An earthquake six miles off the coast of Eureka, CA had many residents in Northern California feeling shook. The 6.2 magnitude quake, which struck just after noon, even reached up to some living in the Bay Area.
Universal Orlando Resort announced today that, effective Friday, masks would be required in indoor portions of the park such as restaurants, shops, and indoor hotel public areas. They will likewise be mandatory “at all attractions from the moment guests enter the queue to when they exit the experience.” The mask requirement applies to workers as
Warning: this story contains spoilers for Hawkeye Episode 6, “So This Is Christmas?” The “big guy” could be the next “big bad” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is a big glove to fill after Marvel’s first three phases culminated in a fight for the universe’s fate against Thanos (Josh Brolin), the overarching villain of the
Christmas arrived in Los Angeles County on Saturday, Dec. 25, and neither the rekindled COVD-19 outbreak nor the third day of a winter storm could dampen the spirits of Christians who gathered for services celebrating the birth of Jesus and to provide meals to the homeless and poor. Many churches offered in-person services as well
A surfer has been killed in an “apparent shark attack” off the central coast of California on Christmas Eve, authorities have said. The surfer, whose identity has not yet been released, was found in the water near Morro Rock, about 200 miles (320km) north of Los Angeles. in Los Angeles, California, at around 10.45am on
New restrictions are coming into force today in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in a bid to curb rising coronavirus cases. Further rules have not been announced in England, with Boris Johnson saying before Christmas that the data is being monitored but as yet does not justify stricter measures. It is understood school closures are
A security flaw has been unearthed in Microsoft’s Azure App Service that resulted in the exposure of source code of customer applications written in Java, Node, PHP, Python, and Ruby for at least four years since September 2017. The vulnerability, codenamed “NotLegit,” was reported to the tech giant by Wiz researchers on October 7, 2021,
In the middle of California’s Central Valley, in a modest milky-blue home on one acre of farmland, lives a small group of nuns. They wear habits and abide by a set of vows, but as the door opens, it’s clear that the Sisters of the Valley, as they’re known, aren’t living in a traditional convent.
The Best SFF Series of 2021 was originally published in our science fiction and fantasy newsletter, Swords & Spaceships. Sign up for it here to receive news and recommendations from the world of science fiction and fantasy. In December, I like to take some time to look back over the year and spotlight some books
How about one last live performance from Carrie Underwood before Christmas is over? I’ve been loving all of the videos of her singing some of the classics like “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Silent Night”, so I wanted to share her Christmas Eve performance from yesterday on The Today
Lloyds has apologised after some customers were unable to access their online banking accounts on Thursday evening. Users began tweeting they were having problems logging in to the app and website just after 9pm. For some, a message popped up on some screens reading: “We are sorry that our internet banking is currently unavailable. Please
What would you do if you knew an asteroid was going to crash into the Earth in six months time? Lie, spin, profiteer, bicker, undermine the science, ignore the warnings and do nothing useful whatsoever according to Adam McKay’s bleak apocalyptic satire Don’t Look Up. In it Meryl Streep’s corrupt female Trump-alike president, flanked by
iQoo 9 series will be launching in China on January 5, as per a leaked poster that recently surfaced online. The Vivo sub-brand has also teased the launch of its upcoming smartphone series, which is said to comprise the vanilla iQoo 9 and iQoo 9 Pro. iQoo shared an image of the iQoo 9 that
P.T. Anderson‘s newest movie, “Licorice Pizza,” is getting unleashed to the masses this weekend — and with it, so are uncomfortable themes of racism and would-be pedophilia. The esteemed director’s latest offering got a wide release Saturday — this after a multi-week run in very select theaters throughout L.A. and elsewhere — and now that
“Fifty percent of all of the sequenced genomes identify themselves as Omicron,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. He was speaking of the positive Covid tests and wastewater in the state that have been examined for new cases of the variant. Newsom then hinted that numbers to be released today would be even higher.
St. Luke Lutheran Church on Comercio Way in Woodland Hills. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of religion events in the San Fernando Valley area. Dec. 26 The Light of a New Dawn: The Rev. Michael McMorrow explains the message, based on the center’s December theme “Journey of Becoming,” at 9 and 10:30 a.m.
Scientists say a “new era of astronomy” could be brought in as they prepare to launch the James Webb Telescope today. The device is expected to profoundly transform scientists’ understanding of the universe and our place in it. NASA, which produced the $10bn infrared telescope in partnership with the European and Canadian space agencies, has
Former cabinet ministers who remain in parliament earn an average of £162,000 on top of their MP salary from the private sector in their first year after leaving government, Sky News research has found. The figure, arrived at by analysing data from the register of members’ interests between 2015 and 2021, excludes earnings from media
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an evasive malware campaign that makes use of valid code signing certificates to sneak past security defenses and stay under the radar with the goal of deploying Cobalt Strike and BitRAT payloads on compromised systems. The binary, a loader, has been dubbed “Blister” by researchers from Elastic Security, with
Every day seems like it brings a new moral panic or hoax on TikTok. Earlier this year, it was “National Rape Day,” a “challenge” that supposedly originated among misogynists on TikTok but was later found to be totally baseless; last year, it was the Wayfair sex trafficking conspiracy theory, which alleged (based on no evidence)