The online predictions market platform Polymarket has removed a contract that allowed users to bet on whether any of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting or exploiting a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime. More than $450,000 had been wagered on this question before it was taken off […]
Nokia announced the 8110 on 9 September 1996 as the first handset in its high-end 8000 series, a business-oriented model that measured 141 by 48 by 25 millimetres and weighed around 152 grams. Sliding covers defined its form from the start, protecting the keypad in a pocket and extending downward so the microphone sat closer […]
Astronomers filed a strange spectrum of the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 in 1999 and left it there. Hubble had recorded roughly 100 chemical features that no catalog of the time could name. The star itself is the bare core of a low-mass sun that burned through its fuel, shed its outer layers, and settled into […]
Man City face severe penalties after being found guilty by the Premier League (Credits: Harvey Todd/Every Second Media/S) Football is an angry place just now. Consider that the Premier League’s ruling on Manchester City’s financial activities covers nine seasons – a period ending in 2018 – and you can perhaps imagine why. The judgment finally […]
Most charging cases only hold a charge and a pair of buds. JBL Live Buds 3, priced at $129.95 (was $200), add a 1.45-inch color touchscreen that turns the case into a control panel you can use with a laptop, tablet, TV, or phone without opening an app. Swipe to play, pause, or skip, raise […]
Photo credit: MacrumorsApple just put Active Noise Cancellation, Adaptive Audio, and stem volume swipes into the open ear pair that costs $149, and that price is the whole story. AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case arrived in stores on September 18 at the same starting money Apple used for AirPods 4 two years ago, except […]
A member of an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization, which took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country. […]
Prince Harry must pay Daily Mail publisher millions after invasion of privacy case fails – CBS News Watch CBS News Prince Harry and six others, including musician Elton John, must pay the publisher of Daily Mail millions of pounds after their failed invasion of privacy suit. Ian Lee has more details. Prince Harry must pay […]
Hanoi, Vietnam — Vietnam has charged a man with rape after an American student said she was assaulted while in her bed during a group holiday. Nguyen Thi Quynh Tam, 24, said she was raped on July 5 and pressured by the man’s family to accept money and not go to police. She said the […]
Convicted Australian triple-murderer Erin Patterson appealed her convictions Wednesday for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. Three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal are hearing her appeal over two days against her convictions on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder relating to a lunch of […]