The Los Angeles Department of Public Health has confirmed two additional cases of the UK variant of COVID-19, totaling 14 total cases in LA County. The new variant, classified as B.1.1.7, is known to be more contagious than the Wuhan strain of COVID-19. Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer urges even more caution with the
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he would like to see all children back at school from next month, but admits that things will need to move forward “carefully”. Speaking to Sky’s Sophy Ride on Sunday, Sir Keir said: “Ideally I’d like to see all schools back open on 8 March and all children
Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there’s no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production services or customer data. The disclosure builds upon an earlier update on December 31, 2020,
What are the best photo editing apps on Android phones? Google Play store is filled with several photo editor apps that help edit our photos, make collages, and create custom designs. Thanks to these apps, users can now add text to their photos, insert filters to change the mood of the image, and tweak colour,
Tech giant Google has fired the head of its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics programme, claiming she had broken the rules on moving files outside of the company. Margaret Mitchell tweeted the she had been let go by the firm on Friday, with the move coming a month after she had publicly vented about the way
Hard to believe almost a full year has passed since we lost the great Kenny Rogers. Following that terrible news, the internet unearthed a gem from back in 1988 involving Kenny and none other than Michael Jordan. Back in the day, Rogers put on the Kenny Rogers Classic Weekend in Georgia which featured a pickup
Saturday Night Live decided to have Britney Spears lecture Gina Carano over her firing from The Mandalorian. Framing Britney Spears took over the zeitgeist in the last few weeks, so it was only a matter of time before the NBC comedy decided to take a swing at the entire situation. There hasn’t been much talk
John Travolta is getting rid of a hotel, or rather, a mansion that could double as a hotel … ’cause his home in Maine has a whopping 20 bedrooms! John’s put the New England compound on the market for $5 million, which gets you all those bedrooms AND 7.5 bathrooms. The 3-story home features 14
Fantastic Four is in active development at Marvel Studios, and fans can’t stop fan-casting actors in the various roles of Marvel’s First Family. Saturday morning, the Jon Watts reboot found itself in the news cycle again because of rumors from British tabloids. Across the pond, the papers suggested Marvel Studios had cast Jennifer Lawrence in
A legion of fighters from around the world gather for the ultimate tournament in the new, very gruesome red band trailer for Mortal Kombat, set to arrive on theaters and HBO Max April 16th. The latest film adaptation of the video game franchise is centered around a new character, an MMA fighter named Cole Young,
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This article contains I Care a Lot spoilers. J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot is one of very few films where everyone in it is a villain. In the lead role, Rosamund Pike ushers in a new amoral high mark as conservator con artist Marla Grayson. Peter Dinklage meanwhile mines the standard Hollywood heavy role
Shomrei Torah Synagogue in West Hills presents a virtual Purim Shpiel, “The Shushan Bunch,” on Feb. 25 on Zoom. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Here is a sampling of upcoming services and events that are online, and some in-person, in the San Fernando Valley area. Los Angeles Religious Education Congress 2021 –
Millions of people in parts of the southern US are having to boil water before drinking it after ruptured pipes caused by record low temperatures may have contaminated the water supply. In Texas, seven million people – a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state – were under orders to boil tap water
The prime minister is still aiming to reopen all schools in England next month despite concerns from teachers and scientists. Ahead of an announcement about easing coronavirus lockdown on Monday, Downing Street refused to be drawn on specific reports that more extensive outdoor socialising could be allowed by Easter, including suggestions that two households will
The Kardashian clan called it quits with E! last year, and today the Kardashian-West clan is officially coming to an end too. After seven years of marriage and a very messy last few months, Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kanye West today. “This will be a fairly straightforward and hopefully quick process,” a well-positioned
Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users’ visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release (V1.20.108) made available yesterday. Brave ships with a built-in feature called “Private
Vivo S9e price, specifications have been leaked by a tipster on Weibo. Judging by the name, the Vivo S9e seems to be an offshoot of the Vivo S9 that is expected to launch sometime in March. The specifications and price of the Vivo S9e have leaked online but its launch date is not known yet.
A specialist finance provider advised by David Cameron, the former prime minister, is in talks with the giant American investment firm Apollo Global Management about a multibillion dollar deal. Sky News has learnt that Apollo is among a number of parties in discussions with Greensill Capital, a London-based firm set up by Lex Greensill a
Dillon Carmichael is bringing the heat (and the wood) these days. Fresh off the release of his new single, the Jon Pardi-produced “Hot Beer,” the latest great thing out of Kentucky is once again bringing that killer voice and some tongue-in-cheek lyrics to his new release. “Sawin’ Logs” quickly went viral after Dillon gave fans