Monthly Archives: February 2020
Healthy Rupp repeats as U.S. Olympic marathon champion
Galen Rupp powered to his second consecutive U.S. Olympic marathon trials victory as the 2016 Rio bronze medallist showed he is fully recovered from 2018 Achilles surgery on Saturday.
Sanders courts Massachusetts voters on Warren's home turf
Bernie Sanders drew a massive crowd in Boston on Saturday, touting his grassroots-funded campaign in progressive rival Elizabeth Warren’s home state ahead of the Democratic primary in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Trump again nominates Congressman Ratcliffe as his intelligence director
President Donald Trump said on Friday he again was tapping Republican Representative John Ratcliffe to be the nation’s top spy, a loyalist whose first nomination he dropped last year amid questions about a lack of experience and possible resume embellishment.
'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' star walks out in protest after Roman Polanski wins award
In a time when big Hollywood names like Harvey Weinstein are answering for their crimes, a festival jury can’t expect to hand an award Roman Polanski without some backlash. After Polanski was announced as Best Director at the French Film Academy’s César Awards, Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Adèle Haenel immediately rose from […]
There's finally a portable battery pack you can't forget at home
TL;DR: You can carry around a charger with you wherever you go for just $39.99, a 20% savings as of Feb. 29, thanks to this deal on the AtomXS emergency keychain charger. Even if you have the latest and (arguably) greatest iPhone 11, the battery isn’t going to last if you’re on it 24/7. And […]
Facebook now lets you create 3D photos without a portrait mode camera
Imagine if every photo in your Facebook news feed looked alive, like something out of a Harry Potter universe newspaper. That’s the reality Facebook is moving toward with a new feature that makes 3D photos available to everyone. First launched in 2018, the feature let people give their photos the appearance of a “moving” 3D […]
WADA cancels March symposium in Switzerland due to coronavirus
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has canceled next month’s annual symposium, the main event on the annual global anti-doping calendar, and related athlete session in Switzerland because of the coronavirus, it said on Friday.
On the trail: Biden, Sanders slam Trump over coronavirus response
U.S. Democratic presidential contenders on Friday blasted the Republican Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, amid mounting concern about the virus and on the eve of South Carolina’s fourth-in-the-nation nominating contest.
House panel seeks to interview the four career prosecutors who quit Roger Stone case
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Friday said it is seeking interviews with current and former federal prosecutors who may have knowledge of political meddling in criminal cases, including the four career officials who earlier this month quit the Roger Stone case.
This box was worth $1,000 if we didn't open it, so we opened it
This mystery box by MSCHF was worth $1,000 unopened, but contained a product valued up to $7,000 inside. So we opened it. Read more… More about Mashable Video, Culture, Products, Mystery Box, and Mschf