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SLAVUTYCH, UKRAINE—In one of the last acts of camaraderie in a fracturing nation, Soviet laborers from the Baltics to the Caucasus converged on a pine forest in the late 1980s to build a Ukrainian town from scratch. Slavutych was a new home for workers from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and their families after its 1986 explosion turned Pripyat, the town next to the plant, into a radioactive wasteland. In March, Slavutych’s 20,000…

Aaron Carter’s family plans to scatter some of his remains in Florida next year along with those of his late sister Leslie, who died in 2012 at age 25.Carter’s mother, Jane, told TMZ, which reported that the singer had been cremated, that the family will spread his ashes in the Florida Keys next spring. The Carters also plan to save some of the ashes so that they can eventually scatter them with Jane’s ashes when she dies. The family told the site that Carter’s fiancée, Melanie Martin, will not be part of their upcoming…

| In the recent Dear Watchers comic book podcast, hosted by Guido Sanchez and Rob Ribar and dedicated to exploring the multiverse in comics and other media, Catherine Schuller Gruenwald, the widow and legacy advocate of comics writer and editor Mark Gruenwald, talked about how her new project literally puts Mark into his work – for the second time. "He didn't have a career, he didn't have a job, he had a calling," says Schuller Gruenwald of her late husband's obsession with the art of comics andrecalls Mark insisting "I…

Big Eyes Coin (BIG) has made another step towards cryptocurrency domination by appearing on a 3D billboard in the middle of New York. The Big Apple is where dreams are made of and with over 9.5 million dollars raised during its presale, Big Eyes Coin could reach the summit of the crypto industry in the future. As thousands of New Yorkers are now aware, cuteness is the new currency and it is highly likely that Big Eyes will generate over 10 million dollars by the time it is officially released. Plus, its securing of a…

The browser wars of the 90s and 2000s saw the dominant player - Microsoft's Internet Explorer - locked in a David and Goliath battle against Firefox, an open-source browser that was spun off from work at Netscape. A decade later another software war began - Microsoft was involved again with Windows Mobile, but the Goliath in this case was Symbian lead by Nokia. You should be familiar with the two Davids that took it on - Apple's iPhone and Google's Android project. However, today's story is about Firefox OS, which was…

The first benchmark results of the Intel Arc A580 RI (we don't know what "RI" means) have been added to the Ashes of the Singularity database. This occurred just hours after Intel published specifications of its upcoming Arc Alchemist graphics cards, including the midrange Arc A580 — a card that should go up against midrange GPUs in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy, and it might even have a shot at displacing one of the best graphics cards if it's priced right.Testing unreleased hardware is always a challenge as drivers may…

Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman once said “Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.” The Marshall Fire called William Scherer to that task when it damaged his family’s Louisville home and all but ruined his violin making studio. But Scherer is making music – and instruments – once again, in a little violin shop on the corner of Walnut and Main streets. The Scherer Violin Shop, specializing in repairs, sales, and rentals of violins, violas and violoncellos,…

The ashes of Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek, will get sent into deep space on a rocket that memorializes her and several other Star Trek veterans (via Reuters). Nichols’ son, Kyle Johnson, donated her ashes after she died in July at age 89. Nichols’ ashes will head to space on a rocket fittingly called the Vulcan Centaur, with the memorial spaceflight company, Celestis, running the “Enterprise Flight” mission. There still isn’t a set date for the send-off, and…

Nichelle Nichols is getting the farewell that she deserves. With her ashes set to journey to space on the forthcoming Enterprise Flight, the late actress, who shattered barriers as communications officer Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, will make one more trip to the “final frontier.” The rocket, chartered by Celestial Memorial Spaceflights, is expected to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this year. “We are absolutely honoured to announce that the late Nichelle Nichols will be joining the ‘crew’ aboard the…

‘Star Trek’ Star Nichelle Nichols’ ashes will be launched into space ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) ‘Star Trek’ star Nichelle Nichols’ ashes will be launched into space. The late actress, Nichelle who died in July aged 89, will have her remains jetted up into space on the Enterprise Flight’s Vulcan Rocket later this year to honour her iconic role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the 60s sci-fi series that also starred William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, reports aceshowbiz.com. Kyle Johnson, Nichelle Nichols’ son, who…