Month: November 2021

Southern California’s air quality watchdog has approved regulations intended to reduce pollution from Los Angeles County oil refineries and related facilities. The governing board for the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Friday, Nov. 5, OK’d rules mandating tighter emission limits, eliminating a credit system for emission reduction requirements, and implementing new provisions related
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Officer Michael McMahon, who maintains he is a 14-year veteran of the LAPD, said today in the video posted to social media that he had just been “relieved of duty” for refusing the city’s vaccination mandate for all employees, including police. “I did just leave the captain’s office a few minutes ago,” said McMahon in
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a catalog of vulnerabilities, including from Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google, that have known exploits and are being actively exploited by malicious cyber actors, in addition to requiring federal agencies to prioritize applying patches for those security flaws within “aggressive” timeframes. “These vulnerabilities pose significant
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This story contains graphic descriptions of self-harm.  When Chae first saw Angela Vandusen, a.k.a. @angelatheegoddess, on her TikTok For You page last year, she was instantly smitten. A 27-year-old based in Michigan, Vandusen was a home health care aide and an aspiring natural-oils entrepreneur, but she had amassed many devoted adherents by posting thirst traps
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Xiaomi on Friday, November 5 announced a new technology called the Loop LiquidCool that is says will ensure efficient cooling of smartphone processors. The heat dissipation method introduced by the Chinese smartphone giant is claimed to separate hot air and cooling liquid circulations that lower heat convention issues on mobile phones. Inspired by cooling systems
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This article contains Eternals spoilers. Eternals is a big movie for Marvel…in every sense of the word.  The film’s immense runtime (2 hours and 37 minutes) makes it the second longest Marvel outing after Avengers: Endgame. The cast is huge, with the titular Eternals amounting to 10 super-powered characters, give or take a Kit Harrington,
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A former governor, five scientists, two theater luminaries, and important figures from the US, India, Vienna, Spain, and the United Kingdom, that’s the honorary advisory board of the new Howard Bloom Institute, an institute dedicated “to helping us see everything inside of us and everything around us in a whole new way” by spreading the insights
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From the street, the house doesn’t look like much. Its once-quaint exterior is caught somewhere between off-white, yellow, and brown, depending on the thickness of the layers of dirt. A rusted chain-link fence matches the patio furniture on the front porch. A craftsman bungalow in the Crutchfield neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the home contrasts starkly
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A cabinet minister has admitted it was “a mistake” for the government to attempt to overhaul parliament’s disciplinary processes in combination with saving a Conservative MP from immediate suspension. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News that ministers had reflected on the “conflation” of ripping up the current standards system with the case of Owen
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