On Wednesday, after a meeting with all the NBA owners, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sounded cautious, patient and a little bit zen about the investigation into the Clippers trying to circumvent the salary cap with team sponsor Aspiration. “I’m a big believer in due process and fairness, and we need to now let the investigation run its course,” Silver said. …
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This article is part of “Pastors and Prey,” a series investigating sex abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God. Police in Florida have charged a prominent Assemblies of God pastor with “knowingly and willfully” failing to report allegations of child sex abuse to authorities. Mark Vega, 55, senior pastor of Ignite Life Center church in Gainesville and a former chaplain …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Researchers use supercomputers to simulate and predict earthquake dynamics with unprecedented detail. 🏢 The EQSIM project highlights how geological conditions can amplify or dampen seismic waves. 💡 Smaller earthquakes can cause more damage than larger ones due to specific geological factors. 🔍 Simulations provide critical data to enhance infrastructure resilience and disaster preparedness. In a groundbreaking …
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Bruce Willis is “still very mobile,” more than three years after retiring from acting due to aphasia and two years after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. The revelation was made by his wife, Emma Heming Willis, who sat down with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer for an interview as part of the new special “Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey.” …
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The ways our eyes explore the world change subtly over time, affected by age and illness. A new study now suggests some of those changes could be used to identify problems with memory and cognition. Researchers from Canada and the West Indies built on previous work by searching for variations in eye viewing patterns in people with and without a …
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Politicians can end up with strange bedfellows in this chaotic age, but certain economic tenets are virtually incontrovertible: calls to nationalize industry typically come from the left, while the right steadfastly opposes those efforts in favor of market-based solutions. And yet, for some reason, the ever-chaotic president Donald Trump has directed the US government to acquire a 10 percent stake …
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Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Windows upgrades to fail with 0x8007007F errors on some Windows 11 and Windows Server systems. Although this issue impacts both Windows client and server platforms under specific upgrade paths, it will not affect customers attempting to upgrade their devices to Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025, the latest Windows versions. “Starting …
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Once again I begin a Destiny 2 article with a sigh, as I keep trying to give the Edge of Fate and its new era the benefit of the doubt, but every day we find some new bug or bad decision that’s happening and messing up the experience. If you’ve played any Portal activity, you may understand the following (or …
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Artificial intelligence is blooming with new product launches each day, but as much as AI labs would want us to believe that they are nearing AGI, there are still instances when their chatbots seem to go off the rails — and in very different ways. OpenAI’s GPT-4o, for instance, started showing sycophantic behaviour (becoming overly agreeable) after an update, while …
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Foxconn has sold the former GM factory it has owned for three years after failing to stand up any meaningful, large-scale electric vehicle production there. The pivot marks the second major failure of Foxconn to deliver on its promises to help revive U.S. manufacturing. The iPhone-maker once promised to build a giant LCD factory in Wisconsin — a project that …
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