It was 3.40am on January 3 when Digambar Singh Bisht woke up hearing a loud rumble. “It felt like the ground beneath us would crack open,” he told Al Jazeera. The house shook and the glass windowpanes of two nearby hotels got shattered. The family of five rushed out in …
Read More »The Wild Logistics of Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
When you’re the person (at least partially) responsible for Left Shark, you have to think about every possible way Super Bowl audiences watch halftime shows. That’s one of the many things Bruce Rodgers has learned over the 16 years he’s spent as production designer for the mid-game performance during American football’s …
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Whether you’re heading to a physical campus, taking classes online or a mix of both, a laptop is sure to be the control center for your studies. Getting a new machine can better help you stay on top of your schedule and handle your furious multitasking with dozens of tabs …
Read More »‘Our pain is immense’, says Turkish earthquake survivor
Serizan Agbas, 61, has been sleeping in a chair in the garden of a school since the earthquakes devastated the southeastern region of Turkey on February 6. Agbas’s apartment block is still standing but was deemed not safe to stay in. So she stays out in the open and shares …
Read More »Ford reportedly plans to build a $3.5 billion EV battery factory in Michigan
Ford is reportedly days away from sharing a plan to increase its supply of US-made electric vehicle batteries. According to Reuters, the automaker could announce as early as Monday that it’s partnering with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) to build a $3.5 billion iron phosphate battery plant outside of …
Read More »Former Formula E team lead announces new electric car racing series
A new racing series could one day make it easier for young drivers to take part in Formula E competition. At this weekend’s Hyderabad E-Prix, former Mahindra Racing team lead Dilbagh Gill announced the launch of the Ace Championship. Gill is positioning the series as “a feeder platform for drivers …
Read More »South Africa’s energy crisis poses ‘existential threat’ to its economy
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster in response to the country’s drawn-out energy crisis, calling it “an existential threat” to Africa’s most developed economy. Setting out the government’s key objectives for the year in a state of the nation address Thursday, Ramaphosa said the …
Read More »My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot
Twenty minutes after Microsoft granted me access to a limited preview of its new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine, I asked it something you generally don’t bring up with someone you just met: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? Answering political questions wasn’t one of the use cases Microsoft demonstrated …
Read More »What Factors Determine The Specific Resistance Of A Copper Conductor?
Heat A Copper Wire, Its Electric Resistance Professional Factors On from tonetastic.info What Factors Determine the Specific Resistance of a Copper Conductor? The specific resistance of a copper conductor is a measure of how much resistance it has to the flow of electrical current, and it is an important factor …
Read More »Thai children ‘face jail time’ after protest arrests: Amnesty
A 14-year-old charged with insulting the king. A 13-year-old physically dragged out of a restaurant by police officers. A 17-year-old shot with rubber bullets and beaten. These are among the stories revealed in a new report from Amnesty International, which documents alleged human rights violations in connection to children participating …
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