Tag Archives: Killer

September, which starts *checks calendar* next week, is going to be a jam-packed month for new gadget announcements. In case you thought Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event on Sept. 9 where it’ll announce the iPhone 17 family of phones, new Apple Watches, and possibly AirPods Pro 3, was the only big tech extravaganza, let me remind you that IFA is happening …

In a Lab, a Hunt for a Killer: The Germ Causing a Legionnaires’ Outbreak  The New York Times 2 sickened with Legionnaires’ at Bronx apartment complex; evaluation underway  NBC News NYC health officials probing community cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem  USA Today Construction Worker Sickened in Harlem Legionnaires’ Outbreak Speaks Out: ‘I Want Answers’  People.com Deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem shows …

I love shooting things. In video games–not real life, I mean guns can be good fun, but I’ve got this whole cross-dominant right-hand/left eye thing that’s, whatever, not what you’re here for! You’re here because you like shooting things in video games as much as I do, and, lucky for us, Steam is running its “TPS Fest,” which has a …

Optimists believe AI will create more jobs for a bright future we can only dream of. Pessimists believe it will be a job killer at a scale that is unprecedented. Yet there is a middle road. AI will evolve roles — first those connected to the three Cs — Coding, Conversation and Content — and it will also create more …

Johnny Walker was a big underdog going into his UFC Shanghai main event clash with rising prospect Zhang Mingyang, especially after losing his past two by knockout, but turned the table with a TKO of his own. Walker tried to surprise Mingyang with a takedown seconds into the match but the Chinese star reversed the position and ended on top. …

If there is anything to give a shock to the system, it is discovering that Pierce Brosnan is now an actor who can star in a movie about wrinkly pensioners investigating a murder mystery in their retirement home. That is exactly what has happened, and in the blink of an eye, the ‘90s James Bond is now leading the movie …

A major vaccine advancement could protect some of the world’s rarest creatures from a deadly disease that’s killed hundreds of millions of birds and animals. Australia and New Zealand are the last major destinations where a highly virulent strain of avian influenza, HPAI, has not spread, and both countries are preparing for its inevitable arrival. Because the two countries’ ecosystems …

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It’s so effective—some have called it “impossible to return“—that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) banned …

An accident that’s been waiting to happen since 2003: the sound of Radiohead onstage, five madmen attacking the Hail to the Thief songbook. The British rock kingpins’ new Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) is basically a track-for-track remake of their politically charged 2003 prog-punk gem, except with live versions, culled from different tours across six years. Since Radiohead …

Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, fellow grad students told investigators. His behavior was so problematic that one Washington State University faculty member told co-workers that if he ever became a professor, he would probably stalk or …