In mid-August California’s Health Officer, Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a new order meant to ensure rapidly-filling hospitals and ICUs had the support and flexibility they needed. At the time, Aragón announced: “California is currently experiencing the fastest increase in Covid-19 cases during the entire pandemic with 23.8 new cases per 100,000 people per day,
Apple is temporarily hitting the pause button on its controversial plans to screen users’ devices for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) after receiving sustained blowback over worries that the tool could be weaponized for mass surveillance and erode the privacy of users. “Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers, and others, we have decided
The “QAnon Shaman,” one of the more prominent rioters that stormed the Capitol building on January 6th, pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in the insurrection attempt. Jacob Chansley — or Jake Angeli, as he was known when he was first arrested a day after the riot and later charged with six federal
I really wish The Golden Saw Music Hall Series went all year long. There’s just something so intriguing about not only the history of the venue itself (Riley’s great-grandparents old house-turned-music hall), but getting to hear the stories of the songs and how they came to be straight from the writers in an intimate setting.
Fans of both Jimmie Allen and high school football can rejoice. The country star’s new song, “Big in a Small Town,” can be heard as the theme song for the new Netflix series Titletown High, which premiered on Friday (Aug. 27). “I grew up in a small town. Whether it’s football, a dream you have … everything you
The nuclear zombie apocalypse begins early: all episodes of Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 will stream one week before their television airing on AMC. The network’s TWD Universe spin-off returns October 17 on AMC or October 10 on AMC+, where new episodes of The Walking Dead Season 11 (after 12 a.m. PT / 3
The most fascinating thing about the history of difficult PC games isn’t necessarily the difficulty of individual titles but rather the diversity of difficult experiences the platform has gifted us throughout the years. From meme games specifically designed to make you rage quit to underrated platformers and punishing puzzle titles, the history of difficult PC
Aaron Rodgers appears to be looking forward to some time away from his fiancee … ’cause the quarterback just said spending the NFL season apart from Shailene Woodley is “going to be a good thing.” The football player made the surprising admission to Haute Living … after explaining his decision to return to Wisconsin and
Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is set to demolish the previous Labor Day opening weekend record at the box office. It isn’t surprising that the film will set a new record since Labor Day hasn’t traditionally been the ideal target for a blockbuster opening, with potential moviegoers instead taking in
Samsung Galaxy S21 FE launch seems to be just around the corner as a purported quick start guide of the unannounced phone has appeared on the Web, just days after its user manual. The quick start guide shows some of the primary details about Samsung Galaxy S21 FE and gives us a glimpse of its
Manchester United Football Club is closing in on the appointment of an internal successor to Ed Woodward, its long-standing boss. Sky News has learnt that the club’s New York-listed parent company could announce within weeks that Richard Arnold, Manchester United’s group managing director, will take over from Mr Woodward. One insider said that a statement
Someone will have to do the actual math (and I don’t doubt that someone will), but if Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings isn’t the most action-oriented movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far — purely in terms of ratio of time spent watching people beat each other up to time spent
I am well into adulthood, and coloring is just as fun and soothing now as it was when I was a kid. Kids gain a lot of pretty neat benefits from the simple act of coloring: it helps them learn to focus, develop fine motor skills and coordination, build color awareness, and stimulates creativity. Most
The union representing Los Angeles Unified teachers continues to insist that its members have the choice of allowing students who are home isolating or quarantining because of the coronavirus pandemic to watch a livestream of their classroom instruction or providing separate live virtual instruction through Zoom. According to the latest counterproposal that United Teachers Los
It has taken 24 hours for the floods around Manville to recede. At first glance, a place like this doesn’t look too bad, but it’s deceptive. The mud lining the roads is the only sign that, block after block, all of this community was metres under water. Physically, financially, psychologically, this extreme weather is testing
The government must immediately remove the mandatory requirement for care home staff to be vaccinated amid a workforce crisis in the sector, the UK’s largest social care union says. UNISON is calling on ministers to stop “sleepwalking into a disaster” and end the ‘no jab, no job’ rule for those in the care industry. Repealing
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said U.S. public health officials are “keeping a very close eye” on a new variant of Covid-19 that was first detected in Colombia. Known as B.1.621 or the “Mu variant” according to the World Health Organization nomenclature, it has “a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,”
A recent wave of spear-phishing campaigns leveraged weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents with Visual Basic macros to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript implant, against a point-of-sale (PoS) service provider located in the U.S. The attacks, which are believed to have taken place between late June to late July 2021, have been attributed with
Four days after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, much of New Orleans and its surrounding areas remain in the dark, both literally and metaphorically: Power outages persist and Entergy, the corporation responsible for fueling the region, has still not said clearly when power will be restored. In this vacuum, a coalition
College football is BACK baby. After a handful of Week 0 games to wet our appetites last weekend, it’s officially Week 1 of the college football season. Looking at the schedule tomorrow we have a little Alabama/Miami action, Georgia is at Clemson for a heavyweight tilt, there are some solid Big Ten matchups, and a