Local Sportscaster Goes Viral for Cranky Winter Weather Report During your typical local news coverage of a winter storm, you can expect several types of perspectives, from a meteorologist in the studio explaining a weather radar to a reporter outside showing you a first-hand account. During one early morning show though, a sports reporter was […]
Day: December 28, 2022
Woman Saves Man’s Life After Rescuing Him From a Snowbank During Deadly Storm
Woman Saves Man’s Life After Rescuing Him From a Snowbank During Deadly Storm There are everyday heroes among us, and Sha’Kyra Aughtry is one of them. In the midst of the deadly snowstorm that hit Buffalo, New York, she saved the life of a 64-year-old man named Joey White who was scared and crying for […]
Twitter is acting up with intermittent error messages and notifications that won’t load
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re having issues while trying to use Twitter tonight, you’re not alone. Dozens of users are reporting various errors, saying they’re getting messages that they’ve exceeded their rate limit, to the site appearing to be completely broken, or failing to fetch new tweets. DownDetector.com shows a spike […]
Miss Ukraine Unveils Amazing “Warrior of Light” Costume for Miss Universe
Miss Ukraine Unveils Amazing “Warrior of Light” Costume for Miss Universe Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por МІС УКРАЇНА ВСЕСВІТ (@missukraine_universe) The war in Ukraine has ravaged the country for over 300 hundred days. During this time, Ukrainian artists have found both a comforting space and a platform for their […]
The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security experts
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Last week, just before Christmas, LastPass dropped a bombshell announcement: as the result of a breach in August, which lead to another breach in November, hackers had gotten their hands on users’ password vaults. While the company insists that your login information is still secure, some cybersecurity […]
Children in Christmas Pageant Break Into Funny Mock Combat Mid-Recital
Children in Christmas Pageant Break Into Funny Mock Combat Mid-Recital Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por ⋒ ʜᴇᴀʟᴛʜʏ ʜᴀɪʀ ꜱᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟɪꜱᴛ | ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀʜᴏᴏᴅ | ʜᴜᴍᴏʀ | ʜᴏᴘᴇ ⋒ (@marissa_chrzan) Christmas is a time for peace, love, and being nice; otherwise, for children, Santa may drop coal instead of toys beneath the […]
Amazon’s started to deliver orders by drones in California and Texas
Image: Amazon Amazon is now delivering orders by drones in California and Texas with the aim to ultimately fly out packages to customers’ homes within an hour, Ars Technica reports. The retail giant’s drone delivery service, Amazon Prime Air, already dropped a small number of packages via drone in the backyards of customers in the […]
Meteorite Contains Two New Minerals Not Found on Earth
Meteorite Contains Two New Minerals Not Found on Earth A slice of the El Ali meteorite, now housed in the University of Alberta’s Meteorite Collection, contains two minerals never before seen on Earth. (Photo: University of Alberta) Space is full of rocks. This “celestial debris” known as meteoroids hurtles through space, occasionally entering Earth’s atmosphere […]
Metal Detectorist in the UK Finds a Medieval Diamond Wedding Ring
Metal Detectorist in the UK Finds a Medieval Diamond Wedding Ring The late 14th-century diamond-set gold ring. (Photo: Noonans) The UK is full of history, some of it buried just below a shallow layer of dirt. Amateur metal detectorists can stumble on antiquities, including hoards of ancient treasure. Some finds are more singular: an amateur […]
Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
A portrait of Holmes by artist Sidney Paget. | Wikimedia Watching the copyrights on art expire still feels like a novelty. After all, the US public domain was frozen in time for 20 years, thawing only in 2019. But this weekend’s Public Domain Day will give our cultural commons a few particularly notable new works. […]