CLANTON, Ala. (AP) - A longtime Alabama mayor diagnosed with the disease caused by the new coronavirus has died, city officials said Thursday as the illness continued surging in the state.
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The pair are both current members of the Great Britain squad.
There always comes a point where a player goes from being a promising talent to a reliable first team option, and that moment may have come for Mason Greenwood. He’s been outstanding in the past few games and he’s scored plenty of goals, and he’s shown his quality with his right foot tonight. He gets […]
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Sony has revealed the official design for PS5 game boxes, and it's changed quite a few things from the previous generation of physical games.
The San Francisco Giants heard a lot of guff when they created an unusually large, young and inexperienced coaching staff last fall. That youth is not an advantage during a summer camp in which the staff has had to conduct the same workouts three times a day.
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San Francisco (AFP) July 8, 2020
Amid rising turmoil in social media, recently formed social network Parler is gaining with prominent political conservatives who claim their voices are being silenced by Silicon Valley giants.
Parler, founded in Nevada in 2018, bills itself as an alternative to "ideological suppression" at other social networks.
Parler has grown - now claiming more than two million users - as Facebook
Caracas (AFP) July 8, 2020
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has shuffled his military high command but Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, a general, kept his post.
Maduro's political dominance in Venezuela is widely attributed to support from the military high command, which has allowed the socialist leader to resist sanctions pressure from the United States and a challenge to his authority from opposition l
Shanghai (AFP) July 9, 2020
Tesla founder Elon Musk said Thursday that the world's recently crowned most valuable auto company could achieve a fully autonomous car by the end of 2020.
Musk, who has made premature predictions about the advent of completely autonomous cars before, offered the updated timetable in a pre-recorded message to a Shanghai tech fair.
"I'm extremely confident that 'Level 5', or essentially c
Luxembourg (AFP) July 9, 2020
Volkswagen can be sued for damages linked to the "Dieselgate" scandal anywhere in the EU, a top court ruled on Thursday, handing a setback to the auto giant that faces a wave of court cases.
The case stemmed from Austria, where a consumer organisation is seeking at least 3.6 million euros ($4.1 million) on behalf of hundreds of car owners.
"A motor vehicle manufacturer whose unlawfully m
San Francisco (AFP) July 8, 2020
An independent civil rights audit of Facebook released Wednesday expressed worry about "heartbreaking" and "vexing" decisions at the leading social network, despite progress being made.
The auditors pointed out that unchecked posts by US President Donald Trump that could discourage voting or encourage shooting citizens taking to the streets in a call for people to be treated equally under th
Hong Kong (AFP) July 9, 2020
Viral video platform TikTok's withdrawal from Hong Kong is a savvy commercial move that sidesteps thorny privacy issues but it will not shield the app completely from accusations of collusion with China, experts say.
As Facebook, Twitter and other US tech giants risk angering China by refusing to share Hong Kong user data, Chinese-owned TikTok has also portrayed an image of principle by pull
Tehran (AFP) July 6, 2020
An accident at a nuclear complex in Iran caused significant damage and could slow the production of centrifuges used to enrich uranium, the country's atomic energy spokesman said.
The incident happened on Thursday at a warehouse under construction at the Natanz complex in central Iran, but caused no casualties or radioactive pollution, according to the Islamic republic's nuclear body.
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Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Jul 09, 2020
Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that large and dense particles with irregular shapes possess a 10-um silicate feature introduced in lots of comets and protoplanetary discs.
The outcome based on 15 examples of olivine silicate studied doesn't meet Mie theory provisions applied for comet particles modelling and ca
Berlin (AFP) July 9, 2020
German industrial giant Siemens on Thursday unveiled plans to set its energy subsidiary on the road towards a coal-power-free future, as it won backing from shareholders to spin off the unit.
Days after Germany agreed to end use of coal-fired power generation by 2038, the conglomerate's chief executive Joe Kaeser underlined plans to shift its division Siemens Energy towards a greener model.
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2020
In a paper (published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team led by researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Paris have paved the way to unravelling the mystery as to why many supernova remnants that we observe from Earth are axisymmetric (elongated along one axis) rather than spherical.
A supernova happens when a star runs out of fuel and dies, generating a huge explosion that causes shock waves
Norwich UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2020
An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an international team, led by the University of East Anglia.
They have discovered an unusual pulsar - one of deep space's magnetized spinning neutron-star 'lighthouses' that emits highly focused radio waves from its magnetic poles.
The newly discovered pulsar (kn
Austin TX (SPX) Jul 09, 2020
Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for Lina Necib, a postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics at Caltech, the discovery of a cluster of stars in the Milky Way, but not born of the Milky Way, came early - with a little help from supercomputers, the Gaia space observatory, and new deep learning methods.
Writing in Nature Astronomy this week,
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020
Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies with thick, Sun-obscuring clouds of sulfuric acid; boil off the oceans by cranking up the temperature to 900 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 500 degrees Celsius), and boost the air pressure high enough to flatten you like a pancake. What you now have is Venus, a rocky planet similar in size to Earth but different in almost every other way.
How these "sister pla
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2020
The molecular gas in galaxies is organised into a hierarchy of structures. The molecular material in giant molecular gas clouds travels along intricate networks of filamentary gas lanes towards the congested centres of gas and dust where it is compressed into stars and planets, much like the millions of people commuting to cities for work around the world.
To better understand this process
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 09, 2020
The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place - filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.
Two new studies by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may help to solve one of the biggest mysteries about these far away worlds: why so many of them don't circle the sun the way they
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020
Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from planning and designing to high-gear manufacturing of the spacecraft hardware that will fly to its target in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Like all NASA missions, early work on