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| Prague Open: Petra Kvitova beats Mihaela Buzarnescu in final But the home favourite made 24 unforced errors in the first set and served five double faults as she collapsed to hand world number 37 Buzarnescu the advantage. Buzarnescu, 30, failed to capitalise in the following set and her frustration at both her own tennis and the crowd showed as Kvitova saved six ...
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| Massive 'Dead Zone' in the Arabian Sea Is the Biggest in the World A massive "dead zone" in the Arabian Sea is the largest in the world, a new study reveals. Dead zones are oxygen-starved ocean regions where few organisms can survive. They emerge in ocean depths ranging from 650 to 2,600 feet (200 to 800 meters), when influxes of chemical nutrients — typically ...
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Putin opponents protest across Russia before his inauguration Navalny activists posted photographs on social media of hundreds of protesters taking part in rallies in Russia's Far East and Siberia, and OVD Info, a human rights organization that monitors detentions, said it had received reports of police detaining around 20 people across the country. "Putin has ... Key Putin opponent Alexei Navalny among hundreds arrested in violent clashes with Russian police - The Independent
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| Fish With a Built-in Switchblade and Other Secret Animal Weapons These camouflage masters of the Indo-Pacific are the most venomous in the sea—but that's not all. ... than most is that they can pop it out and and hold it out," brandishing the blade at would-be predators, says study leader W. Leo Smith, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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| NSA triples metadata collection numbers, sucking up over 500 million call records in 2017 A transparency report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shows numerous other fluctuations in the volume of surveillance conducted. Foreign surveillance-related, warrantless Section 702 content queries involving U.S. persons jumped from 5,288 to 7,512, for instance, and more ...
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Wander 'Burning Man' in VR with help from the Smithsonian Despite hosting tens of millions of visitors annually, the Smithsonian remains inaccessible to anyone unable to physically make the trip to visit. That's why the Smithsonian American Art Museum is partnering with Intel to accelerate efforts in digitizing its 157 million-piece collection. It's first project will allow ...
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| Pikachu Was Originally Supposed To Have A Third Evolution In Pokémon, Gorochu The final evolution of Pikachu, Gorochu, actually had "fangs and horns" according to Nishida, but was eventually cut from the game because of "balance," which seems like an odd thought considering that Raichu is usually not thought of as a powerhouse in the game, and it should be easy enough to ...
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| Seven of the best boutique hotels in Mexico Dezeen is celebrating the Mexican and American holiday Cinco de Mayo today by highlighting some of the top hotels in Mexico, just in time for the summer vacation season. They include Pablo Escobar's converted residence in Tulum and an all-white resort in Baja.
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| You can find utopia in India – if you're willing to close your eyes Rather than marching both ways along the prom, so that I twice passed the little Place de la République and the startling white memorial to the "combattants des Indes françaises" who died in the first world war, I would return to my hotel via the inland, acacia-lined streets of the old French quarter, and ...
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| PwC Purchases Stake In Blockchain-Service Provider VeChain, Will Integrate Platform PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a multinational audit and consultancy firm, has acquired a minority stake in Chinese startup VeChain, according to a press release May 4. VeChain Global Technology Holding Limited is a blockchain service provider specializing in anti-counterfeiting, supply chain ...
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