When it was first released by Adobe in 1993, the PDF was truly transformative technology. The Portable Document Format was a multipurpose container that replicated the appearance and functionality of physical documents. That sounds unimportant, but as adoption spread with Adobe’s introduction of free Acrobat software for reading PDFs a year later, anyone, from the government to your doctor’s office, …
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The Battlefield 6 open beta is currently in its second weekend, and players are still adsorbing the latest entry to the franchise. Meanwhile, Digital Foundry has shared its technical breakdown from the first weekend of Battlefield 6’s open beta, and the early verdict is very good. That’s not to say that the open beta was flawless. In the opening minutes …
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Justin Marks says that Trackhouse Racing development driver Connor Zilisch is eyeing how he can continue to race for the Xfinity regular season title after suffering a broken left collarbone in a fall from his car in victory lane Saturday at Watkins Glen. But Marks said when the 19-year-old returns to racing will be determined by …
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A new JPMorgan Chase branch in Charlotte, North Carolina. Courtesy: JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase has built 1,000 new branches in seven years. That’s more locations than most of its competitors operate in total. The bank is marking the milestone opening in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday where Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon is attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The firm has …
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SpaceX launched 24 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit early Sunday morning (July 27), on the company’s second flight in less than 24 hours dedicated to growing its megaconstellation. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 12:31 a.m. EDT (0431 GMT or 9:31 p.m. PDT local on July 26) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space …
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When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, took the rare step this week of filing a US defamation lawsuit against the rightwing podcaster Candace Owens, it marked a new phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that Brigitte Macron is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. The Macrons’ US lawsuit …
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Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a formidable foe for most creatures. But around 13 million years ago, one of them may have fallen prey to an even larger creature, a team of paleontologists in Colombia have discovered after examining bite …
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City buses, gym treadmills, and busy open offices all have one thing in common: noise you would rather tune out. Slipping in a pair of Beats Studio Buds + turns that daily soundtrack into something you actually want to hear. These true wireless earbuds put punchy Beats bass, active noise cancellation, and a pocket-friendly charging case in one tidy package, …
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Fossilized bite marks suggest there could have been a dramatic tussle between a gigantic terror bird and an even more massive crocodile around 12 million years ago. Phorusrhacids, commonly known as “terror birds,” were apex predators that terrorized prey in the ancient ecosystems of South America. While these flightless carnivores had little to fear on land, a new study, published …
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Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Link et al/Biology Letters The researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists say. Terror birds were top predators – they …
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