A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death penalty. Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the...
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Corsair Mechanical Keyboard Hits All-Time Low Price, Plus More Deals
WD_BLACK, Corsair, Sabrent Prime Day is almost upon us, and the savings have already started rolling in. Going into the weekend, you’ll be able to get the lowest prices ever on Sabrent’s 1TB Internal SSD, a mechanical gaming keyboard from Corsair, more than half off the WD_BLACK 1TB Internal Gaming SSD, and much more. Sabrent 1TB...
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Earth just set a new record for the hottest day ever
Published Jul 5th, 2023 3:15PM EDT Image: OlegDoroshin / Adobe Scientists have recorded the hottest day ever on Earth, and we hit it two days in a row. According to a report from New Scientist, the air two meters above the Earth’s surface hit a global average of 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 Celsius), breaking the...
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How To Buy a Domain Name For Your Website
jivacore/Shutterstock.com Every website needs a domain name, and while there are lots of other things that go into running your site, the domain should be one of the first things you think about. Luckily, modern services make registering and managing domain names fairly easy. How Do Domain Names Work? DNS, or the Domain Name System,...
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What Are GitHub Organizations, and Should You Use One?
GitHub as a platform is used by individual programmers and huge organizations alike. Regardless of how many people you’re working with though, “GitHub Organizations” present some nice tools for people managing multiple projects. GitHub Organizations is a feature of GitHub that allows you to create a central place where team members can access and manage...
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Disturbing new NASA animation shows the Earth choking on greenhouse gas
Published Jul 1st, 2023 10:01AM EDT Image: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio The ongoing climate change crisis isn’t easy to forget, but NASA is here to make sure the dangerous effects of the issue are seared into our brains thanks to a new animation that shows how carbon dioxide continues to fill up the atmosphere as...
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Damage on 39,000-year-old tools may reveal a prehistoric ‘Age of Bamboo’
It can be tough to find archaeological evidence of woven baskets, ropes, and other goods made from plants, particularly in the world’s tropical regions, where warm and humid air breaks down green matter easier than stone or bone fragments. But some microscopic plant bits can stand up to the ravages of time, as shown by...
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The Milky Way’s ghostly neutrinos have finally been found
Neutrinos fill the universe, but you wouldn’t know that with your eyes. These subatomic particles are small—so small that physicists once thought they had no mass at all—and they have no electric charge. Even though trillions of neutrinos enter your body every second, the vast majority of them pass through without a trace. Yet astronomers...
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Repairing the Pixel Fold yourself is the worst possible idea
Google just unveiled the Pixel Fold, its first-ever foldable smartphone that should give Samsung a run for the money, at least in the markets where the Pixel handset is available. However, the first round of reviews also brought forward an unexpected problem that made me lose interest in the Pixel Fold. It turns out the...
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The US charts a plan for universal internet access by 2030
The ambitious infrastructure plan aims to provide over 24 million Americans with reliable, high-speed internet by the decade’s end. By Andrew Paul | Published Jun 27, 2023 12:00 PM EDT Almost $42 billion will be doled out to US states and territories over the next few years. Deposit Photos President Biden announced on Monday apportioning...