Los Angeles public health officials reported 128 fewer patients hospitalized in local hospitals, lowing the number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations to 2,964 as of Tuesday, Feb. 16. That’s a 63.4% decrease from the Jan. 7 high of 8,098 people hospitalized. There were 1,260 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,169,550
A winter storm sweeping across the US has left millions without power and killed at least 20. The rare bout of weather, which had earlier hit the Southern Plains, brought heavy snow and freezing rain into New England and the Deep South, knocking out power and shutting schools and shops More freezing temperatures are forecast,
Boris Johnson has said he will be focusing on data and not dates when it comes to the easing of England’s coronavirus lockdown. The prime minister said Professor Dame Angela McLean was “absolutely right” to tell a committee of MPs earlier that the relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions should hinge upon “data, not dates”. Latest coronavirus
Rush Limbaugh, the pioneering conservative talk show host whose radio program drew millions of listeners and influenced Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, died today of lung cancer. He was 70. Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show today. He had announced his Stage 4 cancer diagnosis a year ago, one day
A severe security vulnerability in a popular video calling software development kit (SDK) could have allowed an attacker to spy on ongoing private video and audio calls. That’s according to new research published by the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team today, which found the aforementioned flaw in Agora.io’s SDK used by several social apps
Samsung Galaxy A52 and Samsung Galaxy A72 will reportedly launch in India sometime in March. Both phones have been subject to several leaks and rumours in the past. The South Korean tech giant hasn’t officially confirmed any details on the phones’ specifications and launch details. However, the Galaxy A52 5G has also reportedly been spotted
Ford has announced its entire passenger range in Europe will be all-electric by the end of the decade. The motor giant also said its commercial models will be 100% zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, by 2024. The move comes after Ford reported a return to profit in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2020.
The classic, “Always on My Mind” has been recorded by everyone from Elvis to Willie Nelson. Written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher and Mark James, the unmistakable song has been featured in hit shows, commercials, and plenty more over the years. Watch Willie Nelson perform with his sons For my money, nobody does it quite
It has become increasingly clear over the past few years that long-running sitcoms are some of the most valuable properties in the eyes of streaming services. HBO Max paid hundreds of millions of dollars to lock in the exclusive streaming rights to both Friends and The Big Bang Theory, while The Office was the most-streamed
Exclusive Bam Margera is off the ‘Jackass 4’ project for good — and it’s all because he couldn’t stay in line when it came to his addiction issues … TMZ has learned. Sources close to Bam tell us he was informed last week by producers that he would no longer be part of the movie
The upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot movie has been releasing character posters over the last day featuring the likes of Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero, Sisi Stringer as Mileena, and more, but the film saved one of the best for its latest: the full reveal of actor Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion is his traditional costume. We had
Martin Scorsese criticizes streaming platforms and the movie business in a new essay for Harper’s Magazine entitled Il Maestro. While the piece is an homage to director Federico Fellini, Scorsese also discusses how streaming and current movie industry practices have negatively impacted the art of cinema, which he says is being “systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and
I’m a huge romance reader. I will read pretty much anything as long as it has some form of romance in it. Hence, this compilation of the 50 best love story books – the sweetest, the most epic, the most emotional – I’ve encountered in my travels. While I do also read a lot of
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, two techies started a new social network built around an increasingly unloved feature of people’s iPhones: actually talking into it. The app, called Clubhouse, was at first niche. There are no posts, no pictures, no videos. As if to underline how little time you need to look
This article contains WandaVision spoilers. There have been plenty of crazy “holy crap!” moments in WandaVision, but the one that truly had many doing a double-take was when Wanda Maximoff opened the door to see her previously-dead brother Pietro on the other side. Except…it wasn’t so much the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Pietro Maximoff
Patty Trejo wanted some way to let her husband, Joe Trejo, know that she’s with him even as he breathes through a ventilator. So she turned to music. Trejo hired a mariachi band to serenade him outside Providence St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton. And on Monday, Feb. 15, inside his room in the hospital’s
Sitting on a chair, on his own, Charles Burns looks exhausted. He has a big, woolly hat on, emblazoned with the word DALLAS, and he’s wrapped up for the cold. But his shoulders are hunched and his eyes are glazed. Smiling takes effort. He is taking refuge at a so-called warming shelter in the town
The NHS is likely to remain under pressure for at least another six weeks, according to a top health executive. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts in England, is calling on the prime minister to be cautious with the easing of restrictions. In a letter to Boris Johnson, he said
California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked on Wednesday if he thinks the entire state might be out of the most restrictive purple tier of his Blueprint for a Safer Reopening by the first day of spring. “Yes,” said the governor, “based on trend lines.” Those trend lines include the numbers in the state’s largest county
Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a user’s sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code execution. The findings come from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro’s analysis of the Android version of the app, which allows users