The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported in Los Angeles County on Sunday, Jan. 30, was among the lowest daily counts in weeks while the testing positivity rate fell once again — continuing a slow trend that further suggests the winter surge may be on the descent. But the 40 deaths and 16,835 new cases reported
Taiwanese company QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and routers against a new ransomware variant called DeadBolt. “DeadBolt has been widely targeting all NAS exposed to the Internet without any protection and encrypting users’ data for Bitcoin ransom,” the company said. “QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to […] immediately update
He’d traded his 10-year residency at Burning Man for the hermetic existence of an Olympic athlete, his all-nighters in Ibiza for goggles and a facemask in the open air. And still Benjamin Alexander could not escape the damn virus. He’d traced an initial bout with Covid-19 this time last year to a chairlift, en route
The country music community lost an absolute legend today. Hargus “Pig” Robbins passed away today at the age of 84. A member of the country Music Hall of Fame, Pig Robbins has played keys for just about country music legend to ever cut an album. We’re talking Dolly Parton, George Jones, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline,
The owners of Virgin Media O2 have kicked off talks to raise hundreds of millions of pounds from investors to fund the rollout of fast fibre broadband to millions more British households. Sky News revealed on Sunday that initial discussions with infrastructure funds got underway in recent weeks, with the aim of selling a large
Micromax In Note 2 was launched in India earlier this week and it is now going on sale in the country for the first time today. It features a quad rear camera setup and sports a 6.43-inch AMOLED display with a hole-punch design, Corning Gorilla Glass protection, and 20:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, it
Howard Hesseman, best known as Dr. Johnny Fever on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. Hesseman’s wife, Caroline Ducrocq, tells TMZ he was at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. for colon surgery last summer … but when it resulted in complications … that’s when things started to go south. Caroline says he was hospitalized January
There are far weightier consequences of the Omicron variant’s holiday-season surge than New York media types having to puzzle out the fate of red-carpet events. And yet, that visible subset of the city has been tantalized by visions of a genuine spring awakening — assuming the fresh foot of snow ever melts. Covid numbers are
According to the showrunners, Star Trek: Picard Season 3 will be a universe-altering Star Trek event. Terry Matalas and Akiva Goldsman spoke to SFX magazine as part of a more extensive cover feature ahead of Star Trek: Picard Season 2’s premiere. With production on season three already nearing completion, the showrunners could also hint at
We as a society believe mothers to be the patron saints of love and care, a demographic that can never be in the wrong. But aren’t mothers too complex to be boxed into outdated models of femininity glorified by popular culture? Are they truly the wondrous collective that sacrifices themselves for the greater good of
Boris Johnson is facing more pressure from Conservative MPs to “go back to the drawing board” over a planned tax hike after he recommitted to an increase in National Insurance to help fund the NHS and social care. Senior Tory backbencher Robert Halfon told Sky News the government should instead look at windfall taxes on
The East Coast is battling deep freeze conditions after a fierce storm barreled through several states on Saturday, flooding coastlines, dumping masses of snow and outing power for thousands. Officials in New York described conditions as “life-threatening“, five states declared an emergency and Rhode Island banned all non-emergency road travel as snow and high winds
Ever since she burst onto the scene more than a decade ago, audiences have struggled to separate Lena Dunham the writer-director-actress from the female leads she creates. First, there was Aura, the floundering film-school student at the center of her semi-autobiographical indie Tiny Furniture, which lit up the festival circuit in 2010 and co-starred real-life
Lifeguard hopefuls hit the sand in Huntington Beach and San Clemente on Saturday, Jan. 29, for the first of many tryouts along the Southern California coast that put aspiring summer guards to the test. It was no easy task for this job interview, with applicants having to brave a strong swell and currents, not to
Microsoft this week revealed that it had fended off a record number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its customers in 2021, three of which surpassed 2.4 terabit per second (Tbps). One of the DDoS attacks took place in November, targeting an unnamed Azure customer in Asia and lasted a total of 15 minutes.
We’ll come to the homegrown terrorists he foiled and the race war they tried to foment. To the journalists he saved from assassination and the synagogue marked for carnage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. To the gun-rights march on the steps of a state capitol, where they planned to pick off cops and rallygoers. There’s
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria discusses Russia possibly invading Ukraine and how the conflict can be averted. #CNN #News
New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu says President Donald Trump should not pardon participants of the January 6 Capitol riots if he returns to the White House in 2024. #CNN #News
Sens. Bob Menendez and Jim Risch, the two top senators on the Foreign Relations Committee, said they are confident they will get a bipartisan deal on Russian sanctions when the Senate comes back from recess. #CNN #News
The Mother Church of Country Music. The Ryman Auditorium is one of the most historic buildings in country music. Step inside the doors and you can feel the history in the building, a landmark that’s hosted the biggest legends in country music on its stage. It’s my favorite building in Nashville, a place that leaves