zones and in places where health care systems have collapsed in order to provide suffering populations with th...
M.I.T. Closes 'Food Computer' Project After Scientists Raised Doubts
The New York Times - 14 May 2020 01:45
The OpenAg project, which promised crops that could be grown in thin air, faced scrutiny at the same time that Jeffrey Epstein's financial ties to the M.I.T. Media Lab came to light.
Will County Republicans, businesses sue state for coronavirus closure losses
Chicago Tribune - 14 May 2020 20:36
A Will County board member, the chair of the county's Republican Party organization and three area business owners have filed a federal lawsuit against Governor J.B. Pritzker.
People shopped online every day in April like it was Black Friday
Mashable - 14 May 2020 18:25Adobe Acrobat Reader Flaw Lets Malicious Programs Get Root Priveleges
The Mac Observer - 14 May 2020 17:26
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC patched three serious vulnerabilities today for macOS. Update as soon as possible, because the flaws let malicious programs get root privileges. Security researcher Yuebin Sin wrote about the flaw...