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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the fall of 2017, geology professor Patricia Gregg and her team had just set up a new volcanic forecasting modeling program on the Blue Waters and iForge supercomputers. Simultaneously, another team was monitoring activity at the Sierra Negra volcano in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. One of the scientists on the Ecuador project, Dennis Geist of Colgate University, contacted Gregg, and…

Refugees have been staying in the Katsikas camp in Greece for years. Credit: Telesilla O. Kotsi, CC BY-ND Refugees increasingly receive money from humanitarian agencies and organizations, instead of food, clothing and other items shipped from afar. This approach is intended to let refugees get more of what they need while also boosting local businesses.…

Apple retained its top spot buoyed by the late launch of Apple Watch 7 as the global smartwatch shipments recorded a 13 percent growth on year-over-year (YoY) basis in Q1 2022 despite concerns over economic slowdown and inflation, as per a report. Samsung solidified its second position with the popularity of Galaxy Watch 4 series. Huawei, Xiaomi, and Garmin completed the top 5 list with Xiaomi performing well with its record-highest quarterly shipments registering a 69 percent YoY growth in the quarter.As per the Global…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Law enforcement officers' bills of rights, known as LEOBRs, don't result in an increase in police-related fatalities, according to new research from Cornell University professor Jamein Cunningham. …

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is rolling out the Calls tab to the Facebook Messenger app on Android and iOS. The move takes a page out of WhatsApp‘s playbook, making audio and video calls with friends and family a lot easier for Messenger users. Not every Messenger user will see the Calls tab in the app immediately. But the lucky users who do will find it located between the Chats and People tabs on the lower bar on the app’s screen. Meta said that the decision to add calling on the Messenger app’s home screen is…

Martin Sander Effective June 1, 2022, Martin Sander becomes General Manager, Ford Model e, for Ford in Europe. He was previously working with VW Group as Audi’s head of sales for Europe. Ford Model e, Ford’s new global business unit, was introduced earlier this year as the company accelerated the transformation of its global automotive business. Martin Sander, in his role as General Manager, will lead the…

Denver landlords aren’t required to tell their tenants about lead service lines, leaving some renters in the dark about the quality of water coming from their faucets. Colorado’s capital city isn’t alone. Disclosure requirements for lead pipes are a mixed bag across the country, with states and municipalities taking different approaches. Only a handful have put rules in place to inform renters about their buildings’ infrastructure, as no federal mandate specific to lead pipes exists. However, the nation was confronted…

Next year, The Hunger Games saga will be returning to theaters with the adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. With actor Tom Blyth cast as the young Coriolanus Snow, we’re starting to get a feel for who will be filling out the important roles from Panem’s past in the upcoming movie. A new piece in that particular puzzle has just fallen into place, as the lead actress in this Hunger Games prequel has been cast, with West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler now playing the role of…

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy The Hunger Games film franchise has found its next star. Previously, we covered some speculation regarding whether Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler was pulling a fast one on us or not, with a cryptic tweet that spelled out the name “Lucy Gray Baird” when the first letter of each word is isolated. It turned out to be a cheeky slice of foreshadowing, as it’s now been confirmed that the West Side Story star will be taking on the role of Lucy Gray…

Xbox engineering lead, Eden Marie, recently shot down hopes that the Xbox Snap feature would be returning. The statement came via a reply from her Twitter account (reported on by Eurogamer), where she responds to a fan asking for a return of the feature by claiming, “While we all miss snap, I don’t think it’s coming back.” Snap was one of the Xbox One’s features that has since been abandoned, and was one of the more useful ones, allowing players to essentially split the screen by placing an app running alongside a…