Once a UConn basketball player, a paralyzed Emt now curls Steve Emt was rolling himself up a hill to a pie shop in Falmouth, Massachusetts, when the coach of a wheelchair curling team noticed the former UConn basketball player. The shop’s name was Pie in the Sky. An interesting coincidence, […]
Sabres spoil Nash’s debut with retooled Bruins Benoit Pouliot and Kyle Okposo scored on consecutive shots in the first period and the Buffalo Sabres beat retooled Boston 4-1 on Sunday in forward Rick Nash’s Bruins debut. Evan Rodrigues and Marco Scandella also scored, and Chad Johnson stopped 34 shots. The […]
IOC says hockey players’ singing won’t derail Russian return Russia’s imminent return from a doping suspension won’t be derailed because its hockey players sang their national anthem, the International Olympic Committee said Monday. The Russian men’s team defied IOC rules by belting out the anthem at their medal ceremony following […]
‘iPhone X Plus’ Leak Reveals Apple’s Massive Smartphone Yes, the leaks were right. Apple’s supersized new ‘iPhone X Plus’ is going to be massive… The ever-reliable MacRumors has attained photos from a “trial run of production equipment” showing the construction of Apple’s monstrous stablemate to the iPhone X. Notably in […]
Canon’s newest mirrorless camera shoots 4K video Canon is finally embracing 4K video with a new mirrorless camera called the M50. The petite shooter is, essentially, 2016’s Canon M5 with fewer dials and buttons and a more streamlined body. But the upgraded internals and a swivel-out screen mean this will […]
Samsung launches Galaxy S9 with focus on social media Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone on Sunday with an emphasis on visual applications for social media, hoping to attract tech savvy young consumers to weather a market slowdown. With the global smartphone market set to stay […]
New Samsung phone: Nicer camera, static design, higher price Samsung unveiled new smartphones with largely unchanged designs and incremental improvements such as a better camera—accompanied by a second annual price increase for many customers. The static design of the new Galaxy S9 underscores both the slowing pace of smartphone innovation […]
Ericsson signs China Mobile for industrial internet trials Sweden’s Ericsson, the world’s No.2 maker of mobile network equipment, said on Monday the company had signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with world’s biggest network operator, China Mobile, over the weekend. Ericsson Chief Executive Börje Ekholm told a press conference at […]
Russian Spies Hacked Olympics, Pretending to Be North Korea U.S. intelligence officials are accusing Russian military spies of having hacked hundreds of computers at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea — and the hackers apparently tried to make it look like the attack was coming from North Korea. The […]
16 Turkish women sentenced to death in Iraq Sixteen Turkish women were found guilty of terrorism and sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on Sunday. Iraq’s Central Criminal Court issued the sentence after “it was proven they belong to ISIS terrorist group,” Judge Abdul Sattar al-Beeraqdar, the High Judicial […]
