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Trigger warning: explicit description of violent death, mental illnessA jailed man’s death has just been ruled a homicide in Alabama, USA, after he was subjected to freezing temperatures, sparking allegations of deliberate abuse and neglect. The case has further unveiled a doctor’s note with gruesome details about the inmate, as well as unaddressed mental illness.Inmate Anthony Don Mitchell, also nicknamed “Tony,” who had “serious mental and psychiatric needs,” was reportedly put in a concrete tank known as “the…

Photo: BLUETTI BLUETTI just launched the MultiCooler, its first portable fridge freezer powered by solar panels or hot-swappable batteries. If you’re going to go on a road trip and want to make cocktails while you stop to camp, then this is the thing you didn’t know you needed. The app-enabled portable MultiCooler, which weighs 53 pounds and has wheels and a drawbar, can refrigerate, freeze, and make ice in minutes off-grid. It has a 42-quart capacity, enough to hold around 60 canned…

The HONOR Magic6 Pro’s global model will launch at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which is taking place later this month. This smartphone includes a second-gen silicon-carbon battery, and that battery aced the freezer test. HONOR actually partnered up with PhoneBuff, a YouTuber, in order to conduct this test. The whole point was to prove how much better silicon-carbon batteries handle low temperatures, compared to regular lithium-ion ones. The HONOR Magic6 Pro’s silicon-carbon battery shows its prowess…

Mary Margaret Haxby-Jones worked as a nurse anesthetist in San Diego for nearly two decades before resigning in 1999. She went years without speaking to relatives, and exactly what happened to her has been a mystery since December, when her body was discovered in a freezer at a home where she once lived.Detectives believe Haxby-Jones — who would have been 81 this year — may have been missing or dead for up to nine years. Police say she was never reported as missing.As the San Diego Police Department awaits a…

A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study said Thursday.The results overturn a long-held view that the world's largest island was an impregnable fortress of ice over the past 2.5 million years and instead show it will be far more vulnerable to human-caused climate change than previously thought."If we want to understand the future, we need to understand…

The island of Svalbard, about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Arctic, which itself is warming up to four and a half times faster than the rest of the planet. Scientists just discovered that the island’s retreating glaciers are creating a potentially significant climate feedback loop: When the ice disappears, groundwater that’s supersaturated with methane bubbles to the surface. Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, 80 times as powerful as carbon…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner switched off power to a lab freezer, according to a lawsuit filed by the school. RPI is seeking $1 million from Daigle Cleaning Systems, claiming one of the company's employees turned off the circuit…

A janitor accidentally destroyed more than two decades of research when he turned off a freezer containing invaluable cell cultures that “had the potential to be groundbreaking,” according to a new lawsuit filed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York. Is Google's New $1,800 Pixel Phone Worth It? | Gizmodo ReviewThe lawsuit claims Joseph Herrington, who was employed by Daigle Cleaning Systems Inc., switched off the freezer, which was set at -80 degrees Celsius (-112 degrees Fahrenheit), citing the beeping…

At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsFrench-door fridge Convertible freezer cabinetWater and ice dispenserConsNo vegetable bin humidity control Water dispenser is plumbedHigher than average energy consumption Our VerdictThis is a well-built, stylish French-door fridge freezer with panoramic lighting, a flexible temperature cabinet, and programmable water and ice at the press of a paddle.  If you tend to associate Whirlpool with budget-friendly appliances, you might be surprised at the luxury of this French door fridge…

At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsGlossy doorSlide drawersDual fanConsNo freezer lightNo numerical temperature gaugeManual slider for meat/vegetable binOur VerdictSlim but not too tall, this Hitachi 60/40 fridge freezer fits 360 litres of groceries behind one of the glossiest doors we’ve ever seen. There’s a wine rack and slide shelves – but oddly, you can’t see or set the interior temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Sleek, stylish and every so shiny, this Hitachi 60/40 fridge freezer has doors so reflective you can…