By: Hannah Pell Image credit: Wikimedia Commons. In early May 2021, a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline caused massive disruption to the East Coast’s fuel supply. Pictures of cars lined up at gas stations and warnings not to “panic buy” gasoline evoked memories of the 1973 oil crisis. Colonial Pipeline Co. paid a $4.4
Month: July 2021
As The Simonetta Lein Show continues the kick-off of its third season, the show welcomes Los Angeles’ very own Joseph Foreman, better known as Afroman! A Grammy-nominated, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Joseph, is known for his songs “Because I Got High” and “Crazy Rap”, which were featured on his album, The Good Times. He has
Anthony Scaramucci, former director of communications for the White House and founder of SkyBridge Capital LLC, speaks during the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 8, 2019. Joe Buglewicz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthony Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge, told CNBC on Friday he’s mandated Covid shots at
The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives has postponed its opening night by nearly two weeks due to an onstage injury sustained by its leading man Jacob Ming-Trent. Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy adaptation of Merry Wives of Windsor, currently in previews at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, was to have opened Tuesday,
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The contract is for a project known as enterprise ground services, or EGS. WASHINGTON — Braxton Technologies, a company recently acquired by Parsons Corp., received a $139.4 million contract to continue development and prototyping of the U.S. Space Force’s next-generation ground system for satellite operations. The contract announced July 21 is for a project known
Google is reportedly bringing an upgrade to image search with the latest version of Chrome for PCs. Chrome v92 for desktop users brings the ability to search images using Google Lens. This functionality has been available for mobile Web users for a while now, and it is now reportedly trickling down to PC users as
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks highlighting the benefits of Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, at La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S., June 29, 2021. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters A failed Senate test vote dealt a blow to the bipartisan infrastructure framework, but the plan could have a chance to move forward again
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are going through a divorce, but they’re still celebrating each other’s milestones as a family … including the release of his 10th studio album. Kim and all 4 of their kids — North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm — are part of the large crowd Thursday night at Atlanta’s Mercedez-Benz Stadium
The dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health warned about the tough months ahead across the U.S. due to Covid, as new data shows the delta strain can carry up to 1,000 times more virus in their nasal passages than those infected with the original strain. “I think people are underestimating how bad this
Ayo Edebiri suspects that I have her confused with someone else. Her PR team “sent me examples of your stories with Kathryn Hahn and Jonathan Majors,” she says, stressing their surnames as if they are an entirely different caliber of celebrity. “I mean, if you want to talk to me, no worries. I don’t mind
This is going to be hard. It wasn’t supposed to end like this. But here we are with Good Girls Season 4 Episode 15 and Good Girls Season 4 Episode 16, a two-hour coda to a four-season epic event. There are questions left unanswered, and you can’t help but walk away thinking ‘what if,’ but even with
A Specialist trader works inside a booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., July 13, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures edged slightly higher in overnight trading after a rise in technology stocks boosted the Nasdaq Composite to its third-straight positive day on Thursday. Futures
New York’s Public Theater canceled last night’s and tonight’s Free Shakespeare in the Park performances of Merry Wives after a member of the production tested positive for Covid-19. In a statement tweeted two hours before last night’s performance, the Public noted, “Earlier today, we learned that a member of the production has tested positive for
General view of the NFL Shield logo on the field before Super Bowl LV between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs at Raymond James Stadium. Kim Klement | USA TODAY Sports | Reuters The National Football League plans to operate as normal as possible for the upcoming 2021 season and told teams
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Seismic results: an artist’s impression of InSight and its seismometer (the little instrument in front of it) detecting seismic waves from tectonic stresses. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The interior of Mars has been mapped with seismic waves for the first time revealing tantalising details about how Mars may have formed across billions of years. The work was
TAMPA, Fla. — NorthStar Earth & Space, a startup developing a constellation for tracking other satellites, has secured Canadian government funding for a prototype Earth observation monitoring system to combat climate change. Montréal-based NorthStar said July 22 it is working with the Canadian Coast Guard on the project, using an airborne hyperspectral sensor system to
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