The meteorite struck Earth when it was still in its early years, a water world with only a few continents sticking out of the sea.In their fieldwork, Drabon said, they were looking for spherule particles or tiny fragments of rock left behind by the impact of the meteorite.The team collected 220 pounds of rock and took them back to the lab for analysis.The giant meteorite caused a tsunami to sweep across the planet, the scientists found. Heat from the impact caused the topmost layer of the ocean to boil off, while also heating the atmosphere.They found rock evidence showing that…
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Getty ImagesThere were riots across England in the summer, including in SunderlandThere was a “clear connection” between the violent disorder in England and Northern Ireland in the summer and posts on social media and messaging apps, Ofcom has concluded.The government had asked the media regulator to consider how illegal content and disinformation spread during the unrest.In an open letter setting out its findings, Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes said such content spread “widely and quickly” online following the stabbings in Southport, in July, which preceded the disorder.She added most online services took “rapid action”, but said the responses of some…
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaigned on a promise to connect Americans to high-speed internet. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act set aside $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. “What we’re doing is, as I said, not unlike what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when he brought electricity to nearly every American home and farm in our nation. Today Kamala and I are making an equally historic investment to connect everyone in America to high speed internet, and affordable high speed internet, by 2030,” Biden stated. To date, no one has been connected to the internet…
Credit: Screenshot: Pirate Wires X A preliminary report by the House Task Force on the attempted assassination attempt of Donald Trump provides new detail about the lack of coordination between the Secret Service and state and local law enforcement officers that contributed to Trump nearly being killed and the murder of rally-goer Corey Comperatore. The report, released early Monday, also asserts that a local law enforcement officer said he fired at shooter Thomas Crooks before the Secret Service counter sniper fired the shot that killed him, and that this first shot may have caused Crooks to stop shooting. But House…
AJ McLean of The Backstreet Boys is honoring Liam Payne as “a light” in his life following the tragic passing of the former One Direction star, specifically reminiscing about their time together while collaborating on a new Netflix series.The 46-year-old spoke about Liam’s death at LAX, revealing how the two forged a friendship while working on “Building the Band,” a music competition show that allows singers to create the next big pop group.AJ McLean shared that they recently wrapped filming the series, during which time he, Liam Payne, Nicole Scherzinger, and Kelly Rowland worked closely together for six weeks.Article continues…
BERLIN: German police busted a pizzeria in the western city of Düsseldorf that also delivered a side order of cocaine when customers asked for item number 40 on the menu. “That was one of the best-selling pizzas,” criminal director Michael Graf von Moltke told reporters in Düsseldorf. He said police were first tipped off by suspicious food inspectors in March. When drug squad officers began observing the restaurant they soon discovered why pizza number 40 was so popular, Moltke told reporters on Monday, German news agency dpa reported. When police buzzed the apartment of the pizzeria manager, the 36-year-old allegedly…
Presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane accused security forces of killing his lawyer, Elvino Dias, over the weekend.European Union poll observers have noted the “unjustified alteration” of some results in Mozambique’s general election, amid accusations by a leading opposition candidate that the government killed his lawyer. The developments on Tuesday came a day after Mozambicans gathered to protest against alleged fraud in the October 9 presidential and parliamentary elections. “The European Union Election Observation Mission [EU EOM] … has noted irregularities during counting and unjustified alteration of election results at polling station and district level,” said a statement from the EU observers.…
Next week, Wilson and the Steelers welcome a New York Giants team coming off a miserable 28-3 home loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. 2. Jauan Jennings, WR, San Francisco 49ers (rostered in 30% of Yahoo leagues) Jennings sat out the 49ers 28-18 loss to the Chiefs with a hip injury, although the team could have certainly used his services. Fellow wide receiver Deebo Samuel played just four snaps before leaving Sunday’s game with an illness and Brandon Aiyuk left the game in the second quarter with a torn ACL and MCL.While Aiyuk and Jennings have both received 25 targets this year,…
[MUSIC PLAYING] Picture this: In America, where your voice matters equally, as much as anyone else’s, where your voice carries the same weight, no matter who you are, where you’re from or what you have. That’s the promise of democracy: one person, one vote. Sounds simple, right? But it’s revolutionary. And right now, that promise is in danger. It started in earnest in 2020, when falsehoods spread about our elections became part of a calculated effort to undermine our collective voice. Since then, election deniers have been telling Americans that millions of votes are being cast illegally, by dead people,…
A month after Salesforce announced its AI agent technology and its CEO Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft’s AI efforts, Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents that can take care of tasks like sales, finance, and customer service.AI agents are different from chatbots in one key way: they can act on an organization’s behalf instead of simply reciting information. So they can help process orders, for example.Related: Can Anyone Beat Microsoft at AI? The CEO of Salesforce Thinks His Company Can.The tech has been in private preview since May and the agents will become available in public preview next month, per a…