Speedtest’s report on the state of broadband speeds for 2018 has some encouraging news about broadband in the United States. The tests show average broadband speeds up 35.8% over the previous year, ranking the United States 7th in the world overall, nestled “between Hungary and Switzerland.” Upload speeds are also up 22%, but the US only…
OTTAWA — Abbott Nutrition is recalling a number of its canned nutritional beverages due to possible bacterial contamination. The Chicago-based company is recalling products under its Ensure Plus, Jevity and TwoCal brands, among others. Full details are available on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s website, which says there has been one reported illness associated with…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – DePaul’s Morgan Maize and Michigan’s Megan Betsa were selected Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, announced the Association on Tuesday afternoon. Maize, a native of Franklin Park, Ill., had a strong week both in the circle and at the plate, helping the Blue Demons to a 4-1 week….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Throughout the 2016 softball season, the NFCA will feature some of the sport’s highest-profile contests in our “Featured Five” Games of the Week. Each weekly installment will be released on Thursday, providing live stat links, game notes, team info, social media accounts and any available broadcast links in hopes of becoming another reason…
Asus has pulled the wraps off its flagship GPU at CES 2019; the liquid-and-air cooled GeForce ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti. The company reserves the Matrix branding for only its extreme high-end GPUs, and this one is certainly worthy of that title. The GPU sandwiches a closed-loop cooling apparatus dubbed Infinity Loop between the PCB…
North Korea appears poised to conduct new missile or rockets tests after satellite imagery showed renewed activity at a missile factory and a known launch site. Experts at California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies say that satellite images of the Sanumdong rocket factory taken on February 22 and other images from last Friday suggested North…
Islamabad partially reopened its skies on Friday following a two-day closure imposed after a military confrontation with India over the disputed Kashmir region. Pakistan has resumed commercial flights from major cities including Karachi, Islamabad, Quetta, and Peshawar, the Civil Aviation Authority tweeted on Friday. However certain restrictions will remain in place until March 4, officials…
Trigger warning: This article includes descriptive language that may be triggering for survivors of gender-based violence. Twenty-nine years ago, a man entered a packed classroom at l’École Polytechnique, the engineering school at l’Université de Montréal. He told all the men to leave the room. “J’haïs les féministes,” he said to the women who were forced…
The mysterious group behind last month’s commando-style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid on Thursday boldly promised “bigger things ahead” in its stated goal to “overthrow the Kim Jong-un regime” with comrades from within. But until earlier this week, the little-known Choellima Civil Defence (CCD) group had largely existed in the shadows, describing…
The Predator’s ending already had a bit of a surprise, but one of its alternate endings almost featured a major Alien reference. SFX artist Yuri Everson posted an image on Instagram that supposedly came from the BCIT Aerospace Centre showing actress Breanna Watkins playing a “Predator Killer Ripley,” with her face covered by a mechanical…